Thread: Menthol as a Dream Enhancer

Dose: Two Hall's Extra Strong (22-38mg depending on your source), I take multivitamins so my B5, B6 and B12 levels are a bit over the daily recommended amount (but not at toxicity level, of course).
Side Effects: Nope.
Sleep Duration: ~10 hours
WBTB: 45 minute.
Lucid: No (Pre-lucid)
Vividness: Intense. (Chain FAs)
Stability: Varied dramatically.
Dream Comments: Wow. Whatever I expected, it was not this. The feel was exactly like when you have a raging fever and you cycle between overwhelming and surreal dreams and a state near ISP. I went in with doubts but the feel of it was totally unlike ordinary dreams.

Felt aroused at one point and got a spontaneous erection without any mental stimulus even. WILDing was turbo-charged, extremely vivid hypnagogia that was almost like watching a dream, including sexual imagery, and a Starwars lightsaber duel Very suddenly I felt that menthol inertia everyone's been talking about, my body suddenly felt leaden, but didn't remain aware for the transition.

I seemed to spend the time from 7:30, when I must have drifted off, to 9:30, when my alarm went off, constantly dreaming. The content was on the verge of nightmarish, with a maintained sense of threat and dread. The plot had a completely wonky internal logic and was full of surrealism and non-sequitors. The whole feel of it was like when I took salvia for the first (and so far only) time, but without the hysterical giggling.

The nightmarish feel was overwhelming to the point that my 'nightmare escape mechanism' from childhood kicked in and I became prelucid but instead of taking control I just tried to wake up. Here my old enemy the chain false awakening reared its ugly head and I had a few episodes of FAs and waking sleep paralysis w/ intruder before finally waking.

Huge recall, about 6 dreams worth of material (but completely disjointed, it's like fever dreams that don't make sense to anyone but the dreamer).


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On an unrelated note, can I suggest that rather than quantify things like lucidity and recall (which vary according to individual differences between dreamers), we carry out more of a 'content analysis', looking for the things that characterise menthol dreams; sex, surrealism, intensity, nightmarishness, etc.?