Thread: Apple Juice = Vivid dream?

I drink it almost every night before I go to sleep. I would say it helps my recall alot actually. Great stuff! Not from concentrate though! Real Tropicana apple juice is what you want.

Originally Posted by westonci

i drank some last night after 6.5 hours of sleep went back to bed and had 2 Ld's and some really vivid dreams.

Im waiting for others to post there results, im feeling excited!!!!

Looks like you made an awesome discovery man! Hat off to you Now, I have to go check the fridge for some apple juice.

woah, a lot of good responses eh?
i love apple juice, definitely going try this tonight..
will be needing more apple juice if i
see results though!

hey wat about eating and apple before bed would that have same affect?

apple sauce didnt work
so i bought some juice

Originally Posted by dfaz3

apple sauce didnt work

How 'bout them apples? Ha, I just had to make an "apple" joke at some point in this thread.

Hi (this is my first post here )

I was a tad skeptical when i read about this a few days ago , but out of curiosity went down to the supermarket and bought some apple juice from concentrate. Up until i bought it , my dream recall was pretty crap , but since Monday night ive drank a cup of it before going to bed. Yesterday morning i managed to recall fragments of one dream and this morning remembered 3 , with hints of lucidity in one.

So , it appears this stuff does work , i'll see what happens tonight

Last night, I blended together an apple with apple juice and apple sauce (I know, I'm weird), but had to drink two bottles of water as well because I had three beers yesterday (and I get splitting headaches if I sleep after having beer without lots of water). Then, as per a suggestion here for Dream Recall, I wrote out my DAY'S activities in a Dream Journal style just before bed. Unfortunately, that got me to sleep later than I was hoping. I only got 6 hours of sleep AND was up to the bathroom off and on throughout the night. Sometimes I overdo it and last night I did, cause I kept myself up for another half hour listening to binuaral beats.

So with little sleep, and constantly up and back to bed, I got up at 4am and drank some apple juice.

Last night's dreams were like watching an annoying friend hold the remote control to your inner TV. Just kept flipping through the channels, and wouldn't stop on the few interesting looking dreams I fleetingly remember having, but then decides to stop on a work-related dream! And even it wasn't very significant.

So despite little sleep and a lite headache (and a full bladder all night), the apples DID seem to enhance my dream activity. Now, hopefully I can do it all again WITHOUT the beer, tons of water, and get MORE sleep!

~Oneironeer

I was having a bit of a dry spell recently, but after trying some apple juice last night (and Chili for supper, FWIW), I had three rather vivid, but non-lucid, dreams. Unfortunately two of them were mild nightmares, involving spiders . Still... trying again tonight, with the goal of completing the advanced lucid TotM.

Damn, I just ran out of my bottle.
I'm going to the store and trying this tonight haha.

How much should be drank?

Would crangrape juice (cranberry with the tangy of grape ) have the same or atleast somewhat close to the effect apple juice has?

Originally Posted by H202

Would crangrape juice (cranberry with the tangy of grape ) have the same or atleast somewhat close to the effect apple juice has?

Haha that'd be sweet.
I don't think it would though, because it has probably very different properties than apple juice does.

I'm going to have to wait till tomorrow
I couldn't go to the store and buy some.

Originally Posted by westonci

I was going thorugh Digg and found this article that says Apple Juice Increases the production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brain.

Anyways acetylcholine is supposed to give you vivid dreams so Im gonna try it tonight and see what happens.

Research Shows Benefit of Apple Juice on Neurtransmitter Affecting Memory : : UMass Lowell

That's a great idea!..I've tested it..and it really works..That is such a good dreams very wild and vivid..

Tried it twice, drank a lot of it. No effect. lol

WOW omg.. Soo many positive results!!!
I HAVE TO TRY THIS.. Unfortunately I dont have any apple juice.

Anyone know if just a good old apple after during a WBTB would have the same effect?
Thanks.

Some other Forums that I've read concerning whether Apples help with dreams or not and EVERYONE would say its just placebo, but then on here a huge majority of people are claiming how much its helped them so I decided to test it out for myself.

I made myself a Banana peanut butter smoothie with blueberries before bed
(bananas and peanut butter always help me with dreams and blueberries are just a little boost)
I didn't have AJ so I ate 1 apple before bed @ 11:30 pm and woke up at around 2:30 am and I NEVER wake up in the middle of the night!

I had one dream but nothing special and when I woke up I didn't realize I was awake and took too long to write it down.
I ate 2 apples and tried to go to bed but I'm very awake and lay there for a looong time.
I remind myself "The next time I'm dreaming I will be aware that I'm dreaming"
around 6:30 I finally fall asleep and woke up (by myself) around 9:40 am.
and WOW, what a HUGE difference those apples made!
I have never had such a reaction to having my regular bananas and blueberries!
I remembered 5 dreams! very vivid, It was so realistic!

Jorge said earlier that his dreams were very emotional and the same happened with me,
I cried so much in the first dream (dog got hit by a car) and in the last dream a large pig was
chasing me and my friends in a trapped area and for a brief moment I thought to myself "Is this a dream?"
I looked at my hand and it was so incredibly real... it even had the smudge of the word Lucid I write on my hand
every other day to remain aware. In regular dreams my hands are always clean and never show smudges.
I was too frightened to do a reality check and ran away. I also had one FA about writing these dreams down but
my journal was so small and I wrote them down weird and hardly had any space left to finish and somehow the DJ
was filled up with random notes so I couldn't write anymore! so frustrating!
I'm going to buy Simply Apple juice today and try again tonight.

Not going to go into much detail because for me, Apple Juice and Apples had totally different outcomes!

I drank one cup of apple juice before bed, had a mild dream, slightly vivid.
woke up 5 hours later and had 2 glasses of AJ and went back to bed.
When I woke up I remember absolutely NOTHING!
I know I was just dreaming… about something.
and I remember 2 dreams a night regularly but some people did complain that the AJ got rid of their dream recall.

I definitely prefer Apples of the juice but it all depends on how you feel about it.
I’m going to eat some apples tonight because it was just too amazing the first time!

I had an extra long wbtb and ate an apple hoping it would help. It definitly didn't hurt. I got my first WILD

Metabolism

Everyone's metabolism is different. There's a book called "eat right for your metabolic type". I think it's out of print, but you can probably torrent it somewhere. It mentions 4 major metabolic types. One type - adrenal is very sensitive to sugar. As far as I remember, adrenal type features slim body frame and index and ring fingers being of the same length. For such people, sugar and refined carbs overloads their adrenal gland and pretty much puts them into very deep sleep. This feels like torture if it happens at 2PM at work, although if one can take a 3 hour nap, it feels really good.

I don't know what kind of effect that would have on the full night's sleep. There may be some kind of REM rebound effect, or a synergy effect between naturally produced sleep hormones and this "knock you out" kind of sleep.

This may be part of the reason why some people have success...

PS. I'm not sure if I posted this before.

This sounds fantastic, out of all the cholinergic supplements out there I have never heard of apple-juice. I will not only look more into this, but try it as well.

Thanks for the idea!

One of my meditation/dream teachers in Indonesia made a big deal about eating a lot of apples. He said they were a 'heavenly' fruit.

I only recently discovered their link to Acetylcholine. If this is true, apples'll be a poor man's Galantamine!

In regards to having an apple - wasn't there some study that said having an apple wakes you up more than coffee (ie have a apple when you wake up to really get you awake in the mornings). Maybe that has something to do with having good recall?

I drank some apple juice the other day before going to sleep and I also took melatonin. The results are in my DJ entry party and police station (I think thats what i named it) The dream was fairly vivid. I remember the feeling of being burned was particularly intense. Physical sensations were the most vivid part of the dream.

Maybe that has something to do with having good recall?

A lot of treatments for alzheimers and memory loss seem to be good for dreaming too. The parts of the brain used must be similar. It might be worth googling herbs and foods that improve memory.

Drank about 1 cup of apple juice during a WBTB not too long ago. I had three separate dreams that I remember to be vivid at the time, but I have somewhat bad recall. Bees had attacked me and I got stung on my leg. I woke up and still had the sensation.