Entries, field notes, null results, and periodic matrix updates. The long-form record behind the short-form clips.
Seven nights of Celastrus paniculatus, the Ayurvedic "intellect tree," dose escalated from 1g to 2g and prepared as seed material soaked in oil. A weak but real recall bump appeared, strongest on the 2g fat-based nights. No lucidity. Preparation, not the plant alone, looks like the variable worth isolating.
Read entry →Seven nights of Tagetes lucida brewed as a 2 gram tea before bed, no journaling and no technique. Recall, vividness, emotional intensity, lucidity, and sleep quality all held flat against baseline. A complete null, and arguably not an oneirogen at all.
Read entry →Seven nights at 600 mg taken mid-sleep. No lucidity, flat hypnagogic imagery, and only mild, inconsistent recall and vividness. A null result that matches the one controlled study.
Read entry →The newest entry pulls one plant out of a traditional dream blend and tests it alone. The verdict the series keeps reaching: sold as a dream herb, mechanism basically unknown.
Read entry →A higher-dose follow-up to the original fourteen-night run. Modest recall on a few nights, no lucidity, no hypnagogia. Dose did not rescue the effect.
Read entry →The same cholinergic target as galantamine at roughly double the half-life. Recall nudged up, lucidity barely registered, a long clearance bled into the next night, and several mornings came with a headache. A sound hypothesis still waiting on real data.
Read entry →Three lucid dreams across fourteen nights at 8 mg on a WBTB schedule. Fragmented recall, lighter back-half sleep. Real enough to respect, unreliable enough to keep testing.
Read entry →Fourteen nights of African dream herb on an empty-stomach morning protocol, plus a seven-day washout. Recall and vividness rose in a subtle, Silene-like way and the effect lingered through the cooloff, but no lucid dreams showed up despite trying.
Read entry →Fourteen nights of the Xhosa dream root at 250 mg, cold-soaked and foamed on an empty stomach. Recall went to 100 percent, vividness climbed early, and two back-to-back lucid dreams landed on nights 6 and 7. Control was shaky and the effect faded by the second week.
Read entry →Two grams of mugwort tea for fourteen nights, an hour or two before bed. Vividness rose slightly and sleep improved, but the single lucid dream only came after a missed night and a pre-bed dose, so attribution stays shaky.
Read entry →Nineteen nights of Calea zacatechichi, powdered and blended at 1.5 g before sleep once the tea proved undrinkable. Dreams ran more vivid throughout, sleep improved, and an unprompted lucid dream arrived on the final night, which reads like a build-up effect.
Read entry →Results from controlled oneirogen experiments. What impacted dreaming, what didn't, and topical news. New tests each cycle.