Calea Zacatechichi Bioassay
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Experience report by CptnGarden, August 2007.
Type of materials:
IAS Calea 20x
99% grade isopropyl extract
Dried leaf, stem, & flower mix
Your Weight in kg:
61
Doses taken/method:
0.2g iso-extract smoked
7g dried foliage tea
0.5g iso-extract vaporized
0.2g in a cigarette
0.5g in a cigarette
0.7g in a cigarette
Your brief but thoughtful documentation:
I had received some Calea 20x, and a few ounces of mixed foliage.
I brew 7 grams into a very bitter brew, and downed it as quickly as I could without gagging. I then proceeded to smoke 0.2grams of Calea 20x (equal to 4 grams of material if my math is right), and headed off to bed.
What I experienced didn’t surprise me in effect, as it had done just as I read, and my dreams were more clear.
I wouldn’t say that it makes your dreams “vivid”, though I do remember EVERYTHING from the dreams, even little objects off to the sides of my vision during the dream, stuff that i wasn’t even concentrating on during the dream-time, but could remember the next day with full clarity.
There was so much detail to every dream, but it wasn’t like the waking reality we know.
Calea DOES in-fact help you realize your dreaming a lot easier too. When I took this extract and tea combination I had my first
lucid dream in a year or so. Instantly a pon realizing, I did a spinning kick in the air, and became aware of the air flowing over my leg, the weight of my leg, and was quite surprised in my dream-state that everything was so realistic in a sense that my dream-state “senses” were heightened.
I would also like to mention that Calea has always made me have short little dreams, instead of one long steady dream which is more common. I would also remember these dreams with great detail, I could recall them in order of events as if I had lived it.
The effects of Calea lasted for at least 3 nights before I stopped experiencing them with such intensity.
I take a medicine which prevents me from experiencing most of my dreams, so its always a pleasure to partake in the experience this plant brings.
My experience with vaporizing the .5gram of iso-extract lead to another beautiful 3 nights of vivid dreams.
I had lots of dreams about past events or places I have been, and always with people I knew, never and unknown face or difficult moment (putting pants on and having them disappear instantly, lol dreams) like with my usual dreams.
Don’t know if that last statement was just coincidence or not though, and ide be interested to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.
I have been smoking calea with tobacco for a while, having smeared the isopropyl extract onto the cigarette paper. I have noticed one major effect I have been getting alot lately and I dont think it has anything to do with the tobacco. When I smoke calea and dont go to sleep for a while, I have noticed a very strange feeling, and I tend to feel it for the next few days, mostly and usualy accompanying the morning after smoking it. Also, the nights I smoke calea I cant seem to get out of bed the next morning, and seem to sleep quite fine (no waking up to toss and turn)
The plus’ and the negatives:
+ Better Recall of what happend in my dreams
+ Clearer imagery in my dreams
- Usually slightly drowsy the next day, always sleep in longer.