Galantamine, or in its organic form, red spider lily, is used to treat Alzheimer’s and other memory impairments. An alkaloid, Galantamine is believed to increase the concentration of acetylcholine—a neurotransmitter that plays a very active role in dreaming—in the brain. Galantamine is also used to promote lucid or vivid dreaming. Because it’s short acting, you should plan on taking your Galantamine five hours after you go to sleep,...

Calea Zacatechichi is an herb used by the Chontal natives indigenous to the Mexican state of Oaxaca for the purposes of oneiromancy, a form of divination based on dreams. In some Mesoamerican cultures, people believe that dreams happen in realms beyond those we consciously perceive and that the contents of dreams can convey meaningful messages or prophecy. The herb also induces lucid dreaming. Calea can be brewed into a very, very bitter tea by...

Earlier in the night, I had several unsurprising dreams. One had a pleasant erotic component, and then I had a typical Oneironauticum meta-dream in which everyone else at the event had awaken and started bustling around their day while I still laid asleep in the kitchen. In another I lugged around piles of books, immersed in a research project studying Frances Yates. Later in the night, however, I became aware of the music though I remained and...

My dream was epic, and happened simultaneously in three different segments, each with different versions of people trying to acquire her dream. In the first segment, a group of people were playing a football like game with the dream, throwing it around and trying to catch it, trying to get it from each other. In the second, people were on a Family Feud type game show trying to win the dream. They all stood at a podium that looked like...

I had a very unusual dream; generally, my dreams are very visually vivid and detailed, but this dream was primarily auditory. I stood by a grill filled with hot coals and wood. I could hear the hissing and popping of the wood and coal, and the distinct sounds of very hot metal. I was selecting pieces of meat for the grill. I went to check to see if it was ready, and heard the hot, sizzling sound that told me it was.

I had a flurry of dreams. The key thing was light. I was enveloped by white light, there were lots of snippets of dreams, all with light. One was in tall grass. In another, I looked down and my hands became paws. At one point in the night, the music woke me up and I went to the bathroom and came back and fell asleep again. I was with the two cats who live in the space where we were sleeping. We all got onto a cosmic train and I became...