The reliability of wormwood for lucid dreaming, at least in my case, has been so remarkable that I thought a followup would be useful.

By now I have tried wormwood for WBTB about once a week since my previous post. It has worked every time except one, in which I waited only 5 days after the previous attempt. A week seems to be the magic waiting period for me. I've also found since using wormwood once a week that the occurrence of lucid dreams in between has also increased, adding one or two extra periods of lucidity during the week. Before using wormwood weekly, sometimes weeks would go by between lucid dreams.

To prevent the heart-pounding issue, I only take enough powder from the capsule that I can just taste it. More than that causes highly unpleasant chest thumping, both trying to get to sleep and upon awakening. I keep it under my tongue for a while to increase absorption.

Have fun!