[wruza]

It's a full virtual reality experience not only with visuals and sounds but with taste, touch, and emotions, too.

The commonly experienced downside is lack of real control. Once you get really involved, you just wake up. Nice if you can avoid that, but doesn’t work for me. I have to stay in the mid-zone that is similar to when you wake up but decide to sleep further.

After some success around ten years ago, I found that it’s not much better than just dreaming and gave up on it. Together with 5-HTP, normal dreaming is like a blockbuster compared to dull prose you can write yourself in LD. I don’t think that I could solve a “5 bullets vs 6 monsters on the block while on a jump stick” problem in LD. (The answer is to find an armed monster and kill it first to get more bullets). Or taking the knife out of perps hand and carving crosses on his knees. How can you come up with that in LD without waking up from laughing?

[faizmokh]

> Once you get really involved, you just wake up

or worse, you got sleep paralysis.

[anon743448]

or you can learn to project your consciousness out of your body during sleep paralysis and experience out of body sensations.

[satvikpendem]

> Once you get really involved, you just wake up

No, that does not happen with enough practice. I can have crazy, long-running dreams with complete control.

[raunometsa]

Yes! Control is the issue for many and also the level of awareness?

[Gooblebrai]

How do you take 5-HTP?

[wruza]

250-300mg before sleep.

Edit: It's not safe together with SSRIs, afaik, and all standard precautions/disclaimers apply.

[Gooblebrai]

I imagined. Risk of serotonin syndrome.