How to properly use Calea Zacatechichi?

I have some Calea Zacatechichi (Dream Herb) 10x extract. It resembles hash in many ways. Now I recently been learning alot on lucid dreammin and the like, and I learned about this. I was woundering if anyone had a good idea on how I should use this to get the disired effect? I tried smoking a little in a pipe out once before but just kinda felt a cannabis stone. I am primarily using this though to induce vivid dreaming. Can anyone help me out?

 

I believe you make tea from it.

 

Well I have a resin type extract so I was thinking of smoking it.

 

Is it smokeable? Just because it looks like hash, doesn't mean smoking it will do anything more than destroy your product.

When I had the dream herb I made tea from it. I had the resin too.

 

Oh how did you do it then?

 

Is it illegal or can I buy it?

 

check google, erowid, do your research. what are you buying? why are you asking? you don't even know what it is lol.

i just put a whole big chunk into a pot with boiling water and let it steep. the tea tasted horrid and didn't give me any effects. i think there's a reason this one is not more widely used . . .

 

Hmm yeah it seems the lose material would ne best for a tea.

 

I drank a hole pot of tea made of it and smoked several cigarettes rolled with it one time, and it tasted like burnt rubber. I got some vivid dreams but it was all about having violent diarrhea and constantly shitting myself. I'm so glad it was just a dream, but it was still very awful.

 

HAHA
Get your money's worth?

 

haha omfg holy shit thats shity as fuck! i cant stop laughing though.. should of taken some immodium

 

im really into the study of plants as medicine on an expiriencial level.
there are so many plants, and each of them unique unto themselves. not all speak as loudly as something like marijuana or mushrooms, most of them require more intention and attention before their willing to give up their secrets. imo its always best to work with the living plant when making introductions.
what i would suggest is a change of perspective. recognize that you are working with another kind of lifeform and that it embodies a medicine you are wanting to know about. how would that shift the way you approach calea?

 

I could take the same approach with lettuce, and it would probably have an influence on my dreams of about the same level as calea.

 

the many differences between lettuce and calea are clear. how numb does one have to be to find their influence identical?

anykind of plant / human interaction is expiriencial. im suggesting that an acute awarness of oneself and how specifically an individual plant is interacting with you is nessesary. (how does it affect your body?...your consciousness?) the more subtle the phenomenon your awarness is able to percieve, the more profound these subtleties will affect your body and consciousness.

the uniqueness of the individual encounter one is having with a plant is a very elemetary observation. coming to respect this uniqueness is a natural responce. this uniqueness is the plants medicine.

not all plants effects are "loud", most require a focused attention and a strong intent to really come to know. be aware.

 

They are clear to you because you want calea to influence your dreams, creating a thought pattern and expectation.
How has calea performed as a medicine or teacher for you?