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
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
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
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…
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.
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
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 and I did get lucid that morning too But usually alcohol doesn’t help me with lucid dreaming.
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
Ouch! That explains some of what happens to me. Anymore, I average about 6 hours of sleep a night. Just before the clock goes off, my REM is just beginning to ramp up. Usually, I will have at least one highly vivid non lucid dream after going to bed after drinking.
REM rebound also occurs after you have drank for a while (weeks) and then go on the wagon. Of course, for the first three nights after stopping, you will sleep very little since your nervous system is full of chemicals attempting to counteract the depressive effects of the alcohol.
for sum reason wen i drink alcohol i cant sleep for ages, I once had the wierdest dream on alcohol. It was like a hallucination, i had just been cuaght having a house party by my mother and once everyone had gone, i fell asleep, woke up to see/think my mother in the room saying i wasnt in any trouble(it turned out i was badly wrong). After that i didnt wake up so it wasnt an FA, i just stopped thinking my mum was in the room.
It was wierd!!!
and I did get lucid that morning too 
But usually alcohol doesn’t help me with lucid dreaming.
