Thread: Piracetam Dreaming - Heck Yeah!

So I was cleaning out my pantry the other day and I stumbled upon an old bottle of piracetam that I had from back in the day when I was heavily into taking nootropics. The expiration on the bottle is coming up later this summer so I decided to start taking it again yesterday just so it wouldn't go to waste. My regimen is:

• 800mg piracetam
• 300mg alpha GPC

twice daily.

Last night I had the most bizarre, vivid dreams I've had in a long time. In one dream I was going down to the subway, but instead of the usual subway it was this massive underground labyrinthine cavern with tracks snaking all over the place and creepy lighting, like something you'd see out of City Of Lost Children. And when I emerged from the subway I was in this magical, fantasy city like the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz. Now while I typically have a vivid imagination and have had some pretty fantastic dreams in the past I'd like to point out that I haven't been able able to recall my dreams for the past several months. Then just one day taking piracetam and WOW! I'm seeing elves and all kinds of crazy stuff when I go to sleep. I also felt much more mentally refreshed when I woke up in the morning. Now I've noticed similar effects when I've taken piracetam in the past, namely that my dreams are exceptionally vivid, detailed, and typically have these infinite, labyrinthine archetypes in them. Anybody else have much experience using piracetam as a dream aid?

I'm going to keep taking it for a little while and I'll keep reporting what I find in here. If anybody wants to join me go out and order some piracetam and report what you find in this thread.

Some good places to order online are Relentless Improvement and Bulk Nutrition. If you take piracetam you should complement it with a choline supplement. I personally like taking Jarrow brand alpha GPC.

i'm gonna try some piracetam. i would try alpha GPC but after some research ive found out too much of it can give you a fishy odour. not good. tell ya what, if i get good results with the piracetam i'll post back here and let you know.

Immaterium out.

It's highly recommended you take some kind of choline supplementation with piracetam, be it elemental choline (alpha GPC), lecithin, or something else. The reason being that the 'racetams work synergistically with acetylcholine precursors and some people have reported headaches, etc without them. As for the fishy smell thing I've never heard that before nor have I had any problems with body odor in the past when I was taking 600mg alpha GPC daily for several months.

That's weird; Yuschak says that piracetam has been proven to significantly suppress dreaming; he uses it to prevent tolerance to galantamine.

He says it has a half-life of 30 hours and any in your system at all will ruin lucid attempts.

strange i got my info from wikipedia, by the way.

It largely depends on the user. If you go to other forums on the net where people are discussing piracetam such as TCC at somethingawful.com or imminst.org, the people there will tell you piracetam gives you crazy, f$%ed up dreams. However this is just anecdotal evidence. There have been actual studies done using piracetam analogs such as leviracetam (Keppra) showing an increase in REM activity, hence more active dreaming. In my own personal experience the ONLY time that I ever became lucid was after popping a 800mg cap of piracetam right before settling down for bed. But everyone's different. If you have the money to spend and an interest in it then it may be a worthwhile experiment. Piracetam is non-toxic and it won't mess you up, especially if you're only taking a small dose.

Yesterday, I had my first dose of Piracetam- one gram of powder dissolved in pure drinking water, sweetened with blue agave nectar. I followed up with a 250mg tablet of Choline Bitartrate. Here's what I got: I finally got my room cleaned up and the rest of my stuff packed up for my move to Chicago. I have been too lazy and distracted to finish the job up until yesterday. Also, I became more social with strangers, talking to the lady at the checkout. I NEVER like to socialize, and am quite frankly an antisocial person by default. I also found myself praying and felt much more spiritual. I hardly pray at all...until now. I went to get some tacos for dinner, and found myself walking into a Christian bookstore. I bought a book on St. Augustine and a rosary. I'm telling you, Piracetam makes one more spiritual and more social. It is a very good "drug". It lifted my overall mood. Then, last night, I had the coolest dream ever. It was about being in some weird building, and I had to crawl up the roof ladder to the next floor, and the next floor, until I got to the roof, where the parking lot was. But there was a traffic jam up there because it was lunch hour. The parking attendant told me the cars would clear out after lunch is over. He said they were there for the hotdogs.
I am a regular lucid dreamer, and I use Galantamine from time to time, and have had almost 100 percent success rate with it in either getting lucid, crazy dreams, or even having out of body experiences with it. I understand that Piracetam is like the opposite of Galantamine, and many people use Piracetam to clear out the residual Galantamine from their system, but I had a weird dream with Piracetam. I also took B-100, a Choline Bitartrate, Nighty Night Tea, 40 drops of Holy Basil all in cold water, which I used to swallow a Huperzine A tablet. This stuff, Huperzine, is much like Galantamine, but it's different. Maybe people taking Piracetam should try Huperzine A as an alternative lucid dream supplement to Galantamine?

Does Piracetam have side effects ? I purchased Nootropil 800 from a local med last night. Has anyone here experienced any ill effects whatsoever ?

Piracetam has no side effects. The bulk powder is many times cheaper than capsules or tablets. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Hussain

Does Piracetam have side effects ? I purchased Nootropil 800 from a local med last night. Has anyone here experienced any ill effects whatsoever ?

Piracetam generally has no known ill side effects, except for a possible mild headache, which can be remedied by taking choline bitartrate with it. I usually swallow a 250 to 500 mg tablet of choline bitartrate with my one teaspoon serving of piracetam, dissolved in water and sweetened with stevia extract.
If anything, you may feel a bit nervous or anxious when you take piracetam, but it's the kind of feeling you get after drinking some coffee and you want to talk to people and organize your desk: all positive as far as I'm concerned!