Updates for 2025 - New Insights and Discoveries

 2025 has been another year of learning. So much growth this year. I have made some very profound discoveries. 

In brief, the human form is like an electrical vessel with a field, a very energetic field all around it that can be manipulated. The field can be working optimally or with chaotic output input. 

Your work is to repair and rebuild this field.

This year that is what I have been doing. Food, supplements self care are essential. It is more than just what you put in your body. I can't condense all this information in this one post.

I'll give an example of what I learned. We attract and repel people (other energies) based on the state of our field. 

I have looked more in depth into neurotransmitters, have learned so much I can read people after getting to know them a little. Traits, habits everything helps with the analysis. 

Often times we may attract characters that seem to be in conflict with our field - undesirable, bad unwanted players in this game of life. Sometimes these characters are undesirable  but somehow we invite them through our field. Just the meeting of one person can have a ripple effect. 

I had met one such person, following their traits, habits etc. Now she wasn't bad or undesirable, in fact we got along quite well but there some things that felt like I can do without. 

She was a chronic smoker, a sharp intelligent woman whom I shared apartment with. Now this was a temporary arrangement but at some point the idea came to my mind and I am not sure how but I determined that if I could match the levels of the neurotransmitter she was stimulating it would,  by my theory I had cooked up, repel her. So I experimented, lo and behold she had to leave after this and could not remain in the apartment. 

I continued these experiments and still to this day carry on learning and growing. 

When a person comes into your space whether desirable or not its because you bring some element to the field based on where you are and the growth you must do. They say like attracts like but actually two opposing forces attract just like a magnet. 

In my situation I increased Acetylcholine levels to either match or surpass the levels of the woman in my space. The effect was instant. Now I don't go around matching my levels to that of those around me but I certainly do use it as a cue. I follow a map as a guide, when to increase which biochemistry in my body. And it's not just neurotransmitters, I also manipulate levels of hormones and other chemicals and processes in the body.

The biological system of the human form is essential to any spiritual development. By manipulating this bodily system effectively we can awaken all our special abilities that right now remain dormant. 

Working to renew rebuild the field also helps attract positive experiences. 

It has been an interesting year of experiments and I have so much to share. 

Time Travel

 From dream journal:

3rd July 2024
TIME TRAVEL OBE DREAMS
What if I told you we could travel through time?

I can't be sure how it started. But here's what I recall. It was probably 5:40am before I fell asleep after tossing and turning. My mind was occupied with how I was going to make banana chocolate coconut chip cakes. I have to utilize ingredients and have to use the kitchen within a certain time. I leaned sideways on my right side but felt uncomfortable.

I'm going out of body and this may have happened a few times. Suddenly I am somewhere with family. I see my eldest sister and wonder where my nephew is. When I spot him I realise he's the younger version. It took some time before I realised I might be dreaming. I became very lucid but the scene changed rapidly that I can't recall the transition between scenes.

In one OBE like event I was in a random bed and noticed another bed opposite which made me think I might still be dreaming. Lots of things must have happened in between but the following is the most significant.

Dining room scene: J lemonade soaked cashews which seems to annoy me. I think maybe I should smash it onto the ground and say it accidentally fell off. Then tamed my anger and simply moved. I look across near the door in the hallway (reality home) a woman stretching a shawl. I wonder if it's mum. I quickly follow her as she walks away but she is very short tiny like a child. I look at her but can't recognize the face. I go in kitchen walking past people I can't seem to recognize. I go out to the garden and memory of scene trails off here.

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I am outside sitting under a canopy tent with seat and table amongst strangers. We're having a lively discussion. I mention how it's hard to stay healthy with all the pesticides in food etc (very much a topic I discuss in reality). The others are saying things that I can't vividly recall atm. I then start talking about cancer and I realise that nobody is listening with a woman to my left and man in front of me. Both perhaps in their 50s or 60s. I ask them suddenly "What if I told you we could travel through time?" And then it hits me, suddenly as if I realized in that moment who I was (you know the 'me' that is writing this entry at this very moment) and knowing that I realized what I am doing there and how I got there. OMG. Quick think, where am I? I look around asking "Where is this? What is this place?" No, wrong question! "When is this place?"
Suffice to say the people around me by now thought I was a nutter lol
I ask a woman to my right who is standing "What year is it?" She mumbles something unintelligible, now thinking back I don't know if she was just taking the piss. I look at the man sitting in front of me asking rather urgently the same question and he very clearly replies "It's 2023" moving his mouth very slowly as if I was stupid. And with that I open my eyes transitioning back to reality or should I say 2024.

Woke up around 5:50am

Wow wow wow

This is my first proper time travel or at least the first I'm able to recall

I should note down here that last night I rapidly fell asleep and was in such a deep sleeping state but had my phone on loud that when I got two calls at two different times disturbing my sleep I was so groggy that I slipped back to sleep unable to stay awake. It was after 3am I woke up after about 7 hours with failed attempt to sleep some more but then around 5am tried to just relax. I have been experimenting with one of my formulas again. I had castor oil on my eyelids. I'm trying to think what exactly helped enter this state to repeat it

Hello 2024 - biohacks, astro knowledge, third eye opening and more

So I started this New Year with a bit of a bump on the road. There was an incident. A virus escaped. A lot of people died. The trouble was, they didn't stay dead. Okay just kidding guys lol. The flu wasn't that bad but almost did wipe me out. Doing a lot better now, trying to be good and kind to my body, eating as healthy as I can.

I put my biohacks on pause from winter period simply because just wanted to have a break from pill popping and tried my utmost best on incorporating more healing foods. 

This year my intention is to adapt to a diet that is about 90% healthy as right now it's in the range of 60-70%. I think the focus should not be simply on foods but how a person eats too. Taking into consideration times to eat, what to eat and how to eat. Example chop food up and chew until it turns into a smoothie in your mouth. 

I think there should also be an emphasis on various healing practices like yoga, pranayama breathing techniques etc. So I'll be doing more of this.

I'm going to be using hemisync too. I always seem lose track when doing the program. Need to find ways to make sure I utilize these practices. It's difficult when you have so little time. 

My dreams past two days are on another level, feel like I am waking up in other peoples lives or different realities, too real to not be real. Often I wake up sensing the importance of the dream.

Example of a dream: There is an incident everyone was running looking up at the sky announcing that the sun is going to fall, later some mythical elephant and shark like creatures are frozen in ice. It would seem many eons later those same creatures were defrosting and coming back to life. The elephant was pulled up by some invisible force, not much recall after that but I woke up feeling like this acutally happened in some past existence. It's the feelings that come with the dreams that are more profound than the events.

Another dream which occured in this mornings second sleep phase was incredibly vivid. I was surrounded by a group of ethiopian women standing. I was lying down on a bed. I try to convince them of their special abilities with a focus on their third eyes. I tell them that the artwork based on them depicting big eye on middle of forehead is no creative endeavour, it is literally telling them about their powers. However it doesn't work and they slowly creep up closer to me, I close my eyes knowing there's not more I can do and then feel the sensation of the knife against left side of my head. 

These do not feel like ordinary dreams, or maybe they are and because of the lucidity and vivid experience it feels almost the same as reality. Some days I cannot recall anything but will be keeping tranck. 

Whilst I had the flu I slept around 20 hours yet barely had any dream recall. The sleep at this time was definitely healing. 

I'll try to keep this blog updated.

Near Death Experience - Almost

 I almost died (NDE)

woke early 3ish AM browse phone back to sleep by 6:45am

I'm walking out of my room. Brothers near stairs discussing something. I see my keys on door but there's already one hooked onto my clothes. I take off key from door. Both key sets duplicate. I realise I'm dreaming. Turn to see brothers but everything goes blank but I'm still conscious. Suddenly theres light and I see various snippets of my life. Holographic projected virtual images. I see logo of the tips app I did and realise that my life and details of my life are being replayed. My life was flashing before my eyes. This meant my body was dying. I started to fight it and snap out of it. I'm lying on my belly looking to the side thinking I woke up but a bus passes by. I look down and see a road as though bed is suspended high up. Snap out of it. In bed on my front arms over pillow wall expanded then contracts very matrixy

Still feel sleepy.

Awake 7:20am

Past Life Twin Flame Lucid Dream Memory Retrieval

I have been listening to hemi-sync lately and need to do separate post on some of the experiences I'm having with the audio. For now all I can report is that hemisync and combination of other things causing some disturbance or anomalies in the memory department, possible memory error or other stuff.

The following is a dream I had after practicing letting go of attachment to my twin flame. I have noticed that ever since the phenomena became more apparent in my life experience I have latched on with various ideas on how it should play. Today early morning I delved inwards and released this attachment. I sincerely wished for some healing for my twin flame and I simply just let go and surrender to the force or presence that has helped me to attract this energy. There have also been some emotional upheaval that has made me doubt the entire process. This was a lucid dream with some missing gaps.

The dream:
I'm watching telly or scenes through some website. The characters are Asian but I think they are speaking their foreign language. Immediately TF comes to mind because it's his native language. I'm somewhere near him perhaps his dream or something. I feel presence, is it TF? Feel highly lucid and aware. Gaps of bad recall though after this as the next part of dream is what I remember clearly. I then look at a mirror I see my reflection. Am I me here or do I just simply look similar? I'm wearing earrings and other bits of classical Indian style looking jewellery. Most is silver but some is turning to gold. I look pretty, I'm also fair. For a moment I'm either looking away or I immediately capture the glimpse of a man inside the mirror. He locks his eyes with mine as he draws closer to me and I am feeling some sense of recognition. He looks like those Indian, possibly arab guys in those kurta style garments. He has Asian look, brown skin. Darker than me. He keeps staring at me through the mirror it seems he has recognized me. I start to wonder who he is in the last moment before I woke up or moved onto next set of dreams. Is he my TF, the real TF, this physical life TF or it's a past life of  me and TF?

It's possible this is a past life of me and my TF and for a while I have put the intention forth to recall past lives which I will continue to do so.

I think focusing on dreaming has become very important aspect of my life. They are quite healing and even entertaining a lot of the times where my recall is just amazing. I am playing around with various electrolytes such as magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus and calcium. The health of the physical body is important in recall. It's even more obvious now that we are mostly electric and as we retrieve memories especially during dreamtime download and then retrieval it works with the same mechanism applied in computing and information systems.

Real Life Meeting With My Twin Flame Experience

I have mentioned on this blog around the same time last year about dreams connected with twin flame which you can read here https://unchartedjourney.blogspot.com/2017/10/nicotine-detox-dreams-and-twin-flame.html and here http://unchartedjourney.blogspot.com/2017/09/nicotine-dream-of-man-singing-tragic.html.

There was no doubt in the dream that it had left a massive impact on me. My love life has been pretty non existent although I have been dating in the last several years which has really helped me learn some very important life lessons.

I have recently met someone who so far really has remained a mystery yet I feel like I know him. It takes time for me to trust a person, it once took me a year just to date someone from online dating since that place is really scary and daunting. With this guy there is this ease, comfort and trust that I had instantly. I'm picking up on his various kinks which is happening rather subconsciously meaning doing stuff as if he sent to me through some kind of ESP connection.

I also have all the Twin Flames symptoms and it is mad because this is something I have heard about before but never thought could be true or that it would ever be applicable to me. It's interesting because this year has been a really turbulent year for me. Some have been positive changes but major releasing, a time of purging all that was perhaps holding me back. In his life he is also going through some transformation, major changes which took him a long time to get to. I also feel he is healing but is unleashing a dark side in the process.

One aspect of the Twin Flames connection is the transformation that comes when Twin Flames unite and this is pretty apparent in my case. I am already noticing. A part of me really second guessing that he could be my Twin Flame so this morning I asked God, Universe to give me answers, to let me know and understand if indeed I am dealing with my Twin Flame.

Lo and behold, he entered my dream this morning. I have had dreams about a partner before and incidentally I got a text message from both him and my assumed Twin Flame at the same time after waking up from the dream which is making me scratch my head. I will be sharing and hopefully decipher the dream in another post soon.

Pregnenolone and progesterone dreams

Lately I have been occupied with fixing my hormones which unfortunately has been out of whack for a few months now (menstrual migraines etc).

These two particular hormones are helping to recall dreams. I have read somewhere that even men can benefit from adding progesterone but not entirely sure about this.

Progesterone is causing a heightened sense of smell and I'm aware the same happens to women in their pregnancy which is because of the increase in progesterone.

My menstrual migraines have been so bad I end up sleeping a whole day at a time when it occurs, sometimes accompanied by nausea. I have even had out of body experiences during these bouts of sleep.

Recently dreamed about rats and in another dream I dreamed about spiders and mice running about. In reality I have seen two rats which was absolutely cringeworthy. Not a fan of rats. I dreamt of a white rat running about up and down the stairs whilst I am screaming. Suddenly it comes up to me and tries to bite my finger.

Other dreams are quite psychic. Dreamed about cleaning oven and nieces birthday cake, woke up completely forgetting until my sister told me she put oven on self clean mode and need to prepare for niece's birthday. Another dream about sister losing money, also came true. I really should start writing in a dream diary but is terribly time consuming.

Sleep Vs Dreams

Sleep has been a little tricky. Insomnia got really bad upon taking zinc, sticking to one a day. Now I have restarted iodine protocol and I am sleeping much better with significant improvement in sleep quality.

I am taking so many vitamins and minerals it is really hard to tell how everything is interacting with each other. For the time being may have to just stick with the iodine protocol and co factors. My dreams have changed dramatically. I am only recalling dreams with very little fragments. Recall is bad.

Dreaming isn't necessary but I miss having those fun entertaining, thriller dreams. I do not even care to have lucid dreams as long as I have those long vivid cinema worthy dreams, all is good.

Zinc Picolinate For Dreaming

I've recently started supplementing zinc picolinate 15mg, past two days increased this to 45mg dosage taking 1 tab daytime and the remainder two just an hour before bed. Had vivid dreams one day with one being very movie like but too short to relay anything interesting. The other dream was related to cousins which I've always attributed to healing and detox.

Cannot continue taking it at night time as it may be causing insomnia. Instead will stick to just one in the day.

I'll be starting tryptophan with B6 and see what this does for dreaming and dream recall. For a while now my sleep has really improved except I am not dreaming as much or just bad recall.

Updates on New Protocols and Practices

There are certain vitamins that I haven't been taking for a long time, however I will be starting on several supplements soon. Lots of crazy dreams to be expected. Currently my dream recall is not all that great but when I put effort to recall I can remember some things, I think recall is bad mostly because as soon as I open my eyes I have so much on my mind and just need to get on with the day.

I'm mostly adding supplements and other stuff to repair the body. I will also set a routine to help me sleep better, however I have been sleeping perfectly past few days.

Some supplements such as L tryptophan will hopefully help with sleep more and I'll be taking lots of various things for boosting mood. I'll disclose these more in detail and the effect they are having on my dreams as well as on my health. I've also restarted hemi sync practice and will post updates on these.

At the same time I am going through major life changes, there are posts that I've left in draft which I do not even want to publish because of the nature of the details I disclose. Having to revisit childhood trauma etc and how I am using Salvia to help deal with it. So far, it has been a really tough year.

Strange Family with Super Powers Saga (Vivid Dream)

Note: other day dream was about spiders where I was viewing a great number of these spiders they had a large body with long legs and seemed a little strange. I have read about the totems once again on spiders for a little reminder. According to some sites they are related to shadow self or dark aspects of the personality.

This morning woke up from a very strange dream that seemed to go on for quite long where I was dreaming about various characters over different periods of time (timeline in the dream).

There were patches on the ground. I am telling others of these. Others seem to be my siblings (not from this reality). One brother is examining it, we conclude it's some kind of Mark from a large bird.

Have flashback of siblings when we were young?
Young brad Pitt lookalike, with siblings. He has superpowers where when he is next to plants they grow rapidly, example he was next to pumpkin and the leaves were growing fast meaning the fruit would even be ready soon. But if he moved away for a short period the leaves would wither. His siblings also had superpowers but his one was extraordinary. 

The father seemed reluctant about it and was yelling at the mother who was quiet, calm but also seemed submissive and trapped. Father had black eyes like a panda.

I am still one of the siblings with powers.
Soon I am in some tunnel like underground London tube. Though it was almost mine like looking. I look above one tunnel with a name. I am aware the mother has called me here because father wants to see me. It seems he may have abandoned us from long time ago as meeting feels like reunion. A scene plays, the father has spikes, some from hands and he slashes the mother who vanquishes in the air like the way vampires do in movies. He has no panda eyes. I think I as the girl character sense it happening.

Woke up back to sleep, more dreaming. At some point I am in the air flying, hovering above a landscape looks like earth but I was too excited with the whole flying. This was breathtaking, literally. I just was stunned that I was up in the air flying. The quality felt a lot more real than when I have my astral spinning events take place. I think because I felt more of my body as real and tangible, I even flapped my arms about as if swimming in the air.

Electric Kundalini Sexual Energy with Benjamin Button and Wisdom's Voice

After I awoke around 1am, there was just no sleeping for me. This is of course terrible considering I tried an experiment where I had turkey for a meal followed by grape juice just to help tryptophan cross the brain barrier. The result is usually a long restful sleep.

5am I am still trying my best to fall asleep. My mind is rampant with thoughts and then I simply decide to think about someone I absolutely love. This put my mind at ease and soon I began to relax. But not for long. I think I entered some kind of meditative state of mind. There is an electrical like feeling in my right hand. The electricity is coursing through the veins. A tingling current like charge travelling up into the neck region where I feel something is concentrating in the back of the neck. Something was happening to my entire body. My teeth began to chatter as my entire body was vibrating with this electricity funnelling throughout the veins.

I literally thought I was dying even though I had some feeling it was Kundalini related. This sort of stuff has not happened in so long and was completely unexpected. I remember some point the right arm lifted and I thought oh goodie I can move and snap out of this. 

I got up just barely lifting my head and then a mans voice penetrated my ear drums, or perhaps it was really a voice in my head. "Stay still or your body will get destroyed, do not move at all" he said it with urgency but at the same time callously. I was beginning to worry that I really am possessed by some entity. I listened and decided to relax on the off chance that I could cause some serious damage if I moved because I myself was already convinced this energy feels dangerous. The energy continued to course through and I was at breaking point. I didn't think I could endure it for much longer and decided that either way I'm going to turn into a pancake. A burnt pancake. My brain was being fried!

If I opened my mouth even slightly my teeth would chatter and then I clenched them and noticed the energy was able to course through the body smoothly whereas opening mouth even a tiny bit meant struggling with the vibrating energy. I endured for quite some time.

I suddenly found myself in another place, another room. I am with a guy I get involved with sexually. It seems I know him and both of us are charged with a high amount of sexual energy. I realize he has receding hair line and could be much older than me. Suddenly he changes form and I wonder whether I am still with the same person. I feel his face and right before my eyes his from is changing. He is younger and better looking. I tell him that he is looking younger, that his look is transforming. He tells me that I am the one who is doing it and I realize that I was actually thinking about him becoming younger and different looking.

We get out of bed and walk into some kind of office. Suddenly I am smothering him with kisses, I seem to be madly in love with him. Feeling a very strange connection. After I kiss him a few times he has suddenly turned into a kid which leaves me shocked and I realize I need to stop. He gives me a very knowing look to imply that I really need to be aware.

I put him on the chair smiling embarrassingly. It was like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Suddenly I could feel that electricity still coursing through the body and soon I snapped out of it panting heavily. That was quite an experience so much that I kept thinking what might have changed internally. One of my thought was that something is with me. The hands floating, the voice it all seems related to some kind of possession. It was 6:10am and I decided not to dwell on it and try to catch up on sleep.

It was daunting because I seriously did not want to have to endure anything like that again. Still I closed my eyes trying to relax. I begin having very vivid dreams. I dreamed about my sisters going through a rough patch. I am in one sisters house eating peanut butter and chocolate muffins. In one dream there are various people with certain conditions, one looks like an actor I've seen before on tv shows, I think in 24 (president Logan). They seem like they've mutated somehow. I walk in with others and the energy seems to change. The actor seems to be channelling something very powerful in that room. He is saying that the one's that will win will be focused on their individuality or have an individual focus. Something along those lines. I woke up around 9:10am.

Vivid Dream Fried My Brain

I have been doing lots of dreaming, pretty much every morning waking up very aware of my dreams. In a recent dream, I dreamed of a normal ordinary scenario with some resemblance to reality. I am drawing on a piece of paper of a man with a moustache, he seems familiar (someone I have seen in a salvia experience before).

I am focusing on the moustache when suddenly the speed at which I am drawing is incredibly rapid and my head is literally moving left right in a very robotic manner as though I were processing too fast. Woke up feeling odd sensation in the middle of the forehead. Had a headache, felt like my brain had just fried.

I kept attributing it to the fact of the recent work I had to do where I was using mathematical formulas to work out calculations of probabilities such as the chi square test. Working with a lot of numbers in recent times means more of the left hemisphere of the brain operating, somehow this has been blending with the use of the right hemisphere which is to do with creativity such as drawing.

Dream of A Clinical Life

I slept a good 6 hours trying to match my circadian rhythm according to the sun rise and sun set. I woke up after 1 am and messed up my routine by exposing myself to light and phone light. Need to work on my late night browsing habits (something that has only worsened from work).

At 4am I attempted to fall asleep and after some difficulty I managed to dose off. I became hyper aware of my sleeping body, I could literally feel it shutting down. I enter several scenes and end up in a scene where I am in some kind of clinic.

I am out of control of my behavior in this scene but take charge soon enough almost as if I am trying to take this persona in that state.

When I achieve this control I look around me. It looks like a hospital, not at all modern. There are people walking about and in one room there are standard beds with patients sleeping. I see a man who seems to be my father (in this vision). As I observe my life here I wonder if it has some parallel significance to my current life and career path I have chosen (holistic healing, health and nutrition). I'm sure there was more activity after this, right now my recall is bad.

Extra Sleep For Dream Activity and The Magician

Lately I have been exploring on methods to improve my sleep. For a few days I had improved this greatly mostly eating turkey to use tryptophan from food source rather than supplement. I have been taking some honey with it which is what I believe helped me sleep like a baby.

Keeping room dark and getting into bed shortly after sunset without blasting my eyes with a phone or tablet screen is helping immensely. Now also using ear phones as an ear plug and this is making me sleep a lot longer.

I have had very interesting dreams, some bizarre and some very much related to daily life. Last slept the longest for 11 hours. I think I slept that long because my happy streak had been messed up day before when I achieved only 3 hours so I seemed to have made up for lost sleep.

I became alert at one point during sleep mode when I knew I was in my room, body asleep and then suddenly arms floating up. Moving on their own I let them do what they will. Suddenly the hands gestured to objects in front of me showing me things. It feels like another presence moving my arms. This has been happening for so long it just seems so ordinary now. I started to feel really bored, I recall just thinking This is getting so boring. Then my right arm raised up and like a magician it swiped the arm and voila in front of me the wall had changed so that rather than a magnolia wall I was staring at vintage design wallpaper. I was now excited because I felt like I was transported into a different place.

After this I cannot recall what happened just some dreams with my parents and other family members.

Nicotine Dream Of Man Singing Tragic Love Song

This dream is very familiar, similar to the dream I had about an old man singing a narrative song. I'll share link of that dream soon (when I find it). Last night I had half a nicotine lozenge (1mg). I also managed to get a few minor scrapes around my arms and hands moving boxes about and ended up using iodine to treat these. Iodine in the past has induced vivid dreams via painting on skin and ingesting.

In this dream I am an actress performing some act and having conversations with actresses I am familiar with. The scene changes where I'm watching a woman in a short white dress on a gloomy day with rain showers, dancing and singing but can't recall the words.

Soon enough my perspective changes where I am blending into her and entering a different scene. There is a man standing in front of me introducing himself by singing. The narrative is very interesting and as he sings it to me I seem to be re-living the scenes. Through the song I visualize him in love with his black car, to him it was a beauty. He adored and admired it because it was his own work of art. I see him literally stroking his car lol. Then he tells me about his friend who had tampered with his car because of his love for me or the character I had assumed. She had been jealous for a really long time which he did not realize. I begin to picture the scene he is singing about until we are both actually there, in the car, both of us inside. Car swerves and crashes.

There was regret in his voice revealing that he wished things did not turn out that way. At the same time he was trying to convince me of something. I am jogging through my memory (dream memories?) where I recall not receiving the kind of attention I am in that present moment. He comes closer to me and begins to kiss the base of my neck, instantly I feel a strip of my body coming to life, it was illuminated. It was almost as if that entire time I was actually invisible and only beginning to form a body with the kiss. Another kiss and another strip of the body illuminating. There were romantic feelings involved and soon enough I woke up, immediately registering entire dream sequence.

The nicotine is causing some insomnia, I've been on the phone browsing before falling asleep, also I'm not using the blindfold which helped previously. For the nicotine only some nights I plan to use the patches with iodine painting.

At this point in my life I'm going through some changes but nothing major or tumultuous, keeping an eye out on my dreaming to see what they reveal.

Nicotine Patch Experiment for Dreams

I am going to use lozenges only during night time as during the day I seem to be developing a dependency.

Last night I used the nicotine patch. It's the highest dose 21mg and may not have been right for me, not sure yet as I am only using for the first phase of sleep as opposed to throughout the day. I have definitely been dreaming more. I don't think nicotine increases dreams rather it helps to store the dreams in the memory bank for a longer duration so that upon waking recall is easier. In fact my wake up is almost like a quick transition between dream and reality. Whereas prior to nicotine use this rarely happened. I would really have to think through to recall dream events.

Unfortunately the dreams are pretty boring, they represent daily ordinary life in different settings. I only once dreamed of people I don't know since using nicotine.

I used the nicotine patch and listened to opening the heart track (hemisync) which usually helps me to sleep.
The dreams after using the nicotine patch were very clear and vivid, very life like and I was around people I know. Dreamed about harvesting in garden, lots of veg especially eggplants hanging off vines (I think egg plants don't grow on vines). Interestingly eggplants contain nicotine which I already knew when doing my research into nicotine.

I woke up around 3:30am and took the patch off. The nicotine was on my arm for a total of 5 hours, I'm sure any longer and I would have thrown up. High amounts are toxic especially for someone who does not smoke. It was still dark I should have nodded off but insomnia was difficult to deal with. It was only at 6am I decided to have 1mg of nicotine and relaxed. Then some more vivid dreaming, this time I think I accessed some childhood memory or my mind was recreating a scene that I may identify as my childhood.

I am going to write up the dreams some other time which are pretty boring but may have some significance to me if I can decipher them.

For now all I can report is there is definitely a difference in the ability to recall dreams using nicotine. For me this works if I use the nicotine before bed. Patches do not make me feel as sleepy as the lozenges possibly because patches are slowly released over time and require up to 24 hours to effectively release the 21mg.

Nicotine dreams update

I am still taking the nicotine lozenges, sometimes I've had around 1mg during day at moments when I feel I need something to relieve anxiety, seems to work.

I've been taking 1mg before sleeping and then once I wake up in the middle of the night another 1mg. Dreams are very vivid. This morning I woke up from a really upsetting (made me cry in dream and sad once awake). Again related to real life. In the dream my sister was suffering some kind of trauma, I tried to calm her and then myself trying to figure out what happened to her. This was kind of like a nightmare, a very emotional one.

Other dreams seem to be about Sil, someone I have a hard time getting along with in reality. In the dream we seem to be getting along. I am dreaming about Sil nearly everyday. Maybe I should use this as my dream cue.

I've also dreamed about my cat who died years ago. 

The dreams are very consistent and they make sense. Nothing strange and unfortunately nothing entertaining.

So far I don't believe I have been lucid, just good dream recall. I'm using small dose and amazed at the progress and recall ability, will be trying the nicotine patches soon.

Nicotine Dreams

I haven't smoked a cigarette in so many years but had the habit as a teenager and young adult. I needed at least one a day. Eventually stopped in my 20s when it was just no longer worth the coughing that would follow.

Just recently I've been observing during hot weather people smoking heavily, it is quite odd. Out in the streets it's like being inside a chimney. The smell of smoke is not exactly pleasant and I try to not get annoyed with smokers. I can usually smell tobacco from my neighbours garden or if family use in the garden and immediately close the window because I now try to be as kind to my lungs as possible. Second hand smoking is a real annoyance especially after years of successfully quitting.

After doing some research into tobacco I have found that the nicotine in tobacco can be helpful especially for enhancing cognitive function and improving memory. I went to my local shop for some lozenges or gums to start an experiment with nicotine.

As I scanned the shelf another woman stood next to me. She began to scan the shelf and quickly grabbed more than 10 boxes. She was kind enough to heed to my request of leaving two for me. My first use of the lozenge was not at all pleasant. Immediately I felt a slight tightening in the throat, too much nicotine in one go, 2mg to be exact.

I did feel different once at least 1 mg dissolved but nothing quite like a true smoke. So the past week I have been taking about 2mg per day splitting each lozenge in two and taking each piece morning and evening.

I noticed that I prefer the effect of nicotine in the evening, really paves the way for a relaxed mind for deeper sleep. The dreams however have been anything but relaxing. They are vivid and have a lot more details or I am recalling them more accurately. Some dreams have a very prophetic insightfulness to them. They are not too bad or nightmarish and are related to current life and people. Upon waking up I clearly remember all the details however I cannot recall them during the day. Another thing that I have noticed I am able to wake early and once again return to sleep if I wanted to.

Unfortunately the lozenges contain other ingredients that I would like to avoid ingesting. Next time I'll try nicotine patches to avoid the additives and cut it up to reduce the dose to avoid nausea.

Here's two interesting article about nicotine and it's effect on dreams
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/avn39p/nicotine-dreaming 
https://www.gwern.net/docs/nootropics/2003-page.pdf

Naturally Increasing Melatonin for Dream Activity

Sleeping with an eye mask will increase dream activity. For me I've had to use a piece of fabric for comfort and it has been working. It's interesting because I didn't intend to do this for increasing dreams, it is something that became like an urge after I found the Better Sight Without Glasses book. I am still trying to make a habit of practising the exercises found in the book. 

About melatonin

"Melatonin is a hormone made by the pineal gland , a small gland in the brain. Melatonin helps control your sleep and wake cycles. ... Melatonin supplements are sometimes used to treat jet lag or sleep problems (insomnia)."

Although I don't have problems with insomnia, covering eyes and even making the room pitch black is really making a difference with the quality of sleep as well as increasing dream activity. This is amazing and all without taking supplements. Another thing I have doing is staying away from artificial light after dark. I'm not sure if it is just this however as I have taken one other thing during past few weeks but will exclude this to see if there is a change.

I'm still getting the dreams, I think in the past few days they would have been more entertaining had my mind not been so preoccupied with other things and going through a little bit of stress.

Another new thing I am doing is staying away from aluminium exposure. Too much aluminium in the body can be stored in the brain causing memory problems which is why it is even linked to Alzheimer's. Having a good memory makes it possible for better recall of dreams. 

I probably will not take melatonin supplement as too much of it can pose a risk. For now I am happy producing it naturally.

I am reading about cases of people who have photographic memory as this is exactly what I would like to now achieve for dream recall.  I will be restarting some of the dream inducing supplements soon to see what happens in combination with this technique.