[zizzles]

This is now a thread about lucid dreams and the galantamine/choline stack.

Galantamine is marketed as an Alzheimer treatment, and although me and others are weary of pharmaceuticals (side effects? cancer? higher-morality rates in clinical trials?) drug induced lucid dreams sound very interesting to me. Has anyone on HN experimented with this?

[yerbatime]

This is Olaf from the writeup. I have a master list of chemicals that induce ludid dreams here: http://www.imaginarymap.com/consciousdreaming.html

Extremely small doses of Yohimbine (~300mcg) and Mucuna Pruriens are lesser known and quite effective for me. Yohimbine is a norepinephrine agonist and Mucuna Pruriens has L-dopa and can cross the blood-brain barrier. Keep in mind it's much more important to be extremely diligent about writing down your dreams, every night.

Don't pay attention to how galantamine/yohimbine are marketed - do the research yourself.

[gnarbarian]

Lucid dreaming is fun. You can use apps like Android sleep coupled with Android wear and hue smart lighting to help learn how to do it. No drugs necessary.

It does take a bit of practice/getting used to. The apps monitor you heart rate and movement patterns to try and detect REM sleep and send a signal to you. At first these signals will wake you up but with practice you will recognize them in your dreams without waking up.

[Osiris]

Can you provide a link to any resources describing the technique and how to practice it?

[gnarbarian]

http://sleep.urbandroid.org/documentation/extended-features/...

http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

Keeping a dream journal is probably one of the best techniques.

[barkingdog]

Interesting subthread. I've noticed that it tends to be easier when I haven't been drinking alcohol for a while -- I've had it occur a few teams a couple years ago, but it almost always ended with me flying and waking up. I couldn't sustain it for more than a few seconds. I was also writing music more then -- I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it.