Thread: Using Caffeine as a Trigger

Dose: 1 bag green tea (WBTB)
Supporting Supplements: Prebed: 100mg 5-HTP; WBTB: 2xGalantamind (8mg galantamine, choline, B5), 600mg Alpha-GPC, 3 bags peppermint tea
Bedtime: 11:15PM
WBTB wake time: ~3:00AM
Dose Time: ~3:00AM
Technique: WILD / SSILD / DILD
Lucid: Yes! 5 lucids!!

It had been a while since I'd had the chance to try galantamine + choline + caffeine + menthol, and I was reminded why it's my all-time favorite supplement combo. I had easily the highest number of lucid dreams of my life with this one.

The caffeine seems to be great at making it way easier to cross the gap with more of your awareness intact. Suppressing deep sleep, I think, has a lot of positive effects that help you either WILD or realize that you're dreaming. What was interesting with this session was that while there were 2 WILDs, there were also multiple DILDs (one via SSILD, I believe, the others spontaneous.)

It's speculative, but this would seem to indicate that caffeine does a lot more than just help with WILDs. Minimizing deep sleep and acting as an adenosine antagonist may be helping the waking consciousness stay just that little bit more active so that it's more easily aroused once dream situations become strange enough.

It also seemed like the higher dose of GPC may have let me cruise for a little bit longer than previous attempts.

The lucids:
The Terminator Locker - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Menthol and Marriage, the Sequel - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
The Torrent - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Metroid - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
The Substitute - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views