There are many supplements, both commercially available preparations and traditional herbs that enhance the ability to lucid dream, have vivid dreams, and have visitation dreams.  I have tried many of them and continue to update this page with my experience reports.  For ease of reference I have divided them up into two categories:

• Commercially Available Ludid Dreaming Supplements
• Traditional Herbal Lucid Dreaming Supplements

Commercially Available Ludid Dreaming Supplements

• Galantamine
• Alpha GPC (Choline)
• Yohimbine
• L-Dopa (Mucuna Prurins)
• 5-HTP
• Piracetam

The best resource for information on commercially available supplements is [amazon asin=1430305428&text=Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements] by Thomas Yuschak.  This resource gives dosage recommendations and instructions on use as well as what is known about how these substances affect dreaming from a scientific perspective.  The book also explains how the neurotransmitters involved in sleep operate.

Galantamine

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Galantamine should be taken during the night when longer REM stages of sleep will occur.  Typically I take it around 3:00 – 4:00 AM.  If taken before bed it can cause some very odd and unpleasant experiences for some people.  Again I learned the “less is more” lesson with Galantamine – if I take a 4mg tablet, I get lots of dreams.  If I take 8mg I get nothing!  If you are going to use Galantamine more than infrequently, it is recommended that you take Piracetam in the morning to prevent building up a tolerance.

Concentrations of acetylcholine in the brain can also be increased by taking a choline suppliment.  The formulation of Galantamine that I use contains choline, but you can also buy it separately if you want to take additional amounts of choline or try it by itself.

Alpha GPC (Choline)

I have used two forms of direct choline supplements – choline bitartrate which is present in the form of Galantamine I use, and [amazon asin=B000OQ66IA&text=Alpha GPC], which is derived from highly purified soy lecithin.  Alpha GPC rapidly delivers choline to the brain across the blood-brain barrier and is a biosynthetic precursor of the acetylcholine neurotransmitter.  Alpha GPC can be taken with Galantamine to further boost levels of choline in the brain.

Yohimbine

Yohimbine is extracted from the bark of the Yohimbe tree.  It is used as a weight loss supplement and a natural alternative to Viagra.  To use it for dream enhancement purposes you need VERY small dosages, and I have not been able to find any tablet form of it with that small of a dose.  I use Yohimbe Bark Extract, 1ml is 50mg so I use one drop!  Too much Yohimbine will give you insomnia.  It does seem to make it easier to use the WILD (wake induced lucid dream) method of lucid dream induction, where you go directly from waking consciousness to the dream state.  It should be taken in the middle of the night like Galantamine (or with Galantamine).  Sometimes when I use it I get a soundtrack of electronic music with the dream.  The first time this happened I thought I’d fallen asleep with my earbuds in!  Many of the liquid Yohimbe preparations available online do not seem to include the concentration or dosage.  I found mine at Giant Eagle!  I have also seen it at The Vitamin Shoppe.

L-Dopa (Mucuna Pruriens or Velvet Bean)

L-Dopa is best known for its use in the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.  It is also the miracle drug from the movie “Awakenings”.  L-Dopa is a precursor for Dopamine, which is another neuotransmitter. Pharmaceutical grade L-Dopa is only available by prescription, but naturally occuring L-Dopa is found in the velvet bean (Mucuna Pruriens).  It is available as a supplement in this form, [amazon asin=B000ZMESNS&text=DopaBean].  L-Dopa doesn’t seem to bring on lucid dreaming as much as it brings on exciting and vivid dreams.  I have not experimented with it much yet, but hope to do so soon.

5-HTP

[amazon asin=B002TC93VY&text=5-HTP] is sold as a mood enhancer, anti-depressant, sleep aid, and appetite suppressant.  Also known as oxitriptan (INN), is a naturally occurring amino acid and chemical precursor as well as a metabolic intermediate in the biosynthesis of the neurotransmitters serotonin and melatonin from tryptophan.  All of that is a fancy way of saying it increases the neurotransmitters that are present at the onset and during deep sleep.  Taking 5-HTP at bedtime will tend to put you into more deep sleep with the suppression of REM at the beginning of the night, leading to a phenomena known as REM rebound in the early hours of the morning.  This means long REM periods for dreaming!  An added bonus is it helps you fall asleep at night.  When using Galantamine and other supplements taken in the middle of the night it creates a more balanced night’s sleep.  I have had geat dreams using it just by itself, as I sometimes don’t wake up or wake up to late to take Galantamine.

Piracetam

[amazon asin=B0019Z4984&text=Piracetam] is used to treat people with seizures, dementia, concussions, or other neurological problems. A two week regimen of piracetam was found to enhance verbal memory in healthy college students in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.  It is sold as a supplement to enhance memory and learning.  For dreaming purposes taking Piracetam after a lucid dreaming attempt with Galantamine will prevent building up a tolerance to Galantamine.  Piracetam will inhibit lucid dreaming if taken in the evening.

Traditional Herbal Lucid Dreaming Supplements

• Calea Zacatechichi
• Dreamer’s Blend (Shaman’s Garden)
• African Dream Bean (Entada Rheedii)
• Kirkii (Uvuma Omhlope)
• Silene Capensis
• Celastrus Paniculata
• Dream Tea (Rose Mountain Herbs)

There are many places to buy traditional dreaming herbs on the internet.  I buy from Shaman’s Garden.  They don’t sell things they haven’t personally tested.  But first – a word of warning about herbs. Many of the powerful medications we have today originate in plants.  Edgar Cayce himself once said in a reading that there was a cure for every disease somewhere on Earth, and you can bet many of them are found in plants! That said, I don’t order herbs from sources I don’t trust and I do some research on them before I start ingesting them. They are not regulated by the FDA and are therefore a good example of the maxium, buyer beware.  Warnings aside, I have had some very good results with some dreaming herbs.

Calea Zacatechichi

Also as an experiment, I recently had the opportunity to purchase a calea zacatechichi plant!  From what I read it is very easy to grow.  I spent two days inside a shipping box and yet arrived looking like it had just spend the summer on the porch.  I am hoping it will grow well over the next year and yield enough spare leaves for me to attempt to make my own tea and/or capsules.  Calea zacatechichi is one of the ingredients in Dreamer’s Blend (below), with which I have had some very positive results.

Dreamer’s Blend (Shaman’s Garden)

A blend of several dreaming herbs (Calea Zacatechichi, Blue Vervain, Wild Lettuce, and California Poppy are in the mix) the blend can be made into a tea or smoked.  I tried making the tea but I have to warn you – it is kind of nasty and I found it even worse with sugar in it! My 12 year old son and I tested in on the winter solstice. I sprinkled a pinch of it onto the gas fireplace coals with the idea of using it as incense, and made a cup of tea from it for each of us. Yikes! Warning! It smells like weed! Unfortunately a lot of herbs smell like dope. This is also a problem if you use sage to smudge a haunted house before you try to sell it. Always be sure there is ample time for the smoke to clear before the real estate people show up.

Due to the taste my son only drank a couple swallows of the tea. I drank his cup of tea and mine. My son had the lucid dream! Go figure. I bought some gel capsules from the health food store and will try packing it the capsules and taking them at 3:00AM, as suggested with the Calea Zacatechichi capsules.

African Dream Bean

So far I have only had one trial but I think it is pretty amazing stuff! The plant is more or less a weed in Southern and Eastern Africa. The seeds grow in huge pods and are rather impervious.  I can testify to that – they are not easy to get open. They are known to float in the ocean for years and wash up on beaches on both sides of the Atlantic – for this reason they are also known as “Sea Beans”. The plant will grow in the Southern United States. Interestingly, when they arrived I realized that I already had one! Many years ago I was given a necklace that belonged to Grandma Anderson, made from large seeds. Her brother – Uncle Lawrence – brought it as a gift during one of his trips to Florida. I realized the center pendant of the necklace is an African Dream Bean!

Kirkii (Uvuma Omhlope)