Originally Posted by
Alyzarin
I see, I see.... Alright, let me ask you something else. You took a higher dose than normal and you noted lots of visuals, but still with typical vividness and stability. Do you think that maybe the reason your dreams started off a bit more vivid from the menthol but are now becoming typical even with the increased effects is because your mind is becoming more used to the enhanced state of dreaming? I ask because I can compare this to hallucinogens, as I believe they work through the same mechanisms.... For example, say you take LSD for the first time. You're hallucinating, and you're blown away! You've never seen anything like this before, it's crazy. A few days later, you decide to trip again. It's still badass! Not as intense as before, but definitely a wild ride. A few days later, you go for it again.... Now, you can keep this up for a while, but a few days reaaally isn't enough time to let your tolerance go down for something like LSD. Eventually you're going to reach a point where you're still hallucinating just as hard or harder than your first time, but it doesn't have that same sense of overwhelming intensity, just more of a... "alright, that's cool, but what else have you got?"
Essentially what I'm getting at is, do you think that an increase in vividness from the first few doses of menthol may actually be a byproduct of your brain responding to a more "enhanced" dream, but afterwards you get used to it and continue on as normal? Now, don't get me wrong.... There's certainly nothing wrong with euphoric, visually complex, or romantic or sexually-charged non-lucids... but I'm wondering if the true benefit of menthol comes not just from using it alone, but from combining it with a stronger cognition enhancer. Basically, taking a dream enhancer AND an established powerful lucid aid.