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Hypnagogia is really hard for me. I can have hallucinations to the point where it's comparable to the hallucinations I get from sleep paralysis, but it would always scare me and I never relaxed enough to have a lucid dream.
The only ingredients I use are failing at LDing, having pretty good dream recall, and probably having some form of sleep apenia. My most vivid dreams occur when I fall back asleep after getting 8 hours
I’ve had only minimal success with Melatonin and Thujone, when I went to psych I would save up the nicotine patches they’d give me and have some intense dreams but there’s literally nothing to do in those places but try to force 24/7
6:27 PM
There are far better cholinergics and in fact most are actually quite good for brain health, the nicotine was a product of circumstance. I’ve heard great things about Galamantine
I know a person who has been attempting for years and is an absolute expert on lucid dreaming, yet has never had a lucid dream that lasted for more than a a minute or so
Tbh we’re pretty weak as it comes to technique across the board. I’m lazy. Don’t do my reading and don’t stay committed to a given ritual. We suffer from a lot of brain fog, and struggle maintaining lucidity when dreams do become vivid.
well if you know the working of the mind one can easily tailor a technique that works the fastest for the individual ,
the most natural and accidental way to get lucid is just do a very physicaly demanding exercise and tire out the body , then when you fall asleep your body would shut down before the mind , thus natural way to get lucid and most foolproof .
I could never commit to a dream journal because I never had enough time to write down what happened or it would be too dark to write down what happened. By the time I found my phone or a light source, I would have forgotten most of the dream.
The last psych ward they had me in let me keep my phone and headphones but I didn’t have any friends at the time
6:32 PM
So I spent a month experimenting with binaural beats, isochronic tones, bilateral harmonics, Solfeggio Tones, combinations, etc. and just meditating/forcing/attempting to lucid dream
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IME Solfeggios were actually the most stimulating of them, which surprised me
6:35 PM
Shepard Tones were sorta fun for inducing trance states ngl
brainwave entrainment is good but this will lead to external dependence over time , and thus over time this becomes a crutch so ......just try to think out the reasons for not getting lucid
study whats the dreaming is all about and thats the way , i have also experimented with binural beats and this is a advise , if you have to then its better to emulate the binural sound frequency in your mind its much more rewarding...
I mean, usually only one of the above mentioned with a single Solfeggio layer and some white noise whatever but yeah
6:37 PM
I’ve actually been getting more into hypnosis just recently
6:37 PM
I believe the aforementioned Benadryl could have tremendous use in the induction of hypnotic states as such
6:38 PM
I meant to get into Hypno back in HS when I took my first run at psychonautics and metaphysics, idk why it never struck me then. I was a hardcore atheist but I still picked up on concepts like tulpamancy as a psychological phenomenon and even read a bit into chaos magick cos I was just that brootal
well my philosophy is any drugs that i will ever need should be manufactured inside my own body , to reduce the side-effects to a negligible amounts as far as possible
Lol it’s just a neat one because they don’t fall into the category of drugs in any way but people look at them weird when they see a capsule or white powder
6:50 PM
When in reality they’re as innocent as and perhaps healthier than your Multivitamin
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In terms of brain health anyway
6:51 PM
I’ve been interested in trying to microdose psychedelics too, as a mammal your brain produces trace amounts of DMT lol
If you run really hard you’ll pump opioids through your body and if you get scared or masturbate you’ll prolly produce a fair amount of adrenaline or dopamine
Endogenous chems are like my favorite to look at. I mean pretty drugs act by modulating existent systems in the body so you get to see what happens when certain chemicals in the body are deprived from or are sent too quickly to given receptors
6:54 PM
Is there a better channel for this or? I got sorta off-topic and I’m not talking about anything illegal or even harmful come to think but idk if chems are meta lol(edited)
If you understand neurology a bit then if you are learning or enjoying a task then you are awarded dopamine , and those nreves are reinforced by accepting these and open up more receptors now this means you can infinitely refine the said neural network , but....
here is the catch there just isn't enough award molecul to go around for all the receptors , so the neural link thinks its not getting properly rewarded so , it just starts to fall back and reduces its networks to try to find other solutions ......so yeah sometimes this is a a bad thing as people tend to get demotivated even when they might be doing something good , but there is a silver lining , this ....uh scarcity forces us to find even better and more ingenious ways... to do stuff ! Hence I took up tulpamancy
(i got sidetracked.....)(edited)
The broad field of psychonautics can provide some very stimulating avenues to pursue and opportunities for activation in just about any given circumstance on the subject of tulpamancy. I’ll often be sitting in public and decide to fuck on off outta meatspace or try practicing imposition more cause I’m bored
7:06 PM
I find that even though we haven’t exactly nailed vocality or even in-depth visualization in mindspace for that matter (like I said I’m weak and lazy) it helps to have their position anchored to a given point in meatspace so I can interpret the relative direction their thoughts are coming from
7:07 PM
At least imposing spiders/tentacles/shadow creeps comes fairly naturally to a schizoid like me. And they have a tendency to be sorta loud
yeah same i also do the same when free bored or just plain don't wanna do some task but is still forced to finish it nonetheless , so interactions with my tulpa keeps life interesting for me
Hmm a remember reading a novel , where the character ask the hero where is your sword , he say its in my heart
and then the Hero asks the character the same thing , he replies that swords mine....
7:12 PM
jokes aside... If you think since they are a part of you you don't need to try that hard
Katie (top/left wrist) and Axyl (bottom/right wrist)
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They often orient themselves to those directions from me as well and so I find myself talking over my respective shoulders to them unless I’m trying to impose in meatspace
7:18 PM
In mindspace I make deliberate effort not to see them on myself as an exercise in grounding, as my tulpas wear them on their respective wrists
I wanted to get back into researching things like existential philosophy, ontology, and theological myth during my time there but couldn’t find the motivation