Alcohol is win

**Tipharot** · 04-08-2011 03:42 PM

Despite causing so many problems when abused, alcohol is definitely a wonderdrug when it comes to lucid dreams. The only times I've had 2 lucid dreams in a night rather than 1, I went to sleep drunk/tipsy.

Last night I got pretty drunk, ended up passing out, and I had the 3 most vivid lucid dreams I've ever had.

The first dream I remember picking up a tiny stone and I could see every microscopic detail as if my eyes had some kind of zoom+clarity function.

The second and third dreams were more interesting though, because I made them happen. After my first lucid dream I woke up, still quite drunk, and I'm sure many of you know how easy it is to imagine things drunk right? Well that's exactly what I did, I closed my eyes, lay there, and imagined myself getting up, as I did so I felt myself actually do that, and yet my real body stayed still.. then I walked around, soon enough my room appeared around me, I explored a little and jumped around my house a bit at low gravity.

Eventually though I woke up from that dream too, so I tried the same thing, only this time I imagined other places, until I ended up imagining a bus. Suddenly I was on the bus, I could walk around. I ended up throwing the driver out the window and hijacking the bus, then driving it to a lay-by and hitchhiking with some hot girls.

Tl;dr version: Got drunk, had 3 lucid dreams in one night (most I've had before was 2, when I was also drunk), all were super clear, and 2 of them were self-initiated in just seconds from a waking drunk state.

**Matte87** · 04-08-2011 09:18 PM

Alcohol suppresses REM and causes REM rebound if done correctly. But the only way I can imagine it working when it comes to inducing lucid dreams is when you're trying to DEILD or WILD somehow and you can relax rather than being all tense up and excited. But then again, when you're drunk you fall asleep super fast. Will have to try to induce a lucid while drunk some day.

**DougD720** · 04-19-2011 08:05 PM

I'd imagine these dreams were in the morning? Alcohol tends to suppress REM sleep thus once it's out of your system it causes REM-Rebound: your body's way of catching up on missed REM sleep; longer REM cycles more frequent once the booze is out of your system.

I've had this with drinking too but it's a double-edged sword for me. This (rarely) happens, more typically I just fall asleep and can't remember much in terms of dreams - but if I take a nap later that day or go back to sleep after waking up in the morning definitely get the REM Rebound.

**andivert** · 05-23-2011 11:34 PM

I don't know about alcohol making it more easy or difficult to have lucid dreams, but in my experience, I have a hard time remembering my dreams every time I go to bed drunk.
Plus, those dreams tend to be weird and non-lucid u__u

**Robot_Butler** · 05-23-2011 11:47 PM

It seems to work wonders for me, too. It is a good combination of REM rebound and a forced WBTB when it wakes me up in the middle of the night with a racing heart. It is like a delayed release stimulant.

**Xox** · 05-24-2011 01:46 AM

Alcohol is a recipe for really vague, non-vivid dreams for me. Not to mention the unpleasantness associated with waking up drunk so never being able to fall asleep too comfortably. Never had any decent dreams with it.

**rkenning** · 06-08-2011 06:44 AM

my best lucid came after a night of binge drinking

**ulicorn** · 06-14-2011 09:56 AM

I definitely have more and more intensive LDs now that i gave up both alcohol and drugs more than 18 years ago. But: i do Yoga... so maybe THAT does the trick!

**Skygerobrian** · 07-10-2011 07:39 PM

My experience.
I used to drink allot for years.. never had a dream... drink very little now and I'm back to dreaming. I'm no expert, but I wouldn't suggest drinking for LD.

**Firebat11** · 07-10-2011 09:17 PM

I had me a screwdriver the other night; accidentally put a little too much vodka in and it made the whole thing taste like paint thinner. That aside, I rarely get drunk (because I rarely drink), but I don't know how it can cause lucidity because from my own experience I felt like I was viewing everything in tunnel vision. My awareness dropped like a brick and I felt like I could only process things internally, meaning I could imagine/ daydream and think about stuff I already knew; I couldn't handle any input from my senses; it was all a big fuzz to me. Of course the following morning after going to sleep I never remembered a thing.

This is just my experience and it could be different for others. Generally alcohol doesn't sit well with me so it could be a fluke, I think I'll stick with banana's and apple juice thanks.