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b6 vitamins/lucidity/dreaming (pg. 2)
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by AndreaCKY772
has anyone recalled having better lucidity or vivid dreaming when they use b complex vitamins or b6 (mainly b6)?
i know melatonin and valerian help to induce sleep, but b6 can work as a dream enhancer. i just figured i'd see if anyone here can testify to such claims. |
Looks like there's only one publication on this topic and it concludes that...
| quote: | | ...data for dream salience suggests that Vitamin B-6 may act by increasing cortical arousal during periods of rapid eve movement (REM) sleep. An hypothesis is presented involving the role of B-6 in the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin. However, this first study needs to be replicated using the same procedures and also demonstrated in a sleep laboratory before the results can be considered certain. |
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This study is over 5 years old. No other study seems to have been done, or atleast no other publication seems to exist. It may very well be that nobody has has been able to get good results to publish anything further on this topic. Melatonin could induce lucid dreaming as has been reported in some papers. But again, it has not been established as a fact. |
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| AndreaCKY772 |
| thanks, omega |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| Valerian root works really well for falling asleep, but it smells like dirty ass feet though :mad: |
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| DigitalPhoenix |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Valerian root works really well for falling asleep, but it smells like dirty ass feet though :mad: |
Jah, I pop 3 pills whenever I cant sleep
due to partying too long and my body cant unwind..
the smell of it I could do w/out |
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| AndreaCKY772 |
| yes i've tried the powdered valerian once or twice and it does not smell pleasant at all. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Looks like there's only one publication on this topic and it concludes that...
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This study is over 5 years old. No other study seems to have been done, or atleast no other publication seems to exist. It may very well be that nobody has has been able to get good results to publish anything further on this topic. Melatonin could induce lucid dreaming as has been reported in some papers. But again, it has not been established as a fact. |
probably because you only get published if you have original research, not continuations. |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
probably because you only get published if you have original research, not continuations. |
No. Original ideas are always radical and very few. For most part, people publish results that are improvements over other people's work. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
No. Original ideas are always radical and very few. For most part, people publish results that are improvements over other people's work. |
ya, you dont get published for that. at least in psychology.
you only get published if you have an original idea (obviously gathering research from other experiments) or if you disprove a previously published article.
if your results are null, you can get your stuff published in the null periodical, but not not in a regular journal. |
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| Beat Blog |
I've been quite sick with a cold the past few days, and I've been using my usual tactic of taking 6 beroccas (a type of multi-vitamin) a day to get better; I find that they shorten the duration of illness immensely.
One of the vitamins in Berocca is B6.
I hardly ever remember my dreams, usually about one a month.
Last night I had the most vivid and twisted dreams I've ever had in my entire life, I assume because I've been all loaded up on B6?
Usually my dreams involve existing situations and people being twisted a little, but last night a whole fantasy unfolded in my head involving people I’ve never met before, and places I’ve never been, it was bizarre.
Strangest of all was that I remembered the whole thing…
Perhaps it was just a coincidence, or perhaps it was another vitamin in the beroccas, or a combination of other factors, but my dreams last night were extremely vivid and very weird. |
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| Omega_M |
| I've been taking multivitamin pills these days and I seem to recall my dreams, every morning ! I was never able to do that before. I'm suspecting that the B-complex vitamins in the pill are somehow working as a dream enhancer. Weird. |
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| LoveHate |
| no but i had a lucid dream last night. :) |
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