Thread: Microdosing Before Bed

This is kind of derailing the topic, but I've had some interesting dream experiences with Valerian root and Calea Zacatechichi. Valerian Root is not normally associated with dreaming and isn't a psychoactive, but I've had some tripped out dreams while taking it and have increased dream stability. It also gives my dreams a "darker" tone and feel, maybe more serious or depressive themes. I don't know if its like this for other users of it but I've found it to be the case for me. Valerian root is traditionally used as a sedative to get to sleep.

Calea Zacatechichi on the otherhand has a internet reputation for being a "dream herb" for lucidity, although its given me more ecstatic and cartoony dreams. My dreams were a bit more vivid and more activity and action, and a polar opposite of the Valerian Root. I've read you can make a tea out of the Calea but haven't tried that. Both of these are legal options too

One of my friends swears by Mugwort, by placing it under/in his pillow at night and going to sleep normally. I think the scent or breathing it in at night changes something, because he always talks how his dreams are more vivid or gets lucid dreams from just having it under/near his head at night.

And oddly enough eating a banana before bed has given me more vivid dreams, so I don't know if there's something to that as well. My two cents here lol

And Edit: Haven't really tried microdosing before sleep, personally don't know how much of a difference it would make for me since I have vivid dreams to begin with. Entheogens are meant to activate your mind, so part of me feels like using them to alter sleep for AP or lucid dreams is counter-intuitive since dreaming is already like a form of tripping. It'd be interesting to see if it could help people to dream who cannot, but to me it just seems like trying to put the mind on overdrive during sleep, versus just naturally sleeping or full on tripping and staying awake.