 All right, welcome back guys. In this video I'm talking about 5-HTP for lucid dreaming. How can you use 5-HTP to lucid dream more regularly, more effectively, and how you can basically use this incredible dream supplement, because it really is quite an incredible supplement to boost your lucid dreams, lucid dream more often, more regularly, and have more vivid dreams. So before we start this full disclaimer, this is not medical advice. You should do your own research. And of course, if you're taking something already, if you're already taking a lucid dreaming supplement or a pill, then you should make sure that it's not going to interact with that badly. This is more of a warning for other supplements, but it applies for 5-HTP as well. So firstly, what is 5-HTP and how does it work? So the actual name 5-HTP stands for 5-Hydroxotryptophan, which is a lucid dreaming aid and a booster. Now, 5-HTP is actually something our body's already produced naturally, but when you supplement it, when you take more of it, then well, you're just going to give yourself more lucid dreams and a better chance of lucid dreaming as well, because this is all about stacking the odds in your favor. You know, you want to make it as likely as possible that you're going to lucid dream. And yes, we naturally produce 5-HTP, but if you can just boost your levels a little bit, just like acetylcholine, right? If you can just boost your levels of acetylcholine, just that little bit, it's going to be much more likely that you will actually lucid dream. So in terms of what it actually does, 5-HTP tends to increase tryptophan levels in the brain and also it releases or helps to release serotonin. Now, serotonin is known to make you feel good. It's in the same kind of category as other things like dopamine, oxytocin, endorphins, that sort of thing, okay? It's a feel good hormone or substance. So the more serotonin you have, usually the happier you feel throughout the day. Now, serotonin is always balanced out with melatonin. Melatonin is like the sleep hormone or the hormone that makes you feel tired at night. And serotonin is the opposite of that. So serotonin is going to make you feel alert, awake. And what happens is naturally in the body, when the sun rises, we actually start producing serotonin in our bodies naturally. And then when the sun sets in the evening, we stop producing serotonin and start producing melatonin so that we ultimately should feel tired in the evening. This is how it's supposed to work. Okay. Now, obviously nothing is perfect. And so in today's world, what happens is that we stimulate ourselves too much with blue artificial light. And I've spoken about this in many other videos, but things like, you know, looking at your phone just until you go to sleep at night, watching TV or scary films or playing video games and all of that stuff that you do or that we do as a society today is going to basically stop your body producing enough melatonin and you're going to be producing too much serotonin. So you'll feel good and it will feel fun and happy and everything. But the result of that is that you just won't sleep as well. So 5-HTP produces serotonin. However, serotonin can and does give you more lucid dreams if you use it in the right way. Now, in terms of how to actually use 5-HTP to lucid dream, well, it's really not that difficult at all. It's quite simple actually. So what you need to do, just bear in mind firstly that if you take 5-HTP, your dreams will be more vivid, but importantly, and this is what really excited me about 5-HTP in the first place, you know, I just finished watching Inception and I started Googling like, what is the best lucid dreaming supplement or is there a lucid dreaming pill? And I wanted to find something that would give me a lucid dream. Now, I learned, obviously, that isn't possible. You can't just take a pill or a supplement and expect that to make you lucid. It's much more complicated than that. You need to actually learn techniques and build up self-awareness habits. And as I'm sure you've heard me say before, however, 5-HTP has an interesting effect. It increases your REM sleep length. So you have longer REM sleep. Now, this is something that usually before I had heard about 5-HTP, this was something that only alcohol or REM rebound could do. And so I've mentioned before, if you drink alcohol and then go to sleep, if you time it right, and if you have kind of the right amount of alcohol in your system, you can actually experience what is called REM rebound, which is where the first few sleep cycles of your night, you don't have REM sleep. It's suppressed. But then in the later sleep stages and cycles, you have more REM sleep to make up for the one that you lost earlier. So, and I wouldn't advise you to go and start drinking, of course, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is 5-HTP is a better way of getting longer REM sleep without having to, you know, drink essentially, without having to do anything that could harm you. And there are very small side effects. There's very limited side effect to 5-HTP, which is one of the benefits of this as a lucid dreaming pill or a lucid dreaming supplement. You don't want to have side effect. If possible, you want to have a relaxed, reliable, and comfortable experience. You don't want to have these crazy side effects if you can help it when you're lucid dreaming. Now, another side effect of 5-HTP is that you will experience more vivid and in many cases more bizarre or weird dreams. Now, I have spoken about this before, if you have really weird dreams and if your dreams are strange or unusual or, yeah, in other ways, creepy or different, they are kind of more likely to be lucid just because they're different, just because they're scary or bizarre or strange. So, it is actually a good lucid dreaming pill or supplement just for that reason. But when you combine it all together, very few side effects, effective, doesn't build up a tolerance, increases your REM sleep, makes dreams more vivid, and increases the likelihood of you being lucid because they're more bizarre, you kind of have a winning formula here. And this is why I'm quite excited about 5-HTP as well as a few other things like galantamine, you know, hoopazine and choline in general, okay? Now, one warning I want to give you, well, two warnings really about 5-HTP. The first one is that if you take too much, like with anything, I suppose, you can feel a bit nauseous and sick and not good. So, you really need to start at the low end of the dosage. Don't just go in and just go crazy and start taking, you know, incredible amounts of 5-HTP. You need to start at the low end just to check your tolerance and make sure that it's not going to affect you in a negative way. The second thing, and this is my main point with any lucid dreaming supplement video I make, you cannot rely on a lucid dreaming supplement to make you lucid. You need to learn the techniques and actually build up self-awareness. There is no lucid dreaming pill that is going to induce a lucid dream every time or even regularly, okay? The best we can say for any lucid dreaming supplement is that it increases the likelihood that you could become lucid. And there's what's called lucid dream support, which is where it will either increase the likelihood you'll become lucid or it will do something where it will boost another area of your lucid dreaming life. Let's say it will increase your memory or you'll be able to have more vivid dreams or maybe you'll be able to sleep better, okay? So, you could say melatonin is a sleep supplement for lucid dreaming because melatonin helps you sleep in a more profound and deep way. You're going to be sedated and you're going to have deeper sleep if you take melatonin. So, you could say that is a dream supplement because it indirectly affects your lucid dreams. So, really, there are many different types of lucid dreaming supplement and pills that you could try. However, like I said at the very beginning, do your own research, okay? This is not medical advice and I'd love to hear what your experiences are with any lucid dreaming pill out there. 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