B6 did nothing.

[Raevan]

Last night I took a 50mg tablet of B6 with a glass of water and it didn't make my dreams any more vivid than usual. I'm trying to figure out if I took them right. The bottle is for dietary supplementation so should I eat something before I go to bed and take it then or should I be chewing it? Does it take a few days before I will see any results? Thanks a lot

[ZmillA]

b6 on its own isn't a very "powerful" Lucid dream supplement. Especially not at that dosage. Do you use any techniques like autosuggestion along with it?

[Raevan]

No, I took it right before bed just to see if it would work alone. Tonight I'm going to have my alarm get me up in the middle of the night to take one and then I'm going to try and WILD. Damn, it's so frustrating to know that once I LD once, I know it's going to be so much easier than this. 5 months without success. Wow. These past 2 nights I've taken one 50mg pill of B6 and my dreams have been really weird. They made me panic and slightly scared but it the dreams weren't all that scary. First Dream: I was "camera" in the sense that I was following these two people but had no corporeal form. The woman had no face and the guy was Joe Pingue who plays Nugget on Testees and Geno on The Boondock Saints. They were walking through a very, VERY poor area. The only light and heat around were the metal bins that had fire in them. I followed them to the end of this long walk and then one of them said "This use to be a school" and they both turned in different directions while morphing into people I knew. I gained a body and one of my friends stood next to me. We turned a corner and the dirty, spray-painted walls turned into nice and neat white walls. For some reason, one of my Finals had my class (which was full of the wrong students) shipped off to a different school to take it. At this school, all the students were the same as those in my school except that a few traits were different like hair color. We were let out into the halls of the building 30 minutes before we were to be shipped back to our school to take the second Final and as the minutes ticked down, everyone from my school was lost. The sense of panic I felt and shared with others was extremely life like. I could feel the sweat on my palms, I could hear my heart beating. I pulled out my cell phone to see if someone I knew knew the way around and as soon as I did, I found the stairs to the bottom floor. Again, the feeling of relief stunned me. Second Dream:I can hear a reporter talk about some crazy guy who gets drunk and shoots people in his neighborhood with a hunting rifle, yet no one calls the police. Apparently this guy does it a lot and right in front of his young son. I basically am granted this guy's sight, yet have no control over him. I force my son to watch as I shoot a little girl that's playing with her friends in the head. I just kill all these people. One after the other and put my eye to the scope and shoot my neighbors. When I woke up, I was drenched in sweat. I've NEVER had dreams like these before. The worst dream I had was in a dungeon and I was forced to kill a dog before it killed me. All the emotions and details were so real, I just can't believe it. I've been taking the B6 for about 3 days (I missed a day), right before bed. I only take one 50mg tablet. I want to know if my dreams will seem more real than real life and if my dreams will continue to be so...bad if I up the dosage.

[Firewalker]

B6 worked for me for a while, or at least I thought it did, now I wonder if it was just a placebo effect. What worked for me was 200mg taken after eating chocolate cake or cookies with a glass of milk before bed. This worked a few times. B6 is needed to convert tryptophan into serotonin, and also to convert tyrosine into dopamine, so perhaps it helped with this. However after a few times it stopped working, I tried up to 500mg a few times and it still didn't work. Now I usually just take a high potency multivitamin that has 25mg of B6 in it during the daytime.

[jessie1203]

B6 just helps your nervous and inmune systems working better.... its a vitamin, so i don;t think we should be taking it thinking it'll have a great effect all on its own, cause what it does is just make you healthy... i would just take it thinking about that... its a vitamin! that's it!

[Raevan]

B6 just helps your nervous and inmune systems working better.... its a vitamin, so i don;t think we should be taking it thinking it'll have a great effect all on its own, cause what it does is just make you healthy... i would just take it thinking about that... its a vitamin! that's it! http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...83&postcount=3

[shotbirds]

thought i read you need 200-250mg? But i think it's just a placebo

[Raevan]

I don't know. I've read a bunch of conflicting info. Some websites say no more than 100mg a day and some say no more than 500. =/

[jessie1203]

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...83&postcount=3 WOW!! thanks! that's very helpful

[LightningMunk]

i am wanting to get the B6 vitamin asap to help my lucid dream last nite i had some apple juice and a banana, listened to a subliminal lucid dream mp3, and i had a lucid dream! was very short but very real so im thinking adding b6 to it might help me ALOT haha but i am worried about the possible negative side effects to it im not a big fan of taking something if it could possibly harm me like that, but its worth a shot im not planning on taking this forever, i just want to experience a couple lucid dreams, achieve some of my goals in lucid dreaming, and then i will be done so im curious as to the safety of taking it, and how much i should take before bed time, and how often a week should i take it in order to have a healthy dosage and no possible side effects thanks!!!

[Raevan]

i am wanting to get the B6 vitamin asap to help my lucid dream last nite i had some apple juice and a banana, listened to a subliminal lucid dream mp3, and i had a lucid dream! was very short but very real so im thinking adding b6 to it might help me ALOT haha but i am worried about the possible negative side effects to it im not a big fan of taking something if it could possibly harm me like that, but its worth a shot im not planning on taking this forever, i just want to experience a couple lucid dreams, achieve some of my goals in lucid dreaming, and then i will be done so im curious as to the safety of taking it, and how much i should take before bed time, and how often a week should i take it in order to have a healthy dosage and no possible side effects thanks!!! You probably should have made a different thread or read another one instead of posting in this one. There's really no negative side effects to taking B6 (which is a vitamin). I usually take 1-2 pills a night, right before bed. I'm thinking of upping the dosage. Not sure how many mgs is dangerous, though.

[Specialis Sapientia]

Wtf, 500 mg B6 !!!!!!!!! 2 mg is the adviced dose per day ! The adviced dose might not be right, but be sure to check if there is a risk for overdose and side effects from taking too much. I took a strong B-vitamin pill today, it contained 15 mg B6 and I thought that was much lol.

[Raevan]

Wtf, 500 mg B6 !!!!!!!!! 2 mg is the adviced dose per day ! The adviced dose might not be right, but be sure to check if there is a risk for overdose and side effects from taking too much. I took a strong B-vitamin pill today, it contained 15 mg B6 and I thought that was much lol. http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb6.asp You're getting the Recommended Daily Dosage and Overdose levels confused. Whenever I take B6, my dreams become really weird. Not a kaleidoscope-while-high kind of weird but a why-the-hell-did-Keira-Knightley-just-walk-out-of-a-spaceship-with-4-feet-and-no-hands kind of weird. When I think about the dreams throughout the next day, I keep having this WTF moments. Makes me wonder what's going on in my subconscious.

[Specialis Sapientia]

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitaminb6.asp You're getting the Recommended Daily Dosage and Overdose levels confused. No... read your own link lol What is the health risk of too much vitamin B6? Too much vitamin B6 can result in nerve damage to the arms and legs. This neuropathy is usually related to high intake of vitamin B6 from supplements, [28] and is reversible when supplementation is stopped. According to the Institute of Medicine, "Several reports show sensory neuropathy at doses lower than 500 mg per day" [12]. As previously mentioned, the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine has established an upper tolerable intake level (UL) for vitamin B6 of 100 mg per day for all adults [12]. "As intake increases above the UL, the risk of adverse effects increases [12]." What is the Recommended Dietary Allowance for vitamin B6 for adults? The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) is the average daily dietary intake level that is sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97 to 98 percent) healthy individuals in each life-stage and gender group [12]. The 1998 RDAs for vitamin B6 [12] for adults, in milligrams, are: Life-Stage Men Women Pregnancy Lactation Ages 19-50 1.3 mg 1.3 mg - - Ages 51+ 1.7 mg 1.5 mg - - All Ages - ------------ - 1.9 mg ------ 2.0 mg Results of two national surveys, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III 1988-94) [12,13] and the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (1994-96 CSFII) [12], indicated that diets of most Americans meet current intake recommendations for vitamin B6 [12].

[DreamingGod]

B6 is like a lucid placebo IMO.

[Raevan]

No... read your own link lol Then I obviously gave a wrong link. I took 4 pills (200mg) and had no problems. 2 mg is the adviced dose per day ! 2 mg is not the ADVISED dose, it's the RECOMMENDED, which means that you need at least 2 mg to function normally. If it were the advised dosage, that would mean it would be dangerous to exceed that. The link I gave says that the UL is 100mg. If you take that to heart, that means you're safe if you're taking 2-100 mg of B6 a day. Like I said earlier, I took 200mg and had no side effects. Chances of nerve damage are, according to this website, increased after 100mg. Does it say by how much and by which people? My chances of being car jacked increases every time I buy a newer model car but my chances are still lower than 10%. It's even lower if I'm built like the Hulk. Btw, I probably should've checked that website before even giving a link. Some of the studies they get their info from are 18 years old.