Thread: Lucid Dreaming and Medications/Drugs/Alcohol

Because in a dream you are just using your brain. In real life you have to use all your muscles and such.

When I was in hospital with glandular fever and acute tonsilitis I was there for 4 days. They gave me a steroid - dexamethasone 2.5mg to bring down the inflammation and pain. It's a stimulant and difficult to sleep on it, but I was lying there just directing an entire movie in my mind. I wasn't fully lucid/dreaming but this 'movie' was quite vivid and very thought responsive. Watching it unfold was amazing. If I'd appreciated it more at the time, I would have made better use of the opportunity and perhaps tried for WILD. This was my personal experience, dexamethasone is a strong and dangerous prescription steroid. Do not go and take it for an experience! The minimal experience vs downsides to the drug make it in no way a useful thing to take for recreational uses.

p.s. it also depends on what sleeping pill you take. It may have been more of a muscle relaxant type drug with sedative properties, hence your brain would have functioned just fine.. I don't know - I'm not a doctor, just a suggestion

It's chemistry that ur inner consciousness wasnt affected by

Well, of course one who take drugs will have an unique experience
OnTopic: I've never acctually taken any "medication" or any kind of sleeping pills, but I got a bunch of them though, even though I don't have any problems with my sleep
Don't know if I'll ever try'em either, but it sounds like you had a nice experience.

when ever I take benadryl I get more vivid dreams. and whenever I smoke cannabis before falling sleep my dreams are extra strange and bizzare.

When in opiate withdrawl I have nightmares. When I took fish oil I had the most intense realistic seeming dreams ever, I became lucid, and then kept having about 15 false awakenings where I remained lucid the whole time and kept thinking I'd really woken up this time.

The odd thing was most of the awakenings weren't in my bed. In one of them I woke up laying on a beach and thought to myself the lighting and shadows are just too perfect, there is no way I can still be dreaming because my dreams don't have such correct vivid detail, then the dream collapsed onto another false awakening. It was weird I was lucid but still dumb enough to think I'd really woken up on a beach without wondering how I got there.

I adjusted to the fish oil quickly so I quit, but still take it sometimes. Intense dreams is one of the side effects, I'd recommend you guys try it.

hey! great thread, i have a few experiences on the topic


When I went to central america, I was prescribed 2 pills of chloroquine once a week to prevent malaria. This caused me to wild quite quickly with and without vibrations but every time I got lucid I would wake up. Also I'd have twisted nightmares about my fears. one night I dreamt I was lying in bed in the dark watching my roommates bed and 2 hooded dark figures first aproach her, them to me and just as I become lucid I wake up.

that was frustrating the nightmares as well as the waking up in the middle of the night from becoming lucid haha.

I also take sleeping pills to sleep on occasion, i only take 1/2 or a full one, and these ones happened to be xanax, since I was in CA, I had long lucid dreams with those-mind you when I do lucid dream now, most of the time my lucids' are long as I stretch them out. then I dont remember half of it cause im lazy with the note-taking

Also DXM is found in cough syrup and when I was younger like 7 years ago I took it to try n achieve an OBE, I was new to lucid then, so as soon as i got the vibrations I FREAKED out and didnt try it again. It sort of tranquilizes you like ketamine does (which is gross)

After watching inception im traumatized about sedatives

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