Lucid Dream Foods
Lucid dream foods are those that induce serotonin and melatonin hormone production in your body, which help you get proper sleep, make it easier for you to have more lucid dreams and improve the dream recall.
Serotonin and melatonin are responsible for regulating your body’s sleep-wake cycle. Foods that are rich in tryptophan and vitamin B6 are your best bet for better sleep and dreams. B6 is important for melatonin synthesis, while tryptophan is first converted to serotonin then to melatonin in your body.
Certain foods include vitamin B6 but you need to eat just too much of them to be able to reach the necessary dose for vivid dreams. Food with the highest vitamin B6 rate is rice bran, yet you will only get 5mg per cup of rice bran. The amount of B6 required for lucid dreaming is between 100mg- 500mg depending on the person. So you will definitely need a supplement for that much of B6.
You may start with 100mg per night and see how you go, then increase if not happy with the results. Recommended daily allowance for vitamin B6 for an average person is 1.3mg per day and you easily get that from foods you eat. If you take more than 500mg per day for months in a row, you may experience numbness and pain- sensory neuropathy.
You need to take vitamin B6 to help transform tryptophan you get from foods into serotonin, which will then help you have better dreams. B6 and tryptophan is also a great combination for the treatment of anxiety and depression.
Unlike vitamin B6, it is easy to get the tryptophan for vivid dreams from foods. Just a serving of chicken breast (120gram) contains roughly 400mg of tryptophan. If you still want to take a pill to increase the tryptophan and serotonin levels in your body, you’ll need to take 5-HTP (100mg per night is plenty) as tryptophan is not sold as a supplement in most countries. Your body converts tryptophan first into 5-HTP, then to serotonin anyway.
Other tryptophan-rich lucid dream foods include turkey, tuna, soybeans, salmon, lamb, beef, egg, prawns, halibut, cod, kidney beans, cheese, tofu, peanuts, chickpeas, lentils, sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds. Eat these foods at dinner time- a few hours before bed and take your vitamin B6 supplement at the same time. Also eat carbohydrates together with these foods to help your body produce melatonin.
Dairy products– yogurt, milk and cheese (the sharper the cheese , the better the dream) have amino acids that help serotonin and melatonin production, allowing your body to rest while keeping your nervous system active.
Eat a teaspoon of white mustard before bed as it contains roughly 380 nanograms of melatonin in a teaspoon. Sunflower seeds, flax seeds, cherries and almonds are not so bad in melatonin either. Ice cream, popcorn, pickles, broccoli, sweet potatoes, mushrooms and fruit juices are also claimed to be good for inducing lucid dreams.
Melatonin levels are increased according to the amount of light in the room: More melatonin in a dark room and less melatonin in the light during the day. You can also keep a notebook and a pen next to your bed to keep a dream journal and write down whatever you remember from your dreams as soon as you wake up. This will increase your dream recall rate.
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