Calea Zacatechichi – Dream Herb – Lucid Dreaming
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This website serves as a guide to working with Calea Zacatechichi, a legal plant whose effects include:
- making dreams more vivid, realistic, and detailed
- helping dreamers achieve lucidity i.e. dreaming and knowing that you’re dreaming!
- increasing ones ability to remember dreams
Calea Zacatechichi is commonly known as Dream Herb.
It is also referred to as Bitter Grass, Cheech, Leaf of God. or just Calea Z.
As knowledge has spread about the use of dream herb in a shamanic context by the Chontal Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, its popularity has spread beyond its its indigenous roots.
Many people around the world now are interested in working with Calea Z in order to work with their dreams.
This guide is intended for such an audience.
Your Contributions are Needed!
- Comments: Most pages on this site have a comment form where anyone can add their thoughts or opinions to what’s being discussed. Adding to the discussion will add value for everyone visiting.
- Experience Reports: Please submit a write-up of your experience with Calea Z. For an idea of what this means, check out the reports already here.
- Growers Tips & Photos: Readers tips on growing Calea Z would be a very nice addition to the guide. Photos are also needed, including photos of live plants as well as dream herb in its various forms – crushed leaf, pills, resin, etc.
- General Knowledge: What’s missing? Please share.
And of course, general suggestions and feedback are always welcome.
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Recent Updates
- May 2011: Added 5 new photos from a commercial calea z grower.
- May 2011: New page on calea zacatechichi seeds.
- April 2011: New page on growing calea zacatechichi.
- April 2011: New Experience Report! First Experience With Calea Zacatechichi by Rowan. Thanks Rowan!
- April 2011: Some new pictures added to the Calea Zacatechichi photo gallery.
- Melissa commented: “Drink the tea while chewing a piece or two of mint gum…you barely notice the bitterness.” More @ Methods of Taking Calea Zacatechichi
- Joe Commented: “I will be trying the 20x resin of Calea this weekend with my girlfriend. I hope the amount we will smoke will be okay for our safety. We will be smoking 2 joints. Each joint has 1.1 grams of 20x resin.” More @ Calea Zacatechichi Safety and Dosage
- Mike commented: “i just smoked 4 joints and about 3/4 of a gram all up. I weigh 50kg. I feel very sensitive and drowsy. Good buzz. I didn’t need much.” More @ Calea Zacatechichi Safety and Dosage