Hi.
I usually get the worst nightmares after I eat seafood (probably because I'm a bit allergic to it) or a lot of cheese a little before bed. Actually anything that your body feels hard to digest, dairy products or heavy meals, influences your dreams during the night.
A couple of years back I did a little experiment, actually it was more like taking advantage of a certain situation.
I had the good luck of coming across a black widow spider (although it wouldn't have been good luck if I hadn't moved my hand at the exact right time). I captured it with a coke bottle and before I had the opportunity to move her to a more comfortable habitat, she had made it her home already.
I kept the bottle at safe distance at first, locked in a cabinet, but as time grew and ideas came, I decided to use her in a little experiment. Everytime I went to sleep, I put the bottle next to the bed and stared at it before I fell asleep. This resulted in horrific nightmares, more often then less containing huge, grotesque arachnids, crawling over my body.
For the first few months I didn't get enough rest, but in a while I took control over the spiders and used them in my advantage. Nightmares are the perfect dreams to become lucid, because then the brain releases all sorts of chemicals, including adrenalin, to respond to the threats that happen, because as we all know, dreams are very realistic.
Theses nightmares were the key to my lucidity and have helped me through the years to access them at will. I don't recommend to anyone to as I did, I had experience with handling spiders, and they are by no means a loving pet or an exhibit of some sort.
If you choose to induce your own nightmares, do it with a subject you are familiar of and comfortable with. I must warn you that although these nightmares helped me many nights to become lucid, they also left a wound which still hasn't had the chance to heal at full and I still suffer from them, time to time.
Take care and don't do anything irrational, at least nothing that doesn't also include fun in it.
Sweet L.Dreams
Ps. The spider died 6 months ago from starvation. She had made a nest in the middle of the bottleneck and waited for her meals there. I had no other means to feed her, then through the bottleneck. It was either her or me. Sorry again.
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