Big success on first try - thanks everyone!
This is my first post here, so I'll introduce myself briefly. I've had lucid dreams since my teen years, but only 3 or 4 a year at most. I came up with my own "reality check" method as a teen, thinking the word "hamburger" and seeing if someone would spontaneously say it. If they did, I was dreaming. Over 30 years later, this is still the word that comes to my mind if I want to know whether I'm dreaming.
Having read through a lot of the posts here for the last few days, I got the chance to use my reality check twice in one night last night. Before retiring, I had a 1/4 cup of very strong chamomile tea, which has always increased my odds of specifically sexual dreams, and about 100 mg of alpha GPC choline. I set my alarm for 5 hours of sleep. When the alarm went off, I got up and drank a premixed drink with small doses of l-glutamine (about 1 gram) and l-theanine (about 30 mg) in distilled water, and lay down immediately, because I had a feeling it would take me at least 45 minutes to get back to sleep, which turned out to be true. I also used earplugs and an eyeshade to keep ambient noise and light from waking me up.
Watching for lights with my eyes closed, I was lucid dreaming before I knew it. I blanked out on the transition, but when the dream started, I could tell I was dreaming because two people turned into mice! That dream lasted for a few minutes at the most, when I noticed my "other" body breathing in bed. I was semi-conscious for a few minutes, conscious enough to remember to look for lights again, and very quickly I was in another dream. I made somebody say hamburger, and was immediately running down a hallway in my high school looking for cute DCs to collide with. This dream lasted a bit longer, but this time an orgasm woke me up. I won't complain. :)
Anyway, it had been several months since my previous LD (all of those before last night had been either natural or precipitated by sub-milligram doses of 5-htp or melatonin at bedtime) so I would say that l-glutamine, l-theanine and alpha GPC choline is a winning combo for me. I take very small quantities of everything because my brain chemistry is really sensitive to neurortransmitter precursors. Can't wait to try galantamine + choline bitartrate!
Thanks everyone for all the information here! I'm convinced that the many clues here led to an immediate success. I know I didn't follow every suggestion here exactly to the letter, but I followed my intuition, and it worked for me.
All righty, pleasant dreams!
