hahaha I suck on the bags too! I didn’t actually start drinking the tea for dream recall, but for the nice little edge is smooths off.
But now that I think about it… it has outrageous dream recall effects. For the past two weeks I’ve have a few cups nearing bed time and had amazingly vivid dreams. I haven’t had any for four or five days and I’ve been wondering where my dreams have gone.
Something else that should be considered is that if you drink the tea before bed, or maybe a few glasses, you will wake up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I have gotten set on a 4 am potty break, which always helps for a mroe vivid second half of the night
Well, I have to say that P-Tea does grow on you! I’ve gone through an entire box now The other day I was on a ferry, and my mom’s like ‘here! You look cold! Go get some hot chocolate!’ So I went to the cafeteria, with every intention of getting hot chocolate, but then I saw the tea bags… and I got some mint tea! I’ve gone from hating it to loving it! It did take a while though
I tried peppermint tea before going to bed along with melatonin and vitamin B6 and a multiple B vitamin and it didn’t help my dream recall at all. Maybe it’s because I tried it only once. So I’ll try again tonight.
I am considering growing my own collection of mint plants, so when I do iI’ll let you know, but that will be a while.
I read about people saying it grows on you, but I don’t understand… I loved it right away!. heh… The first time I had it was at a turkish smoke shop (they have big hookas with turkish tobacco, which is an insane buzz to begin w/), but I don’t think there was anything like the clear head I had after the tea. This tea was a dark green color, so I’m sure that it was made differently then the tea I usually drink which is a mixture between pepermint, spearmint, and rosemary, which is a brown color.
Does any one else get the euphoria and head buzz from mint tea? Even the smell gives me a buzz. Any thoughts?
I just read the label on my box of mint tea. It has 45% of your daily potassium value. Is this why it affects your dreams? I know potassium imbalnce is one of the causes of dreaming.
Ha! I finally bought a bag of peppermint leaves. Will check it out tonight. I also bought B-complex-pills (long time since I tried that) so I hope the combination will improve my dream recall!
Something I noticed that might be related. After having a couple cups of mint tea ever night for a few weeks my dreams started disapearing. However last night I had no tea for the first night in a long time, and I had long vivid dreams, including two LD.
This seems to go with the potassium thing… If you have a build up the imbalance of potassium is less likely to happen, thus you are less likely to have dreams. Just a thought
Mint tea… does improve your dream recall only if you don’t use it much. Also, drinking mint tea while I do a WBTB seems to help as well for recall, but now… I only drink mint tea for my health benefit. I like the taste of it and how it gives me refreshing feeling.
It seems to have a building-up tolerance if you drink mint tea a lot, then you don’t have an excellent dream recall as you do on your first drink. You might want to give it a rest if it happens so that your tolerance returns to normal. Give it a try eh? Good luck!
Hey, maybe I am a bit late with it and someone has alreay discovered, but I have never known what it is, inside the mint leaves, that gives you this better dream recall (although I do experience that it works). Can this list do any good (it is huge but I took out all the things that I think are NOT active for dream recall)?
I think I know what you’re talking about… no profound psychological effects for me, aside from the relaxation caused by drinking a warm beverage, but I do get the mild head “buzz” from the aroma of it, probably caused by the menthol, similar to cough drops and what not, only much better tasting
I found a chocolate called CLUB MINT… I hope it is helpful too.
I mixed one mint tea bag with one night fruits bag (camomille plus spearmint plus rosehip plus passion flower etc). I’m hoping it will have some LD result…
No ld this night but a dream which mentioned ‘ld’… not that bad so it must have helped.
Can you folks (who get LD’s) post whether you drink mint tea throughout the day or just from the evening? Do you drink any coffee before?
Is there anyone who drinks just coffee and still get LD’s?
I think all this would be interesting to know.
How many hours before bed should I drink the peppermint tea, and how many tea bags should I use? Last night I drank one tea bag and even sucked on the bag, but it had no effect on my dream recall.