alright welcome back guys in this video I'm talking about 5-htp for lucid dreaming how
can you use 5-htp to lucid dream more regularly more effectively and how you can basically use
this incredible dream supplement because it really is quite an incredible supplement to
boost your lucid dreams lucid dream more often more regularly and have more vivid dreams so
before we start this full disclaimer this is not medical advice you should do your own research and
of course if you're taking something already if you're already taking a lucid dreaming supplement
or pill then you should make sure that it's not going to interact with that badly this is more
of a warning for other supplements but it applies for 5htp as well so firstly what is 5htp and how
does it work so the outlaw name 5htp stands for 5-hydroxytryptophan which is a lucid dreaming
aid and a booster now 5htp is actually something our body's already produced naturally but when you
supplement it when you take more of it and well you're just gonna give yourself more lucid dreams
and a better chance of lucid dreaming as well because this is all about stacking the odds in
your favor you know you want to make it as likely as possible that you're gonna lucid dream and yes
we naturally produce 5-htp but if you can just boost your levels a little bit just like a seagull
coping right if you can just boost your levels of acetylcholine just that little bit it's gonna be
much more likely that you will actually lucid dream so in terms of what actually does 5-htp
tends to increase tryptophan levels in the brain and also it releases or helps to release serotonin
now serotonin is known to make you feel good it's in the same kind of category as other things like
dopamine oxytocin endorphins that sort of thing okay it's a feel-good hormone or substance so the
more serotonin you have usually the happier you feel throughout the day now serotonin is always
balanced out with melatonin melatonin is like the sleep hormone or the hormone that makes you feel
tired at night and serotonin is the opposite of that so Tara tonin is going to make you feel alert
awake and what happens is naturally in the body when the Sun rises we actually start producing
serotonin in our bodies naturally and then when the Sun sets in the evening we stop producing
serotonin and start producing melatonin so that we ultimately should feel tired in the evening this
is how it's supposed to work okay now obviously nothing is perfect and so in today's world what
happens is that we stimulate ourselves too much with blue official light and I've spoken about
this in many other videos but things like you know looking at your phone just until you go
to sleep at night watching TV or scary films or playing video games and all of that stuff
that you do or that we do as a society today is gonna basically stop your body producing enough
melatonin and you're gonna be producing too much serotonin so you'll feel good and it'll feel fun
and happy and everything but the result of that is that you just won't sleep as well so 5htp produces
serotonin however serotonin can and does give you more lucid dreams if you use it in the right way
now in terms of how to actually use 5-htp to lucid dream well it's really not that difficult at all
it's quite simple actually so what you need to do just bear in mind firstly that if you take 5htp
your dreams will be more vivid but importantly and this is what really excited me about 5htp
in the first place you know I just finished watching inception and I started googling like
what is the best lucid dreaming supplement or is there a lucid dreaming pill and I wanted to find
something that would give me a lucid dream now I learned obviously that is impossible you can't
just take a pill or a supplement and expect that to make you lucid it's a much more complicated
than that you need to actually learn techniques and build up self awareness habits and as I'm
sure you've heard me say before however 5-htp has an interesting effect it increases your REM sleep
length so you have longer REM sleep now this is something that usually before I had heard about
5-htp this was something that only alcohol or REM REBOUND could do and so I've mentioned before if
you drink alcohol and then go to sleep if you time it right and if you have kind of the right
amount of alcohol in your system you can actually experience what is called a REM rebound which is
where the first few sleep cycles of your night you don't have REM sleep it's suppressed but
then in the later sleep stages and cycles you have more REM sleep to make up for the one that
you lost earlier so and I wouldn't advise you to go and start drinking of course that's not what
I'm saying what I'm saying is 5htp is a better way of getting longer REM sleep without having
to you know drink essentially without having to do anything that could harm you and there are
very small side effects there's very limited side effect to 5-htp which is one of the benefits of
this as a lucid dreaming pill or a lucid dreaming supplement you don't want to have side effect if
possible you want to have a relaxed reliable and comfortable experience you don't want to
have these crazy side effects if you can't help it when you're lucid dreaming now another side effect
of 5htp is that you will experience more vivid and in many cases more bizarre or weird dreams now I
have spoken about this before if you have really weird dreams and if your dreams are strange or
unusual or yeah in other ways creepy or different they are kind of more likely to be lucid just
because they're different just because they're scary or bizarre or strange so it is actually a
good lucid dreaming pill or supplement just for that reason but when you combine it all together
very few side effects effective doesn't build up a tolerance increases your REM sleep makes
dreams more vivid and increases that likelihood of you being lucid because they're more bizarre
you kind of have a winning formula here and this is why I'm quite excited about 5htp as
well as a few other things like galanthamine you know huperzine a and choline in general okay now
one warning I want to give you well two warnings really about 5-htp the first one is that if you
take too much like with anything I suppose you can feel a bit nauseous and sick and not good
so you really need to start at the low end of the dosage don't just go in and just go crazy
and start taking you know incredible amounts of 5-htp you need to start at the low end just to
check your tolerance and make sure that it's not going to affect you in a negative way the second
thing and this is my main point with any lucid dreaming supplement video I make you cannot rely
on a lucid dreaming supplement to make you lose it you need to learn the techniques and actually
build up self-awareness there is no lota dreaming pill that is going to induce a lucid dream every
time or even regularly ok the best we can say for any lucid dreaming supplement is that it increases
the likelihood that you could become lucid and this is what's called lucid dream support which
is where it will either increase the likelihood you'll become lucid or it will do something where
it will boost another area of your lucid dreaming life let's say it will increase your memory or
you'll be able to have more vivid dreams or maybe you'll be able to sleep better okay so you could
say melatonin is a sleep supplement for lucid dreaming because melatonin helps you sleep in
a more profound and deep way you're going to be sedated and you're gonna have deep asleep if you
take melatonin so you could say that is a dream supplement because it indirectly affects your
lucid dreams so really there are many different types of lucid dreaming supplement and pills that
you could try however like I said at the very beginning do your own research ok this is not
medical advice and I'd love to hear what your experiences are with any lucid dreaming pill
out there so leave a comment down below and I'll see you next time thanks for watching
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