Diet and Lucid Dreaming. Helped tremendously!

So I recently changed my diet up completely. Going from the casual three meals a day (healthy) and eating whatever. To a full Healthy Keto Diet paired with Intermittent Fasting. I HIGHLY recommend this. If you have any questions please ask, not just for dreaming but for overall better health.

Part of keto is switching your fuel source from sugar to fat burning for energy. The hormone Ketones does wonderful things for your whole body. A big part of that is the brain likes ketones much better then glucose (sugar). You will have greatly improved cognitive function like focus and memory. This is what really helps for dreams.

So I started the diet and it's recommended to do periodic prolonged fasts (3-5 days) every month or two. So upon doing my first long fast I did 3 1/2 days of no eating. In my third night I had my first lucid dream in months of constant trying to no avail. Easily too. Without any techniques of settings alarms before your REM cycles, writing a dream journal, or reality checks. I mean it was EASY.

And now since my diet of keto and one meal a day, I am lucid dreaming consistently every other night. Aided now by reality checks and intentions before bed. It's amazing. I'm learning how to stay lucid and able to explore my dream world. Next I will relearn how to fly like I did as a kid.

I just wanted to share my findings. Its something I didn't really consider, until accidentally coming across the experience. It's truly amazing and I believe it makes sense. I highly recommend trying it. Feel free to ask any questions. Good luck to all of you.

Posted Dec 6, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC · edited

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kornaxon•

Good for you!
Did keto before and indeed it affects how your brain work, therefore i find it plausible that it might affect LDs too. I remember the euphoria it caused, woo-hooo!

I'm not determined enough to get into ketosis nowadays (c'mon, Christmas and NYE are about carbs and alcohol!), but maybe I'll try later again. Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Happy dreaming!

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Apeiron_8Frequent Lucid Dreamer•

It’s crazy you mention this because I’ve been seriously thinking of trying Keto and intermittent fasting. Let me know how it works for your you regarding weight/health goals!

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LagoRealOP•

This is exactly why I thought it would be worth mentioning. I figured there may just be a synchronicity waiting for somebody by me posting it.

I can already tell you it works wonders. And FAST. I'm only 26, and I didn't have to loose to much weight, but I wanted to burn fat. I already lost to much weight and now need to work back up with building muscle. It's truly amazing how much energy I have and the clarity with focus. Along with motivation. I do a healthy keto diet and pretty strict. Which requires discipline. Especially learning to read ingredients on everything that I buy. But starting somewhere will make an impact.

Here's a simple video for you to just dabble on the idea and concepts behind it. This guy is the real deal.

https://youtu.be/vMZfyEy_jpI

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Top-Distance-784•

Are you sure its not just your body starving? I feel like when I used to starve myself I had really insane dreams because I had so little energy I would easily drift off into a “fever dream” state that felt lucid

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LagoRealOP•

I dont wanna say no, because anything possible really. But I guess I should have clarified on the final night of the fast I ate a small salad and a piece of salmon, and then had the firt lucid dream. So I believe at that point my body wasnt starving.

Also made sure to take vitamins before going into the fast so I wouldn't have any deficiencies in that regard. Also was drinking lemon water during the fast for electrolytes for energy levels.

So I don't believe this was the case. Also the nights after the first LD in months, of eating only one meal a day have proven to be a big help as well. Because of the improved brain activity from running on ketones.

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I highly recommend eating once a day, only brunch/lunch.

Tibetan buddhist eat "break"-"fast" and lunch and skip dinner so they can remain in a state of meditation all night / dream yoga.

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