Dreams at night

[Voxide]

Is anybody aware of drugs that enhance the vividness/occurance of dreams? Not even while being under the influence, but as a typical side effect. Certain things like dream herb and melatonin cause this, but what else?

 

[KingBlueTwista]

Galantamine is easily the best dream enhancer I've tried. It works fantastically on its own, but works synergistically with other dream enhancers too. This is what I take nightly;
3mg melatonin
4mg galantamine
500mg Lion's mane
250mg magnesium
800mg piracetam

All of these serve to produce the effects you seek. On this combo I remember dreams almost as if they were reality and the detail in the dreamworld is increased by magnitudes. They also seem more imaginative, as in before I started taking these my dreams mainly took place in either places I knew well or relatively bleak landscapes, now when I sleep I inhabit structures of awe-inspiringly magnificent complexity. It's quite fucking ridiculous. Hope this helps

 

[ogskeeter]

trazodone is the only thing that makes me dream

 

[mgrady3]

various anti-depressant / atypical anti-psychotics can give you weird dreams:

Trazadone as mentioned above,
Mirtazipine is a very strange one [ some people report enhanced dreaming when mixed with marijuana; I never found this to be the case but can see how it would be possible, mirtazipine has some strange mechanisms of action not just sedation]

then there's Melatonin, not an antidepressant but a natural supplement to help reset your circadian rhythm. It can give you really vivid dreams. I haven't taken it in a long time but for 2 years I took it on and off, I would stop taking it when the dreams were getting bizarre (also when my insomnia was worst). The dreams weren't bizarre like supernatural, they would just be about everyday ordinary things. But then I'd wake up and not be able to remember if the conversation I had with a roommate was a dream or something that actually happened

 

[jamesmartin]

Vitamin b6 !!!

 

[sekio]

Calea if you can stomach the awful taste and actually get calea z. and not something else.

 

[mgrady3]

I believe vitamin b6 is often sold in combination with melatonin

 

[mgrady3]

also, you'd want to avoid things like alcohol and strong sedatives with a few exceptions like mirtazipine

these generally decrease the time you spend in REM sleep

 

[KingBlueTwista]

I really don't think that taking anti-depressants to achieve vivider dreams is a good idea. There are much more effective chemicals out there that achieve this, not to mention that ADs give pretty unpleasant side-effects.

 

[Lord]

I think dream herb is Calea Z.
Diphenhydramine (benadryl) used to give me crazy dreams (even 2 months after a single trip!), like my 'character' was on a delirium trip in the dream. But for a one-night thing 2-4 benadryl should be enough.

 

[BIGsherm7272]

Pretty much any SSRI imo can cause very vivid dreams (or any other anti-depressant for that matter).....I have been off them for a while and I still have crazy, vivid dreams. I use to never dream that much before taking any psychotropic medications.

 

[Bardeaux]

Opiates (specificly morphine) produce really vivid and intense dreams ime.