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Cool Movie and Bad Teacher

2011-01-28T08:28:00.000-08:00

Well I spent a few dollars and ended up watching this pretty interesting documentary about a guy named Jonas Elrod who an see spirits, energy, and a few other things. What makes this interesting is that he didn't practice meditation or have any history of drug use, and has nothing wrong with is brain as far as science can tell. It was a pretty inspirational video because its about him trying to find answers. He does some pretty nutty things on his journey and also meets some pretty amazing people, but in the end finds what he is looking for. I highly recommend his movie located here.

Now about a bad teacher. So I have been taking college classes and normally don't rant on this site but it just sickens me what is going on at my college. I have a physics teacher who is Russian and is maybe the worst teacher that I have ever met. Shes not rude, dumb, or unable to teach, she just cant explain anything to anyone and expects too much from her impossibly uneducated students who cant learn due to her being so horrible. So I go to the physics department and meet with the chairman of the department. He explains to me that shes the only teacher they have and that I should maybe take a semester off in order to get a different teacher during the summer semesters. This idea wouldn't be completely bazaar besides the fact that I personally don't have any more time, and the other fact (putting my own personal wants and needs aside) this college is supposedly one of the best engineering schools in the state. Now whats still wrong with this? Everyone who wants to be an engineer is required to take this physics class. I care less about doing well in the class because I am not going in that direction for my degree, but for reasons I don't want to get into, still have to take the class and pass. I honestly cant believe that a college of this status only has one physics teacher for a class that is required such as this, and we are advised to learn on our own because the chairman understands the teacher is horrible... More than half the kids in my class were asleep today and as I was fighting off my normal head nods, I looked around and just laughed to myself.

Well in my end of rant, the myzeo work is still going great. I should be done in 4 days! I am excited because 5-htp is just bothersome trying to take it with no real results. I know I keep badmouthing the supplement but after the initial "belief the supplement is working" and reality coming into check, nothing is really happening. I would like to move onto stuff that people report having major effects on dreams and sleep. I also want to start some tests on Niacin (flush based) and see how it works and then move on to the non flush stuff. It would be exciting to see the differences between the two if there is any. I have heard both ways and am not sure what is correct. I also meet with another professor next week to look at the data and give me some direction, as in making sure the data is worth something statistically. It looks like it is but that doesn't mean its the best it can be.

Until next week and my myzeo test one is done, have fun dreaming!

5-HTP Study

2011-01-25T11:37:00.000-08:00

I am still working away every night on the 5-HTP study. I have about 6 more nights before I am satisfied with the results and can move on to other interesting supplements. Even though I don't want to show the results just yet, I can honestly say that 5-HTP shows little to no effect on sleep, even when its most active in the system. Everyone may be different and that's why we also have two other individuals doing the study. Once their information is collected and all the data analyzed we will most likely release the information.

I am also going to change my study page because its not really showing much with all the information I have posted on there. You can see my nightly sleep record and it shows I am a crappy person as I am unable to good nights rest, pretty much due to my current situation (college and all) but that's about it. I'll change it up later so that the information that we get from the studies can be viewed there.

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Evolver Intensives

2011-01-23T04:53:00.000-08:00

R and I have recently signed up for the Evolver intensive workshop online and it starts today. We are very excited about it and hope to share some information to all of you about the topics discussed. Here is what the first sessions about:

AWAKENING THE COSMIC SERPENT: SHAMANISM AND PLANT TEACHERS IN THIS TRANSFORMATIVE TIME

Host: Jeremy Narby

Indigenous wisdom about plant medicine can open the path to deep personal healing and a profound understanding of the universe, and for many people this ancient knowledge is transforming modern life.

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Throughout the Western World, people increasingly participate in indigenous shamanic ceremonies using psychedelic plants to open a path to deep personal insights and high spiritual truths. These plants -- including mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca, and salvia divinorum -- are revered by ancient tribal societies as potent teachers capable of healing the body, expanding the mind, and strengthening community.

What can modern people can learn from indigenous cultures about the use of psychoactive plants and the modification of consciousness?

What can be learned directly from these plants -- which can be powerful and tricky teachers -- and how can we incorporate these lessons into our daily lives?

In what ways do indigenous people benefit from the Western interest in shamanism, and what new cultural bridges are being built through the spread of indigenous spiritual practices?

The renowned anthropologist Jeremy Narby has explored these questions for over two decades. In his much-admired books, including The Cosmic Serpant and Shamans Through Time, Jeremy has shared his wisdom and insights. For the first time, in this special video teleseminar series, he will pursue these questions through two exclusive online lectures, and one-on-one discussions with four of the world's leading experts on the shamanic use of mind-altering plants: Stanislav Grof, Wade Davis, Kat Harrison and Luis Eduardo Luna.

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2011-01-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

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Ubermensch is primarily a podcast created by a group of individuals where the focus of the show is the interviewees and not the interviewer. Personal information, personal advertisement, or egocentric intervention is minimized on the show so to spend more time on the important subjects. Each interviewer brings their own special understanding and ability to the interviews they conduct. Ubermensch is essentially a collective of all who contribute to the show.

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Crazy Dreams

2011-01-18T08:55:00.000-08:00

I have been trying to get back into the swing of school and such and have started to get back into the flow of things. It normally takes a few days to do that. Over all I should be able to start back up my myzeo studies tonight.

I have been trying a new diet to lose some weight before the end of school. I have been reading about cutting most sugars out of your system by consuming as little carbohydrates as possible and as well refined sugars. You replace the sugars with oils (such as fish) and fats from meats. I know many of you may be vegetarian and not agree with killing pigs and cows, but its what our ancestors ate and I figured I would try it out. So far I feel great and its been a bit over a week now and though I have some cravings for sugars and breads, I still haven't had too many problems.

One thing that I have noticed however is how much my dreams have changed. They have become a lot more crazy in the sense of complexity and of very smart like dream characters. I dreamed last night of a strange complex linking between events and people, where if you become involved by accident, then strange events would start to occur to you. It was almost like bad luck, but very intentional much like shaman practice believes. Over all the dream is not really that important in my opinion but the reason for the dream is. I believe its because my brain isn't constantly "high" on sugar and is able to maybe think a little bit more clearly.

Anyways as I continue the diet I will have to see where the dreams take me and if any incite is found in them over time.

Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming

2011-01-09T13:08:00.000-08:00

Ryan Hurd over at dreamstudies.org has posted another great update about the current research being done on lucid dreaming along with a look into the neuroscience involved. Here is some of what he has to say:

Lucid dreaming research is growing up. At least, that is Allan Hobson’s take on the recent burst of scientific studies published on conscious dreaming. Once a myth of Carlos Castaneda, and then a topic guaranteed to instantly transport researchers to the margins of academia, lucid dreaming has become a hot topic for neuroscience and cognitive psychology because it promises to isolate one of the hardest-to-pin-down objects of all time: consciousness itself.

You can read more here

Holidays

2011-01-03T11:16:00.000-08:00

I wanted to wish everyone a late happy holidays and since the holidays are almost over. Also I have been very busy with family and haven't really had any time to post anything. I have reading a great book over the last week for relaxing and finished "Singing to the plants" last week. I also received another myzeo data file and posted it on the site. I will be continuing my myzeo data gathering when I get back net week as well as working on some other projects.

Myzeo vs Emotive

2010-12-17T11:44:00.000-08:00

After spending a few months with the Myzeo I thought it was about time to try out the Emotive that I received in the mail a few weeks ago. I must say that after trying the hardware out that I am very glad that I decided to get the Myzeo for the sleep studies.

The emotive is a great addition to the wireless and mobile EEG community. I would say that the EEG community is very small and is a hard group to compete with. Its costly to research the systems needed to operate the hardware, and its also hard to make it wearable by someone who would like to use these portable EEG systems while asleep or doing activities.

Emotive Positives

Emotive has its ability to read 14 sensors located at different areas of the wearers head. The system looks stylish so that you could wear it while doing activities outside and someone may laugh but then again wonder what in the world you are wearing such a cool looking device. The software for the system links up well with the hardware and gives the user an almost instantaneous readout of what the sensors are telling the system. You can easily see eye movement recorded by the brainwaves required to move the eyes as well as other readings that are produced from many different activities. The system also has an aim for gaming and comes with software to make it so you can play games with key emotions.

Emotive Negatives

Emotive is hard to use. The sensors fall out and you have to reapply them and pretty much start from scratch, removing the whole hardware from your head unless you have someone to help you. If you moved around to much there is a good chance the sensors will fall out and be lost for ever. Its also hard to get the sensors to read 100% in every sensor and takes about 10 min to place correctly. If this was used for a sleep study it would possibly not work because any movement causes havoc on the readouts and can cause sensors to moved off of their target location.

In conclusion the Emotive fails for what I needed to do with it and again I am so glad that I purchased the Myzeo. The Myzeo is a much better option in recording sleep and possibly with future software developmental, a better lucid dreaming aid.

The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus

2010-12-16T11:33:00.000-08:00

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By Dana Larsen - Thursday, December 18 2003

Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans.

Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe.

The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, also known as "fly agaric." These mushrooms are now commonly seen in books of fairy tales, and are usually associated with magic and fairies. This is because they contain potent hallucinogenic compounds, and were used by ancient peoples for insight and transcendental experiences.

Most of the major elements of the modern Christmas celebration, such as Santa Claus, Christmas trees, magical reindeer and the giving of gifts, are originally based upon the traditions surrounding the harvest and consumption of these most sacred mushrooms.

The world tree

These ancient peoples, including the Lapps of modern-day Finland, and the Koyak tribes of the central Russian steppes, believed in the idea of a World Tree. The World Tree was seen as a kind of cosmic axis, onto which the planes of the universe are fixed. The roots of the World Tree stretch down into the underworld, its trunk is the "middle earth" of everyday existence, and its branches reach upwards into the heavenly realm.

The amanita muscaria mushrooms grow only under certain types of trees, mostly firs and evergreens. The mushroom caps are the fruit of the larger mycelium beneath the soil which exists in a symbiotic relationship with the roots of the tree. To ancient people, these mushrooms were literally "the fruit of the tree."

The North Star was also considered sacred, since all other stars in the sky revolved around its fixed point. They associated this "Pole Star" with the World Tree and the central axis of the universe. The top of the World Tree touched the North Star, and the spirit of the shaman would climb the metaphorical tree, thereby passing into the realm of the gods. This is the true meaning of the star on top of the modern Christmas tree, and also the reason that the super-shaman Santa makes his home at the North Pole.

Ancient peoples were amazed at how these magical mushrooms sprang from the earth without any visible seed. They considered this "virgin birth" to have been the result of the morning dew, which was seen as the semen of the deity. The silver tinsel we drape onto our modern Christmas tree represents this divine fluid.

Reindeer games

The active ingredients of the amanita mushrooms are not metabolized by the body, and so they remain active in the urine. In fact, it is safer to drink the urine of one who has consumed the mushrooms than to eat the mushrooms directly, as many of the toxic compounds are processed and eliminated on the first pass through the body.

It was common practice among ancient people to recycle the potent effects of the mushroom by drinking each other's urine. The amanita's ingredients can remain potent even after six passes through the human body. Some scholars argue that this is the origin of the phrase "to get pissed," as this urine-drinking activity preceded alcohol by thousands of years.

Reindeer were the sacred animals of these semi-nomadic people, as the reindeer provided food, shelter, clothing and other necessities. Reindeer are also fond of eating the amanita mushrooms; they will seek them out, then prance about while under their influence. Often the urine of tripped-out reindeer would be consumed for its psychedelic effects.

This effect goes the other way too, as reindeer also enjoy the urine of a human, especially one who has consumed the mushrooms. In fact, reindeer will seek out human urine to drink, and some tribesmen carry sealskin containers of their own collected piss, which they use to attract stray reindeer back into the herd.

The effects of the amanita mushroom usually include sensations of size distortion and flying. The feeling of flying could account for the legends of flying reindeer, and legends of shamanic journeys included stories of winged reindeer, transporting their riders up to the highest branches of the World Tree.

Santa Claus, super shaman

Although the modern image of Santa Claus was created at least in part by the advertising department of Coca-Cola, in truth his appearance, clothing, mannerisms and companions all mark him as the reincarnation of these ancient mushroom-gathering shamans.

One of the side effects of eating amanita mushrooms is that the skin and facial features take on a flushed, ruddy glow. This is why Santa is always shown with glowing red cheeks and nose. Even Santa's jolly "Ho, ho, ho!" is the euphoric laugh of one who has indulged in the magic fungus.

Santa also dresses like a mushroom gatherer. When it was time to go out and harvest the magical mushrooms, the ancient shamans would dress much like Santa, wearing red and white fur-trimmed coats and long black boots.

These peoples lived in dwellings made of birch and reindeer hide, called "yurts." Somewhat similar to a teepee, the yurt's central smokehole is often also used as an entrance. After gathering the mushrooms from under the sacred trees where they appeared, the shamans would fill their sacks and return home. Climbing down the chimney-entrances, they would share out the mushroom's gifts with those within.

The amanita mushroom needs to be dried before being consumed; the drying process reduces the mushroom's toxicity while increasing its potency. The shaman would guide the group in stringing the mushrooms and hanging them around the hearth-fire to dry. This tradition is echoed in the modern stringing of popcorn and other items.

The psychedelic journeys taken under the influence of the amanita were also symbolized by a stick reaching up through the smokehole in the top of the yurt. The smokehole was the portal where the spirit of the shaman exited the physical plane.

Santa's famous magical journey, where his sleigh takes him around the whole planet in a single night, is developed from the "heavenly chariot," used by the gods from whom Santa and other shamanic figures are descended. The chariot of Odin, Thor and even the Egyptian god Osiris is now known as the Big Dipper, which circles around the North Star in a 24-hour period.

In different versions of the ancient story, the chariot was pulled by reindeer or horses. As the animals grow exhausted, their mingled spit and blood falls to the ground, forming the amanita mushrooms.

St Nicholas and Old Nick

Saint Nicholas is a legendary figure who supposedly lived during the fourth Century. His cult spread quickly and Nicholas became the patron saint of many varied groups, including judges, pawnbrokers, criminals, merchants, sailors, bakers, travelers, the poor, and children.

Most religious historians agree that St Nicholas did not actually exist as a real person, and was instead a Christianized version of earlier Pagan gods. Nicholas' legends were mainly created out of stories about the Teutonic god called Hold Nickar, known as Poseidon to the Greeks. This powerful sea god was known to gallop through the sky during the winter solstice, granting boons to his worshippers below.

When the Catholic Church created the character of St Nicholas, they took his name from "Nickar" and gave him Poseidon's title of "the Sailor." There are thousands of churches named in St Nicholas' honor, most of which were converted from temples to Poseidon and Hold Nickar. (As the ancient pagan deities were demonized by the Christian church, Hold Nickar's name also became associated with Satan, known as "Old Nick!")

Local traditions were incorporated into the new Christian holidays to make them more acceptable to the new converts. To these early Christians, Saint Nicholas became a sort of "super-shaman" who was overlaid upon their own shamanic cultural practices. Many images of Saint Nicholas from these early times show him wearing red and white, or standing in front of a red background with white spots, the design of the amanita mushroom.

St Nicholas also adopted some of the qualities of the legendary "Grandmother Befana" from Italy, who filled children's stockings with gifts. Her shrine at Bari, Italy, became a shrine to St Nicholas.

Modern world, ancient traditions

Some psychologists have discussed the "cognitive dissonance" which occurs when children are encouraged to believe in the literal existence of Santa Claus, only to have their parents' lie revealed when they are older. By so deceiving our children we rob them of a richer heritage, for the actual origin of these ancient rituals is rooted deep in our history and our collective unconscious. By better understanding the truths within these popular celebrations, we can better understand the modern world, and our place in it.

Many people in the modern world have rejected Christmas as being too commercial, claiming that this ritual of giving is actually a celebration of materialism and greed. Yet the true spirit of this winter festival lies not in the exchange of plastic toys, but in celebrating a gift from the earth: the fruiting top of a magical mushroom, and the revelatory experiences it can provide.

Instead of perpetuating outdated and confusing holiday myths, it might be more fulfilling to return to the original source of these seasonal celebrations. How about getting back to basics and enjoying some magical mushrooms with your loved ones this solstice? What better gift can a family share than a little piece of love and enlightenment?

FURTHER LINKS AND REFERENCES:

- The Hidden Meanings of Christmas, Mushroms and Mankind, by James Arthur
- Who put the Fly Agaric into Christmas?, Seventh International Mycological Congress, December 1999, Fungus of the Month
- The Real Story of Santa, The Spore Print, Los Angeles Mycological Society, December 1998
- Santa and those Reindeer: The Hallucinogenic Connection, The Physics of Christmas, by Roger Highfield
- Fungi, Fairy Rings and Father Christmas, North West Fungus Group, 1998 Presidential Address, by Dr Sean Edwards
- Fly Agaric, Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for December 1999
- Father Christmas Flies on Toadstools, New Scientist, December 1986
- Psycho-mycological studies of amanita: From ancient sacrament to modern phobia, by Jonathan Ott, Journal of Psychedelic Drugs; 1976
- Santa is a Wildman, LA Times, Jeffrey Vallance

BOOKS WORTH READING:

- Mushrooms and Mankind, by James Arthur
- Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, by Gordon Wasson
- Mushrooms, Poisons and Panaceas, by Denis R. Benjamin

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You can listen to one of Don Roberto icaros here

Phlegm and Darts

Something that I have always wondered about since watching the documentary "Jungle Trip" what did the shaman put into Piers mouth near the end of the show? Phlegm is also a great tool that the shamans have. Their phlegm is the substance inside of them (much like normal phlegm) that is protective agents evil darts. The phlegm of a shaman is in a way a spiritual substance that can be transferred to others for protection and festered in another body to create more phlegm to later transfer. The shaman often blows a mist of the phlegm on those being healed, and even singing or opening the mouth can cause phlegm to be used. When the shaman is healing others they often put the phlegm in their throats in order to stop darts and evil spirits from going into their body. They later spit out the bad phlegm in order to toss away the evil.

Darts are like evil spirits that can be used to harm others and also protect others. They may gain darts from other individuals or save darts from sick people in order to use as later protection or to use them for harm. If a shaman uses darts for harm, they are a sorcerer and are forever doing evil. Sorcerers are those who do harm or become obsessed with the power of the spirits and are "tricked" by the spirits to cause bad things to happen to another person. Its hard to say if darts are bad or good, I would believe its how you use them, but they still have great capacity of causing harm.

Initiation

Initiation for the shaman is very intense. As an apprentice after obtaining the phlegm from another shaman the individual must maintain a diet. The diet unlike our western starvation or restriction of food is nothing compared to what they call the diet. The apprentice must not leave his or her bed for a week while staying in the dark all while covering their mouths in order to protect the phlegm from leaving them. They drink tobacco juice for months while eating nothing but small fish with no teeth, along with cooked plantains. The apprentice is also not allowed to have sex or speak or be around anyone. They must keep their distance from all people and can only look at them from a distance. After a period of time these restrictions are slowly changed over a period of months and one at a time. Learning the diet as well as learning the self control makes a shaman resilient to temptation from the sprites to abuse the power given to them as well as allowing for communication from the spirits to the man or woman.

What are the shamans healing?

From what I have read of the book so far and of my other readings into the shamanism world, it seems that shamans are really true healers. I am not one to say that shamans are physically taking out disease of our bodies but what I do believe is they are healing our minds. Our mind has the great capacity of causing long term harm to our bodies as well as healing the body. It is also true that many of our medicines today are taken from the exact same people we currently call crazy or mystical ... shamans. We have taken the plants that they have used for thousands of years, purified them and sell them as pharmaceuticals today. I think the shamans deserve a little more respect then we often give them. If we don't respect them in the western world, they are still highly respected in the Amazon and greatly feared as well...

The Use of Salvia Divinorum to Facilitate Lucid Dreaming

2010-12-10T12:27:00.000-08:00

An Experience:

The previsionary state begins to take hold. As usual, I find myself in what appears to be a dark room, illuminated only by what I would best describe as a subtle black light effect. I do my best to relax and let my subconscious drive the ensuing lesson and experience. My visual perspective begins to rotate counter clockwise in a wide arc. When this rotational effect ends, a more developed scene manifests. I am in a room with three walls. The walls, floor and ceiling have only a rough outline to them and are glowing a cool bright white. There seems to be a profound sense of energy and well being associated with this coloration. It's a safe place and highly personal. I have a strong visual sense but no perception of physical form. I suppose one would say I am disembodied? What would normally be the rooms fourth wall is missing. In its place is a hole into outer space. Nothing more than blackness and stars as far as one can see. This scene remains stable for the next several minutes as my visual perspective then slowly shifts clockwise. The scene begins to dissolve. I remain in this heightened state of awareness for several more minutes before fully breaking from the scene and re-engaging consensual reality.

Introduction:

This was a recent experience I had with the magical herb Salvia Divinorum. Yes, you can read descriptions like this all day long on erowid if you have the time and motivation. But that is not the purpose of this article. Fundamentally, this is a site focused on dreaming and dream lucidity and I will not stray far. In fact, I will try to link the topics of Salvia and lucidity in a manner that I have not seen discussed by others. But first some necessary background.

I have used this herb in a responsible and exploratory way for about 4.5 years. The best source of information on the subject in general would no doubt be Daniel Siebert's sagewisdom site. I will forgo a summary of his key points and opinions. I will only reiterate that Salvia is to be respected. It is not fun, relaxing or socially facilitating in any sense. Many who try it dislike it immediately, considering the effect to be uncontrolled, frightening or just plain confusing. Others claim to be somewhat immune to the effect. Yet others find it to be a great aid in personal exploration and the generation of creative ideas. Still others, like myself use it to explore the bounds of human consciouness itself. Interestingly, this seems to be evidence that she chooses you and not the other way around. What does the experience "mean"? Frankly I am still forming my own opinions. I am not convinced that it's possible to draw a firm conclusion in that regard. If it is possible, it would probably take a lifetime. It truely is a complex experience.

I have been lucid dreaming regularly for a little over 4 years. I put a fairly significant amount of time and energy into reading on the subject of lucidity as well as a number of related areas. I am also quite knowledgable about lucid dream supplement theory and use it to great advantage. These efforts and focus are rewarded with maybe 20-30 lucid dreams per month. Some wonderful and others mundane. But at the core of this effort is my use of Salvia. It was responsible for motivating me to get back into lucid dreaming and it continues to play a role in my success. I am sure of it. It's actually fairly shocking to me that little work has been done linking salvia to lucid dreaming. After all, a full blown salvia vision can be quite similar to a lucid dream, or perhaps more precisely an out of body experience.

But how does Salvia support lucid dreaming? There are three main aspects to consider. Two facilitate awareness training. The other is a broad, rather heuristic claim I will make.

WILD Practice:

The first thing which should be striking about salvia is the nature of the transition from a wakeful state to a visionary one. In lucid dreaming, we are all familiar with the concept of a wake initiated lucid dream, or WILD. Frankly speaking, WILDs are tough to pull off. I can induce WILDs, but they almost always require a bias in my acetylcholine levels (e.g. by taking a mix of galantamine and choline). Even then, most of my WILDs would be characterized as OOBE's, with a vibrationary state followed by an entrance to my dreamspace in which it's a replica of the real life scene I just left (e.g. my bedroom). But of course there is the case of WILDing based on hynagogic imagery (HI). As many have experienced, the twilight state between awake and asleep is often preceeded by hynagogic flashes and even auditory hallucinations. It's quite natural, normal and does not require psycho actives to induce. One only needs to pay attention to their closed eyes field of vision when drifting off and perhaps try to stay alert during the process. But there in lies the key. Staying alert. Maintaining a balance between consciously aware and drifting into formal sleep. This should ring a bell so to speak with the process of drifting into salvia space. Now I refer more to the process of consuming 1-3 hits of a high potency standardized extract. My personal choice would be a 20X extract standardized to 72 micro-grams of salvinorin A per gram of leaf material. Large hits should be consumed as thoroughly and as fast as possible due to the short half life associated with this method of consumption. Have you used salvia and smoked it in this manner? Did you go from 0 - 60 in about 3 seconds? Hard to maintain control and focus right? A little hard to relax and just let your subconscious drive? Well isn't that process and those attributes much like a WILD transition based on HI? Now let's go back to WILDing. Even getting to the hynagogic state and transitioning to REM generally requires that one engage in this exercise later in their sleep cycle. Hopefully, the reader is aware that WILDs are almost impossible early in the evening due to the propensity to move between stage 1-4 sleep with little REM (stage 5) in between. So practicing WILDs becomes difficult. It's hard to get to the hypnogogic state and such practice is best done in the middle of the night. But practicing awareness, relaxation and subtle control of the salvia ramp up is possible on demand. I maintain that learning to control that ramp up, helps one negotiate the WILD transition. In fact, it probably helps with both HI based and vibration based WILDs. If this idea intrigues you, start experimenting. Try to master the wakeful/alert to salvia space transition. Leverage this mastery to improve upon your management of WILD transitions.

Control and Recall in a Non-Wakeful State:

Think about the dream state. It's driven by our subconscious. It's unpredictable. It is hard to control or apply logic in. It can be very hard to remember dreams upon waking, even though we were quite in the moment while still in the dream. Do these attributes sound familiar? Can we make the same claims about the salvia induced visionary state?

Much like salvia can be used to master WILD transitions, I maintain that it can also be used to create a greater intimacy and level of control with the dream world. It allows you to experiment with different visionary levels. First, practice using a small enough dose such that you get visuals, but also maintain full awareness and keen recall once you leave the vision state. Once that dose is mastered, step it up a notch. A larger dose and additional practice in maintaining awareness, mental clarity and recall once the experience ends. At some point, you will hit a dose where you begin to lose these abilities. From my experience, the first to go is full recall of the experience. It's essentially an amnesiac state. But over time, you should be able to better negotiate control, awareness and recall. You should be able to maintain these attributes for larger and larger doses. This practice should positively impact your ability to apply focus, logic and recall of the dream state.

This suggestion is not completely disimilar to the practices of Tibetan Dream Yoga. In dream yoga, the goal is to master lucidity, destroy negative karmic threads and improve ones overall mental accuity and condition during dreaming. It is believed this focus and ability can be carried with you upon death. At death, the mental training one has undertaken is expected to help them maintain focus, and in principle provides the ability to influence their reincarnation. They are not caught up in the fantasies associated with the bardo's of death. Rather, their mental training spills into this state. A similar though somewhat more mundane analogy would be the use of reality checks. Doing reality checks repetitively during the day improves awareness while awake, which hopefully creates the habit of awareness while dreaming. Same fundamental concept.

Mastering control, focus and recall in the salvia induced visionary state, should spill into other mental states, including the dream state. Again, practice with an open mind and sense of purpose.

Poking Holes in the Wall:

Well, figuratively speaking anyway. Why don't we lucid dream as part of our standard operating procedure? Why can't we pick up on PSI information with greater reliability? What are the b

arriers involved? Evolution I suppose? I can make arguements as to why neither is particularly productive toward the survival of the species in general. But what about the small p

ercentage of us interested in exploring the bounds of this reality?

However one chooses to conceptualize things, there appear to be certain barriers or walls in place that only facilitate certain states and information transfer in general. Let's model the problem as such. Let's form a mental picture. A first wall-A divides the conscious and subconscious minds. A second wall-B divides the subconscious and supermind. Info at the supermind level needs to travers two walls to get to the conscious mind. Here, I use the term supermind in the spirit of Robert Monroe. It is the impermanent portion of your mind. It transcends death. It likely has access to all psychic (M-band) information. It is represented by the dreamspace itself.

From a life experience perspective, it seems to me that wall-A and wall-B are filters. They let in some info, but not all. Information bubbling up from your supermind would have to cross two full layers to get to the conscious mind, in the form of a visual imagine, stray thought, gut feeling etc ...

I maintain that the use of salvia chips away at both of these walls. It creates a temporary merging of all three aspects of your mind. For that matter, lucid dreams yield the same effect, a merging of the different components of your mind. I would conjecture that using salvia weakens these walls, and has an effect on both the conscious reception of PSI information, as well as the cooperation of the conscious, subconscious and superminds. It helps to create a closer relation between these processes and in doing so facilitates lucidity. Lucidity itself, strengthens ones ability become lucid in future dreams and if one challenges themselves, becomes a stepping stone for deeper exploration. These pursuits compliment one another, and stengthen the overall experience. It forces us to deepen our interpretation of the salvia experience. It becomes one big counter dependent loop. One which strenghtens and becomes more complex and deepens over time.

Summary:

So in summary, we've discussed three possible ways in which to use salvia to enhance lucid dreaming. But like all lucid dream facilitators or induction methods, people will have varying degrees of success experimenting with the methods herein. As with any method, give it a fair effort and period of time before you draw conclusions, positive or negative. If you choose to explore the use of salvia in this manner, please be responsible. This wonderful herb has received enough bad publicity and is poorly understood at best. But for those willing to take the time to work with it and explore its use in an intelligent manner, the rewards can be quite substantial. Only you will know when you get there.

Myzeo Data Collection

2010-12-08T07:44:00.000-08:00

We have added another area to our experiments section of the site. Now you can contribute to future research on this site as well as research around the web by uploading your Myzeo data.csv file via our online form. You can either have your sleep data published to the public on our site or you can have it kept private for our eyes only. If you do decide to submit your data and would like recognition, please fill all the information on the form.

Our hope here at lucidconsciousness.com is to supply the public with the best information about their sleep as possible. With the more data that we receive and that other researchers receive, the more trends we can identify in sleep as well as investigate possible ways of helping get a better nights rest.

To submit your data please visit our myzeo data collection page.

Thank you for you contribution to the awareness of sleep!

Allan Hobson - The future of lucid dreaming treatment

2010-12-07T09:29:00.000-08:00

I found an article today written by Dr. Allan Hobson about the uses of lucid dreaming and the treatments for nightmares. In his article he talks about how lucid dreaming techniques have helped some individuals overcome nightmares in that they are able to control the dreams and aim the dreams into a less scary theme. I believe Hobson's conclusion says it best:

Although only little published research has been dedicated to the investigation of Lucid Dreaming Treatment, this research has presented preliminary and promising results, suggesting that LDT is effective in reducing nightmares. The reduction of nightmare frequency may consequently lead to better life quality during wakefulness. Earlier studies show that nightmares are not only a significant component of PTSD symptoms but that they also can develop into a disorder of their own. This further underscores the need to find effective treatments for chronic nightmares. LDT shows promising potential for the reduction of nightmare frequency, but its effectiveness is in need of substantial future exploration and validation before LDT might become more widely applied in the appropriate patient populations. In future studies, the effectiveness of LDT should be compared to other cognitive-restructuring techniques: larger sample sizes should be used and the intensity and length of the lucidity intervention should be substantially increased.

You can read the full article here

5-HTP Book

2010-12-01T13:50:00.000-08:00

I have been getting ready for my soon experiment with 5-HTP and reading up on some new references for the use of 5-HTP. I found a book in the library which really is a very informative book in the uses of 5-HTP called "5-HTP: Boost Your Serotonin Levels The Natural Way to Overcome Depression, Obesity, and Insomnia". Though the name of the book is incredibly long the information in the book seems to be very helpful for those who are dealing with those disorders mentioned in the title. Though the information seems to be a little bit out dated or incorrect, as Dr. Murray mentions using a MAO-I such as St John's wort in conjunction with over 100 mg of 5-HTP (something that may be safe for some people but still shouldn't be conducted), his book still is a good introduction into the positive uses of 5-HTP. I am a long believer in the anti-depressant uses of supplements (mainly 5-HTP) rather than the prescription based anti-depressants due to their effectiveness and low side effects.

Now many of us have heard and tried L-tryptophan to help with our sleep. Well Murray advises to not use L-tryptophan because in its process of convertion into serotonin, it turns into Kynurenine as well as 5-HTP. Kynurenine can cause muscle damage if built up to high.

In chapter 4 of the book Murray talks about how 5-HTP can help reduce insomnia and other sleep disorders. He talks about the science behind how serotonin is important in the sleep cycle and why many of these sleep disorders are caused by the lacking of a neurotransmitter often enough serotonin.

Though most of the information in the book I already knew, the book was still a good review of 5-HTP. Over all if you would like to learn about 5-HTP and its positive uses then this book is a great read.

Kava MAO-B

2010-12-01T13:08:00.000-08:00

I have been reading an interesting book "Hallucinogens: A Forensic Drug Handbook" and scanned over something that may be beneficial to some readers. Apparently kava or Kava kava contains MAO-B and MAO-A in its lactones. The book says that the MAO-A's are the reason for Kava's anti depressant effects, but from what R posted about the MAO-B's a few posts ago, it seems that both MAO-A's, and B's are responsible for different antidepressant effects. As MAO-B effects the dopamine system and depression has recently been identified as dealing with more of a lack of dopamine in the brain and that the increasing of serotonin through a long list of events actually increase dopamine, then I tend to believe that the MAO-B in Kava are the more responsible. At any rate, Kava is a available anti-depressant and possibly lowering the amount of vivid dreams you have. Its all questionable because kava also has MAO-A's which tend to lower the amount of dopamine in the system and giving the dreamer more vivid dreams.

read more about Kava here: http://lucidconsciousness.com/psychotropia/?s=kava

Review: DMT: The Spirit Molecule

2010-11-30T08:37:00.001-08:00

I received my kick-starter movie in the mail yesterday and decided to check it out. As promised I wanted to write a review about the movie so that some people could at least get a good idea of what to expect when they see the movie.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule is a documentary that talks about the history of DMT use in relation to Dr.Strassman's work. If you have ever read the book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" and maybe a book on the history of drug use in America, well then you know just about everything that is in the movie. The director uses some great interviews to express their experiences as well as talking about the history of why DMT and other drugs like LSD were banned from research. The video goes into detail about the chemical relationship between DMT and other types of drugs, and how those drugs are being used today in clinical studies. There is a little video about the tribal use of DMT but really this is only a fraction of the movie.

The one thing that I was really surprised about in the movie was the idea that DMT is produced in the pineal gland. For anyone who has done any type of research about DMT, it is not a proven fact that its created in the pineal gland. Even Strassman states this in one of his interviews I conducted over a year ago:

I regret not being more clear about the hypothetical nature of the DMT-pineal link. There is one paper in which human pineal tissue is ground up and put into a test tube; then the precursors for 5-methoxy-DMT are added, stirred, and warmed, and out comes 5-methoxy-DMT. We have no data on intact, in-person pineal gland DMT synthesis. That’s one of the questions we hope to answer with our new assay at LSU. While the pineal link remains speculative, it is established that lung makes lots of DMT.

I am pretty sure that this assay that Strassman is talking about hasn't yet been concluded. In any way, its a bit hard to see Strassman talking about the pineal gland being where DMT is produced when its only theory, and once again pushing people to believe wrongly what he stated as being a problem in his book. Another thing that I had a problem with is that in the video they talked about how western society seems to be always trying to get the best high, the most bang for their buck kind of deal, but little in the movie do they show anything about the cultures that use DMT for healing such as in South America. They instead talk to westerners about their experiences on DMT and little dealing with Ayahuasca where the real healing is done. Jace Callaways research that dealt with the healing powers of DMT and increasing serotonin receptor sites, was done with Ayahuasca, not just DMT alone, and often enough with no mimosa hostilis which contains the large amount of DMT used in Ayahuasca. The Santo Daime also use Ayahuasca in their religious practices and not pure DMT. In truth, in terms of experiences with DMT, the movie focuses on the trippy experiences that DMT provides rather than the real healing after effects that it has. The video fails to address the long term effects that have dramatically changed these peoples lives for the good and bad after their experiences.

Over all the movie was great for a public who knows nothing about DMT or why anyone would want to use it. It tells us a realistic story about why DMT was banned from public use and research as well as the uses for DMT and other hallucinogens. It provides awareness to people about the experiences behind DMT and about Strassmans book and his research. The video seems to fail in a number of areas which I believe would be very beneficial to people who wanted to know how DMT can help them and others who have mental illness. I would highly recommend everyone to purchase the movie because it supports further research as well as public awareness, but to really understand the pros and cons of using DMT, more personal research into the area of the drug is needed for those individuals.

Review: DMT: The Spirit Molecule

2010-11-30T08:37:00.000-08:00

I regret not being more clear about the hypothetical nature of the DMT-pineal link. There is one paper in which human pineal tissue is ground up and put into a test tube; then the precursors for 5-methoxy-DMT are added, stirred, and warmed, and out comes 5-methoxy-DMT. We have no data on intact, in-person pineal gland DMT synthesis. That’s one of the questions we hope to answer with our new assay at LSU. While the pineal link remains speculative, it is established that lung makes lots of DMT.

Caffeine Withdrawal Induced LD

2010-11-29T07:37:00.001-08:00

Something that I have always noticed during my days of sleeping is the times when I have a horrible caffeine withdrawal headache. I wake up in terrible pain and I remember my dreams very vividly. I never really paid much attention to this besides taking a aspirin and trying to go back to sleep. Apparently there are some really positive uses for such a withdrawal.

Caffeine Withdrawal Induced Lucid Dreaming (CWILD) is where a person goes to sleep full knowing they will have a headache from the caffeine withdrawal, wake up after a period of time, and take a type of caffeinated substance, and fall back to sleep. The sleeping person subconsciously feels the effects of the withdrawal go away and the person is then in a lucid state. The caffeine acts as a type of indicator that the person is asleep.

About a year ago R left us a post on the site about a article that he read about dealing with caffeine and how it may increase melatonin production. He said that after his review of the article that it looked like caffeine when induced in small amounts can allow for slower breakdown of the melatonin in the brain. Here we can get the information strait from the article itself:

In summary, caffeine was found to increase the oral bioavailability of melatonin probably due to an inhibition of the CYP1A2 catalysed first-pass metabolism of melatonin. The effect was more pronounced in nonsmokers and subjects with the *1F/*1F genotype.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1884289/

I also found another article that gives us a little more information into how the whole caffeine process may be helping the melatonin production:

Treatment of cultured rat pineal glands with norepinephrine or dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate causes a six- to tenfold stimulation of N-acetyltransferase. This enzyme converts serotonin to N-acetylserotonin, the immediate precursor of melatonin. The increased synthesis of melatonin caused by norepinephrine treatment appears to be the result of stimulation of N-acetyltransferase by an adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate mechanism.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970Sci...168..979K

Caffeine increases the amount of adenosine in the body, and from what the article says is that adenosine has a increase in the conversion of serotonin into melatonin. It truly is a wonder how coffee keeps anyone awake :)

So in the case of CWILD not only is the caffeine acting as a indicator of being in REM or dreaming, but also allowing for the better use of melatonin. From the article this use of caffeine would be better used in non-smokers as well as people with a specific genotype. It may be interesting to also look into the sleeping habits of smokers, as they may sleep less due to the breaking down of melatonin in their bodies.

Over all CWILD is becoming a very effective way of increasing the amount of lucid dreams a person can have. Moonbeam and Pj over at mortalmist.com are the ones who working hard on the project and indicate that their use of this technique has increased their lucid dreams to be about 80% effective.

Take part of this discussion over at: mortalmist.com

R's original article: http://lucidconsciousness.com/?p=29

Caffeine Withdrawal Induced LD

2010-11-29T07:37:00.000-08:00

In summary, caffeine was found to increase the oral bioavailability of melatonin probably due to an inhibition of the CYP1A2 catalysed first-pass metabolism of melatonin. The effect was more pronounced in nonsmokers and subjects with the *1F/*1F genotype.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1884289/

I also found another article that gives us a little more information into how the whole caffeine process may be helping the melatonin production:

Treatment of cultured rat pineal glands with norepinephrine or dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate causes a six- to tenfold stimulation of N-acetyltransferase. This enzyme converts serotonin to N-acetylserotonin, the immediate precursor of melatonin. The increased synthesis of melatonin caused by norepinephrine treatment appears to be the result of stimulation of N-acetyltransferase by an adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate mechanism.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970Sci...168..979K

Mitch Schultz - DMT: The Spirit Molecule Interview

2010-11-28T10:54:00.001-08:00

Martain Ball over at the Entheogenic Evolution provides us another great interview, this time by Mitch Schultz the producer and director of DMT: The Spirit Molecule. With the release of the documentary I am sure that Schultz has gotten a lot more attention and more to come soon. You can hear the podcast at: The Entheogenic Evolution

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Turkey Time: the Role of Tryptophan in Sleep and Dreams

2010-11-25T05:44:00.001-08:00

Ryan Hurd over at dreamstudies.org gives us a great post about tryptophan and its effects during the Thanksgiving chow down. Here is a little of what he has to say:

My US readers are preparing for Thanksgiving, the traditional harvest meal to celebrate family and friends. And most of us that sit at the Thanksgiving table will probably want a serious nap after eating. While the tryptophan in turkey is often blamed for this holiday nap effect, actually it’s more complex than that.

Turkey Time: the Role of Tryptophan in Sleep and Dreams

2010-11-25T05:44:00.000-08:00

Ryan Hurd over at dreamstudies.org gives us a great post about tryptophan and its effects during the Thanksgiving chow down. Here is a little of what he has to say:

My US readers are preparing for Thanksgiving, the traditional harvest meal to celebrate family and friends. And most of us that sit at the Thanksgiving table will probably want a serious nap after eating. While the tryptophan in turkey is often blamed for this holiday nap effect, actually it’s more complex than that.

New Rick Strassman Interview!

2010-11-24T13:26:00.001-08:00

Oh Dr. Strassman's book....how I love thee. Let me count the ways. I can't believe this thing came out ten years ago. I was one of the early readers and I am extremely pleased that sales of the book are still going strong.

At anyrate, head on over to the Gnostic Media podcast to hear the latest on Strassman the DMT documentary and tryptamine research in general. And if you can...donate god damn it! Of course, I don't always agree with Jan's guests, topics or opinions but where else can you listen to interviews of everyone from Benny Shanon to Joe Rogan? Now, if he could only get J. Allan Hobson!

Here's the linkage:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/dr-rick-strassman-interview-dmt-the-spirit-molecule-095/

-Red

New Rick Strassman Interview!

2010-11-24T13:26:00.000-08:00

Dream Questions

2010-11-23T15:12:00.001-08:00

I recently added an add a new section to the website called Dream Questions. In this section you can ask questions about your dreams, sleep, or anything related to the consciousness. Those questions can then be answered from anyone that is a user and the answers can be voted on. Its much like yahoo's answers, but directly for Oneirology based work.

You can also join dream questions on twitter to receive a update whenever a question is submitted. Its a good way to keep track of what is going on in the world of dreaming!

Get started and please visit the site: ask your dream questions

Dream Questions

2010-11-23T15:12:00.000-08:00

DMT The Spirit Molecule Purchase DVD

2010-11-23T15:02:00.001-08:00

Well it looks like the main site has been updated purchasing the DVD for the documentary DMT The Spirit Molecule. I still haven't received my Kickstarter copy of the DVD so I have no update on how well done or any feedback to the community, but I hope to have some out soon. I will make sure to update the website as soon as I can with that information.

I wanted to thank everyone for visiting the site and hope you all have a great Thanksgiving/turkey day.

DMT The Spirit Molecule Purchase DVD

2010-11-23T15:02:00.000-08:00

More Jung

2010-11-16T16:20:00.001-08:00

I spent the last night reading more into the wonderful world of Jung (not the book title by the way) and was reading into the development of personalities. In the book Jung gave an account of a child that was discovering where babies came from and came up with some interesting and strange yet logical ideas of where babies come from. The odd thing is that Jung gave a very good account of why the child came up with really strange and almost damaging ideas about child bearing from the child's parents. Jung though didn't deal much into child psychology ultimately stated that children are a lot smarter than grownups think and will create ideas to make sense of the strange and sometimes bazaar stories we tell them to ignore halving to have a uneasy conversation about where they came from. It brings me to think about some of those same strange stories I later found out in life were not true, either from my own exploration into understanding nature, or my parents telling me flat out lies (stories).

I think what we experience as a child really does effect how we are as grown ups. In terms of consciousness I can see how when we are younger we develop personalities that will live with us the rest of our lives. If we damage those early with hurtful and negative thoughts about the world being full of un-trustworthy people, then we will forever believe that un-consciously or at least until something dramatic happens to change that. I always say, "garbage in, garbage out."

More Jung

2010-11-16T16:20:00.000-08:00

Letters from Red: Dopamine and the Dream

2010-11-16T15:23:00.002-08:00

Hey L!

So, I’ve been thinking about the role of dopamine in all of this crazy lucidity land stuff. Actually, S has been working on a paper about Tobacco in South America and that lead me on a weird internet search in terms of Dopamine, Nicotine and the “Visionary State”.

So, first off, as we know…Tobacco not only has nicotine but also has potent MAOIs. In fact, there seems to be more than a few people on tobacco forums talking about how the nicotine replacement therepies (patches, gum ect.) just don’t seem to do it for them. This is interesting to me seeing as how I am an on again /off again nicotine fiend (I’m actually sucking on a Nicorette lozenge as I type this Mwhahahaha).

At anyrate, Nicotine does have an affect on dopamine levels. However, what is more impressive are the long term effects that other chemicals in tobacco (not nicotine) have on smokers MAO levels. Especially MAO-B’s which are related not to serotonin but dopamine.

Exhibit A:)
http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/brainscan.html

So! It’s obvious that smokers have lower MAO-B levels and therefore higher amounts of dopamine. Now…are you ready for the shizzle? The craziest piece o’ data that I stumbled across in my nicotine fuled research-o-haul of awesomeness….

DMT may not be broken down my MAO-A’s (the one’s that break down serotonin)…but by MAO-Bs (the one’s that break down dopamine)!?!?!!

That’s right!

Now, when taking an MAOI that targets MAO-A’s (like caapi or rue) if taken in large enough amounts, it will also inhibit MAO-B levels. But check this out dude…

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3937611/The-Scientific-Investigation-of-Ayahuasca-A-Review-of-Past-and-Current-Research-

Look at the last paragraph on pg 67.

I think this is TERRIBLY interesting because….it may mean that those of us (me) who don’t usually have visual dreams and who seem to have blocked access to the visual side of the visionary experience (hardhead) may have HIGH MAO-B levels. This would explain a lot actually.

Oh yes, and the dopamine/MAO-B visionary conundrum continues!
Check out this article:

http://www.meaningofdreams.org/dream_theory/hobsondreamingprotoconsciousstate.htm

Notice the stuff under the heading of Modulation.

In fact, as I’m re-reading this I clicked on this link:

http://www.meaningofdreams.org/dream_theory/solmsdreamsprotectsleep.htm

Head down to the “Dreams are made in the Forebrain” part.

Now, I of course do have dreams. But by and large they are these weird “talking” dreams. Where I wake up and remember that my brain was engaged in strange thoughts or conversations or sentences more than visual scenes. I still get scenes occasionally but not like a lot of people.

I’m not saying that Serotonin still doesn’t have a huge role to play. But it may be more along the lines of the dopamine system being so depressed that the REM rebound phase (when you take 5-HTP) is the body over compensating with a huge dopamine rush. I’ve read conflicting reports about the relationship between dopamine and serotonin.

In some places, I’ve seen that there seems to be a teeter-totter like effect between Serotonin and dopamine. Like if one is high the other is low. But other places I’ve seen that by raising one you somehow raise the other. Like the body is trying to keep a neuro-chemical homeostasis. But I dunno dude…

Plus, I’m sure there is some role that endorphins play in all of this. But I don’t know just what that is yet.

Oh yea, and P.S.
Jung was a smoker...

http://briarfiles.blogspot.com/2010/01/featured-pipe-smoker-carl-jung.html

Meaning LOW MAO-B levels. Meaning, (maybe in logical leaps o' pleanty)..vivid dreams!

Anyway, now I’m off to bed just thought I would share this with you lol.

Talk to you later dude-

R

Letters from Red: Dopamine and the Dream

2010-11-16T15:23:00.001-08:00

More Yung

2010-11-16T15:23:00.000-08:00

I spent the last night reading more into the wonderful world of Yung (not the book title by the way) and was reading into the development of personalities. In the book Yung gave an account of a child that was discovering where babies came from and came up with some interesting and strange yet logical ideas of where babies come from. The odd thing is that Yung gave a very good account of why the child came up with really strange and almost damaging ideas about child bearing from the child's parents. Yung though didn't deal much into child psychology ultimately stated that children are a lot smarter than grownups think and will create ideas to make sense of the strange and sometimes bazaar stories we tell them to ignore halving to have a uneasy conversation about where they came from. It brings me to think about some of those same strange stories I later found out in life were not true, either from my own exploration into understanding nature, or my parents telling me flat out lies (stories).

I think what we experience as a child really does effect how we are as grown ups. In terms of consciousness I can see how when we are younger we develop personalities that will live with us the rest of our lives. If we damage those early with hurtful and negative thoughts about the world being full of un-trustworthy people, then we will forever believe that un-consciously or at least until something dramatic happens to change that. I always say, "garbage in, garbage out."

Draft created on November 17, 2010 at 5:12 am

2010-11-16T15:12:00.000-08:00

myzeo

2010-11-16T09:28:00.001-08:00

I just got my myzeo in and am interested to start using it.

What I must say from the packaging is that they did a great job in making it easy to understand and clear to use. I have absolutely no questions about the product or how to do something. I am also interested to see how my sleep really is. I often feel exhausted in the mornings and believe its because I often wake up in the nights but just don't remember it. I am interested to see how much of that I can change with some simple techniques or even supplements. Ill start using myzeo tonight and see how it goes!

myzeo

2010-11-16T09:28:00.000-08:00

A dream

2010-11-15T07:40:00.001-08:00

After what seemed to be a calling I managed to fall in admiration for a the psychiatrist Carl Jung who really has become an inspiration over the last few weeks. Being a psychology student I found it funny that I have heard little about Jung and more about Freud who has always been an almost laughable figure in my understanding of psychology, consciousness, and the dream mind. I found that Jung is really a much more reasonable person and though I'm sure many of his views have been proven wrong over the years, he still seems to have more of an open mind than the coke fiend who insists that women have envy of men's more delicate parts.

I didnt know where to start with Jung, I tried to find his "Red Book" but after finding it in my local library, I found it impossible to read. I then looked around on the internet for some good books on Jung and found that there are some very interesting volumes written about his work called "The Collected Works of C.G. Jung". I picked up a number of the volumes and started to read volume 9, part II called "Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self". So far I must say what a great read!

Really Jungs work is a hard read to understand and he often goes on in some cases about what I think is some abstract thinking, but the main point is, is this guy makes sense when he wrote about the self. How so? Well...

Jung talks about how our consciousness is made up of personalities rather than just a subconsciousness that entails everything that we cant know. Not only that but he says that these personalities are able to communicate with and of which a lot happens during sleep. He never says that we cant understand these personalities like the all so wrong Freud, and interesting enough he talks about the same personalities that we often experience in our dreams. When my last post about my lucid dream I talked about having a conversation with a number of distinct personalities that made up my consciousness. I never stated how many personalities that seemed to be involved in the dream but to be exact I could distinguish three very predominate ones. One being a very serious personality who just wanted to do work and not have much fun, another whos life revolved around being a trickster and enjoying everything without work, and other was the dark side of my life. What I failed to realize is that the self was also involved as I couldn't have communicated with these personalities if I was not aware of myself and thinking to myself. Anyways, Jung also says that we have three distinct personalities as well as a self and an ego.

The ego according to Jung is not really much. He says that its really hard to determine how much of the ego really is involved in anything. It seems to me from my readings into Jung as well as into peoples personal experiences into the ego death, that the ego doesn't really effect much of anything. Some may say that their ego is what makes them think they are all important and very full of themselves when in fact it seems that those relationships are very much tied to the personalities that make the consciousness and subconsciousness up. The ego seems to more play the role as a control mechanism that holds together the personalities and refrains one to become over dominate of the others. Its possible that experiences that rep apart the ego allow the person to understand more of the personalities that make them who they are, and allow them to be a more understanding and well rounded person. Jung even says that this is the goal of all humans through religion and other means, to understand these personalities to be a more "full" person.

The shadow which Jung so well named it is the darker side of the person. It is the pure terror that we all have inside of us, and those dark negative things we think about our self and others. Its interesting with the name because often enough when people have abonafide nightmare we often see a shadow figure that is never positive. I have had experiences and read about others experiences were rather than try to be scared of this dream figure we tried to understand what it wanted, and often enough it is some kind of childish negative thought that manifested the figure. Understanding this figure has caused a feeling of understanding of myself that I had never had before, and though its often terrifying to face, I know I should be more understanding to this figure.

The anima and animus are a little more confusing to my understanding of the personalities. They seem to be tied to what I experienced in my dream as one is more of a feminine nature than the other but its hard to understand where the line is in having fun and being serious that tie to mine. Jung says that the anima is a feminine type of personality that is more active in men than women and the animus is a more male dominate one and is more active in women than men. He explains our emotional states with these as women often seem to be more illogical in their choices than men and are more emotional, as men are more moody from seriousness to wanting to have fun. I think how he figures out which one is feminine and witch one is masculine by studying ancient mythological images and how humans have tied those type of personalities to either male or female figures.

In the aspect of the self its a bit more confusing to me and I truly dont have an understanding of what he talks about in his writing in this section besides of what we know. The self is active at all times and seems to work in conjunction of the ego to hold things together. Maybe when we are developed the sense of self is one of the first things to develop and later the personalities. Thats only speculation my behalf.

Over all Jung has become one of my mentors in psychology and dreaming and I hope to share more of my understanding in the future.

A dream

2010-11-15T07:40:00.000-08:00

research on dreams

2010-11-14T17:37:00.000-08:00

Lucid Dreaming Paper

2010-11-14T14:38:00.001-08:00

I have been working on a paper for the last few weeks about lucid dreaming, how to do it, and what are the positive and negatives about the subject. Its hardly perfect but I wanted to post what I had and ill edit it over the next few weeks.

How to Be a Lucid Dreamer

Lucid dreaming

Lucid dreaming is the realization that one is dreaming (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997). Though the definition of lucid dreaming may be simple, the ability to be lucid inside of a dream is another matter entirely. So much has been the case that until recently lucid dreaming was considered nonexistent in the scientific world. It wasn’t until Stephen LaBerge’s experiments in the lucid dreaming community did it become known that lucid does occur in some individuals (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

Lucid dreaming is something that didn’t just start to occur in the last twenty years, it has been around much longer than that. In Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s book “The Tibetan Yoga’s of Dream and Sleep” he describes lucid dreaming as being an active meditation practice since the practice of meditation in the Tibetan culture was formed (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998). Though not a highly known or practiced form of meditation, lucid dreaming is still a known and taught way by the Tibetan Buddhist community of exploring the unknown areas of the human psyche.

Though lucid dreaming is a relatively new area of research into the dream research community, it is still something that there is multitude of information about in the online community as well as in books where people express their personal experiences and their own guides into how to lucid dream. Through years of personal trials and errors many of those guides have become useful for practice, as some have become useless.

Different types of lucid dreams

Lucid dreams can be broken up into a number of different groups. Robert Waggoner, author of the book “Lucid dreaming: Gateway to the inner self” describes lucid dreaming as five different levels.

Stage 1: Personal Play, pleasure, and pain Avoidance- In this stage the individual who becomes lucid explores the lucid dream with a sense of awe by seeking out those things in the dream world that provide the most amount of pleasure, and avoid those things that are troubling (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 2: Manipulation, Movement, and Me –In this stage the individual may be trying to explore the common lucid dreaming experience of flight (being able to fly) or may also manipulate the dream environment to be how they would like it to be (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 3: Power, Purpose, and Primacy – In this stage the individual may realize that they are in power of the dream characters and require that they obey the dreamer. The individual may also wonder what the purpose of the lucid dream and test situations to try to find out that purpose (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 4: Re-reflection, Reaching Out, and Wonder – In this stage the individual may realize that the dream characters have something to offer the dreamer and in result they ask the characters questions into insight into reality and dreaming. The individual may also ask questions that they seemly know the answers to in order to understand more of themselves as well as the dream world (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 5: Experiencing Awareness- In this stage the individual understands that something besides the “ego” is controlling the dream world. They go past the images of the dream and looks to seek to find the awareness behind the dream world (Waggoner, 2008).

The ultimate goal of a lucid dreamer can be said to want to be a stage five lucid dreamer, but often enough a lucid dream can pertain many different stages of Waggoners dreaming scale (Waggoner, 2008). It is also not uncommon that a lucid dreamer who has been able to dream a stage five lucid dream will often dream other stages of lucid dreams again before having another stage five lucid dream. The possible cause for this is the slight loss of long term memory due to serotonin increase during REM (Hobson, 2002).

Different ways of lucid dreaming

There are a number of different guides to inducing lucid dreams that many different authors describe in their own ways. In result there seems to be an endless amount of techniques to induce lucid dreams. A number of the most popular techniques are:

WILDS- Wake Induced Lucid dreams- The subject falls asleep seamlessly without losing consciousness though a series of techniques of relaxations and tricking the mind to believe that the body is asleep. The person then can experience a fully conscious lucid dream without having to realize they are dreaming. Often these dreams are interpreted as producing Out of the Body Experiences (OBEs) because of the experiences felt while the individual’s body falls to sleep (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

MILD -Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams – The subject falls asleep and realizes they are dreaming after a type of cue is initiated inside of the dream. The subject remembers that when they see the cue they are in fact dreaming and then become aware (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

ELDI – Electronic Lucid Dream Induction – The subject uses a device that activates when they are in rapid eye movement (REM) and indicates that they are possibly dreaming. Devices such as the DreamLight shine a bright LED into the closed eyes that often shows up as a red dot inside of the dream of the subject. The subject then knows they are dreaming and becomes aware (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

DILDS – Dream Induced Lucid Dreams- The subject realizes they are dreaming after something out of the ordinary happens such as the impossible situation, or an object out of place. In result the person becomes aware they are dreaming and a lucid dream occurs (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

WBTB- Wake Back To bed- The subject in this lucid dreaming realization technique wakes up a number of times a night and focuses on the idea of producing a lucid dream. This often causes a person to remember more of their dreams and have more dreams to realize they are dreaming in. This technique is normally used in conjunction with other techniques (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

CAT- Cycle Adjustment Technique- Much like WBTB the objective of this technique is to put the body out of the normal circadian rhythm cycle. In this technique the subject goes to sleep at different times of the night “tricking” the body to fall into more REM sleep and produce more chances for an individual to remember they are dreaming (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

SILD- Supplement Induced Lucid Dreams- The subject takes a series of supplements that aims at reducing the amount of REM a person experiences during the first part of the night and extends it during the ending cycle (Yuschak, 2006). These supplements also improve recall and normal sleep processes that occur by increasing the amount of neurotransmitter a person has. This technique is used in conjunction of other lucid dream techniques to become aware (Yuschak, 2006).

CWILD- Caffeine-withdrawal Induced Lucid Dream- The subject uses caffeine until a addiction is formed where they end their use and produce the withdrawal symptoms. The subject then falls asleep and wakes up when they are most likely able to be in their REM cycle. They then administer a caffeine based substance and fall back to sleep. The withdrawal symptoms go away and acts as an indication to the sleeper of being in a dream. (Mortal Mist Community, 2009)

The Dream World

When an individual becomes lucid in their dreams and they experience the different stages of a lucid dream they may become more aware of a few remarkable things. The first noticeable learned experience is that in stages one through four a person only is partially lucid during a lucid dream. There is still the element of the separation between the dreamer and the creator of the lucid dream. The idea is that the lucid dreamer is the conscious mind and the director (the consciousness creating the dreaming world) is an entirely different identity or the sub-consciousness. The realization that these consciousnesses are exactly the same thing creates a perception of awareness that caused the dreamer to be fully of full lucidity inside of the dream. This makes it so that dream images are no longer needed in order for communication between the “ego” and “sub-consciousness” to communicate. There is no longer a defined line between the two and “total awareness” is possible. Those who provide us examples of these stage five lucid dreams provide little to no detail into the experience of the dream, possibly meaning that a dream without the images or verbal communication is indescribable. Until an individual obtains a stage five type of dream, there are many different experiences that a lucid dreamer may experience.

Realism

Often when a person first starts to explore a lucid dream they are often found testing the environment around them to see how real something is or not (Lucidology, 2008). In a normal lucid dream there has been described a type of realism that is below the realism of reality (Lucidology, 2008). Often there are mistakes in the psychics of the dream world, or unrealistic characters may be involved in the dream. In cases where people experience OBE type lucid dreams, the realism is increased to another level. It is possible that the lucid dreamer’s ability to test the dream reality in OBE dreams has become reduced and lucidity lowered, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. In contrary in OBE lucid dreams the individual seems to realize more than ever that they are dreaming. Details are ever more vivid in OBE experiences than in normal lucid dreams, and testing the reality of the experience seems to fail almost in every situation. Psychics may not be exactly correct in the situation of gravity, but for the most part the rules apply the same as in waking realty. Dream characters in OBE type lucid dreams seem to follow their own set of rules and seemingly seem far more intelligent than in normal lucid dreams. This experience of OBE lucid dreaming is often considered so real that many people have been perplexed to believe that these dreams are in fact real (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998). Though these dreams seem very real simple experiments inside of these OBE dreams have shown that they often fail simple reality tests. In the following dream I tested the reality of the dream:

Falling asleep I felt the vibrations that normally came when I knew I would have a OBE type dream. I opened my eyes and was in my room. Things seemed slower and I knew that there was a good chance I was dreaming. I walked around my room and thought that there was a chance that I was sleep walking as everything was very slow but still realistic. I feared my roommates would see me walking around the house but figured the risk was worth it and continued on my way to the bathroom to look in the mirror. I flicked on and off the light in the bathroom and it worked how it should have which caused me to believe more that I was sleep walking. I looked at my face in the mirror and noticed everything was slightly green. I walked down the stairs which lead to outside the house and saw my shoes. I positioned my shoes so that when I awoke the next day that I would see I was sleep walking. I continued outside where the sky was full of amazing stars and supernovas. After a while of walking around I lost my lucidity and had a long dream. I awake and checked my shoes. They were not positioned in any strange manor and I noticed that the temperature outside was around 15* which would have caused me to wake up if I went outside in my sleeping cloths.

Though in my experience I thought the dream was real I still was unable to produce any results where the dream interacted with reality. Theories have been presented that when we have an OBE our minds tend to create a world that resembles the one which we went to sleep in. Often there is a portal (a door or window) in these dreams that when we walk through them (or fly through them) we are transported into a dream world that is unique. It is unknown why these dreams seem so much more real than other types of lucid dreams, but it could be hypothesized that the area of the brain which deals with long-term memory is still very active. This could be because of the result of the improper sleep process of the WILD type dream. Often people who experience OBEs experience vibrations, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, as well as sleep paralysis.

Characters

Dream characters can be as dynamic as the dreams themselves. Often these dream characters can be broken into a few groups:

Mindless- this type of dream character seems to be pre-programmed to do a number of tasks but when asked questions can only reply with a fixed number of replies and often cannot perform complex tasks of any kind. These characters are easily tricked and often have little insight to the dream world, assuming that they too are awake. Some examples of this type of dream character can be described in a number of dreams I had:

I dreamed I was at a college in Boise and noticed that I was dreaming. Knowing I was lucid I decided to go find people and ask them questions. I found a large church and went inside. Inside were a number of people all doing homework. I asked them what they were doing and they replied with “Doing homework.” They had no other answer besides that and no description of what homework they were doing.

I became lucid in a building that I was dreaming of. I saw a number of people around me and asked them if they wanted to see a magic trick. They said sure. I said I could make a million dollars appear with the words abracadabra. I said abracadabra and then nothing happened. The dream characters expressed how lame the trick was, but I expressed for them to wait a moment. Soon enough a woman with a suitcase walked down the stairs and she opened it with the result of a million dollars inside. The dream characters asked how I did it and I replied, it’s magic.

Intelligent- These dream characters can answer complex questions that the dreamer may not know the answer to. They often are insightful to dream world as well as reality and can be asked questions that the dreamer doesn’t seem to know the answers to. Some examples of this type of dream character can be described in a number of dreams I had:

I had a OBE type experience and was fully lucid. I went to the door to the outside of my house and walked through it. I met a older woman which told me her name was Jabooty. I asked her if I had known her before, she said yes. I asked her what I should do with my life and she said that it’s very simple what we should all do with our lives, we should enjoy it and take care of it. She said she had to go because she was playing games with some kids.

I dreamed I was at work and then noticed that my hair was acting funny and then became aware of dreaming. I looked around the building for a panda because I had intended to find a panda before I had fallen to sleep. I found the panda but it was a person with dark eyes and dark ears. I laughed at the idea and he laughed too. I asked him about the reality of dreams and he told me that dreams were real and not real at the same time. He said that dreams were a way for our subconscious mind to communicate with other people’s sub-consciousness and dreams were a visual representation of that. I found it interesting and continued on my dream.

Dwellers- the last type of lucid dream characters are what I describe as the dwellers. These dream characters often resemble monsters or feelings of fright in a lucid dream and are often not any more intelligent than mindless dream characters. They often present themselves during sleep paralysis or during a lucid dream that the dreamer is actively trying to control. Often they are found in OBE type lucid dreams and though often don’t actively attack the dreamer they provide the dreamer to produce fearful thoughts. Often dwellers are described as sitting on ones chest and pushing down on the dreamer making it hard to breathe (Lucidology, 2008). Often bells, screeching metal, or the shuffling of feet across the floor are heard before a dweller is hallucinated. The experience of the dweller often is experienced by portal object (door or window) being opened with the dreamer unable to move due to sleep paralysis.

Many common monsters of our day are attributed to dweller based experiences. The succubus, vampires, old hag, and even the term nightmare derive from the word Mara which means The Crusher which is termed after the experience of sleep paralysis.

Though not much research has been spent into understanding these dweller based characters, it has been theorized that they are a form of negative emotions produced by the mind. In some cases lucid dreamers have been known to accept these characters and they often go away. When the lucid dreamer awakes after accepting these types of characters they often feel better about themselves and rarely have these character experiences. Some examples of this type of dream character can be described in a number of dreams I had:

I awoke in my room and noticed a shadow like figure in my room. I ran at the figure to try to scare it way or to destroy it. After a number of attempts the figure dissolved.

I awoke in my room and walked down the hall. I knew I was dreaming with a type of OBE dream and remembered I wanted to face my fears and accept it. I thought about seeing that dweller based dream character and it appeared. I was fearful but walked up to the character and asked it what it wanted. It stated that it was unsatisfied. I asked it what it was unsatisfied about. It said it didn’t know but was just unsatisfied. I then saw another dweller character and it walked towards us. We all sat down on the ground and I molded them into each other like clay. They then both disappeared. I woke up feeling refreshed and happier.

Though these groups of dream characters are defined there are many different variations of them inside of dreams. Some dwellers are intelligent and perform complex strategies to try to scare the individual as they become actively aggressive. There are also mindless based dream characters that have the capacity to learn and become somewhat intelligent. In a dream world environment there is truly an endless amount of possibilities with complex and different characters.

How to Lucid Dream

There are countless amounts of guides online a books that will tell you that they know best on how to lucid dream. As lucid dreaming has become much more popular in the last twenty years, people have produced seminars on how to lucid dream and help those who can’t remember dreams start to explore the wonderful world of the imagination. After reviewing many of these books and sights it has become ever increasingly apparent that there are a few practices that are common throughout all guides.

Remembering dreams

The biggest part and maybe the only part that is important in lucid dreaming are remember your dreams (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997). It’s very possible that all of us have lucid dreams every night we go to sleep, but we don’t remember any of them because we don’t remember our dreams, or in enough detail (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997)(Berrett & McNamara, 2007). According to Allen Hobson and his theory on sleep with his Activation-synthesis hypothesis, the area of our brain that controls long term memory shuts down (Hobson, 2002). With this process shut down we may shortly remember our dreams while we are dreaming, but when we wake up we soon forget (Hobson, 2002). Often in a night we have a number of dreams and many of these dreams we don’t even realize we have because of this exact process. To overcome this problem a number of techniques have been created in order to increase the ability of the dreamer to remember their dreams. They are listed by importance and put into easy groups for those who are the hobbyist lucid dreamers and expert groups for those who don’t mind losing a little sleep to obtain their lucidity:

Easy Groups

Set and setting: Though the term is used for those who experiment with psychoactive drugs, the dream experience is much of the same type of situation. Make sure you are sleeping in a comfortable situation. Keep things that will irritate your sleeping out of the bedroom. Keeping lights off will help with your eyes not picking up photo waves as the pineal gland is photosensitive and will not produce melatonin (a natural sleep aid) when it detects light. How you position your body also has a great deal on how you may lucid dream. Lying on the side has said to produce more normal dreams as lying on the back may produce more OBE type lucid dreams (Lucidology, 2008).

Dream journals: Keeping a dream journal is maybe the number one most important aspect of all lucid dreaming guides because it seems to helps to keep active our long term memory during sleep. It increases our motivation to remember dreams and there for increases our dream recall ability while in sleep and outside (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998). It may have also other altering affects as we have more intelligence to realize we are dreaming while we are in the dream world.

Mediation on awareness: Being aware of your daily life is very important in becoming lucid. Paying attention to things that you are doing at a very single moment creates a focus on the reality of the situation and also allows for the dreamer to realize they are dreaming when reality changes. Practice clearing the mind by focusing on breathing as is done in meditational practices is one way of increasing awareness. Focusing on an object or focusing on breathing while awake is one of the greatest ways of increasing your dream recall and becoming lucid (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998).

Aware of the processes of sleep: Understanding what your body does before it goes to sleep is an important aspect of understanding when you are asleep. This technique helps in the WILD type of lucid dreaming because it allows for consciousness to know when the body is asleep and you are dreaming without becoming un-conscious. The body will twitch often when you are about to fall asleep, temperature changes will occur and images will start to appear with the eyes closed. Often laying on the back while practicing breathing techniques (meditating on breathing) will cause an OBE preceded by sleep paralysis and possibly a hypnotic hallucination, such as a dweller. You can also purposely twitch your body like it does before you fall asleep to sometimes trick the mind to believing it’s ready for dreaming.

Waking often: Foods and Drinks: What you eat and drink before you go to bed is very important to if you will have any lucid dreams or not. If you have a heavy night of drinking the night before you will awake to often remember having a lot of dreams. This is because alcohol increases the amount of serotonin in your system and serotonin does not allow for REM to occur until it’s out of your system. Once the serotonin is out of your system you have what is called REM relapse where REM occurs for a longer than normal period at the end of the sleep cycle at the point when you will awake. Even though REM rebound is ideal situation while trying to remember a lucid dream alcohol also produces a lot of negative effects. Drinking milk or eating fish before going to bed will naturally increase the amount of serotonin in your body and allow for REM rebound. Supplements such as 5-HTP are precursors (where your body naturally converts the chemical into another substance) to serotonin and can be taken before going to bed.

Expert Group

Changing the cycle of sleep: Just like it’s good to mix up your work outs when you are trying to build muscle, it’s good to mix up the times you go to sleep to build lucid dreams. Your body and mind start to remember what time it’s normal to go to bed and the processes put into motion to make it so you have a good night’s sleep without remembering your dreams. If you mix up the sleep cycle then the mind may not be fully asleep when you don’t want it to, making it so you have a better chance to be lucid.

Supplemental support: In Thomas Yuschaks book “Advanced Lucid dreaming: the power of supplements” he lists a number of supplements that he experimented with in order to increase his lucid dreaming (Yuschak, 2006). After experimenting with these supplements my colleague and I have found that the supplements that support acetylcholine, serotonin, and histamine production are the most productive for lucid dreaming as they are used naturally as neurotransmitters during sleep (Yuschak, 2006).

Caffeine: Coffee as well as other caffeine based stimulants help produce a number of chemicals that help with sleep, if taken in small amounts. Caffeine has been shown to increase adenosine in the body, which helps to convert serotonin into melatonin in the pineal gland in the brain. Melatonin is one of the bodies best sleep aids and is produced while the eyes are closed due to the light sensitive of pineal gland (Oneirology, 2009).

Serotonin: as discussed earlier, serotonin helps with reducing REM until later in the sleep cycle. Using 5-HPT is a good way of increasing your serotonin production. Serotonin also has benefits during the waking day as it’s known to reduce depression, elevate mood, and reduce the need to over eat (Yuschak, 2006).

Acetylcholine: this neurotransmitter helps with memory and is tied directly to modulate levels of wakefulness (Yuschak, 2006). Choline salts are good supplements to be used to increase the amount of acetylcholine in the system but I much more prefer an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor called galantamine (Yuschak, 2006). A acetylcholinesterase inhibitor makes it so that the normal breakdown of acetylcholine is reduced and allows for the buildup of acetylcholine in the brain. Galantamine is used to help reduce the affects of Alzheimer’s and seems to improve the ability to recall and remember things better (Yuschak, 2006).

Histamines: though histamines are not talked about often in the lucid dreaming community, they are quite frankly maybe the most important. Histamines are tied to being one of easiest ways of releasing serotonin into the body as well as releasing a substance called PDG2 into the system that is theorized to be the cause of sleep activation. Niacin or vitamin b-3 is a good supplement for this, however; it must obtain the flush ability (Barrett & McNamara, 2007). The flush causes a rash type of feeling over the body that is the release of serotonin and PDG2 into the system. It is frankly one of the best sleeping pills that my colleagues and I have found that’s over the counter.

Having the right supplements seems to be half the battle as using them at the correct time is also just as important. The best technique for the use of these supplements is by using the WBTB system as follows:

A day before: Have some type of caffeinated foods, drinks, or supplements. This will produce a later withdrawal.

The day before: Don't use use any caffeinated substances a day before or in a time peirod that will be needed in order to produce the withdrawal symptoms during sleep.

At bedtime: Take a 5-HTP or a Niacin supplement combination. This will increase the ability to have WILD type lucid dreams as well as allowing you to remember your dreams later in the night after you wake up the second time.*Note niacin causes a niacin flush that will make your body feel warm as though having a reaction. It’s best not to move very much after taking the supplement combination.

2 Hours after sleep: Wake up, take an additional 5-HTP along with an galantamine supplement as well as a small form of caffeine. This will increase memory and sleep cycle proficiency along with increasing the REM rebound about 4 hours into sleep.

*Note- Removing the CWILD type instructions is also an option to produce lucid dreams. The CWILD is just one of the most effective way of having lucid dreams.

Make sure not to do this technique every night or if you are not going to get more than 6 hours of sleep.

An important note here is to make sure that the supplements that use are safe for the individual to use. A doctor must be consulted before any levels of supplements are used to insure that there will be no reactions. Only recommended use must also be maintained.

Daily ritual timeline

In order to practice lucid dreaming to the point of having common occurrence lucid dreaming experience, there is a easy to follow timeline of systematic events that will lead to this conclusion.

A. Supplements/Mediation) Prior to sleep the individual takes a supplement combination of niacin and serotonin. The person relaxes in a meditative state with a breathing technique that allows them to be calm and ready for sleep.

B. Sleep occurs after the meditation practice is complete.

C. The person awakes after 2 hours of sleep allowing for the body to become rested and ready for the lucid dream. The awakening allows for the taking of the additional supplement galantamine. A meditation practice is then used to calm the mind and allow for sleep again.

D. A highly likely occurrence of a WILD type lucid dream is prominent at this point of the night because of the relaxation from meditation support of the galantamine supplement in produce REM stages of sleep, and the support of the serotonin supplement reducing REM earlier during the nights rest.

E. The person can attempt to produce a number of WILD dreams by repeating steps C and D until the end of the sleep process.

F. After awaking the person will write down their dreams in the journal that they experienced that night as well as how they slept and the things they would like to improve on in the next night. This will help to reaffirm the goal of having a lucid dream.

These steps are illustrated in figure 1.

Figure 1.

Understanding the body

Understanding how the body feels when a person is falling asleep as well as when the body is experiencing different events related to lucid dreaming is also very important. Some of the experiences can be terrifying as well as confusing and can cause a lucid dream to become negative or end suddenly if poorly understood. Relaxation during these events often results in a meaningful and sometimes blissful experience (Lucidology, 2008).

Ready to sleep feelings

Ready to sleep feelings are the experiences of the mind interpreting the body being ready to sleep. Twitching and jerking is a common occurrence right before sleep. Some techniques of lucid dreaming encourage individuals to try to trick their body into being ready to dream by imitating the twitching (Lucidology, 2008). I have found this to be not helpful in most cases. Temperature change is common before sleep due to the body naturally exhausting heat during this phase of relaxation (Roger, Bowes, Lushington ,& dawson, 2009). Hypnotic Hallucinations are common right before sleep and are often tied to WILD type lucid dreaming. Images may be seen with the eyes closed as well as intrusive thoughts that don’t make sense.

WILD and OBE feelings

There are a number of experiences that are felt when having a WILD or OBE type lucid dream that are often confusing and terrifying. Buzzing sounds are often heard before or during sleep paralysis and are a good indicator that a WILD or OBE type lucid dream is about to occur (Lucidology, 2008). Hypnotic hallucinations, paralysis, extreme vibrations and a sense of floating often are tied to these types of dreams as well.

The benefits and negatives of lucid dreaming

The benefits of being able to lucid dream are truly endless based on the belief system of the person and their cultural. Some persons believe that through lucid dreaming you can travel to other worlds or become enlightened much like the Buddhist culture believes Siddhārtha Gautama did in his meditational practice. Other lucid dreamers take the more western approach of believing that lucid dreamers have the ability to communicate with the sub consciousness.

Enlightenment

The Tibetan Buddhist practice in dream yoga has only one purpose, to become enlightened and end suffering. The Buddhist believe that life is based on a cycle of death and rebirth and that in order to end the never ending cycle one must understand that the true reality of consciousness is based off of dualisms and a type of psychological drape that covers up what true reality is (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998). It takes years of study into the philosophical beliefs of the Buddhist to really understand what their true beliefs are to give them full justice, however; lucid dreaming in the Tibetan culture is one way of ending this rebirth cycle (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998). In order to do this one must realize that the dream world is made up of purely images produced by the sub consciousness or what they call the awareness (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998). Once the dreamer realizes that the dream world is an illusion then they can experience true awareness dreams called white light dreams. These white light dreams ultimately lead to the understanding of reality and enlightenment (Wangyal, Wangyal, & Dahlby, 1998).

Some people are gifted lucid dreamers and have amazing experiences in the dream world. This approach to lucid dreaming can allow those individuals to have a more meaningful spiritual life through their experiences in the understanding of reality.

Traveling to other worlds

Many lucid dreamers that experience OBE truly believe that these dreams have an alternate reality to them. The reality of our world ends once they travel through the portal in the real world (a window or door in their house or place of sleep) and are then able to travel to other worlds and experience real events in those realities. These individuals have said to have experienced saving other worlds from destruction and taken part in Star Wars like experiences across the universe.

The benefits from these experiences are that the dreamer can have a more adventures life however we can see many problems that are produced psychologically from this experience. As a very important part of lucid dreaming is to understand that reality is still a very important big part of a person’s life and that negative actions in reality have very real long lasting consequences. Because of the degree of the realistic dreams, at times individuals have had problems determining the difference between reality and dreams.

Sub conscious communication

The greatest benefit from lucid dreaming and OBE experiences are the ability to communicate with the mind in a very visual and unusual way. During the dream states experiments can be conducted to find out the limitations of the narrator based dream creator that illustrates the dream world and manifest the dream characters. A true personal relationship with the sub consciousness can be achieved through lucid dreaming, something that Sigmund Freud expressed was impossible. Through these experiments alternate theories of the sub copiousness models like those provided by Carl Jung have slowly become more realistic view into how the sub consciousness works (Gustav, & Shamdasani, 2009).

Conclusion

Lucid dreaming is a complex and for most individuals an extremely challenging form of dreaming to master. There are many different ways to lucid dream and many different types of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming can be extremely gratifying in one’s life by supporting the understanding reality, understanding self and overcoming fears with little to no negative effects. With continuing research into the area of lucid dreaming, we can better understand the subconscious thoughts something that was deemed impossible by many psychiatrists. Truly lucid dreaming has become one of the final frontiers to explore.

References

Barrett, D., & McNamara, P. (2007). The New Science of Dreaming. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Gustav, C, & Shamdasani, S. (2009). The red book. W W Norton & Co Inc.

Hobson, A. J. (2002). The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness. MIT Press.

LaBerg, Stephen, & Rheingold, Howard (1997). Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.Ballantine Books.

Lucidology, (2008). Lucid Dream Forum, OBE Forum. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from Saltcube Lucid Dream and OBE Forum Web site: http://www.saltcube.com

Mortal Mist Community. (2009, October 5). caffeine--the overlooked lds? . Retrieved from http://mortalmist.com/forum/lucid-aids/caffeine-the-overlooked-lds/

Oneirology. (2009). Strassman interview. Retrieved February 9, 2010, from http://lucidconsciousness.com/?p=107

Rogers, N. L., Bowes, J., Lushington, k., & Dawson, D. (2009). Thermoregulatory changes around the time of sleep onset. Physiology & Behavior, 90, 643-647.

Waggoner, R. (2008). Lucid dreaming: gateway to the inner self. Red WheelWeiser.

Wangyal, T, Wangyal, T, & Dahlby, M. (1998). The tibetan yogas of dream and sleep. Snow Lion Pubns.

Yuschak, T. (2006). Advanced Lucid Dreaming - The Power of Supplements. Lulu.com

Lucid Dreaming Paper

2010-11-14T14:38:00.000-08:00

How to Be a Lucid Dreamer

Different types of lucid dreams

Lucid dreams can be broken up into a number of different groups. Robert Waggoner, author of the book “Lucid dreaming: Gateway to the inner self” describes lucid dreaming as five different levels.

Stage 1: Personal Play, pleasure, and pain Avoidance- In this stage the individual who becomes lucid explores the lucid dream with a sense of awe by seeking out those things in the dream world that provide the most amount of pleasure, and avoid those things that are troubling (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 2: Manipulation, Movement, and Me –In this stage the individual may be trying to explore the common lucid dreaming experience of flight (being able to fly) or may also manipulate the dream environment to be how they would like it to be (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 3: Power, Purpose, and Primacy – In this stage the individual may realize that they are in power of the dream characters and require that they obey the dreamer. The individual may also wonder what the purpose of the lucid dream and test situations to try to find out that purpose (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 4: Re-reflection, Reaching Out, and Wonder – In this stage the individual may realize that the dream characters have something to offer the dreamer and in result they ask the characters questions into insight into reality and dreaming. The individual may also ask questions that they seemly know the answers to in order to understand more of themselves as well as the dream world (Waggoner, 2008).

Stage 5: Experiencing Awareness- In this stage the individual understands that something besides the “ego” is controlling the dream world. They go past the images of the dream and looks to seek to find the awareness behind the dream world (Waggoner, 2008).

Different ways of lucid dreaming

WILDS- Wake Induced Lucid dreams- The subject falls asleep seamlessly without losing consciousness though a series of techniques of relaxations and tricking the mind to believe that the body is asleep. The person then can experience a fully conscious lucid dream without having to realize they are dreaming. Often these dreams are interpreted as producing Out of the Body Experiences (OBEs) because of the experiences felt while the individual’s body falls to sleep (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

MILD -Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams – The subject falls asleep and realizes they are dreaming after a type of cue is initiated inside of the dream. The subject remembers that when they see the cue they are in fact dreaming and then become aware (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

ELDI – Electronic Lucid Dream Induction – The subject uses a device that activates when they are in rapid eye movement (REM) and indicates that they are possibly dreaming. Devices such as the DreamLight shine a bright LED into the closed eyes that often shows up as a red dot inside of the dream of the subject. The subject then knows they are dreaming and becomes aware (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

DILDS – Dream Induced Lucid Dreams- The subject realizes they are dreaming after something out of the ordinary happens such as the impossible situation, or an object out of place. In result the person becomes aware they are dreaming and a lucid dream occurs (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

WBTB- Wake Back To bed- The subject in this lucid dreaming realization technique wakes up a number of times a night and focuses on the idea of producing a lucid dream. This often causes a person to remember more of their dreams and have more dreams to realize they are dreaming in. This technique is normally used in conjunction with other techniques (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

CAT- Cycle Adjustment Technique- Much like WBTB the objective of this technique is to put the body out of the normal circadian rhythm cycle. In this technique the subject goes to sleep at different times of the night “tricking” the body to fall into more REM sleep and produce more chances for an individual to remember they are dreaming (Laberg & Rheingold, 1997).

SILD- Supplement Induced Lucid Dreams- The subject takes a series of supplements that aims at reducing the amount of REM a person experiences during the first part of the night and extends it during the ending cycle (Yuschak, 2006). These supplements also improve recall and normal sleep processes that occur by increasing the amount of neurotransmitter a person has. This technique is used in conjunction of other lucid dream techniques to become aware (Yuschak, 2006).

CWILD- Caffeine-withdrawal Induced Lucid Dream- The subject uses caffeine until a addiction is formed where they end their use and produce the withdrawal symptoms. The subject then falls asleep and wakes up when they are most likely able to be in their REM cycle. They then administer a caffeine based substance and fall back to sleep. The withdrawal symptoms go away and acts as an indication to the sleeper of being in a dream. (Mortal Mist Community, 2009)

The Dream World

Falling asleep I felt the vibrations that normally came when I knew I would have a OBE type dream. I opened my eyes and was in my room. Things seemed slower and I knew that there was a good chance I was dreaming. I walked around my room and thought that there was a chance that I was sleep walking as everything was very slow but still realistic. I feared my roommates would see me walking around the house but figured the risk was worth it and continued on my way to the bathroom to look in the mirror. I flicked on and off the light in the bathroom and it worked how it should have which caused me to believe more that I was sleep walking. I looked at my face in the mirror and noticed everything was slightly green. I walked down the stairs which lead to outside the house and saw my shoes. I positioned my shoes so that when I awoke the next day that I would see I was sleep walking. I continued outside where the sky was full of amazing stars and supernovas. After a while of walking around I lost my lucidity and had a long dream. I awake and checked my shoes. They were not positioned in any strange manor and I noticed that the temperature outside was around 15* which would have caused me to wake up if I went outside in my sleeping cloths.

I dreamed I was at a college in Boise and noticed that I was dreaming. Knowing I was lucid I decided to go find people and ask them questions. I found a large church and went inside. Inside were a number of people all doing homework. I asked them what they were doing and they replied with “Doing homework.” They had no other answer besides that and no description of what homework they were doing.

I became lucid in a building that I was dreaming of. I saw a number of people around me and asked them if they wanted to see a magic trick. They said sure. I said I could make a million dollars appear with the words abracadabra. I said abracadabra and then nothing happened. The dream characters expressed how lame the trick was, but I expressed for them to wait a moment. Soon enough a woman with a suitcase walked down the stairs and she opened it with the result of a million dollars inside. The dream characters asked how I did it and I replied, it’s magic.

I had a OBE type experience and was fully lucid. I went to the door to the outside of my house and walked through it. I met a older woman which told me her name was Jabooty. I asked her if I had known her before, she said yes. I asked her what I should do with my life and she said that it’s very simple what we should all do with our lives, we should enjoy it and take care of it. She said she had to go because she was playing games with some kids.

I dreamed I was at work and then noticed that my hair was acting funny and then became aware of dreaming. I looked around the building for a panda because I had intended to find a panda before I had fallen to sleep. I found the panda but it was a person with dark eyes and dark ears. I laughed at the idea and he laughed too. I asked him about the reality of dreams and he told me that dreams were real and not real at the same time. He said that dreams were a way for our subconscious mind to communicate with other people’s sub-consciousness and dreams were a visual representation of that. I found it interesting and continued on my dream.

I awoke in my room and noticed a shadow like figure in my room. I ran at the figure to try to scare it way or to destroy it. After a number of attempts the figure dissolved.

I awoke in my room and walked down the hall. I knew I was dreaming with a type of OBE dream and remembered I wanted to face my fears and accept it. I thought about seeing that dweller based dream character and it appeared. I was fearful but walked up to the character and asked it what it wanted. It stated that it was unsatisfied. I asked it what it was unsatisfied about. It said it didn’t know but was just unsatisfied. I then saw another dweller character and it walked towards us. We all sat down on the ground and I molded them into each other like clay. They then both disappeared. I woke up feeling refreshed and happier.

How to Lucid Dream

A day before: Have some type of caffeinated foods, drinks, or supplements. This will produce a later withdrawal.

The day before: Don't use use any caffeinated substances a day before or in a time peirod that will be needed in order to produce the withdrawal symptoms during sleep.

At bedtime: Take a 5-HTP or a Niacin supplement combination. This will increase the ability to have WILD type lucid dreams as well as allowing you to remember your dreams later in the night after you wake up the second time.*Note niacin causes a niacin flush that will make your body feel warm as though having a reaction. It’s best not to move very much after taking the supplement combination.

2 Hours after sleep: Wake up, take an additional 5-HTP along with an galantamine supplement as well as a small form of caffeine. This will increase memory and sleep cycle proficiency along with increasing the REM rebound about 4 hours into sleep.

A. Supplements/Mediation) Prior to sleep the individual takes a supplement combination of niacin and serotonin. The person relaxes in a meditative state with a breathing technique that allows them to be calm and ready for sleep.

B. Sleep occurs after the meditation practice is complete.

C. The person awakes after 2 hours of sleep allowing for the body to become rested and ready for the lucid dream. The awakening allows for the taking of the additional supplement galantamine. A meditation practice is then used to calm the mind and allow for sleep again.

D. A highly likely occurrence of a WILD type lucid dream is prominent at this point of the night because of the relaxation from meditation support of the galantamine supplement in produce REM stages of sleep, and the support of the serotonin supplement reducing REM earlier during the nights rest.

E. The person can attempt to produce a number of WILD dreams by repeating steps C and D until the end of the sleep process.

F. After awaking the person will write down their dreams in the journal that they experienced that night as well as how they slept and the things they would like to improve on in the next night. This will help to reaffirm the goal of having a lucid dream.

The benefits and negatives of lucid dreaming

Conclusion

Myzeo

2010-11-11T06:59:00.001-08:00

So I ended up purchasing my myzeo a few nights ago and its on its way. After talking with the Cheif Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Zeo Inc, I was directed to some good published articles about the accuracy of Myzeo. It sounds like its a really good product. Ryan Hurd over at dreamstuidies.org also talked to me about how much he enjoys his myzeo but I wont post that here.

Check out those articles here

Over all I hope to see some good use be put to the product here soon!

Myzeo

2010-11-11T06:59:00.000-08:00

Personal project Zeo

2010-11-09T12:59:00.001-08:00

Ben Rubin sent me a link about some personal research going on with the Myzeo, a interesting brain monitoring system that tells you about when you are in REM, deep sleep, awake (which isnt that hard to know) and a few other things. The personal project is to take the information provided by the Myzeo and indicate when a person is in REM by responding with a vibration on the wrist. It sounds like a great idea, and is a good cue to know that a dream is occurring. It looks like the project has some promise.

You can check out the forum here

I have been interested in using the emotiv hardware for the same thing but giving some type of voice command to the dreamer that they are dreaming. It looks like it may be possible after getting a few responses from the admins on the emotiv forums.

Hi Lee, that is correct. You can use the Cognitiv suite to train specific patterns you wish to distinguish. The intention of the suite is to allow users to invent their own mental commands which are linked to specific actions such as lifting an object or making it disappear - these are states the user can deliberately invoke with a little practice. There's no reason why the signature generation system won't work to distinguish REM sleep from ordinary sleep, as long as someone can operate Control Panel during the training phase to collect training examples. Once trained, the data can be stored in a particular user profile (so you can use another profile to store your gameplay, home automation or robotic control command sets and call those up when you want them). Cpgnitiv can distinguish between up to four different "named" conditions (plus NEUTRAL) so if you training person is able to recgnise different sleep patterns you should be able to classify the onset of up to four of them.

I hope to get my hardware in the next few weeks and start looking at different brainwaves of sleep, lucid states, nightmares/sleep paralysis, and OBE type of experiences. I will be sure to include readouts of what I find.

Personal project Zeo

2010-11-09T12:59:00.000-08:00

Hi Lee, that is correct. You can use the Cognitiv suite to train specific patterns you wish to distinguish. The intention of the suite is to allow users to invent their own mental commands which are linked to specific actions such as lifting an object or making it disappear - these are states the user can deliberately invoke with a little practice. There's no reason why the signature generation system won't work to distinguish REM sleep from ordinary sleep, as long as someone can operate Control Panel during the training phase to collect training examples. Once trained, the data can be stored in a particular user profile (so you can use another profile to store your gameplay, home automation or robotic control command sets and call those up when you want them). Cpgnitiv can distinguish between up to four different "named" conditions (plus NEUTRAL) so if you training person is able to recgnise different sleep patterns you should be able to classify the onset of up to four of them.

Emotiv

2010-11-07T10:49:00.001-08:00

I have been thinking about starting a study using a product called Emotiv which is a portable EEG for a sleep study. Emotiv allows for recognizing specific brain signals and converting into actions on a computer or in a game so you can pretty much play games hands free with basic brain functions. I was thinking about using this device for a type of lucid dreaming indicator. After talking with a few people I managed to get the funding needed for the research version so now its just the waiting game for the product to get here.

Another interesting idea that I have been thinking about for the Emotiv is indicating lucid dreams, OBE, and other dream states and experiences while recording these experiences with EEG software. It should come out to be pretty interesting stuff if it works out. I hope to post the results here as I find them out.

Emotiv

2010-11-07T10:49:00.000-08:00

The goal to everything

2010-10-29T01:34:00.001-07:00

I had lucid dream lately that was Interesting enough for me to post here. Though I think all dreams are Interesting, some just seem to push the boundaries of insightfulness.

I have been reading a book on lucid dreaming and though I wouldn't say it has been increasing the amount of lucid dreams have, it surely has changed the content. In the dream I became lucid and though the setting of the dream was strangely just a bunch of symbols, it provided me with answers to questions I have been having. The dream was more emotional than anything and allowed me to interact not with what I would call my sub conscious, but more of the personalities that are called me.

I read often that during certain experiences people experience what they call as ego death, and though I was dreaming I managed to find out that maybe this idea is not true. In the dream I saw my personalities each with their own beautiful form but never intermixing and completely different. I have three according to my dream, and the ego is just the observed ideal of me through which I see these personalities. To put it in understandable terms, it was like each personality was a snow globe with it's own dreamworld of events and experiences, and if a glass surrounded these three globes, that glass would be the idea of an ego. Interesting concept for a dream I know. It made me think about ego death and how maybe this death is just the realization that ego never existed in the first place?
I also had the chance to asked the dream what the meaning of all was, the idea of enlightenment. The "director" said, "the purpose of it all, enlightenment and life, is to understand there is no purpose/ enlightenment. Though this sounds rather disappointing for those who have searched for long periods of time for such destinations, I honestly believe that some truth can be taken from those words. That life is about the now, not some extravagant search into questions that reach no end. Life is about accepting yourself and the understanding that you are wonderful and there is much more to us then simply the ego and them (as in other people or our subconcuouse ideals), and we have a great capacity to accept those around us and ourselves.

I woke up from the dream feeling rather refreshed and at peace with myself and the world around me and hope that this feeling last for as long as I live. I find it funny that people sometimes say how dreams could ever be worth anything after this experience into lucidity.

The goal to everything

2010-10-29T01:34:00.000-07:00

paranormal activity 2

2010-10-28T15:56:00.001-07:00

I just got done watching the movie Paranormal Activity 2 and I must say that it was a little scary of a movie. I don't really think it was scary because of the effects but mostly because of two instances of what seemed like sleep paralysis that happened in the movie. It was interesting to see the ties it had to that but I warn you, it wasn't much. It was most certainly a movie worth the cheep thrills for a chair jumping experience that will get you sweating a little before you sleep.

paranormal activity 2

2010-10-28T15:56:00.000-07:00

DMT TSM Update

2010-10-28T15:51:00.001-07:00

So its been a little bit since I posted anything about the new documentary about Dr. Strassman's exploration into the wonderful world of DMT, but its now time to update you all. DMT the spirit molecule was released today into the public. After a week at kickstarter.com they ended up raising over 27,000 dollars for the release of the DVD. I was one of the supporters for the kickstarter so Ill be receiving a DVD in the mail here soon and hope to give a very detailed review of the video. I have been told that the video will be sent in the next few days.

DMT TSM Update

2010-10-28T15:51:00.000-07:00

Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night

2010-10-20T14:41:00.001-07:00

Ryan Hurd over at sleepstudies.org recently released his new book about sleep paralysis, on amazon. Its a great book and can help a lot of people who have experience with sleep paralysis or would like to learn more about it. Here is a review I wrote for his book:

I have sent a lot of my life learning about night terrors and what they are. I have come to understand that night terrors as well as sleep paralysis can be minimized without medication. Ryan's book is the only easy to understand and easy to follow guides to understanding and dealing with these experiences. Ryan not only talks about the disorders in the prospective of a sleep professional but also has first hand experiences of the events himself. He ties in his personal accounts as well as others experiences into his book, making it more meaningful and personal. I have recommended Ryan's book to many different clinical psychologist who deal with sleep disorders and have referenced the book in a number of papers. This book is a must read for those who experience sleep paralysis or night terrors or have children who do. It will give you a new level of understanding that you wont get from a doctor who has never experienced these events.

Get his new book today here

Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night

2010-10-20T14:41:00.000-07:00

I have sent a lot of my life learning about night terrors and what they are. I have come to understand that night terrors as well as sleep paralysis can be minimized without medication. Ryan's book is the only easy to understand and easy to follow guides to understanding and dealing with these experiences. Ryan not only talks about the disorders in the prospective of a sleep professional but also has first hand experiences of the events himself. He ties in his personal accounts as well as others experiences into his book, making it more meaningful and personal. I have recommended Ryan's book to many different clinical psychologist who deal with sleep disorders and have referenced the book in a number of papers. This book is a must read for those who experience sleep paralysis or night terrors or have children who do. It will give you a new level of understanding that you wont get from a doctor who has never experienced these events.

Get his new book today here

Psychotropia

2010-10-20T14:28:00.001-07:00

I have been working on a new project for a while now. I call it Psychotropia, and its a list of as many plants, fungi, and animals that I can get my hands on and that has some type of affect on nervous system. Its hardly closet to being complete but its starting to come to life. I hope you all would take the time to check out the "plant portal" and post what you think about it.

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Psychotropia

2010-10-20T14:28:00.000-07:00

Psychotropia

Dmt the spirit molecule

2010-10-20T14:21:00.001-07:00

I dont know about any of you but I am pretty excited about the release of the new documentary that is to be released this month. Dmt the spirit molecule has proven to be one of the most informative documentary about DMT and its affects on the people who have taken it. I don't know much about the video itself but I have personally pre-ordered it and soon to be watching it come the 26th of this month. I will make sure to provide a good review for all to read!

Dmt the spirit molecule

2010-10-20T14:21:00.000-07:00

Back in the Saddle again

2010-10-20T14:10:00.001-07:00

Well its been a while since I last posted and though I believed it to be my last post, I honestly cant get away from this site. Though it may not be the best blog out there on the subject of dreaming and altered forms of consciousness, I still get something from posting on this site. Call it a calling, a motivation, or something to push me to explore the realm of what ever this is we experience, I cant seem to stop. Its became a part of me, or I guess my religion.

Recently I have been reading the book Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self by Robert Waggoner which has turned out to be one of the most inspirational books on lucid dreaming for me. It gave me a reason to really want to try to lucid dream and unravel the meanings behind it. Though his book doesn't really provide us a "how to" guide into the realm of lucid dreaming, it does give us a view into what is possible in the lucid dream. The biggest thing is that he describes a state of understanding in the lucid dream called the "white light dream". He also referenced in book in his writings called The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Mark Dahlby which I also started to read and really enjoy. Unlike the book by Robert, Tenzin's book does tell people how to lucid dream through the Tibetan teachings. In the review of the book so far, it seems that most lucid dream guides follow the same techniques as taught in this book but sell them off as their own teachings. It seems that I too have accidentally come to the same conclusion as this book as been teaching but my techniques were very random and mostly of me trying to figure out what works and doesnt work. I have been working this last semester on writing a paper for a professor of mine on the outcomes of lucid dreaming both positive and negatives and a realistic easy to follow guide on how to do it. I will also focus on why these techniques may work backed up with previous reading. Stay tuned for that paper to be completed (I hope) after thanksgiving... either that or I may get a poor review.

Back in the Saddle again

2010-10-20T14:10:00.000-07:00

Effects of Ayahuasca- Study

2010-06-28T15:30:00.001-07:00

I found another good article on the effects of Ayahuasca on the brain. It has some good data and really shows the regions of the brain in pretty good detail through low resolution electromagnetic tomography.

Here is the Abstract:

Ayahuasca, a South American psychotropic plant tea obtained from Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria virids, combines monoamine-oxidas-inhibiting B-carbpline alkaloids with N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic agent showing 5-HT agonist activity. The spatial distribution of ayahuasca-induced changes in brain electrical activity was investigated by means of low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA). Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings were obtained from eighteen volunteers with prior experience in the use of psychedelics after the administration of the 0.85 mg DMT/kg body weight dose of encapsulated freeze-dried ayahuasca and placebo. The intracerebral power density distribution was computed with LORETA from spectrally analyzed data. Statistically significant differences with placebo were observed at 60 and 90 minutes after dosing. Ayahuasca decreased power density in the alpha-2, delta, theta and beta1 frequency bands. This pattern of effects in analogous to that of the classical psychedelics and point out the involvement of 5-HT receptor agonism in the neurochemical effects of ayahuasca. Power decreases in the delta, alpha-2 and beta-1 bands were found predominantly over the temporo-parieto-occipital junction, whereas theta power were reduced in the temporomedial cortex and in frontomedial regions. The present results suggest the involvement of unimodal and heteromodal association cortex and limbic structures in the psychological effects elicited by ayahuasca.

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Effects of Ayahuasca- Study

2010-06-28T15:30:00.000-07:00

Ayahuasca, a South American psychotropic plant tea obtained from Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria virids, combines monoamine-oxidas-inhibiting B-carbpline alkaloids with N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic agent showing 5-HT agonist activity. The spatial distribution of ayahuasca-induced changes in brain electrical activity was investigated by means of low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA). Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings were obtained from eighteen volunteers with prior experience in the use of psychedelics after the administration of the 0.85 mg DMT/kg body weight dose of encapsulated freeze-dried ayahuasca and placebo. The intracerebral power density distribution was computed with LORETA from spectrally analyzed data. Statistically significant differences with placebo were observed at 60 and 90 minutes after dosing. Ayahuasca decreased power density in the alpha-2, delta, theta and beta1 frequency bands. This pattern of effects in analogous to that of the classical psychedelics and point out the involvement of 5-HT receptor agonism in the neurochemical effects of ayahuasca. Power decreases in the delta, alpha-2 and beta-1 bands were found predominantly over the temporo-parieto-occipital junction, whereas theta power were reduced in the temporomedial cortex and in frontomedial regions. The present results suggest the involvement of unimodal and heteromodal association cortex and limbic structures in the psychological effects elicited by ayahuasca.

Read the whole article here[gallery]

Documentary Website

2010-06-28T11:12:00.001-07:00

I stumbled onto this website that contains a large listing of free documentary's that anyone can watch for free. Its legal and has a large listing of documentary's on drugs, some which I can vouch are very good documentary's. I suggest you check if out if you want to get some good information on the current views of drugs and their uses. There are also many other documentary's on other subjects as well.

Check it out: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/

Documentary Website

2010-06-28T11:12:00.000-07:00

Christian Räetsch - Youtube

2010-06-27T18:34:00.001-07:00

I was referenced some great videos of Christian Räetsch who is the writer of many great books including "The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants" which is considered one of the greatest books on the subject. Over all they are great videos that deal with his research into the shaman world.

Psychoactivity The Fountain of Culture

Christian Rätsch at the World Psychedelic Forum 2008

Christian Räetsch - Youtube

2010-06-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

The Succubus Reconsidered: Sexuality in Sleep Paralysis

2010-06-26T19:39:00.001-07:00

Ryan Hurd over at dreamstudies.org gives us another great article about sleep paralysis. In the artical he talks about the realtionship of the succubus and dreaming, other terms that the succubus is called, and the reasons why we may have these types of expereince while in sleep paralysis. Here is some of what he has to say:

The historic fears of succubi and incubi must be reconsidered in light of contemporary psychology. As the medical community disregarded the narratives of sleep paralysis until David Hufford’s ground-breaking work in the 1970s, we would be making the same mistake if we chalk up the old tales of sexual demons to “merely legend.”

The Succubus Reconsidered: Sexuality in Sleep Paralysis

2010-06-26T19:39:00.000-07:00

The historic fears of succubi and incubi must be reconsidered in light of contemporary psychology. As the medical community disregarded the narratives of sleep paralysis until David Hufford’s ground-breaking work in the 1970s, we would be making the same mistake if we chalk up the old tales of sexual demons to “merely legend.”

New Link Added: Fluent Dreaming

2010-06-24T16:22:00.001-07:00

I found a very useful website today to help people better lucid dream. Fluent Dreaming is a website where if you set it to your homepage it will remind if you to ask yourself if your dreaming, a good technique to get anyone on their way to asking the same question when they are asleep and in the dream realm.

Check this site out here

New Link Added: Fluent Dreaming

2010-06-24T16:22:00.000-07:00

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