Comments by "B Nic" (@bnic9471) on "The Occult #265: My First Lucid Dreams" video.

  1.  @qislegit.donttrustthemedia6232  Likewise, going off of a CNS depressant like alcohol, benzodiazepines or zolpidem, which suppress REM, frequently causes a long spate of vivid dreams and even nightmares . . . until your brain readjusted to not being so dulled. SSRIs frequently activate people, so if you are taking Zoloft in the morning and your sleep is still crummy, try taking it just before bedtime. It makes other people drowsier than usual. It's hard to predict, and a little dose timing experimentation is easy to do.
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  2. Lucid dreams are fun, and listening to yours was entertaining. Bad news, though: after your thirties are done, so is a lot of your stage 4 sleep. Once I had a baby, at age 37, suddenly I was a light sleeper, capable of feeling refreshed after 2 2-hour chunks of sleep. Not sure how much of that was age and how much was maternal hormones. At any rate, a quiet hour of wakefulness in the middle of the night has been my "new normal" for about 15 years. I'm not sure man was meant to get 8 straight hours of sleep; that might be an artifact of the industrial age. Also never been able to walk very well in dreams. And while I can't conjure up exact visual detail in my conscious mind's eye, when I'm dreaming or even falling asleep, I see and can study everything in sharp, granular detail, as if I've become a genuine camera.
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