Dear Diary,
I started my rabbit hole back in late January because I have a coworker that claims to lucid dream every night and it makes him feel tired all the time.
I googled it and thought it was absurd hippy nonsense because I remember like one dream a year how can this ever happen to someone let alone make it happen on purpose.
I really fought the idea of writing my dreams down but as soon as I did progress sky rocketed if I didn’t have a dream I would just write that I didn’t remember anything and pretty quickly got to the point where I write 2-3 dreams per night in pretty lengthy detail. The trick was whenever I wake to not move at all and I just think what just happened right before this and it will slowly come back
Around the 1.5 month mark I had a dream where I thought I had woken up to use the bathroom but when I passed a window there were 4 moons this instantly made me realize I was dreaming and I tried to calm myself down but I woke myself up from excitement. What was so weird to me was not just that it’s a real thing but I really felt like I was somewhere physically, the floor was cold the moons shined light it was so bizarre I was hooked.
I’ve had some bizarre night terrors, lots of sleep paralysis and false awakenings that could not be more annoying but it’s been fun watching these obnoxious movies play out while I sleep. But, I decided to take it to the extreme like I always do and create myself a dream potion. Something I can take to produce a lucid dream at will and last night I had a breakthrough.
I’ve done a concerning amount of research and came up with the following taken before bed (DO NOT DO THIS I AM AN INSANE PERSON WITH ACCESS TO THE INTERNET)
Valerian root: helps knock me out and suppresses REM sleep early in the night (rem gets more intense the longer you hold it off and more intense later in the night)
B6 (memory booster)
L thaenine: relaxes you but keeps your mind sharp
5-http: serotonin booster (dream vividness)
Ashwaganda: no idea but everyone talks about it on YouTube
Alpha GPC and Huperzine A (floods you with acetolcholine idk how to spell that) I’m pretty sure this is what your brain suppresses to keep you on auto pilot.
I took all this and went to bed last night when I felt too tired to stay up. I’ll spare the dream details but multiple weird things happened that caused me to do a reality check. I looked at my watch and then covered it with my hand, all the dream characters we’re looking over my shoulder as if my brain is making fun of me and when I checked the time again it was completely different. I felt a similar feeling to jolting awake but I stayed where I was and calmed myself down and tried to get through my checklist of what the internet says is possible. I asked a dream character a question and they responded like a real person not like AI and then I changed the dream character into Rachel Ray because I told Jim that’s what I’d do and no joke the person instantly turned into early 2000s Rachel Ray and I laughed so hard I woke myself up .
Anyways it’s real and possibly the coolest thing you could ever teach yourself to do. The supplements I take are not needed or recommended. So dream rabbit hole is done. Back to conspiracy posting
