Alcohol best way to lucid dream

Alcohol gives me great dream recall, and vivid dreams, and I don’t get up to go to the toilet.

However, in my alcohol dreams i don’t tend to be thinking too clearly.
My vodka & red bull dreams are too chaotic.

Has anyone tried absinth? I’ve read that it makes you drunk with a clear head.

I mean the proper stuff with wormwood in it.
it’s menat to act on the neurotransmitter GABA in some way.
This is what gives absinthe experiences their clarity of thought, apparently.

It’s legal in most places now I believe.

When I’ve been drinking alcohol, I’m always so tired that I fall asleep as soon as my head’s on my pillow. and I sleep really deep. I seldom remember any dreams at all then… :sad:

I have had 2 LDs from 19 in morning after a night spent with beer drinking. Both times they surprised me, because my head was heavy, and many times when sober and with light head i just don’t get LD even if i have hardly tried to have one.

Actually one of those 2 was today morning. Unlikely last nights (i use to drink beer only once a week), i was too tired to do any decent MILD (only shortly reminded myself that if i see a dream i recognize that it is a dream). So it came as surprise to have a relatively long and high level LD today morning. Seems that in my LD even my head was more clear and light than IRL :tongue:

Still, i prefer not to use alcohol for LD’s. There are plenty other methods for it. But if i get one after relaxful evening, then its like a berry on the top of pie :grin:

I never get up to pee during the night, not even after heavy drinking… So that is definitely not the reason in my case.

alcohol gives me really messed up dreams… fish DCs or im a planet
I don’t really like going to sleep wasted…

Alcohol kill my lucidity. I still become lucid most often by noticing all those little inconsistancies we find in our dreams.

Alcohol supresses the logic and reason centers of the brain, so after a few drinks, I might as well forget about it.

I’ve also noticed that if I do have an LD, it is fuzzy and I have almost no control.

Alcohol gives me light sleep, and vivid (sometimes nightmarish) dreams, but unfortunately it doesn’t help me with LD’s… I have to set a clear intention that I want to have an LD before going to bed, and that’s quite difficult when I’m drunk :neutral:

Same here.

As far as I know alcohol kills REM sleep. Some people claim it works but, even those people say it does not work for long. After a couple of nights the brain chemistry adapts and you loose what ever small advantage you might gain after just a few days.

I agree. I drink beer usually once per week, and if i’m correct then i have had at least 4 LDs out of 24 what i got after drinking beer at evening. Of course those dreams happened in next morning, but most of my LDs happen in morning, not during nights. So it might actually give me small advantage, but i’m pretty sure that drinking more often would “kill” my dreams.

That is what people call REM rebound. The alcohol deprives you of rem sleep during the first part of the night so, in the morning your brain makes up for the lost REM. As a result you may experience long vivid dreams. However, that does not necessarily mean you will be lucid in them.

Alcohol actualy used to give me fitful uncomprehensible dreams…
it would keep me in between dreaming and awake with my eyes closed, trying hard to just sleep…

Alcohol also gives me vivid dreams and increased lucidity. Last time I had 3 Lds and they were all pretty crazy.

What does the trick for me, is to goto bed just as you are starting to get sober again.
If i goto bed totally wasted, then i usually dont have much luck either.
But going to bed just a bit tipsy, seems to give me much higher chance of LD’s in the next morning and they are generally quite vivid also.

Only one time that I have drank, have I remembered the dream, and that was a few days ago. I drank a little bit more than I usually do, but more paced so I didn’t throw up. I don’t know how it is related, but it didn’t seem any different.

Heh, something else interesting did happen though. After I fell asleep, I was having this dream where I was walking down the street, and all of the sudden my leg just stopped working and it seemed to get numb. So I looked down at it, and then a few moments later, my left butt cheek started to get this bad pain in it, and then my vision faded into where I was and I was laying in my girlfriend’s car, in the back seat, crunched up in a ball.

My legs got tired of that possition and cramped up, I guess. Good weekend none the less.

While I don’t condone getting wasted to have LD’s I must agree.

I had 3 lucid dreams the night after a party where I was mildly “tippy”…the most I have ever had in a row…and my LDs are few and far between…
:bored:

If i sink about a glass of bourbon or scotch whiskey (with coke) before bed I can often have cool lucid dreams+astral projections,
somehow, it makes me aware, more frequently than without drinking. Yet I agree I dont need it, but yeh it helps abit:p

-stranger

Alcohol gives me a headache.

Sometimes after drinking I can barely remember any dreams at all. But I do tend to get cool HI in the morning because I keep waking up all the time in the morning after drinking. And once I had really exellent dream recall after drinking, I think I could probably remember an entire 1 hour dream :cool_laugh: and I did get lucid that morning too :cool: But usually alcohol doesn’t help me with lucid dreaming.

If I’ve had alcohol I sleep very deeply and sometimes hardly at all. In both cases my dream recall is worse.

All of my 3 LD’s this month have been BILD’s - beer induced lucid dreams. But i do not plan to drink it more frequently than i do, despite of temporar failure to have LD’s in usual nights :cry: