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Does anyone know about natural food that can make you lucid dream and/or help with dream recall?

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A friend told me cheese gives you vivid dreams/affects recall etc.

No idea if its true or not though.

Apparently B6 helps, and it naturally occurs in certain foods. Using B6 supplements can be dangerous due to overdose, but the supply in natural foods is safe. Do your own Google Search to find what foods are high in B6.

The Placebo Effect may work as a result, but why complain about that?!

Some even drink a little coffee when they WBTB to wake up the mind, but you have to make sure you get the dosage right. I myself don't drink coffee, so don't do it, but I heard it can help, and it makes sense. It wakes up your mind while your body sleeps. I heard cocoa, straight up, no sugar, can help too because it's a mild stimulus. (No sugar because you get a sugar crash).

I actually don't use these, but it's what I've heard and I'll pass it along. It's worth a try and safe to experiment with.

As HAGART said, B6 helps but can be dangerous in high amounts so make sure to be careful. Here's a link I found that tells which foods are high in B6.

http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/foods-high-in-vitamin-B6.php

I personally take a B6 supplement every now-and then. I use a 50mg suppliment (2,500% recommended daily value...) and take it once or twice a week at most. This was actually on the low amount for suppliments you could buy. They had much higher doses available. I have had no drawbacks to this whatsoever, but I can't say if it would be the same for you as everyone's different and responds differently. Just be sure to do your research. :)

Coffee is good at WBTB if you dont let it keep up awake, fine line and need experience Coco is just as good if you dont like or want coffee Tried a lot of apple juice one night and had a wicked lucid so that worked once, but cant remember the brand

Thanks everyone for the reply. I ate two medium sized potatoes last night and I remembered two dreams, which is a first for me. One dream was vivid while the other was not very vivid.

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A great dream enhancer food is the banana! Just eat two before bed and you should notice a difference. Also drink apple juice, the B vitamins in both improve Choline production in the brain which is essential for connecting memories and improving awareness.

I've never noticed much food-based affects on my dreaming. Perhaps it can help if you're suffering from a deficiency of dream-related compounds. Galantamine + choline is magical but keeps me awake, if I can just get to sleep it's a lucid dream party practically all night long.

I've had crazy dreams on wormwood too. Mugwort hasn't done much for me but maybe my supply wasn't fresh.

B6 (I've only tried up to 100mg) didn't affect dream recall at all, I've tried it several times.

Protein powder mixes (the ones body builders use) sometimes give me really vivid and somewhat lucid dreams but not every time.

edit: actually I have eaten a banana a few times at WBTB time -- whether it's the compounds or simply the energy boost from the sugars, I don't know, but it's resulted in fairly vivid dreams. I think consuming some energy-boosting (but not brain stimulating to keep you awake) foods in the middle of the night can really help with dreaming because your brain has more energy available to it to spend on dreaming!

You got me thinking.... The brain runs on glucose as it's 'fuel supply'. So if we eat something before bed or when we WBTB that is converted to glucose quickly and enters our blood stream to our brains, it should give it plenty of fuel to make it more active. That should stimulate vivid dreams and a more alert mind shouldn't it?

I forget the scientific, biological reason why, but eating food will also make us drowsy, so it's a win-win!

These are just my thoughts, but I think it's worth looking into.....

Not that simple and a fine balance to get some effect and not being able to sleep when you take simple sugars, also the brain runs more on a type of sugar released by the liver.

The bodies fueling system gets really twisted very fast unfortunately

I was trying to look up information on the internet, and there is so much that I would become a doctor with a PhD before I finished reading it all!

I'll sum it up in one word.... DIGESTION. (There are so many chemicals involved in breaking down food and converting it to the things our body can use it's mind blowing.)

So yea, I agree. It's not so simple. But I've heard many accounts that bananas work for some reason. So it must be the vitamins, compounds and chemicals in it. Or perhaps they trigger the release of endogenous chemicals in our brains, I don't know.

I believe in evolution and we're all descendants from monkeys. We should listen to our respected ancestors for they knew the truth to spiritual awakenings and transcending consciousness! :D

I have been playing with diet for sports and health for a longtime and it just a minefield of contradictions and body adaptations. One of the keys is good balance but that also need to suit body type (fast or slow metabolism) expected energy usage and supported by exercise and so on.

I think most things will help but a lot of the time only once and due to intent and expectations. I used to eat millions of bananas for cycling food and it made little difference. I think you could wear red socks to bed and get lucid if you believed it would help due to strong intent.

And meditate like a monkey - try it and look forward to the report

There's a Buddhist meditation philosophy about the "monkey-mind" that swings from tree to tree and is never home and never focused. Bananas may only fuel my restless mind. :D

I believe intent is the main reason why I lucid dream and WBTB helps because it changes my focus and I become noticeably more mindful and lucid (thinking clearly) after a short respite from sleep to gather my senses while my body is still ready to go back into 'sleep mode'.

Might as well try some red socks too for fun. I'll do an experiment with One sock, Two socks, Red Socks, Blue Socks..... (Dr. Suess Joke) But that's nonsense. I read in a popular lucid dream book that 1.5 green socks work best. ;)

I'm joking around and after a while being here, listening to everything, we can all agree there is no magic formula to lucid dream is there? If there was, you'd be a millionaire.

Try a sock with a hole in it or a small stone as that will annoy you and keep you just that little bit focused so that you can stay awake while you go to sleep.

You know what the funny thing is, Peter. You're not wrong!

A hole in your sock will keep your mind focused and grounded on the corporeal body, feeling every slight breeze on your big toe, as your ethereal body floats out. You sleep but are aware of your body at the same time and that is key to an OOBE. If the 'holy sock', (adj. for 'full of holes'), was red, that is even better because we humans are drawn and shocked by that color in paintings, advertisement, and art due to psychological reasons. (Red lips, red blood, anything red is always noticeable). And that will keep our minds focused even more on that holy sock with our Big TOE.

The scary thing is, although that was mostly BS, it kind of makes sense in a way. I went off topic, but had fun with that and hope others realize how much BS there is on the internet about lucid dreaming and there is no 'get rich quick scheme'. I felt like making a parody of it all. :mrgreen:

awesome and I am having fun as well. We take it all far to seriously most of the time and yes there is an element of truth to idea.

My way of brainstorming and I like it

I'd just like to throw in my contribution as far as bananas are concerned. I read this a week or so ago and have eaten bananas every day since, usually when I get up with toast, and as a snack a couple of hours before bed. I think my dreams have been reliably more vivid, although I have gone back to sleep more in the mornings recently, so this may also have been a factor.

See my posts under Lucid Dream Aids. Old Traveler