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Doing Drugs In Your Dreams

im surprised no one else has posted this - but - i have taken psychedelics in dreams multiple times, here is the weird part. i have woken up tripping! ie i went to bed totally sober, took a psychedelic in a dream, woke up and was having vivid OEV's patterning, breathing walls, x-ray vision etc. this was not like a common hypnogogic hallucination (which have with some frequency) the aesthetic of the hallucinations was clearly one of a serotonergic psychedelic! each time it lasted about ten minutes.

this only happened to me during a period in my life where i was smoking DMT every day, i think it caused some kind of odd reverse tolerance.
 
Does anyone know of any subjective reports of that Almorexant thing?

Incidentally, how would you call a class of drugs that promotes dreaming, dream-recall and dream agency (i.e. freedom, "lucid"ity)?

Also, how long does one have to wait until mirtazapine's dream-tolerance wears off? I've found I have to be off it at least a month before it brings the dreaming back. This effect could be improved upon, maybe, via reformulation. During the week or so that mirtazapine is active for me, I'm essentially on a dream binge.

Traumagonics?
 
hamhurricane said:
im surprised no one else has posted this - but - i have taken psychedelics in dreams multiple times, here is the weird part. i have woken up tripping! ie i went to bed totally sober, took a psychedelic in a dream, woke up and was having vivid OEV's patterning, breathing walls, x-ray vision etc. this was not like a common hypnogogic hallucination (which have with some frequency) the aesthetic of the hallucinations was clearly one of a serotonergic psychedelic! each time it lasted about ten minutes.

this only happened to me during a period in my life where i was smoking DMT every day, i think it caused some kind of odd reverse tolerance.
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i've had the exact same thing occur, but I wasn't using psychedelics as regularly as you were. I've also experienced hypnogogic hallucinations, and these were very far removed from those, and as you stated they were very typical, if not indistinguishable from the visual effects from serotonergic psychedelics. There's a link to a thread I started in PD regarding this specifically a couple posts up, check it out or add some info if you like!
 
I've had dreams where I ate mushrooms and was completely tripping face in the dream. Weirdly enough, I've had a few of those dreams and always at a certain point I become lucid and understand the whole thing is a dream.

I tend to think this is simply because while I'm actually shrooming I always wonder and ask myself, "Is this life real?". I think I'm so used to doing this, I'll ask the same question when I'm in my dream and then I discover I'm actually dreaming... trippy shit
 
Ive done coke 3-4 times in my life and dont even enjoy it that much yet i had a dream a month ago, 3 months since the last time i did it that i did coke, and in the dream i felt FKN high on coke, woke up with a nosebleed, a coke downer somehow and a strong desire to buy some coke which i didnt actually listen too but still it was weird. thats y i stay the fuck away from cocaine.
 
Ant0lak said:
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this thread, so mods feel free to move it. Did anyone ever have dreams they were doing drugs and actually felt fucked up in the dreams? I've been going through heroin withdrawals lately and been having some crazy dreams. The weirdest was I was doing some meth and I felt fucked up in the dream... and i previously had dreams where i felt i was rolling and even dream where i was nodding off... felt real. anyone else have this happen to them??
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I always dream of smoking crack??? Oddd
 
hamhurricane said:
im surprised no one else has posted this - but - i have taken psychedelics in dreams multiple times, here is the weird part. i have woken up tripping! ie i went to bed totally sober, took a psychedelic in a dream, woke up and was having vivid OEV's patterning, breathing walls, x-ray vision etc. this was not like a common hypnogogic hallucination (which have with some frequency) the aesthetic of the hallucinations was clearly one of a serotonergic psychedelic! each time it lasted about ten minutes.

this only happened to me during a period in my life where i was smoking DMT every day, i think it caused some kind of odd reverse tolerance.
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I had something similar happen though i think it was sleep paralysis. I woke up and i was hallucinating, I couldn't move my body for like 30 seconds and it felt like my chest was being crushed. The hallucinations stopped once i was able to move again, nevertheless, it was scary shit. It happens on random nights but I noticed mostly when I'm sleeping on a really bad hangover.
 
all my dreams resemble dxm trips for some reason. every dream i have is in a really dissociative distorted perspective whether im doing drugs in it or not, like everyone's faces are flat and their eyes lifeless, like a cats face looks human. and its hard to tell whos who, cause my friends faces are horribly morphed in my dreams, or look different; but still the same person.
and things are really difficult to do in said dreams, like doors will be on vertical hinges on the top of the frame, divided up into hanging pieces attached together, if that makes sense.
like one i had recently i was on my porch after eating about a gram of crystal dxm and saw a jaguar running down the street and shape-shifted into a human and about a dozen people killed him, and there were people that resembled crows in these tall trees screaming/wailing for help an shit.
ever since i tried lsd for the first time my dream recall is really good, melatonin helps too.
 
I have had these dreams a lot. I've dreamed of blazing up some dro, popping shrooms, doing coke, poppin xanax, vicodin, a lot of shit! And I alllllways feel fucked up in my dreams. A lot of times when i wake up I think that I really did take the drugs. It's wild.
 
i've gotten drunk in my dreams and did zolpidem in my dreams, (kinda funny cuz thats a sleep pill) and it kinda worked, not that good though
 
I had a dream in which I was typing this very post in this very thread.

Aside from radioactive substances, are there any drug-induced states that would be impossible to attain without ingesting the drug (assume, if necessary, that one could exert executive control over every aspect of his physiology)?
 
Dreamt that I was riding around town on my bike last night, looking to score while kids were on teh streets partying. I wound up coming away with a nice sack of heads and two OC 40s (for a good price too), but I didn't get time to make it back to my pad & do the drugs before I woke up. I think my dream was telling me to get a job so I can enjoy these things again :o The whole thing was one of the most vivid dreams I've had in my entire life. Shitty
 
are there any drug-induced states that would be impossible to attain without ingesting the drug (assume, if necessary, that one could exert executive control over every aspect of his physiology)?
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I don't think that these dreamed states physiologically mimic drugs taken while awake. Pretty much no one 'crashes' upon waking. Perhaps we instead have some activation of some 'second-order' neural circuits (informational flows driven by neuro-electro chemistry) and alternate neural circuits that mimic/emulate drugs' effects.
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Could someone please post something 'advanced' to this thread? ;) I lack qualification. . .

ebola
 
i have had many dreams where i used drugs and at times felt high in the dream. i was smoking weed in a majority of the dreams. these dreams were more common and more intense when i was a month or two into rehab.
 
ebola? said:
I don't think that these dreamed states physiologically mimic drugs taken while awake. Pretty much no one 'crashes' upon waking. Perhaps we instead have some activation of some 'second-order' neural circuits (informational flows driven by neuro-electro chemistry) and alternate neural circuits that mimic/emulate drugs' effects.
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I'll oppose this just for the hell of it: I'm not entirely convinced of the validity of what I'm about to say:

The very occurrence of intensely euphoric, beatific, phantasmagoric or dissociative feeling-states in dreams suggests that a high has taken place.

These are not just memories of highs: they are precise replicas.

Experiencing a high in a dream means one of two things has taken place:

(1) the sleeping body has replicated the set of neurochemical processes that a drug has previously catalyzed.

(2) the mind has created a delusion so thorough and elaborate that the memory of the experience is a high-fidelity surrogate of the experience.

If the first is the case, then one can get a certain drug's high without ingesting the drug.

If the second is the case, then the brain is capable of creating a fully-credible subjective experience without utilizing the conventional neuronal hardware.
 
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