Will I Still Be Able to Lucid Dream? (Starting an SSRI)

[@morphiamorgani8356]

I took Citalopram for 4 years and I still had vivid dreams. It did sometimes make my sleep erratic though. I'd have bouts of insomnia. I also found it didn't always work and a bad day meant I would take extra tablets. I stopped them because I don't like antidepressants. I stabilise my moods with herb supplements and a plant based diet. It's what worked for me. Everyone is different so I can't say if it would work for you.

[@JohnSmith-ie6yw]

Fascinating! Please keep us updated on your experiences. For myself, I don't do drugs of any kind. Not even coffee. Yes, Covid was a fun time for a few years, my family still talks to me. Well, most of them. Anyway, I did experiment with a number of different herbs and supplements to help with lucid dreaming. Inevitably, they all failed. I found that all my experiences came about when I didn't supplement in any manner at all. For instance, I tried B6 once, and couldn't sleep for three nights. That sort of thing was common. Personal, anecdotal experiences only, of course. But for lucid dreaming, I found nothing beats ... nothing. Later T!

[@Justlne]

Oh!! Tysm for sharing your experience with us! I've also taken SSRIs and so I'm very curious to hear about your lucid journey with them. (Hoping your anxiety will get better!)

[@Carl_Frank]

Best of luck, man. Wise of you to look after your mental health, even if there is a possibility of it impacting your LDing. For what it's worth, doing a youtube channel when fighting anxiety is impressive, and I've always thought your presentation in videos seemed quite calm and confident; I never thought you came across as nervous or anything. Good job! I hope everything works out for the best.

[@tmhchacham]

Good luck man and keep in good health.

[@PhillipMcGhieKartRacing]

I take Alprazolam for anxiety, but only as needed for it, sometimes I have a few lucid dreams but most the time they are boring, I mainly take melatonin to sleep, I only take the Xanex, when I need it, or couldn't fall asleep for a long time, mainly take the Xanex when I work Fright Fest as a scare actor at Six Flags Great America during mid Sep to October 31st, when I have to work till 11pm and get home around 12am or 12:30 am.

[@foreverofthestars01]

Yo! I'm so glad you're still here, man!!! I just want you to know I really appreciate your work. It opened the gates of the dream world for me. And for that I'm grateful! ❤ Cheers from Argentina! 🫂

[@ahsetal75]

SSRIs have made my dreams a lot more vivid as well. In fact I stopped keeping a dream journal a while because writing my weird dreams down felt awkward sometimes. I still lucid dream though.

[@karitabergman3940]

This is interesting, thanks for sharing! It takes courage to talk about mental issues, even that they are so common 🧡 I figure many people will benefit from your openness 👍

[@indobro11]

Hey tipharot, i’ve been following your channel since 2019 and have been trying to lucid dream since then, but i only started really taking it seriously 18 days ago, and i had my first lucid dream today with WILD!! The thing is i tried to touch stuff and rub my hands together but the dream was fading out so fast i hardly had time to look around me… Is this normal for first WILDs? How do i fix this?

[@jochannan7379]

Do those SSRIs have a noticeable positive effect for you? As far as I am aware, they benefit only a minority of patients, mostly those on the severe end of the depression scale. As they equally numb negative *and* positive feelings, they aren't what you want if if your depression is mild to moderate. I wonder if other pharmacological interventions such as with psilocybin (magic mushrooms) oder Ketamin are more lucid dreaming friendly. Have you tried any of those?

[@filmesndependentes4816]

Very nice! Good content as always!

[@brendanoconnell7808]

I take an SSRI and it makes me sleep longer, around 10 hours when I used to only need 8 hours. I think it's because I get less REM per unit of overall sleep so in order to get the same amount of REM I have to sleep longer. I still get the same amount of dreams and the same intensity of dreaming as before.

[@userwhosinterestedin]

What do you make of companies like PropheticAI and their new Morpheus-1 model claiming to induce lucid dreams via ultrasound? Is it credible or just clever marketing?

[@Tipharot]

I'm not really sure what to make of it yet, the last I heard about their project they hadn't yet claimed to have successfully induced any lucid dreams with their technology yet and it seemed they were still in the research phase. I can't speak to whether or not the science behind it is plausible or not, so I think we'll have to wait and see how their actual beta testing goes. It's an interesting approach at the very least though.

[@makeaguitarnoise]

Try Kratom mate

[@marikschwarzmantel535]

Same when I smoke weed lol