Alright in this video I'm going to talk about how lucid dreaming pills work and the neurochemistry associated with those and basically how you can use supplements and everyday things and even things you can buy on Amazon you know fairly cheaply to boost your lucid dreams and make you experience more things you know basically to have a better experience of lucid dreaming. So I'm also going to talk about how you can boost your norepinephrine levels which is something that most people I've not seen this being spoken about much in lucid dreaming community and it has I would say as much of an impact if not more of an impact than raising your acetylcholine levels and stopping your body breaking down ACH in your body. So before we get into this video do make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications because I do post weekly lucid dreaming videos as well as podcasts and everything like that so let's get into it. There are two things you really need to know before you watch this video or listen to this podcast if you're watching if you're listening to it there. Number one is that you should always do your own research before trying any supplement or pill or or you know vitamin or anything that you're going to ingest you should always do your own research and in some cases you should not take the thing if you are taking other supplements if you're taking other medication there's a good chance that it will one of these things that I'm going to mention this video might interact badly with whatever you're already taking so for that reason you should make sure that you do your own research and if you're not sure just ask your GP or your doctor or at the very least do your own research online and you can do that just by you know doing a very quick search like Hooper's ENA interactions with whatever you're currently taking it shouldn't take you long but you should definitely do that that step and number two is that if you do click on any of the links in my description they are affiliate links which means I will get you know a small commission for recommending those to you it doesn't cost you any extra but it's just a way of like supporting my channel and you know helping me make these videos for you guys so so with that long introduction here is how lucid dreaming pills work for lucid dreaming so there are two main chemicals or compounds that are responsible for lucid dreaming in your in your brain in the actual chemistry of your brain and that is acetylcholine and norepinephrine norepinephrine is what helps you feel like you're in control feel like you're in the you know in the driver's seat as it were when you're actually in a dream and it's what's going to help give you that stable feeling of yes this is my dream I am deciding what to do here acetylcholine however that's more associated with your memories and I guess you could say the building blocks of the dream and of self-awareness so norepinephrine is like your I guess your control chemical your driver's seat chemical acetylcholine is more like your memory booster your you know I guess you could say bringing in the structure of the dream creating the dream scenes from your memories and from different internal blueprints you have of how the world works and basically stitching it all together and helping you remember and so most lucid dreaming pills or supplements will focus on your acetylcholine levels because I guess that's probably the one that's been studied the most and it's been shown that if you have higher acetylcholine levels in your blood in your blood and in your body you will generally be able to have a wide range of lucid dreaming benefits like you'll be able to remember more dreams you will be more likely to be lucid you will you know have more vivid dreams and the list of benefits goes on not much has been done in the way of norepinephrine and I'm not sure why but I see for now all we know is that acetylcholine is one of the main I guess you could say that the most widely researched and accepted lucid dreaming pills and supplements or what one of the most widely accepted things that will have some sort of impact or difference on your lucid dreams and on your dreams in general and for acetylcholine there's a number of ways you can actually boost your acetylcholine or your ach levels quite easily and most of the time with no side effects and without going into too much detail on this there are different ways you can do that you can either directly take acetylcholine as a supplement which will obviously boost the levels in your system or you can take what's called acetylcholine esterase inhibitors and that is basically something that's gonna so whenever you take acetylcholine or produce acetylcholine whatever it has what's called a half-life which is the time it takes for half of this the compound to be digested and basically eliminated by your body and this time ranges anywhere from acetylcholine for acetylcholine from 4 to 12 hours it really depends on your body and how much you've actually taken or how much you had in your body to begin with so what you can do is you can take an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor which is basically going to slow down how fast your your body eliminates the acetylcholine that's already in your system and so for a lucid dream and the best thing to do is not only to take acetylcholine and you know have high levels naturally but also to take something whether whatever that substance is that will stop your body breaking down and eliminating acetylcholine and there are various different supplements and by the way I'm going to link to all of the ones I can think of in the description so if you want to go and check them out you can see you know like what's the cheapest one I'll try and put the best options near the top and then as you go down you have different options depending on what's available in your area and price and things like that and yeah so you can see it all in the description but that's what your goal would be your goal is to not only raise acetylcholine levels but it's also to stop your body eliminating that acetylcholine for as long as possible using what's called acetylcholine esterase inhibitors and I know that's a bit of a mouthful but that's yeah you don't really need to know how it works you just need to know that ACH is good and you also want to have something in your system which is going to stop your body destroying the ACH levels all right so now I'm going to talk about how to boost your norepinephrine levels now this is something by the way that has as much of an impact if not more than impact than your acetylcholine levels norepinephrine is very important and norepinephrine is basically going to give you that control it's going to make you feel like you're in control and aware of the dream so it's basically like your rocket fuel acetylcholine as a building blocks you know you need that to become to boost your REM sleep and everything like that acetylcholine is like the building block and then norepinephrine is where you're really going to start taking control and having you know a stable vivid lucid dream so there are a number of ways you can actually boost your norepinephrine levels you can't easily take a supplement for it unless you're looking at something like DH I think it's called DHEA but it's quite hard to get it's depending on where you live it's actually quite hard to get that supplement because of whatever reason it's regulated heavily so so here is how you can boost your norepinephrine levels to lucid dream more these are things that everybody should be doing every single day regardless of if you're trying to lucid dream or not so here they are okay number one every single day you need to get 13 minutes of exercise what that will do is it will raise your endorphins which is like the feel good chemical it will raise your levels of dopamine which is going to make you less depressed basically I'm simplifying this stuff for people who don't really care about the the neuroscience of all of this and importantly it's going to raise your norepinephrine levels which is going to make you more likely to lucid dream and then when you do lucid dream it's going to be more likely to be vivid and the list goes on the list of benefits goes on as well as it boosts your immune system which is you know important at this time there's a whole bunch of different things that it will do for you but in this context you know what we're actually talking about now it's going to make it much more likely that you will lucid dream number two is to get more sunlight I think it's not going to come as a surprise to many of you that you need to be getting more sunlight in your life depending on where you live that's obviously going to be harder or easier where I live at the moment there's not much sunlight coming out so you know it kind of depends where you live but if you if you live somewhere sunny whether the weather is good there's really no excuse not to be out every single day for at least half an hour right and by the way you can combine the exercise you have with the sunlight exposure so you can work out in the sun or just go for a cycle or a run and in that way you're going to get you're going to combine those two things if you want to save you more time you can combine those two things with listening to you know one of my podcast episodes I'm just joking but you could you could learn something during that time as well you could be learning or listening to a podcast or learning a language or something while you do those two things while you actually exercise and get sunlight exposure get those lumens in so yeah doing those two things will increase your norepinephrine levels and as well as that it will increase your dopamine levels your serotonin all of those things all of those hormones are very important for lucid dreaming function dreaming and higher brain function okay they're going to raise your frequency they're going to make you happier it's going to do all of those things now if you still want to boost after all of that then you can take something called phenylanoline okay a bit of a mouthful I know and this is kind of like a like a building block I guess you could say it's really unclear exactly how it impacts your norepinephrine levels but we do know that it does give them some sort of boost if you really want to boost your norepinephrine as well as taking you know who-pozine a galan to mean whatever you really want to give yourself the best chance of lucid dreaming you can take phenylanoline as well to be honest I would actually not advise doing all of that and here's what I'm going to get into you know what I want to say in a second but phenylanoline does also lower your chance of depression by raising your dopamine levels so it kind of has some other benefits as well but like I've said at the beginning research of yourself look into the benefits and you know the pros and cons okay so lastly I want to end on this because I think this is really important so two things okay first thing any of the supplements I've mentioned in this video you can find in the description I've linked to the best place for you to get them you know the best reviewed place the hopefully the cheapest place as well where you can get these supplements I will also link to a blog post I wrote comparing all of the lucid dreaming pills and supplements and things like that that you might want to look at so that's in the description now second thing before you click on any of that and before you buy any supplement I really would encourage you to learn how to lucid dream properly before you before you try any of this stuff before you go out and spend loads of money because here's the thing if you waste your money and I do say waste because it will be a waste if you waste your money on supplements on pills on you know all of this stuff books but you don't actually learn the basics and practice the techniques you've wasted your time and your money because you're not going to lose a dream and what's going to happen is you're gonna have this shelf full of empty bottles and you know books that you've read once and put away if you don't learn how to lose a dream properly you know from the beginning then all of that's a waste of money okay I've said this before I truly believe that you should learn the fundamentals first before you try and spend money on supplements and you know try and give yourself like a boost you know a hack or you know basically what you're trying to do like any human you're trying to save time you're trying to make it easier for yourself but I can promise you now it will not make it easier in the long run yeah you might get a few random lucid dreams by taking you know loads of galantamine and stuff but if you don't learn how to actually lose a dream properly then it's going to be very fleeting at best okay you might have one lucid dream you might even have five lucid dreams but you're because you haven't learned the skill as soon as your galantamine runs out you stop having lucid dreams and because you've become you've become dependent on that to have your lucid dreams and I know there's going to be some of it there's going to be some of you who don't care about that you just you are happy to spend $30 on a bottle of galantamine if it means that you get one or two lucid dreams a month I get that I really did get that but if you want to develop the skill not only will you save loads of money in the long term but you'll be it's more fulfilling and rewarding if you actually learn how to do it and instead of just relying on having random lucid dreams so I would highly encourage you to learn how to lose a dream properly and there's loads of ways you could do that I'm not going to get into exactly you know what you should do but if you want to learn how to lose a dream just please check out my other videos watch the other videos I do have actually playlists and I have you know just check it out it's all my channel there's hundreds of videos on my channel because I love talking about the stuff as you've probably realized so and by the way if you do want a boost if you do want to guarantee your lucid dream I would highly recommend of course you to check out my bootcamp course I truly believe in it and it's got some pretty good reviews now I've added actually dozens of new reviews and you know people's stories people go through this they're skeptical maybe at the beginning they think how can it guarantee lucid dreams maybe it won't work for me I get it people are skeptical but then those same people email me a week later saying wow I've lucid dreams for the first time or you know this has worked for me you can read them all on the page so yeah just go to howtolucid.com forward slash boot camp or just click in the there's always links in the description everything I mentioned there's always the useful links and resources and other videos so I would highly encourage you to actually look at the description if you've never read it before if you've never clicked on my description you've instead just gone on to other videos have a look at the description now because there's some interesting things there and as always leave a comment letting me know what you think I will try and reply to all of them and I'll see you next time