Thread: 7 Day Trial: Tea Before Bed

Someone in the Caffeine and Dreaming thread brought up experimenting with the effect of caffeine intake right before going to bed. I wonder if it will change anything about my dreams, increase my rate of LDs or change anything about my ability to fall asleep. I haven't had any caffeine at all for quite a while, so I'd be rather surprised if there were no effects whatsoever.

Here are some data about me and my dreams (so you can form your own opinions on the results I will post here every day from tomorrow, the 12th of April until Monday the 18th of April):

Sleep data:
- It usually takes me about one to two hours to fall asleep every night.
- I sometimes take naps during the day, but not regularly.
- I don't go to bed at the same time every night.

Normal dream data:
- I can usually recall two or three dreams per night, sometimes just one, though, and sometimes even four or five.
- I estimate that about a fourth of my dreams appear as very long and consistent to me. The other ones are of normal or short length.
- My dreams usually are quite vivid.
- I rarely have nightmares.

Lucid dream data:
- I naturally have approximately one to three LDs a month.
- I have never had any kind of LD but DILDs.
- I have a dream diary that I've been writing in every day for approximately the past two weeks.
- I have never set myself a task for my LDs before but just let them happen and flew around or eventually looked for people to talk to. Now I have a task, though, a simple one for the beginning: Licking various things, preferrably odd ones.

That's all I can think of at the moment. If you have further questions just ask me