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Not sure if it's bad etiquette to reply on a thread that's been inactive for so long. If so, my apologies. I recently became interested in this topic so I decided to look for previous threads. I have a suggestion based on advice I recently received from a friend. He recommended I try melatonin supplements to experience lucid dreams. The website WebMD lists one of the "side effects" as vivid dreams. Melatonin taken in small doses actually seems to be quite beneficial to health. I don't have first hand experience... yet. I plan to give this a try very soon.

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/tc/melatonin-overview

Also, something on a related note. The thing that sparked my interest in the first place was running across videos from Stephen Berlin. Has anyone else watched these or know anything about him? I was very impressed. He seems knowledgeable and doesn't push a particular interpretation.

http://stephenberlin.com/blog/

Last point, I recently watched an episode of Nova which covered dream research. Particularly interesting to me was how stages of sleep produce different dream experiences. Notably, REM sleep is the only stage in which the amygdala becomes active. This causes characteristics of the dreams to change quite dramatically. I can't seem to find a streaming version of this episode, but here is the website on that episode.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dreams/

<blockquote data-quote="fencejumper" data-source="post: 36017" data-attributes="member: 1223">HelloNot sure if it&#039;s bad etiquette to reply on a thread that&#039;s been inactive for so long.&nbsp; If so, my apologies.&nbsp; I recently became interested in this topic so I decided to look for previous threads.&nbsp; I have a suggestion based on advice I recently received from a friend.&nbsp; He recommended I try melatonin supplements to experience lucid dreams.&nbsp; The website WebMD lists one of the &quot;side effects&quot; as vivid dreams.&nbsp; Melatonin taken in small doses actually seems to be quite beneficial to health.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have first hand experience... yet.&nbsp; I plan to give this a try very soon.<a href="http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/tc/melatonin-overview" target="_blank">http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/tc/melatonin-overview</a>Also, something on a related note.&nbsp; The thing that sparked my interest in the first place was running across videos from Stephen Berlin.&nbsp; Has anyone else watched these or know anything about him?&nbsp; I was very impressed.&nbsp; He seems knowledgeable and doesn&#039;t push a particular interpretation.<a href="http://stephenberlin.com/blog/" target="_blank">http://stephenberlin.com/blog/</a>Last point, I recently watched an episode of Nova which covered dream research.&nbsp; Particularly interesting to me was how stages of sleep produce different dream experiences.&nbsp; Notably, REM sleep is the only stage in which the amygdala becomes active.&nbsp; This causes characteristics of the dreams to change quite dramatically.&nbsp; I can&#039;t seem to find a streaming version of this episode, but here is the website on that episode.<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dreams/" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dreams/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="fencejumper, post: 36017, member: 1223"] Hello Not sure if it's bad etiquette to reply on a thread that's been inactive for so long. If so, my apologies. I recently became interested in this topic so I decided to look for previous threads. I have a suggestion based on advice I recently received from a friend. He recommended I try melatonin supplements to experience lucid dreams. The website WebMD lists one of the "side effects" as vivid dreams. Melatonin taken in small doses actually seems to be quite beneficial to health. I don't have first hand experience... yet. I plan to give this a try very soon. [URL]http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/tc/melatonin-overview[/URL] Also, something on a related note. The thing that sparked my interest in the first place was running across videos from Stephen Berlin. Has anyone else watched these or know anything about him? I was very impressed. He seems knowledgeable and doesn't push a particular interpretation. [URL]http://stephenberlin.com/blog/[/URL] Last point, I recently watched an episode of Nova which covered dream research. Particularly interesting to me was how stages of sleep produce different dream experiences. Notably, REM sleep is the only stage in which the amygdala becomes active. This causes characteristics of the dreams to change quite dramatically. I can't seem to find a streaming version of this episode, but here is the website on that episode. [URL]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dreams/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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