Anybody Else Use Valerian?

**Firewalker** · 04-21-2008 04:12 PM

I've only tried it once, this was after sleeping probably 6 hours, staying up for a couple of hours, I tried Valarian to relax me more and hopefully help me WILD, I didn't become relaxed enough and it didn't work. I would like to try it again though, I might try it before bedtime tonight. Has it helped you become lucid or just have more vivid dreams?

**WaaayOutThere** · 04-21-2008 07:32 PM

Valerian has only given me more vivid dreams, not lucids.
But when my dreams are more vivid, it does help with recall. I'm hoping it will help me link into a lucid dream sometime, but no luck so far.

**Firewalker** · 04-22-2008 02:49 PM

I tried Valerian last night, one 500mg capsule, one hour before bedtime, by the time I went to bed I was very tired, and I slept well all night. I woke up 7 hours later still tired. This is about as much sleep as I ever get anymore, and I am lucky if I get that much. I recalled two very vivid dreams, but no lucid ones. Valerian seems to make me sleep very deeply and I have found that in order to have lucids I have to be more awake. Still I believe there may be a use for Valerian if it is perhaps combined with a more stimulating substance or taken early in the night, then waking up 4 or 5 hours latter and taking something like perhaps Galantamine or Tyrosine. This may make Galantamine work better as I have an extremely difficult time falling asleep after taking Galantamine. It may also work taken with Tyrosine at the beginning of the night. I am not sure of the safety of combining any of these substances however. I have also had sucess on 200mg of Vitamin B6. With both large doses of Vitamin B6 and Tyrosine however the lucids do not last long, perhaps Valarian would make it not as easy to wake as it seems to be with the Tyrosine or B6 and allow longer lucids. I might try some of these combos one day if I can find out if they are safe together, I beleive the B6 and Valerian would be okay, not sure about the others.

I also suspect Valerian may be usefull for WILD's tried when you are not really tired, such as after sleeping all night, or in the afternoon.

**WaaayOutThere** · 04-22-2008 06:51 PM

That's some very interesting information there, Firewalker.
I would definitely be hesitant in combining anything I was unsure of.
I do take Valerian with other vitamins however, usually Vitamin E and a multivitamin. I plan to try the B6. It's been a long time since I've taken it. I don't remember if I went lucid any more frequently when I did take it. Maybe it's time to try again.