15 Foods That Enhance Your Dreams

Rebecca Turner | World-of-Lucid-Dreaming.com

Some foods naturally enhance your dreams thanks to their nutrient content. Specifically, we’re looking at foods that are rich in vitamin B6 and tryptophan – as both are linked with greater dream recall and intensity.

Although this is not a magic bullet for lucid dreaming (no food or supplement is) you can use this to boost your dream recall and dream vividness. In doing so, this increases your chances of lucidity when paired with some basic techniques like dream journaling and reality checks.

Dream-Boosting Foods and Supplements

Before we look at specific dream-enhancing foods, let’s examine how and why these ingredients affect dream intensity and what levels are safe to ingest, both in terms of food consumption and as a daily supplement. Consider this a two-pronged approach:
below I’ll explain why you’ll want to take a B6 supplement and eat tryptophan-rich foods in combination in order to stimulate your dream life.

Step #1 – Take a Vitamin B6 Supplement

In 2002, a double-blind study revealed that participants who took a daily 250mg B6 supplement reported a significant increase in dream content – as measured in dream vividness, bizarreness, emotionality and color.

This is actually greater than the recommended maximum daily intake for healthy adults, which is 100mg. In fact, you only need about 1.3mg of vitamin B6 each day, and you usually get that from the foods you eat.

So 100mg a day is a fair whack of a dose, especially if you take it on a prolonged basis. In the study above, participants took the 250mg dose for just 3 days. So this is not a long term experiment and should be maintained at your own discretion.

How much is too much? Doses of 500-1,000mg, taken daily for several months, can lead to sensory neuropathy (pain and numbness of the extremities).

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2012-09-29 07:03:17

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