Thread: Menthol as a Dream Enhancer

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

I might give it another shot in a while, I'm out of practice with drawing though. >w<

Incredible and intense is a good way to put it. What you've described - colors, shapes, auras - is what happens at low to doses. At medium to high doses the kinds of things you draw and much more start actually happening around you, everywhere, nonstop. And then you've got things like very high doses or DMT breakthroughs where you're completely transported to a different dimension made up of those abstract themes and hyperdimensional entities and landscapes. I've been thinking about it a lot again lately.

Yeah, you should give it a go, but don't waste a good trip worrying about a drawing, etc. I'm out of practice too, however with me I think the pre-learned (neural?) pathways can be accessed easily again. It's just that I lack motivation probably.
I shall give you a tip - keep all your drawings if you can. That way you can see your progress over time. The other spin off you get is that your drawings become 'visual memories', like a (visual) diary. I have got drawings going back since 1989. I even found a doodle last month which I did two decades ago where I made a reference (quotation) about lucid dreaming next to a small pen drawing of a naked woman - (TMI !) but we won't go into that one. (From that I can make a good assumption that I knew about that sort of thing even then.)
I can look at one of my old drawings where it will bring a chain of (mostly) good memories to the forefront. I do however remember one where it did the opposite, so if I ever see it then I remember what I was doing, where I was, the people and all the emotions at that time, what music I was playing, etc. although the intensity has gone, which is to be expected.
Probably if I had my time again then I would try something, however I wouldn't want anyone else reading this to get the wrong idea. I say that because I have no real responsibilities as such, I could do what I wanted, within reason, of course.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

You do have a great imagination though, I look forward to what else you'll have to show especially if you get better at using your HI. It would be pretty cool if menthol did help with that!

Thanks. I have always liked the HI state of mind. It is a highly creative state in its own right. I do get REALLY frustrated that some of the things I see, that I'm unable to do it justice by drawing it. As you point out that you yourself have seen and experienced amazing things via the brain (with a little help ) but when in 'reality' it is hard to comprehend, or put into words what we see, etc.
Hopefully there will be a place for the Menthol as it did seem to help me. I will have to try some visualisation techniques as well.
In summing up I think the brain/body is/are an amazing piece of engineering - there is still a lot we don't understand as of yet.