hello all…i’ve been reading the forum for a couple days and i figured i should contribute something somewhat useful so i went out and did an experiment for my first post…if you don’t feel like wading through a bunch of introduction to get to the findings of my experiment then just scroll to the bottom where the line of asterisks is or the second line of asterisks if you want the even more summarized version
now being an artist i’m not usually so stressed about the deat’s but when it comes to matters of science i try to be as precise as possible to bear out any possible errors i may have made during the course of my experimentation so please stay with me
so here is the break down of yesterday and today:
subject r - woke up at around 11 am, (had gone to bed at about 2 am the night before)
subjetct z - woke up around 1 pm (had gone to bed at about 2 am the night before)
subject b - (me) woke up around 3 pm (had aslo gone to bed at about 2 am the night before)
so basically i went to the local organic food cooperative and looked around for a while for various herbal remedies and vitamins i had been reading about to aid dreaming and decided on B-6 because anything else I recognized from my hours of browsing through the forum and various books was extremely expensive, (the B-6 was still $6.15 for 90 100 mg tablets)
long story short I gave 2 100 mg tablets to subject Z sometime that night…he took them at around 1 am and went to bed at around 3:30 am (after watching two episodes of Lost) subject Z woke up around 7 am and reported no dream recall at all
I gave subject R one 100 mg tablet at around 11 and she took it with a swig of Perrier…she went to sleep soon after and reported that it took her longer than usual to get to sleep (usually only five minutes, she says, although I would wager that that may be a little bit of an exaggeration) saying it took about 45 minutes to fall asleep. She reported very little dream recall but knowing that she did dream and dream vividly and have many dreams. Today at around 3:00 she saw a pair of shoes that reminded her that her dream was about trying on Nike shoes and going swimming.
Now as for me, subject B, I took one 100 mg pill at 11:30 and went to bed 15 minutes later. It took me at least 45 minutes to fall asleep but it was not a tossing, turning, anxious insomniac awake it was a completely relaxed consciousness and a very gradual fading into sleep. I checked my watch sometime later and found that it was already 3 in the morning and I am not sure if I did actually fall asleep in between or not but I feel like I must have. Anyway - my alarm was set for 6:45 but I didn’t get out of bed until 7:45. When I first got out of bed I thought that I had not dreamed at all the previous night. In fact I didn’t remember having any dreams until about an hour later when I ran into subject A and rememembered that I had dreamed about her, however it only came back to me in little bits and pieces.
Bottom line is that subjects B +R reported it taking them longer to get to bed and that they had no recall (100 mg)
Subject R reported an increase in dream vividness and frequency
and Subject Z reported nothing (200 Mg)
Nature’s Plus Vitamin B-6 (as pyridoxine HCI) 5000% DV
edit: going to bed now, tonight i’ve just stuck with dairy products and bananas (about three of those scrumptious yellow fruits) so we’ll see if i do better with that