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Antoinette on Mon, 5th Oct 2009 10:12 am 



October 5th, 2009

So sorry that I missed your dream talk and workshop in Fremont this past
Saturday. I woke up this morning and was pondering my dream. Then
I open the East Bay Express, to page 27, featuring the article about Ryan
Hurd!! I’m definitely convinced that dreams are the key to our inner most
desires and fears. I am fortunate that I often remember my dreams and
when I review them they do help me recognize my deeper concerns. I think that our dreams are powerful tools and should be closely and truthfully analyzed to help us achieve our life purpose.

Laura Mason Lockard (1 comments.) on Wed, 30th Dec 2009 9:01 am 



Hi Ryan!

The eBook is great! I tried almost all of your suggestions and they work wonderfully. I even tried the lucid dreaming pill. It was the best night I have had in decades. I spent several hours in a lucid dream going shopping, eating in a restaurant, and going to the fireworks with my mother, who died last summer. Disclaimer: I have been able to lucid dream since infancy and I also have natural mediumistic abilities. The pill will amplify the experiences you currently have. If you are having nightmares, DON’T! Learn to lucid dream first!

I am convinced that having an active dreaming life is the key to health – both physical and psychological. Dreaming is free – shrinks are expensive!

Victor on Thu, 7th Jan 2010 4:49 pm 



Ryan,

Thanks for the e book and yes I did read it. I have been interested in lucid dreaming for some time. Your book got me start actually taking some action. My question at this point is concerning supplement amounts. Specifically B6, choline, and melatonin. I have been taking twin labs vitamin B stress complex for years. I switched from taking it in the morning to taking it right before bed. No noticeable effects. So I doubled the dose. No noticeable effects. Wikipedia says amount of choline needed for dream effects is 550 mg. The overdose level is 3.5 grams. So obviously i need a separate source for choline instead of the twin labs supplement. The B6 level in twin labs is 100mg. But I can not find a range for B6. So what is the minimal amount needed for dream enhancement and what is the overdose levels. I see what the toxicity signs are. So that will be easy to monitor but I need an amount for a reference point. Also melatonin. You recommended 1 – 4 grams. Overdose level is 50 mg. So 4 mg seems rather small. any recommendations there?
My plan is to go high doses of all 3 for 2 to 3 nights in a row and then stop for 3 nights. The cycle should keep me from having any toxicity problems.

your comments would be appreciated.

Ryan Hurd (151 comments.) on Sun, 10th Jan 2010 1:54 pm 



hey Victor,

in general, the steady escalation you’re doing is smart, and still comfortably in the safe zones.

Choline: you may want to find a choline source that is not a choline salt, but rather GPC which has had more results in the lucid dreaming community. GPC is glycerophosphocholine, also known as choline alfoscerate. Yuschak (2006) recommends 1200 mg once daily: I have no personal experience with this choline source.

B6: easy does it. 100mg is a good dose. you could double that for one night, but people report getting sick above repeated doses of 250mg.

melatonin: I recommended 1-4mg, not 1-4 grams. it depends on your intentions. a lower dose (less than a mg) will help with falling asleep, but a higher dose will also repress REM sleep for the first half of the night, producing a REM rebound in the morning. I have only used melatonin for help falling asleep (its nice paired with galantamine).

good plan about taking s nights off between experiments. you may even want to go 4 nights in between to make sure desensitization isn’t a factor. but most importantly, I think that combining the supplements with a cognitive ritual or practice will skyrocket the effectiveness of the experiment. mind/body/spirit.

Jean Higginson on Mon, 18th Jan 2010 10:31 pm 



I have kept track of my dreams since I was seveteen years old including lucid dreams. Having a stroke in Sept. of 2008 stopped my remembering any part of my dreams. Just now remembering some images that I dream. So was very interested in your methods but have to get sleep regular before I try them. I did read the booklet.

Ryan Hurd (151 comments.) on Tue, 19th Jan 2010 11:58 am 



thanks for commenting, Jean. how fascinating that your dreams are beginning to come back, little by little. yes, optimizing sleep for dreams is an important step. I also think the “snooze method” will be particularly effective for improving recall.

selsine on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 11:24 am 



Hey Ryan,

Just dropping you a line to let you know that I enjoyed your eBook. I’ve been interested in dreams and lucid dreams for a long time and I enjoyed the fact that your eBook didn’t simply repackage the same old information in the same old way.

My biggest hurdle is that I have very good dream recall, but for the last 15 years as I go in and out of trying to have lucid dreams I only ever end up having very few. Which is one of the reasons that I found the supplements section interesting. I’ll have to try getting my hands on some of those teas.

selsine

Non on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 11:30 am 



Hi Ryan, Many thanks for the Ebook, which I really enjoyed reading. I have been writing my dream journal for almost a month already. I wish I had know this website before I started writing. Anyway, so far I have been trying to structure my dream journal according to what you suggested in the Ebook. My working schedule does not allow to conduct a full-scale dream incubation but I will definitely try that when I have time. The problem I have so far is that I can only remember 20% of my dream when I get up in the morning. It is true, also according to your Ebook, that if I stay in the position that I get up, I could bring back more dream but still, I can only get only up to 20% back. I am an architect so I am trying to see dream as construction of a building: There are a set of elements that constitute the dream and the settings in which those elements are being put together. There are a lot of interest things going on and I am trying to identify the patterns of occurrences according to my experience of dreaming. So far I have been able to identify 5-6 different patterns. More or less, the background of the story (the setting) does not usually have anything to do with the “main actor” (a person with whom you encounter in your dream); yet the background usually has something to do with the objects that are situated in that particular setting. The actor could be anyone ranging from a person you know to a person you want to know, to a dead person whom you know; yet, it doesn’t matter since when we are dreaming, we are not taking the logic of reality with us. I have been able to think about the way in which these stories have been put together according to what is going on up to 8 hours before I go to bed as well. That said, all of this comes solely from my experiences in dreaming without any academic underpinning or evidences whatsoever. It would be nice if you could shed light on this.

Victor on Wed, 24th Feb 2010 4:28 pm 



Ryan,

I have been reading a couple of dream books in my local library. Mainly to get some idea of how to interpret my dreams i.e get in tiuch with what my unconcious is trying to say. None of the books offer anything close to what is going on in my dreams. Have you read and would you recommend Carl Jung’s “Man and his symbols”? Do you have a method or recommendation for trying to understand my dreams?

Victor

Shaik Anwar ahmed on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 9:29 am 



Hi. Mr Ryan.Thank You for 25th Feb., message. Also thank you for the ‘Enhance Your Dream Life” ebook. I have just finished the whole book. I could not do it earlier due to other pressing works.

I honestly appreciate your work eventhough I am yet to experiece a dream. May be your right I dont remember. I always stay flexible.Usualy go to sleep after midnight after wathcing the T.V.Certainly going to follow your 8 points along with dietary tips. Let us hope that someday I may also be able to recall the dream.I also appreciat your efforts in bringing deams back to our lives.

All thr best. With regards. ANWAR.

Ryan Hurd (151 comments.) on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 10:00 am 



Selsine – thanks for the warm support!

Non – I love the way you are analyzing your dreams according to patterns. Even though you don’t have an academic background in dreaming, this kind of original thought can shed a lot of dreams on yourself, and all of us really. Settings and objects could be seen to relate to each other from a number of theories. Occam’s razor suggests “schema” theory may be most applicable – when you dream a setting, those objects “come with the package” cognitively speaking. When we think about a concept, its related concepts under the umbrella, or metaphoric of the concept are also brought to consciousness.

Victor – Jung’s book is a classic, but not the whole enchilada in my humble opinion. Because everyone has a personal dream style, it’s difficult to think of one book that may be of service to you. In general, the ones listed in the back the ebook are my pick of the best introductions to dreaming. However, a new one not on that list that you may like because of your interest in Jung is Jeremy Taylor’s “The Wisdom of your Dreams.”

Shaik – I’m so glad you commented and I hope you stay in touch as you begin this exploration into remembering your dreams. Especially let me know if nothing has worked. If you have never remembered a dream, this process may take some time, but the more you read about dreams, and pay special attention to how you fall asleep and wake up, slowly but surely something will spill…

Victoria on Wed, 24th Mar 2010 2:39 am 



Hi Ryan,

The book’s a big help… I’ve cut down on caffeine and am winding down with a regular ritual each night and my sleep is better. It doesn’t seem to matter that my daughter wakes me up regularly. I still feel the benefits.

Last night, I managed to become lucid twice, so I consider that a bit of a breakthrough. I decided to go to the moon on one occasion.. The other I went to a desert. I ask myself “Am I awake” during the day and so I asked myself the question whilst asleep and realised what was happening )

Thank you.

Vic x

Ryan Hurd (151 comments.) on Fri, 26th Mar 2010 8:32 am 



thanks Victoria! I’m really pleased the ebook has made a difference in your life.

to the moon…

Carmen Hartzenberg (6 comments.) on Wed, 7th Apr 2010 10:15 pm 



I loved the ebook – filled with seriously good and helpful tips and info. and just to show how much I enjoyed it? I printed it out so that I could reread..and keep hard copy next to my bed.
thanks so much Ryan

Talker (1 comments.) on Thu, 22nd Apr 2010 1:57 pm 



Hello to All,
Recent months have been giving dreams of increased intensity.Am well up in years and maybe this is meaningful, time will tell, but whether I’m going to aware of it is another matter.
What is outstanding is the intensity and realization of making choices in these dreams. In a few am aware that I awakened from a dream, and more activity, and the surprise when awakening from that dream.

Will need to pump this into an old dream program and see if any sense shows up.

Do believe that there are some symbols or items that can be common to all, but mostly one needs to interpret their own symbology and meanings.

Did submit for the ebook, will see what new may be added.
Do keep a dream journal, that goes waaay back in time.
Be Well

Maria on Tue, 18th May 2010 8:27 pm 



Enhance Your Dream Life was a great book for beginners, however there was much on supplements and herbs that I learned despite my 22 years of dreaming/studying. I will recommend this ebook to the dream group with which I recently have been working.

I will be purchasing “Sleep Paralysis, A Dreamer’s Guide” as I participated in a workshop on this subject by Ryan on IASD during their PSIber Dream conference and it was excellent.

Ryan Hurd (151 comments.) on Tue, 18th May 2010 9:09 pm 



Carmen – one of these days there will be a real “hard copy” — that’s a project in a back burner.

Talker – wonderful to hear about your spontaneous lucid dreams! those are my favorite.

Maria – thanks for the kind words and the plug for my sleep paralysis ebook The original information from my psiberdreaming presentation can be found here (scroll down and opt in to get the free SP report).

claire on Tue, 1st Jun 2010 9:19 pm 



Hi Ryan,

I just read your e-book, like others said it was great to not see the same old re-hashed informtion, particularly those websites that seem to think dreaming, and even lucid dreaming, will just occur within X days and hey presto you’re done! The supplements section was interesting, i read Yuschak’s book too. Some supplements, like galantamine, are not readily available as they are in the US though. Also, the times you take them, when would you take B6?

I’ve no problem with dream recall as I’ve been recording them for 6 or so years, it’s the lucid dreams that are escapaing me. I had one by pure lack pretty much the first few days I became interested in lucid dreaming, about 6 weeks ago, but since then though I am dreaming every night and remembering them, I haven’t had that experience, and it was one of the most amazing of my life.

Not just for the ‘fun’ element, i think we can learn a huge amount from our dreams and the potential to use them in life is immense. Does knowing you are dreaming come close to a lucid dream? How do you flip into control if you are aware you are dreaming? Do reality checks make a big difference? I find WBTB always promotes vivid dreams, so I’m back to bed now…

Thanks, I like your site, it has a professional air to it.

Claire

Nan on Thu, 15th Jul 2010 6:57 am 



Thanks for the ebook, Ryan. Very useful information in manageable doses. I’ve been becoming more conscious about my dreamlife to counter diminishing recall and refine my interactions in the dreamworld. Your advice will help with both.

Dream on!

Nan

Monica on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 10:43 am 



Hi Ryan,
Your ebook was great. I found out about you after listening to the Psychology of Dreams iTunes University Podcast from Dr. Rosch. Pretty cool stuff. I’ve had a lot of difficulty becoming lucid, I think my intent is too strong, so I’m trying to take a softer approach, but my dreams are much more interesting and insightful. I’m interested in some of the supplements you recommended. I did have one lucid dream in the past month – which hasn’t happened to me since I was a child!

doug Auld (1 comments.) on Mon, 19th Jul 2010 3:18 pm 



hi ryan, i have read the e book and enjoyed it. i will re read again as i go along. i also ordered a supplement mentioned from the website you listed.
i have had many a lucid dream in the past but not in recent years. i had one the other night. it is always a thrill to know im in ,and can do whatever.
the problem with this one was i went to fast and woke myself.
so i will keep working on it and appreciate your offerings in this area

doug

Kathy Jesperson (1 comments.) on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 4:21 pm 



Ryan,
I did read the e-book. I have been an amateur dream researcher for years. I wrote an article on suite101.com using material you supplied. You may find the article at http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/remembering-dreams–a-beginners-guide-to-dream-recall.

I hope you think I did you justice. Please feel free to comment on the article, and, if you like it, please pass it on. Thanks, KJ

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