Thread: Menthol as a Dream Enhancer

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

Aww, this is making me all warm and fuzzy. "Menth-head", I love it!! I hope you don't take this in a weird way, but I think you would have made a good drug user, because this is like drug use for the cautious and you're super into it.

Ha ha, I find that super flattering to hear! I can now go through life believing that in some alternate reality my cautiousness and meticulous, somewhat dorky recordkeeping could have made a major contribution to the scene.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

As always, let me know if you find anything cool in your research! And you could definitely do that to help feel out the effects, since galantamine is more than just direct increases of acetylcholine, too. It would probably help to get a good sense of what choline does on its own if you plan to combine it with other things a lot. It may surprise you what choline alone can do!

I agree! You got great results just from adding 250 mg choline bitartrate, so there are so many different ways to go. It'd be nice to open these possibilities up for easier, cheaper substances than G. Apart from being gentler on the wallet, choline bitartrate, soy lecithin, etc. aren't to me drugs in the way that galantamine is a straight-up drug.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Ha ha, I find that super flattering to hear! I can now go through life believing that in some alternate reality my cautiousness and meticulous, somewhat dorky recordkeeping could have made a major contribution to the scene.

As if it can't already. You're already helping this scene, and it's all really the same thing! Anything we figure out about how the brain works applies equally to drugs and supplements, and some of these things like menthol work directly on the same receptors. In fact, salvia is really the only recreational (and I use that word lightly) drug that acts potently on kappa-opioid receptors, there are a couple synthetic analogues but they're like almost completely unknown, which means that menthol is really the only other one that's being experimented with for mind-expanding purposes. You're part of a group of pioneers!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

I agree! You got great results just from adding 250 mg choline bitartrate, so there are so many different ways to go. It'd be nice to open these possibilities up for easier, cheaper substances than G. Apart from being gentler on the wallet, choline bitartrate, soy lecithin, etc. aren't to me drugs in the way that galantamine is a straight-up drug.

You're definitely right about that! It feels a lot easier to take a vitamin or nutrient supplement than something from a plant, because I mean... what's there to worry about?