I tried Galantamine for the first time last night

Galantamine comes from the red spider-lily flower, and it is used by people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s. It helps to regain memory and increase focus.
It’s for sale online in capsule form. The pharmacies carry it, but you need a prescription (at least here in Hawaii).
I have indeed heard it to be used frequently by Lucid Dreamers.
What no one tells you through that a lot of capsules, caplets (depends from which company) also have nicotine in it, so it is rather addictive if you ask me.
It’s about $30 for a jar (2 months worth). There is a red tiger lily abstract available, that would be a cleaner source, but I’m not sure about the effectiveness or price.

If you look up the supplement with the brand name Galantamind online you will be able to find a bunch of places online that sell it. Also, I just checked the ingredients on the bottle that i have of Galantamind, and there is no nicotine used, so no need to worry about any addictive qualities. Hope that helps KauaiDreamer :colgate:

I am rather stubborn though!
I have to see if I can achieve lucidity regularly the natural way first. If I get to a point that I can’t seem to get lucid anymore, the I might try the Galantamind.

Haha I felt a little stuborn to try it at first as well. The way I look at it now is an aid to help me get more vivid dreams. I don’t really see it as something that dramatically increases my chances of becoming lucid, but as something that will help me be in a crazy and vivid dream. I don’t take it all the time either. I usually take it about 1 to 2 times a week. Another thing that I feel it dramatically helps is my dream recall. If i haven’t remember any dreams for a couple of days I will wake up about 6 hours after falling asleep and take a galantamine pill, and usually have about a page and a half or more to write down about my dream. Not that I’m looking to change your perspective on it, but I don’t see it as something to be stubborn about as long as you take it in a responsible amount and don’t become dependent on it.

So if its purposed is to treat Alzheimer’s, then I shouldn’t give it a try I guess?

@matt8690 and Topic Starter:

Do you take Galantamine specifically to have better dreams or achieve better lucidity? Should i try that?

Sorry for the bunch of questions xD

Please remember that it isn’t allowed on this forum to post links to commercial sites.

Sorry about that Silw, I didn’t know that rule.

Well that is one of its purposes, but it is also very helpful for increasing the vividness of dreams. You should definitely give it a try, it has done wonders for me when I am having a dry streak with either remembering my dreams or having very vivid dreams.

Ive recently ordered brilliantdreams; I havent gotten it yet.
I expect them to work great for me, ill see once it gets here :razz:

I purchased some Ginkgo Biloba at a vitamin shop, it’s supposed to help with memory and blood flow etc.The only thing is that it takes 4-6 weeks to take effect, but after that memory improvement etc, increases as time goes by. Sounds good to me, plus it is natural, no funny chemicals.

I got my galantamine from advanced dream nutrition. Great product and
they ship fast. I bought a book from amazon called
Advanced Lucid Dreaming The power of supplements.
I’ve been into lucid dreaming for over 10 years, But this book has changed my life.
I love lucid dreaming and hope others can use this infomation. :wink:

I had recieved the bottles of brilliantdreams, which contain 4mg of galantamine, Im gonna try them after 5 hours of sleep to see what happens…

Oh wow, Definite dream recall improvement!

I had an issue going back to sleep and ended up tossing and turning for 2 hours or so before getting back on the PC, I got tired and went back to bed(It was around 7-8 at this time) I figured it would be perfect since my alarm was going to go off at 9:45, I had 2 lengthy dreams before getting up.

Unsure what caused me not being able to go back to bed, probably too long of a wbtb, and my brain thought it was time to get up for school, because normally I get up at 5AM for school :meh: . Ill see tomorrow if getting up earlier helps…

I have the same book. But I’m trying to get back to where i was LD-wise before I step things up.

What other ingredients are in the brilliant dreams pill.
Please let us know how its works for you.

50mg vitamin B
4mg lycoris radiata extract (as galanatamine HBr)
100MG Choline
0.5MG
I wanna take it again tomorrow morning because I kinda botched going back to sleep.
But i’m afraid of becoming immune to the galantamine; Probably wont happen unless i take large amounts all the time…

Alright, I got up at 3:30 without my alarm, I figured i got enough sleep and would be entering REM soon so I decided to shutter my 5AM alarm and take 2 doses; I was able to sleep easier this time.

[sidenote] I got to sleep in 15 minutes when all the sudden (CRASH) I heard something fall in my room, I did an RC to be sure but for some reason one of my stereo speakers for my TV was knocked over [/sidenote]

I had an LD in the first REM cycle, It was lengthly as I remember around 15 mins? I woke up after but I sat there recollecting the whole dream before going to sleep, I didn’t write it down because that would make me move, I figured it would still be remembered in the morning.
I got up around 8:30, I remembered a tiny fragment of a few dreams totally forgot the LD, Except the knowledge that i had one, So i’m left high and dry.

I’m Gonna give brilliant dreams a break for a few days, then try again…

When using galantamine the biggest problem I have is falling back to sleep.
I also have 3 or 4 false awakenings. They seem so real I forget to do a RC.
Galantamine stays in your system of about 48 hours. and its best to wait
another 48 hours. For your system to return to normal. so to make sure
you don’t build up tolerance its best to wait at least 4 days between attempts.
But you can take some Piracetam after each attempt to counteract the galantamine.
Then you can use galantamine every other night. Without any desensitiztion.

Yeah, I don’t understand why, but as soon as i take the pills it seems it takes longer to fall back asleep.

Im glad im not the only one having the issue.

Since it has been 2 days I decided to try taking the supplements again, Since I was seeing absolutely no dream recall for the 2 days i did not.

I had gotten up at 6 o clock, Took 2 pills then went to sleep.

It took me 15 mins to get back to sleep because my stomach instantly started getting upset at me. I got to sleep and had a Long dream. Halfway through I became lucid after the dream I woke up and it was around 7:18.

The LD i had is below:

[spoiler]I was somehow hanging at my school outside the balcony when all the sudden this french teacher told me to get down, I was climbing down the railing and was told to come into this classroom, I did and i started to tear up because this teacher was wanting my name and to see my school ID, My spanish teacher was in the room she stook up for me and i stayed there for a few minutes and sat down, as i was sitting, people were talking to me, saying things in spanish, I was able to understand a few things and respond. (lucid after this part) I slowly realise that im no longer in school and that its summer, So how could I be in school, OH because its a dream! I walk outside and do an RC to double check, The first thing I try is flying, I jumped really high but nothing was happening I decided to go upstairs to jump off and try, i didnt take the stairs but took the elevator instead; There was tons of people in the hallway and the elevator was annoying and different, I pressed the top button which was unlabled and brown, and you had to stick your hand through a hole to get it, I looked at the DC’s in the elevator they were students that i remember from last school year, The elevator took a massive time trying to go up 3 flights of stairs, I noticed there was an IBM type computer LCD in the left panel showing some type of line graph that wasent working, and that above the section where the button hole was it had some freaked out LCD which assured me that I was still dreaming because it wouldnt show an appropriate floor, it was showing random numbers and symbols every few seconds. after 3 or so minutes it got to that floor, I was talking to the dreamcharacters FOR CRYING OUT LOUD: F**K I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE STAIRS! then the doors opened and the third floor balcony was TOTALLY different than real life, it had some catwalk to the other balcony; ETC.
As i was walking out about to jump I noticed my friend DJ walking past, I started yelling to him that im about to jump and fly because its a dream, he was minding his own business talking to girls :razz:, I was kinda scared about jumping off and realised that might have just costed me my lucidity, Then I swallowed that fear because it was a dream and that nothing bad or costly could have happened to me! I jumped and BAM no flight, I felt like i fell 2 feet onto my knees but i really saw myself fall 3 flights… NO pain what so ever! I kinda got bored trying to fly I was very aggravated with it so I left to go steal a car from the parking lot, As I was leaving i lost my lucidity and somehow I ether teleported or the dream transformed because i went through a room seeing alot of movie stars(the cast of star-trek) I patted spock on the back on the way out and he said something about old friend, I was like OOookay and left for the parkinglot. the minute I went through that door the dream faded and I then became into a third person view of a allstate commercial? wth?[/spoiler]