Lucid Dreams happen when the dreamer realizes she/he is dreaming, thus opening doors to playful experimentation and profound self-discovery...
"...we find ourselves in a playground as rich and colorful as our imagination allows"
Something interesting about dreams in general, but specially true in lucid dreams, is that everything looks, feels and smells real, and sometimes even more "real than real", and this is because dreams stimulate the same brain zones than our awakened perception experiences, this means that if we dream we are kissing someone, the same neurological networks are triggered as if we would actually be in the heat of a kiss.
"Taking the time and effort to become aware and lucid in one's dreams, and taking advantage of the various dream-technologies available is worth every second and every penny, as having the ability to work with dreams (instead of trying to control them) gives us health, emotional understanding, and tons of fun and excitement."
There's a wide range of options that have helped people become lucid, below I'll list the most effective and enjoyable (or at least the less uncomfortable i.e. difficult to swallow):
PLANTS
Many plants have aided human sleep and dreams throughout history, but there are a couple plants that deserve special attention for their amazing power to provoke lucid or at the least, extremely colorful and detailed dreams.
These are plants that are known to have effects only during sleep:
-CALEA ZACATECHICHI
This is a common plant from Mexico, where they smoke a joint of the dried leaves while drinking a tea made from more leaves before going to sleep.
They ask for guidance in dreams and have lucid dreams that help them in times of difficulty or uncertainty.
Smoking the joint is neither good nor bad, as long as you get used to the harsh smoke, but the tea is terribly bitter and difficult to gulp down... I've had a fair amount of semi-lucid dreams with it and, despite my special fondness for entheogens from Mexico, I would say that the next plant is a much more effective and simple way to pursue your lucid-dreaming objectives.
- XHOSA DREAM HERB
This is a tiny, white root from Xhosa, Africa.
Shamans mix a little piece of chopped root with cold water with a wooden spoon until (allegedly) it starts to foam, then he takes some of the foam until he feels his stomach swollen, and then he goes to sleep into a lucid-dream.
I haven't been able to cause the water to foam, but I drink a tea made with just one or two little pieces of root in the morning, before breakfast, and I chew and eat a little piece of root (about 1/2 inch) before going to bed with GREAT success.
The minimum active dose is as little as 250mg, and not much more than that is needed, but something to have in mind is that the active principle from Xhosa Root accumulates in the body as days go by. Several succesful experiences mention that they had their first truly amazing dream 3 or 4 days after starting taking the dream herb tea.
-SALVIA DIVINORUM
 For some people Salvia Divinorum helps them become lucid, for others, the Salvia Divinorum effects make them feel they are on a lucid dreaming state of mind (while awake).
What I like to do is to get ready for bed and load my pipe with a little 10x extract, lay down and let all the thoughts of the day drift away, expelling the smoke as slowly as I can. Then I let Salvia Divinorum work her wonders on me as my body shuts down to sleep.
I find that if I concentrate (and if I don't have a breakthrough realization or insight that excites me and makes it impossible to go to sleep) I'll start having the most bizarre, beautiful, vivid "dreams" somewhere between sleep and awake.
I don't really feel asleep, I'm still conscious that I'm lying in my bed, but I guess my brainwaves reach a dream-like frequency because the visions/dreams I experience are as "real-feeling" as any vivid dream.
As Sadi's effects only last for a short period of time, I haven't been able to use Salvia as a Lucid-Dreaming-aid (the period of sleep when its most probable to become lucid are the last hours of sleep, after sleeping about 7 or 8 hours)
-COLEUS
This is a beautiful plant grown for its brilliant foliage and is found in a wide variety of colors, including intense pink, red, green and black, to yellow, purple, blue and violet.
For the the Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Coleus is closely related to Salvia Divinorum and it is supposed to have psychoactive properties, though no active chemical has been found in Coleus. For more information on Coleus click here.
By ingesting several leaves of Coleus and smoking Salvia before going to sleep, you increase your probabilities of having a lucid dream (if you have a real desire to have one) or at the least, you'll experience a whole different level of dreaming... more vivid, more intense and more realistic
-KRATOM
Finally, I'd like to mention Kratom, the South-Asian magical stimulant/sedative. By making a tea out of the leaves (or adding some powdered leaves to your favorite juice... there are several presentations and kinds of Kratom) you'll get a feeling of well-being, eager to work, talk and be active, but what's interesting is that as you increase the dose, you'll feel increasingly sedated, until all you'll want to do is lay down and close your eyes...
Although you won't fall asleep during a Kratom experience, you'll enter a half asleep / half awake state enjoying the most vivid, soothing, exciting dream-like visions that come before your closed eyelids... just focus on remembering as much as you can when you open your eyes, as the memories fade out rather quickly. Kratom is definitely the most satisfactory entheogen to provoke vivid closed eyes imagery while being semi-awake; if you are interested in Lucid Dreaming, you must experience this too, go
here to check out all the varieties and prices... I highly recommend the Super Indo Kratom for this, as it is the most potent.
UPDATE: Maeng Da Kratom!! ! This one was introduced to the Americas fairly recently... it is a genetically altered kind of Kratom that woah, blew my mind away the first time I tried it. I think it is the most expensive one, but it is worth every extra penny, it is amazing.
So far, I'd say that these dear plants have helped me turn into an avid dreamer... This comes from a person that couldn't remember any of his dreams 90% of the times and now is experiencing dreams with an awareness and clarity never even imagined!
Learning how to lucid dream is very possible for most of us, as soon as we are willing to be in a state of "peaceful awareness" in our waking and sleeping life, lucid dreams are bound to happen.
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