Thread: Tea Experiment

To get the full effects of the tea, make sure you drink it 2-3 hours prior to going to sleep, because it takes time to be absorbed through your digestive track.

-Rob

To get the full effects of the tea, make sure you drink it 2-3 hours prior to going to sleep, because it takes time to be absorbed through your digestive track.

-Rob

I like drinking hot drinks (tea, apple cider, hot chocolate, instant cider, etc) before I go to bed. They relax me and make me feel very relaxed, and sometimes tired (caffeine doesn't really work on me. After having tea I can fall asleep easily. Not sure if this is good or bad)

Now, do you think I could try this using other hot beverages besides tea and see how they effect my LDing? I'm not really allowed to drink tea, and I prefer drinks tha naturally have sugar in them

This may be a bit off topic (ofcourse).

Varieties of Incense may be Lucid Dream Inducing as well. For example my bro has alot of incense variety, one of them is green tea.

For about a month I drank a cup of green tea right before I went to bed, not knowing about this experiment! Oh well. I'd say that my dream recall was better during the time I drank nightly tea, then when I don't drink tea before bed. But I haven't recorded any data, so many I should.

and what about eucalyptus?

Thanks for the work guys.

I've been drinking 2-6 cups of green tea a day for the last half a year, and I've have to say that if I could peg the change in my dream recall (no lucid ability; haven't had one yet), I would say it's gone slightly down. It tends to be as vivid as before, but upon waking my recollections are typically more disjointed and there feels like there's less "plot" behind the imagery, connecting everything together.

This could very well be a function of my living in a college down now, too, which I've been doing for about the same amount of time. I sleep in a loft, there are noisy people in rooms all around me all night long, and my roommate comes in noisily at 1:00 AM and leaves again at 5:00 AM, ensuring that I wake up twice a night and feel exhausted in the mornings... so yeah, I'd actually have to say that changes in my dream experiences would be more reliably pegged to those variables than my tea-drinking.

While we're at it, I think I can reasonably conclude that 180-ing your diet from "bread and cheese" to a buttload of fruits and veggies every day has no positive impact on your (or at least, my) dream experiences, either. Shame.