Meaning of a Dream

Calea Zacatechichi is widely known as THE lucid dreaming herb for it's ability to induce amazingly vivid dreams.

It can significantly raise your level of self-awareness and promote lucidity, besides providing a thrilling dream experience even if you don't become lucid.

This legal herb has been used by Mexican shamans for thousands of years. It's also known as The Dream Herb, Calea Z, the Leaf of God and Bitter Grass. You can smoke it, drink it in a tea, or swallow it in capsules to induce highly vivid and meaningful dreams.

More on that in a moment...

The shamans who made the Leaf of God famous are the Chontal Medicine Men of Mexico. Whenever they want to know the cause of an illness, or the location of a distant person, they ingest these dream inducing herbs. The answers come to them in spectacularly vivid dreams...

This article is a brief overview of my own experiences with Calea Zacatechichi and where to buy it online for mind-blowing realistic dreams.

I first tried Calea Z capsules a few years ago. They have a fascinating effect - producing highly meaningful and vivid dreams; the kind that you wake up thinking "WOW." They were like no other dreams I'd had before.

As dream herbs go, Calea Z is a good one to start off with, because the effect on waking consciousness is minimal - yet it intensifies your dream content and recall upon waking. These all push you towards lucid dreaming.

I've had lucid and non-lucid dreams with Calea Z; each amazing and memorable in their own right. I've never had any nightmares or negative experiences with it. I always take it in capsule form and take it after 4-6 hours of sleep. This is the ideal time because your REM (dream) sleep is extended in the early morning.

Some of my Calea Z dreams have been far removed from this world, conjuring up alien planets and futuristic cities. My favorite experience was when I dreamed I was another person living in an advanced alien civilization. I can still remember how I felt to live in a world of the future - it was reminiscent of an Iain Banks Culture novel - and that feeling still runs through me like I have lived another life.

In the dream, time seemed to stretch, and I perceived a great deal in what must have only been 30-60 minutes of dreaming. It was a bit like watching an epic movie that spans 200 years in the space of two hours, yet you feel like it lasted longer because so much happens. That's about as close as I can explain it; it was like flashing through someone's life while instantly understanding all that they had felt and been through during the course of many years.

When I woke up, I was mildly stunned to be in this reality. My normal life - without flying cars, or skyscrapers that ran into the clouds, or alien people, or the sense of adventure - seemed quite boring in comparison. But I was euphoric at the memory and wanted to write it all down before it drained away. Now, many details of the dream are lost, even after writing it down, but the emotional content stays with me, a feeling I can't redefine.

Others have reported incredibly realistic Calea Zacatechichi dreams, sometimes with complex plots and gripping drama, others with more trivial content but profound intensity nonetheless. That includes people who don't normally remember any dreams at all... In fact, this dream herb is scientifically found to improve your dream recall, so it's ideal for beginner lucid dreamers who want to get closer to their dream worlds.

You can buy Calea Z online from a few stores, such as Arena Ethnobotanicals. Either buy and grow your own plant, or just get the packaged dry leaf extract to smoke, drink as a tea, or pack into gel capsules and swallow like a pill.

How to ingest this vivid dream inducing herb:

Tea: Yuck! Many people agree that drinking Calea Z tea tastes godawful so if you do go down this route, add plenty of honey and drink it slowly. This might just take the edge off. I am told it tastes like Mate, a popular tea in Argentina and Uruguay, but don't let this fool you - Calea Z tea is extremely bitter and hard to get down.

Smoke: If you choose to smoke, inhale the dry leaf extract before bed. You may feel a little buzzy, but the majority of effects occur in dreamland.

Capsules: This is the easiest way to go. Grab some empty gel capsules and then pack your dry leaf extract into them and swallow 1-2 pills after 4-5 hours sleep. That way you will get sufficient deep sleep before embarking on longer REM cycles so that Calea Zacatechichi can really work its magic.

And of course, it helps if you incubate your chosen lucid dream as you fall asleep. This means visualizing your desired dreamscape, telling yourself (in your mind) that you will lucid dream tonight, and relaxing sleepily into the experience... ;)