Had a significant dream last night during a bout of insomnia. I think if i had been practicing state checks with any sort of regularity I would have become lucid. The dream was pushing me towards lucidity. Will share the details later. This dream feels important to me and it’s motivating me to put the work in to really take my dream yoga seriously.
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Things are heating up big. 
Took 1 G 8mg last night, and my dream recall was about double. This brand seems to be easier on the stomach than the previous one.
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Here’s the dream. Definitely pre-lucid. For context, I prayed to God to give me another lucid dream. I think God tried their best. 
I’m in a classroom with a teacher and two students, they all are women/ AFAB. I am talking to one of them. Her brown hair is pulled back into a pony tail. I’ve been sharing my dreams with her. She says “If there are certain dreams you don’t want to share with me because you wanted to keep them secret, I understand. I feel my father has sent the dream catcher after me.” As soon as I hear the word “dream catcher” I am consumed by a sudden fear and collapse on the floor right under the door of the classroom. One student sitting at a desk asks what is going on, the teacher asks the students “What did you do?”
I feel I need to get out of the room so I reach up and find the latch and open the door. I then bolt out into the hallway. Looks like a typical hallway of a school. As I am running down the hallway, I think of ways I could use the figure of a dream catcher as a monster in a Call of Cthulhu game. I see a bulletin board apparently floating in mid air off to one side several inches away from the wall. I ask myself “Am I dreaming right now?” I push my fingers into the space between the wall and the bulletin board. My fingers hit what looks like glass or transparent plastic. I turn around and start down the hall. The person I was talking to comes out of the classroom briefly but then goes back in before I can catch up to her.
I then see a little girl- maybe 6 or 7 years old- standing in the middle of the hall. She is wearing a yellow pinafore dress. She looks so incongruous standing there that I approach. I notice she is wearing a hand printed sign over her neck. It’s written in crayon, each letter a different color. It says “AM I DREAMING?” I walk up to her and ask her “What’s the capital of Texas?” She answers “Austin.” I say “Well maybe you would know that.” I try to think of some other question she wouldn’t know, then I wake up.
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I’m afraid about not being able to fall asleep if I do that. I’ve heard many people experience that.
Which brand is it? Not sure if you shared that before.
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Only take it after 3-4 hours of sleep and if you are sure you’re tired enough to fall back asleep.
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Do half of a 4mg pill, or less.
Have heard @MABennett61 recommend placing a pill in a bottle of water, shaking, and only drinking a portion of the mix. That way you can see how sensitive you are to it. Have yet to try this method, thank you for the reminder.
Here it is:
Did not want to list it until I had a week or 2 of test results. Past 2 nights were promising with the dream recall.
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The biggest thing I found is that you have to know your body and that you can get back to sleep. Otherwise, not useful.
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Most experts say that 8mg seems to be the sweet spot for prompting lucidity
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Not sure about that, but it’s pretty safe as an off-brand use for an alzheimer’s medicine.
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Had a LD during a nap this afternoon, with help from Galantamine.
Short and not stable.
Was able to fly.
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See any rocks or stones from up there? (inside joke)
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Nice! My galantamine came today, might try it out tonight.
I decided the first thing I wanna do in an LD is swim with dolphins.
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Good Luck! . . . . . . . 
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LOL, well not exactly. But I did notice something interesting about my family jewels ‘down there’…
WARNING
Do not read the rest of this post unless you are a medical professional or emergency room worker:
(Ok so I was debating on posting this, my intuition told me to, but I decided against it, but then I had a synchronicity with the Elephant dildos pic you posted, and figured it was important to document this experience for the medical literature…)
So before taking the nap around noon, I took 1 8mg Galantamine as well as 2 GABA pills (I had a synchronicity with someone from dream Sangha sharing this supplement for her WBTB).
Then I read the book Natural Radiance, then as I got a little sleepy, watched a meditation video until the sleep gravity started to get heavy. Turned off video.
Closed eyes and did red lotus visualization, along with the seed syllable Mantra.
Then the ‘magic’ started to happen. As sleep was getting close, still awake, my awareness, went from my throat following the blood flow of the body, and I noticed it was beginning to swell down south within my ‘Washington monument’.
There was no arousal stimulus or images, really weird, it was either the supplements, or my body being so relaxed that it began to relax everywhere, or both, or neither 
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Never used this area of the body as a place to ‘anchor’ awareness, but I thought it was a brilliant insight, however unorthodox. Because this is one of the few parts of the body in males and females, where blood flow and muscle activity seems to defy sleep paralysis (the other area being the eyes, which I think you have about a 33% chance of waking up if you focus on them in the wrong way in a dream).
I thought it was a brilliant insight, and then wondered if this is something monks teach, or lucid dream teachers teach in private as a way of becoming lucid in a dream. Probably not.
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@NightHawk999.
I think you are getting into an area of secret tantric sexual teachings, only revealed to higher initiates. Not that I would know,
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Would not shock me if that was the case, I am starting to get used to having my mind blown 
from these practices.
Me either, lol, but definitely an area I am interested in learning more about.
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Hey we’re all meeting up after midnight in lucid dreamland for the Secret Tantric Sex initiatiation. Be there or be square! Why do you think they call this “Night Club”?
But keep in mind that it’s always midnight somewhere on this planet and time is relative.
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LOL
My cheeky counter to that would be why meet with mere mortals when you can meet with enlightened beings, Goddesses, and beyond???:
“I know a bar out in Mars…”
About a year ago a guy in one of Andrews Q&A sessions said he had a vision of Tara, or a Dakini. (The guy has Aphantasia, so the vision was a really big deal). Andrew asked him what happened?
He said:
“She had sex with me.”
And went on to describe it as the most loving compassionate sexual experience he had ever had.
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@NightHawk999 .Well OK then. Tantric Sex Goddess Heaven is a lucid dream experience to aspire to!
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