Blue Cheese seems to be particularly potent for me, particularly Roquefort and Stilton Blue. Other cheeses (Strong, aged cheeses, such as aged Gouda) have varied effects; YMMV. |
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Actually chocolate has theobromine in it, which is related to caffeine. The darker the chocolate, the more theobromine. The doses of it in how much you would eat wouldn't be necessarily enough to feel much stimulation, but it could likely make a difference as far as dreaming goes. Who knows, maybe it's helping you chemically too and you just don't know it. |
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Blue Cheese seems to be particularly potent for me, particularly Roquefort and Stilton Blue. Other cheeses (Strong, aged cheeses, such as aged Gouda) have varied effects; YMMV. |
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Mangoes they are so good and so great for dreaming!!! |
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Up on Melancholy Hill
There's a plastic tree
Are you here with me?
Just looking out on the day of another dream
I have noticed that for vividness, which lead to more enjoyment and dream recall, apple juice, banana and peach help a lot. Also I will second the Green Tea, but its a high risk/high reward because sometimes (albeit not so frequently) instead of helping me sleep it keeps me up at night as if I consumed a highly-sugared beverage. |
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I have had only one lucid dream and that was when I didn't even know what they were. The weird thing was that I did something I never did before sleep that night... I ate a whole grapefruit right before bed. I had a completely lucid dream that scared the living crap out of me. I thought I might be dying ! I struggled to wake up which wasn't easy and the next morning I went straight to the University bookstore to look for a text book on dreams (this was pre-internet) where I read about lucid dreams. |
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Noob here. I found this site researching foods that may be causing my intense dream states, not because I seek out lucid dreaming, but because I prefer to avoid the intense dreams I have at times. I am a very experienced psychonaut. I am a strong advocate of the use of ayahuasca, pharmahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, and smokable DMT for inner and outer exploration and explanation. I much prefer the more predictable and reliable psychological states associated with experiences induced by these substances to the less focused dream states I experience. That being said, what brought me here was a search for an explanation of my increasingly intense dreams over the past year that I have found to have some very reliable correlations to my diet. |
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Last edited by markas; 03-15-2014 at 03:57 PM.
I've have had some experiments with some of the more "luxury cheese", I dont know what kind of cheese every one I tried was, but I have had some lucid dreams after eating these an hour before bed. But as some one already have described in this thread, there is an special cheese that is called "Stilton" It's either blue or white. Here is the interesting part of this stilton cheese from wikipedia: |
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Interesting. I have had Stilton hundreds of times. I used to own, manage and chef at 4 different restaurants and had Stilton on a cheese list of over 50 cheeses at any one time. It is one of my favorite blue cheeses. Perhaps I will try it before bed sometime. A great and unusual(to some) way to serve it is drizzled with honey with freshly cracked black pepper over top. eat it with a small piece of french bread or a water cracker. It shoiuld be served with a nice Sauternes sweet white dessert wine. This is considered a classic food and wine pairing. I also remember reading elsewhere that some of the heavily ripened, stinky washed rind cheeses may also have some mental effects. Stilton is definitely a cheese to try if you have never had it. Enjoy. |
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Where do you guys buy your Stilton cheese? I can't find any in my local grocery stores, might have to try Walmart or something. I'm thinking online might be better but best I can't find seem to be very expensive. |
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You only find real Stilton cheese in the uk, and it is produced in only three counties officially, so wiki tells me, so unless you can find a good supplier of this stuff overseas, chances of obtaining the real thing outside the UK are slim, sorry. However i can testify that stilton produces some vivid and bizarre dreams, i eat a fair bit over the christmas holidays and my dreams are always a bit mroe intense during this time, but i just thought it was an old wives tale, poppycock, i may have to reevaluate my thinking! |
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*The Yellow One*
TheYellowOne, you certainly know your cheese facts! Well at least here in Sweden, Im able to find Stilton at many places that specialize in cheese. But maybe that's the case because UK and Sweden is pretty close to eachother. Well I got to say that the first time I tasted blue Stilton, I was very suprised how good it was. And even more suprised how vivid and good recall I had after the first try. I did get a lucid dream at the first try too. Good stuff for sure! |
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hehe dreamybear, the joys of living in the EU hey |
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*The Yellow One*
Haha yeah that's right TheYellowOne! A bit hard to slice, but creamy for sure! That's a very good combination actually. Aaw now you made me hungy. Well, that sounds like some really delicious ideas right there! Hmm.. maybe it is a beer one should drink before sleep instead. No, but that's awesome that you had some crazy vivid night, nice!^^ Ah, that baked potatoe with some stilton got to be a good lucid meal. I say, go for it! |
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The most influential food that I've experienced so far on my dreams has been a cheap grocery-store pepperoni pizza. It gives me indigestion every time because of the garlic, and I know I'm not supposed to eat it, but I like it soooooo muuuuuch... |
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oh my goodness, there it is, the perfect dream food, Pizza! |
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*The Yellow One*
A bit late ik but bananas(eat 2 of these guaranteed dream) I can't imagine what eating 5-10 could do |
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