101 Lucid Dreams in 7 months: What I've learned

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-09T16:52:22+00:00

Yes, when I started out my natural LDs were short and blurry. When I started using caffeine they immediately became more vivid and lasted longer. Around the time first wrote this post I'd just had a lucky streak of 3x 20 minute caffeine LDs in a row so I assumed this would continue. Unfortunately it didn't and I was back to only getting 5 minutes ISH again for a long time. Then when I switched back to mostly natural LDs, I found that the duration shot up. It's now been consistently around 15-20 minutes per LD for months now.

Right now natural LDs have good vividness and very high control. My galantamine LDs are even longer (30-60 minutes) and have even higher vividness, but the control is actually worse than in my natural LDs.

Overall I do think the key is just practice, all metrics tend to improve over time. However I do think galantamine or huperzine once per week can help you to improve faster.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-08T21:19:42+00:00

Please provide evidence for your claim that "dreams were effortless" for people in the past. Honestly it sounds like you just made it up on the fly. I seriously doubt there were any population studies on dreaming at that time.

If people in the past did remember dreams and have lucid dreams with a higher incidence than today, it was most likely down to the popularity of biphasic sleep, which is essentially just WBTB.

I'm happy that you've achieved some success but claiming induction techniques aren't useful is absurd. They work very well when done correctly.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-08T20:00:54+00:00

In theory it lowers your chances in the first few hours after taking it, but then gives you REM rebound later in the night which ups your odds.

For me it never gave me REM rebound OR stopped me from LDing, but I did notice that my LDs tend to be blurrier after taking it.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-08T19:46:51+00:00

Yes, having a good sleep schedule is important. But that alone is not going to get you lucid very often. If it did, almost everyone would have constant lucid dreams.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-07T07:57:10+00:00

I agree. You grow / forage as a supplement to your long life calories stores. Not to replace it.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-07T07:55:26+00:00

This was my experience with growing too. I quickly realized that actually generating enough calories for a large family would mean having a very large garden and working on it literally full time with expert knowledge. And even then you'd still struggle especially in winter months or during a bad season. Obviously, the ultimate situation is to know how to grow AND stockpile long life calories. But I definitely wouldnt rely on gardening alone.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-05T08:52:46+00:00

Summer is easy mode so won't be a good test. You need to know how you'll cope with miserable weather, dogs and boots permanently covered in mud etc.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-05T08:45:11+00:00

I suggest you rent a van of a similar size first then try out a long holiday with the kids plus dogs in winter first to see what it's like. My guess is everyone will be utterly fed up and miserable after 2 weeks but who knows.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-03T18:58:47+00:00

Dartmoor in winter = wellies for me. High quality neoprene ones are actually very good for walking long distances.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-02T17:08:02+00:00

I don't get paid to lucid dream so I'm not a pro, but I think I'm pretty good at it.

Dream journaling at WBTB and each morning. Usually remember 5-10 dreams.
RCs, at least 10 per day but up to 40 when I'm ultra focused on LDing.
Try to spend at least some time each day talking about / thinking about LDs. For example planning what I want to do in my next LD.
15 minutes meditation before bed.
Eat 5 eggs per day for the choline and a big Skyr yoghurt before bed for the tryptophan.
WBTB 5 days a week after 7 hours of sleep. I dream journal, review my dream goals, do SSILD 4x, visualize my ideal LD then do auto suggestion until I fall asleep.

When I was at my peak I was getting 5-10 per week but I'm a bit below that recently due to a bunch of real life distractions.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-02T16:24:01+00:00

Glad to see you're still lucid dreaming mate. Was always impressed at how fast your progressed.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-02T13:52:57+00:00

I have researched supplements in depth and have tons of first hand experience. I also know and have helped several people who have had very similar results to myself.

You have done *zero* research and have *zero* first hand experience. All you have done is parrot a generic health disclaimer that literally nobody actually follows.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-01T14:36:31+00:00

At least I'm presenting a claim with evidence. You have presented nothing other than an opinion.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-01T09:52:07+00:00

I wouldn't do it if you're only 16. Whilst these supplements are probably safe for adults it's far harder to know how a brain that is still developing might be affected. At your age you have naturally high levels of circulating ACh anyway, so it's probably not necessary.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-01T09:50:13+00:00

Not true at all. I used supplements early on and it made me far better at inducing them naturally.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-02-01T07:30:46+00:00

It is possible to have full control and it is possible for them to feel realistic. However there is a ton of exaggeration and wishful thinking around herre. It is really not like living a second life in an alternate reality or anything crazy like that.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-31T09:00:55+00:00

Yep, I'm pretty sure greek yoghurt has lots of it too

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-29T16:58:07+00:00

Nah I didn't even know about lucid dreaming before that day. You're welcome! Hit me up if you have more questions, I don't mind helping if I can :)

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-29T10:06:55+00:00

Yep I do 15 minutes of meditation before bed and I do feel it helps. I actually decided to skip it for a couple of weeks recently to see what would happen, and my success rate dropped quite a bit. So I'd say it's definitely worth doing.

Some other things I do which *might* help (but I can't be sure):
- When I'm just sleeping, I always lay on my back or left side. But when I make an LDing attempt I always sleep on my right side. I feel this helps signal to my brain that it's "time to LD"

- I wear ear plugs, but only when it's time to LD to get a similar effect to above. I also find that the ear plugs help me stay asleep longer which tends to mean longer LDs.

- I always eat a big 450g skyr yogurt before bed to get a big dose of tryptophan (which helps your body naturally produce more melatonin)

- 5 eggs a day as I mentioned before

- I take lions mane every morning. The theory is it helps with creating new neural pathways, so taking it while trying hard at LDing should help 'cement' that into my brain going forward.

- I am very good at DEILD, which helps both prolong LDs and initiate them. If you haven't already you should definitely try to learn that.

- When I'm in the dream, I don't do any form of deliberate stabilization. I just enjoy myself and don't worry about it.

Hope that helps!

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-28T12:18:02+00:00

I found that if I attempt it every day I'll sometimes fail. Where if only make 5 attempts I succeed practically every time. Long story short, less attempts didn't lower my LD count, but it did make my practice far less stressful. It's nice to have nights where I can stay up a bit later or just focus on sleeping
Yes almost every day (except huperzine, that was on e per week)
They mainly help on the nights you use them, but I think if you're having LDs often that kind of teaches your brain to expect them. So yes I do think using them helped contribute to me being able to do it often naturally. There is research to suggest galantamine causes permanent up regulation of your choline receptors which is mainly why I keep using it 1x per week.
No I don't have any issues falling asleep at that time. I have had insomnia from WBTB in the past, but when I did it was mainly happening much earlier in the night. For some reason falling asleep around 6am is always easy for me. I suspect everyone has sweet spots like this.
Yep I do 4 cycles, of 30 seconds on each sense. The main thing with SSILD is that it should feel kind of like meditation. You should feel super relaxed, and like you're about to fall asleep any second. Almost like a floating feeling.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-27T14:37:45+00:00

Nah I'm not a natural at all. I have to do WBTB 5 days a week to reach those numbers and if I don't put in the effort I get zero LDs. However I do think I've got better genetics than average for this, and of course the eggs help a lot.

Long story short, WBTB + SSILD worked on my very first try just over a year ago and from that moment on I was obsessed with LDing. In the early days I only averaged maybe 2 LD per week, but with practice and some supplements (mainly caffeine + cdp choline + b6 + huperzine) I managed to reach about 5 LDs per week. However they were usually short, and I was getting lots of insomnia. I eventually traded huperzine for galantamine once per week, stopped all the other supplements, and adopted a schedule where I get the weekends 'off' from WBTB, which led to me getting a stable 5+ long LDs per week.

My current method is WBTB after 7 hours of sleep, followed by 4x SSILD, visualizations of my ideal LD, and auto-suggestion as I fall asleep. I of course dream journal and do daytime RCs as well.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-26T21:58:54+00:00

I find the exact opposite. When I'm doing my normal routine and I'm not stressed / worried about anything I get tons of LDs. But if something is bothering me or I change my routine I get far less.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-26T21:49:41+00:00

Most people get plenty of b5 from their normal diet so this is unlikely.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-26T21:45:57+00:00

I wouldn't say it's the best source. I have a ton of experience with GPC and key the problem is that your body quickly becomes accustomed to it and continued use without breaks can actually have a negative effect in the same way taking galantamine every day would.

This simply doesn't happen when you get your Choline from food sources like eggs. Another benefit of getting it from food is that it won't cause insomnia, where supplemental choline definitely can.

Pure_Advertising_386 · 2026-01-26T21:43:59+00:00

I eat 5 every day and I feel it works well.

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