I had a lucid dream last night as well. After waking up at around 5:00AM I proceeded to apply a 7mg Nicotine patch and swallowed an 8mg Galantamine tablet. At first I had a difficult time getting back to sleep. However, at what I estimate to be about 7:00AM I had 1 very short lucid dream followed by 1 very vivid non-lucid dream. Tonight I’m going to repeat the experiment only this time I will take 100mg of 5-HTP before hand to see if it will increase the REM effects later on in the sleep cycle.
-R
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ReplyDeleteWell, unfortunately I didn’t have any lucid or particularly vivid dreams with the 5-HTP before sleep /Nicotine + Galantamine WBTB method . That being said however, I certainly did remember quite a number of my dreams.
I’m not sure, what role noripinephrine plays in all of this but it would be interesting to find out. Also, I did not head the warnings of Thomas Yuschak’s book and took nicotine on two consecutive nights. So, as far as I know my acetylcholine receptors are all overused and unhappy.
I wonder if I can find anything that connects noripinephrine levels with vivid dreams.
Hmmm…
-R
Intresting information. Good idea on posting what we took.
ReplyDeleteAre you using the nicotine patch b/c you're a smoker and/or b/c (or in addition to) its effects on dreams? My brother was trying to quit smoking years back and I've never forgotten the stories he told me about his dreams when he was on the patch. I had planned to do a little experiment myself, applying a nicotine patch and seeing what would happen, but after further research, I decided I'd probably feel very crappy for doing so since I do not smoke cigarettes.
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