Thread: Drinking alcohol in lucid dream can give you the same effect ?

I think it's possible (especially if you already drink alcohol and felt its effects in real life like being tipsy)
So if you drink alcohol in lucid dream and expect the same effects ,wouldn't the receptors in your mind release dopamine and agonise gaba like normal alcohol would .
So when you wake up from the dream you would feel tipsy or drunk ?
What do you think ?

I don't think you would feel any effects of alcohol when you awake, lol. I've went to a pharmacy and gotten Alprazolam (Xanax) which I am prescribed in the non-dream world, in a lucid dream and felt the effects tenfold. When I awoke though? I just felt good because I just had an LD. So yeah, in the dream you will most likely get drunk if you're lucid enough. I don't see the point of drinking in a Lucid Dream when you could do so much more. Unless you're underage. I only did what I did to actually test the theory you're asking about now. It works in the dream but not when you rise outta bed.

You can wake from some LDs with a full on body high. Your theory is pretty close to correct, but as no drug stays in your system the effects fade pretty quick. I do not know if gaba plays a part, but serotonin and norepinephrine probably even dopamine can be triggered.

I never got drunk IWL, but i once got drunk in non-lucid and it made me lucid and it was bizarre, haha. Haven't had any posteffect though, but i think it might be possible to have some feeling when waking up for a bit if HH plays along with it.

Originally Posted by Scionox

but i once got drunk in non-lucid and it made me lucid and it was bizarre

Oh my hahah, that's pretty wild. Are you some kind of alcoholic and that was a trigger to make you lucid lol? I'm just kidding =P that is really insane though! I wonder if that has ever happened to anybody else..

Sorry sivasion, I've just never arisen from a Lucid with a full body high. Well, I guess in my experiences it COULD have been that, because I was so ecstatic about LD'ing.

Nope, I never feel the effects from alcohol in dreams. Or any substance for that matter. Sometimes I'll feel a little different... but not much. I've tried and tried.

Unlike the others, whenever I drink some, I get boozy and got all the real life "effects", then time flies and I can't remember too much afterwards...

I've had drug dreams that I still felt high from after dirt wakin up. It has always faded quickly once actually fully waking up though.

Sounds like a strange concept to me, one that must be trialed and tested! But first, I must get really drunk IWL so I can note the effects...

I'm not sure how it works, but I've definitely felt the affects of alcohol in regular dreams and it's felt the same. I've also done other drugs in dreams, like coke and acid, which I haven't done in real life, and my mind has invented odd effects that I've never experienced before. I'm sure they weren't the real effects, as I'd have no way of knowing, but my brain did make something strange happen, all without touching any actual drugs.

The following is an idea I've had about this, a hypothesis. I don't know whether it's true.
Dreaming can be thought of as your mind setting up a world of hallucinations for you. And not just hallucinations for the senses, but hallucinations for the mind. When you see a brick wall in a dream, the sensation of seeing it is the same as it would be in real life, except there's no actual wall to cause it. You've had experiences of seeing brick walls before, and although the one in the dream may not be identical, you can still imagine what a new one may look like. So the hallucination of a brick wall in a dream is really like 'imagining' it but very intense and realistic. Similarly, when you feel inebriated in a dream, the sensation is the same as it would be in real life, except there's no actual alcohol causing it. The point I'm trying to get at is that your mind isn't even necessarily undergoing the same chemical processes that occur while you're actually drinking. You're really just hallucinating the sensation by imagining it intensely, in the same way that you can imagine a brick wall so intensely that you think it's there.

That may be. However, if I have been intensely LDing, I can wake up high as a kite and stay that way for a couple minutes. This includes tingling rushy sensations and spots of color in the air. Something chemical must have been going on. I recover quickly, but can stay high for a few minutes.

I've felt drunk in non Lucids before. But I don't remember if I've ever drank anything at all while Lucid. I do want to try drinking beer in a Lucid though. Simply because I love the taste of an ice cold beer and want to see how it tastes in a Lucid Dream. For that reason, and also because of knowing I can drink as much beer as I want in a dream without the alcohol doing damage to my body. I don't really care if it makes me feel drunk in the dream or not. I know food can taste exceptionally good in dreams. I'd be willing to bet I could find the best tasting beer I ever drank in a Lucid...