Calea Chronicles
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Experience report by AvidFan.
Sat Aug 30, 2003 9:45 pm
Well, I’ve been experimenting with the capped calea idea for the last three nights with some interesting results.
I ground the herb down to a finer consistency, then packed two vegicaps with it, and swallowed them before I went to bed. I also smoked one joint of dried herb, mixed with tobacco.
After a while I was feeling very relaxed, and was getting some faint OEV’s on the ceiling, and some CEV’s when I shut my eyes again. When I woke up, I had come out of an extremely vivid dream, so vivid that for the next day I had to keep reminding myself that some of it didn’t really happen. During the dream, in places, I knew I was dreaming, but it was so real I had to turn to someone and say, “I am dreaming, aren’t I?” because it was so realistic…
Now, I might have quite a vivid dream maybe once a week normally, but the next night, on the same dosage, I found myself once again in the midst of a very vivid and realistic dream. At one point someone urged me in one direction, and I was able to say, “no, this is my dream, I’m going that-a-away…”
I thought two could be coincidence, so last night I took two caps again, and smoked a calea joint, and for a third night in a row found myself in the midst of a dream that was very weird and vivid, and at one point I found myself getting annoyed that these other characters were doing things in my dream that I didn’t want them to – nothing bad, they were just going around doing their own thing, a bit like the Salvia people I often come across (in fact I’ve said elsewhere that Salvia trips resemble dreams very closely for me).
Anyway, I will be continuing the experiment to find out:
a) whether increasing the dose increases the effect
b) whether tolerance builds up, or whether, as with salvia divinorum, a kind of reverse tolerance builds up, and the dosage has a kind of short-term cumulative effect
c) what the effect is when I have to get up for work the next day Sad
d) whether more dreams from way in the past start to spring back into my memory, as this is another effect I’ve been noticing.
I’ve also found that Calea has distinct aphrodisiacal qualities, but haven’t found mention of this elsewhere.
Hope someone finds this useful – I’m definitely becoming an avid fan of the Dream Herb, and will report back on my findings…
Wed Sep 10, 2003 10:31 pm
So far, the effects have tapered off somewhat, but may be due to rearranged sleeping patterns. I have found Calea Z to be a great relaxant as much as anything else, and am still remembering dreams from long ago through continued use. Some mornings I know I have dreamt vividly but can’t seem to access the memory. Other mornings it’s a lot clearer. Possibly there is a tolerance effect…
I have got hold of some 10x Calea extract and will test this at the weekend Cool.
Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:01 pm
The calea 10x was nice. It gives a nice buzz, and you even get some very mild waking changes in perception.
I had a cup of the tea (getting used to it) and smoked some of the extract with tobacco and felt quite spaced out. The same night, I had an extremely vivid dream, lucid at times, but I couldn’t remember any of it until 10pm the following night, when it suddenly popped into my head from nowhere. The subsequent night I dreamt very vividly again.
I’m just getting back to a daily routine, so my sleep patterns are probably still uppity. However, I can say with certainty that so far in the experiment, I have dreamt very vividly and memorably on most nights, when this is unusual for me. I am also paying more attention to my dreams, and more dreams from the past are coming back to memory.
So you should definitely try dreamhearb if you haven’t, and Dave, the 10x is well worth stocking!!
Sat Sep 27, 2003 7:50 pm
Just a brief update – I’ve now reached the stage where I’m dreaming vividly every night, and the narrative of the dreams from night to night is becoming connected, as if the dream-life is another life somewhere else. I stopped taking dreamherb about a week ago, but it seems to have left a residue, or opened some doorway, as the dreams have continued without it. I’ve had moments of great lucidity – last night the dream wasn’t really going the way I wanted, and I was thinking I needed to be out of there, so I signalled to myself with three taps on the top of my left hand (got the idea off Star Trek) and suddenly woke up – at least I think I have.