Note: I know this website is called "Botanical Guides" and that this article may seem off-topic, but really it's incredibly related to ethnobotany because many of these plants are used to help induce vivid, and insightful lucid dreams by various cultures. For more information on oneirogenic plants see my Oneirogen page here. I will be adding more items to this page in time, and if you browse the website you'll learn about other plants that are also used as oneirogens. I've also made a habit of sharing DIY Dream Herb Blend Recipes with you all!
If you don't recall your dreams every morning, then that's the first thing you need to work on. If you do this, and don't remember it in the morning, there will be no point to the practice. See my article titled "Dream Blend Ideas For Enhancing Memory, Sleep and Dreams" to learn more. Train yourself to be still in the morning, and ask yourself what the last thing you were doing was. Don't give up until you remember something from your dreams. Every morning, you'll slowly become better and better at this. Write your dreams down in a journal every morning.
Utilize Your Imagination
Grab a piece of paper and prepare to train your mind to take you on an incredible journey beyond your wildest imagination. Just understand your brain soaks up what its exposed to in terms of information and sensory input. You can use this to "incubate" stuff into your sleep. In this process you can utilize colors and their psychological properties, communicate to your unconscious and subconscious mind. Add effort to the mix in order to bring on successful incubation. You can use this to not only become lucid, but to potentially influence where you go in your dreams. Remember there are no limits because this is all based on your imagination and how good you are with lucidity. Your dreams can and will take you anywhere you'd like to go but you can't force them I don't think. There is a concept of incubation though in the oneironaut community, and it's worth a shot. I've noticed some results with this ideaology.
Write at the top of the paper "dream incubation" and the date. Write a brief summary of what you did today on the paper. Try to summarize your morning upon waking, and your evening. You want your mind to be aware of the timeline of the day you had, so that it can be more prone to recalling that you just went to sleep. This will help enable you to become lucid more easily. From here, you have to use your imagination and your desires to do the rest. Write out what you'd like to dream about in a list form. Then, draw some picture of things that remind you of what it is that you want to experience in your lucid adventures.
These are ideas that I've come up with, and some professionals out there have their own. You can view some great resources at the bottom of this page. I've dabbled with stuff like Calea zachtechichi and I believe they are beneficial every once and a while. I don't think they should be used every single day though. Anyway you can write things down on paper that you'd like to maybe question or get to the bottom of in a dream and then study some psychology and dream interpretation in the waking life to try to figure it out. It's a lot less pseudo-scientific than some believe, as there are a number of very important minds in the psychology commity who were very much interested in dream symbology.
You can also choose an object like anything from a pencil, to a certain notebook! ( like your dream journal ) and have it represent the idea of "being asleep, and in a dream". I did this once with my pillow. I'd be walking around in a dream and have my pillow under my arms, and I would realize, wait a second... I woulnd't be walking down the side of a highway with a pillow unless.. I AM DREAMING! So you can come up with all sorts of cool reminders and little subconscious programs to infleuence and trigger lucidity during your nightly dreams. Please be original and creative about it as that what dreams are all about in the first place, At least to a major extent.
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