I've been working with my dreams this entire year after my big doses. Basically I've cut out all fluoride, sugar, caffeine, I've been eating tons of fruit, and no real junk foods, this has not only changed my memory with dreams, it makes me feel completely aware in them! Most people would never realize how there eating affects their dreaming. Especially the fluoride, even my toothpaste is an organic fluoride free one. I highly recommend anyone who is interested in self awareness and dream states to follow this tip. I remember when I couldn't remember my dreams, now I look back and think how can anyone live without dreaming, it's a constant reminder of what else could be possible! My dreams have changed a lot after LSD. They are certainly more interesting, and much more fufilling. I have changed it by seeing past the little things and seeing life for the "big picture". Where my dreams may have used to be about little things and material things, they are now long journeys through beautiful sites and mountains, wooded areas, abandoned looking buildings, peoples faces are rcognizable, it's amazing. This has also changed me as a more earthy and self-aware person, which also has true potential in not only the spirit world, but the true reality. Anyway, just woke up and a quick ramble... Peace P.S. Marijuana also affects my dreams, if I've been smoking all day, my dreams will more likely be forgotten, if I smoke just right before bed, my dreams usually feel like years...but cannabis definitely numbs the dream state with constant use.
I find it interesting that my own dreams have always been strange, but have gotten much stranger after trying psychedelics. For example, I can count the amount of times I've made love with a girl in my dreams on one hand. And even those dreams, during the act of sex, something would go wrong and I would get all confused and angry and I would wake up. Most of my dreams now, have much confusion in them, which is obviously a reflection of my approach to the material/spiritual fuzzy seperating lines. I realize that it's pointless to keep going around in these philosophical circles, but at the same time I cant stop, it feels like I am acting out a program of repetition, but at the same time I get the sensation that it will lead to a breakthrough when my mind is ready to accept it. Many of my dreams recently involve me in every day situations, but as the dream progesses I start to get completley tripped out. Like my emtions cross with my vision, or my hand moves when I try to move my feet, or I feel like Im on an elevator ascending when Im walking on unmoving flat surfaces, stuff like that. I never have had dreams (that I rememberd) about being rich, or flying, or having wild sex, or being naked, none of the typical dreams. They have always been strange, but now they remind me very much of the peak on a psychedelic, that total overwhelming feeling of watching your sense of identity split into fragments and then scatter in the wind, leaving an awareness which is trying to figure out what has just happened and what am I now?
That just rocked me to the core. I agree in every way, I think it's funny how you relate it to a somewhat spiritual confusion that the mind is not yet prepared to accept. I agree. I think since there is no answers to this, the mind will forever be trying to figure out what happened or how to adjust maybe. My dreams are very deep to who I am as a person, my personality, my life, they are on point with it all 100% and I feel there is so much to be learned from them. But what happens when you seem to have hit gold, do the dreams adjust, or keep playing as if nothing happened. I too have never had dreams of great wealth, mind blowing sex, or flying. I always wondered if people who have dreamt these things were just exaggerating, as if they were some big goal in the dream world. To me these things are totally irrelevant to my time being here, which is why I am unable to dream up such situations. Ever since my psychedelic experiences I've noticed my dreams have been based around other human personas which I know of, or have brought from the reality world. What I mean is my dreams are solely based around my adventures with the earth and surroundings, with other people who I have met or come across, even if it's in a a blink of an eye, I may not fully acknowledfe this person in real life, but in the dream world, if this person comes across my realm there, they have the personality of which I would have never known, since I did not confront them in treality. Now I take it as these are the only things that matter to me, or what I should be caring about, could it be a key piece to my existance? Perhaps. This may all seem wild or out there, or maybe it hits home to some. I feel we are on a seperate journey in this life, and my dreams may be complete opposite of the next person. But I assure you this, lift this illusion of society and see how differently we would all dream. I think only then will we be hit with the factual realization that we are all one. Just an after dinner ramble. God bless
i think i've always had crazy dreams, but i'd say that after trying acid they've been alot weirder and i remember them more now then before. last night i had a REALLY weird dream where i'd taken some kind of psychedelic drug and the whole dream i was tripping out and really confused and scared and worried.. it wasn't tripping in the typical sense of the word, it was nothing like a real lsd trip, it was just.. weird. i remember "coming down" in the dream and being confused as to what had happened.. asking my friends about it (in the dream). very very weird... i remember one dream i've had where i was falling, it was a very intense dream, and i was really worried but then i just accepted it and it was ok. in another dream, pre-lsd, i was looking for something and then i woke up and got up out of my bed and was looking all around my room and then around the rest of the house and i was about to go into my mums room and ask her where it was when i realised i didn't know what it was i was looking for.. that was pretty strange. but i agree, i never remember having a 'regular' dream, being rich etc. they are always just extremely, extremely weird...
i always have the same things happen to me too. shit just gettin all mixed up. kinda like the peak of an acid trip. hectic. ill be trying to walk, but instead ill run. i often have one experience in my dreams where ill be walking, then running, then jumping and flying. then landing and jumping again and flying. i never quite fly but just jump really high and glide. haha. i went to another planet in my dreams the other night for the first time. =)
i can never run in my dreams either..it takes a certain rhythm i can't find. i end up bounding from one foot to the other kind of hopping..and when i do that i really take off. i think it's a message about moving too fast
i had a very strange dream the other night, i guess I would describe it as 'ego death'. In my dream I actually died, I got shot in the face, which was weird, but in the dream I was thinking "OK, this is a dream, so it should stop" but it didn't. What happened next I guess I could only describe as 'ego death'. I was just floating in black space and I had no idea what was going on, where I was, who I was. It was very intense. Especially considering I've never experienced ego death whilst tripping. Just thought I'd share because it's been on my mind and I thought it was extremely strange...
well i tripped right before i went to london and when i was where i had lucid dreams every night. But i was also not smoking weed that week and was possibly influenced by the Carlos Casteneda books i was reading. One time i took a hit but i had too much tolerance so i started tripping a little in my bed and fell asleep into a dream involving a deep psychological discussion with a friend.
My dreams have become way more detailed and trippy and have way more of a plot to them after I starting taking doses again this year. Also when I wake up I remember my dreams vividly and before dosing I would not have dreams at all or if I did I would have no recollection of them. This is really nice because I can actually look forward to going to sleep and going on some crazy adventure in fantasy land. I think all the weed I smoke everyday somehow was messing up my dreams before and then the LSD came along and fixed that for me Love this stuff!
Ever since I first let Lucy into my life, I find my dreams to feel more concrete and as if I am more aware in them. I find myself realizing the fact that I am in a dream much more often. I enjoy feeling the duality that dreams give, this is that they can be experienced but are not considered reality, My dreams have helped my realize that what you experience in life and reality are two separate things.
I was reading about this last night in a psychology book I have. The source is PSYCHOLOGY: Frontiers and Applications (CH.5 - States of Consciousness, pg 221) -- We do not know how LSD produces hallucinations. Part of the LSD molecule has a shape similar to serotonin and, overall, it decreases serotonin activity. During normal sleep, decreased serotonin activity in parts of the brain stem allows REM-On neurons to become active and initiate REM sleep, with its high level of dreaming. For decades, researchers have speculated that LSD's inhibiting action on serotonin allows dreamlike altered perceptions and hallucinations to emerge (Trulson & Jacobs, 1979).
smoking pot and drinking depress your brain so you don't get the REM sleep which makes you not dream, which is why you wake up feeling like you haven't slept. human body is pretty amazing.
