Every night I have 4 or 5 intensely lucid dreams...

Question

Why? It's started in the past few weeks, and I've started taking fish oils pills and vitamins in the past few weeks. Could that be the cause? Every night is like a freakshow movie involving friends and family, living and dead, magical camel spiders that weave shirts and roads to nowhere and Adolph Hitler and impending death and utter joy and just EVERYTHING. It's like my brain has been saving up for years and burst a leak or something. What's going on?

I'm on deployment in Kuwait, if that matters, 11 months into a 15 month deployment.

Answer 1

My knowledge of herb lore is less than basic, however I doubt fish oil pills cause your dreams to be like that.

Dreams are caused by an number of things, from daily interactions to long memories rather forgotten. Sometimes your imagination can take memories and run wild with them till they aren't even recognizable memories anymore. This would understandably add to the dreamer's confusion.

Being far from home for such a long time, surrounded by desert and, I can only imagine, lots of fighting may also be a factor. It may not be readily obvious while your awake, but perhaps these surroundings are causing high stress levels that are also causing your dreams to go on the fritz.

Answer 2

Well that fact that you are on deployment probably has a LOT to do with it!  

Answer 3

Being deployed is probably an extremely stressful time for you, so I imagine that plays into you having these very odd, sort of horrific dreams.

Answer 4

Enjoy the ride, but hey Melatonin is a chemical produced by the pineal gland in your head, and is what causes REM and "dreams".  Some time diet and supplements/medications can affect this gland, also stress more than any other emotion affects it.  Try a body detox if you can, and go to bed relaxed, like with a glass of warm milk, it should help,  

Answer 5

That's pretty cool.  I take fish oil, flax seed oil, and multivitamin in the morning at sometimes at lunch time.  I just don't usually take them at night.  Don't ask me why.  I do sometimes take melatonin at night & that can give me lucid, trippy dreams sometimes.  Try taking those supplements only during daylight, at least 6 hours before bedtime.  Hope this helps.

Take care.

Answer 6

lucky!

however I must say...you are spending your precious lucid dreams dreaming about Hitler and magical spiders?!?!?

have you tried stepping into a mirror yet? have you asked the universe for winning lotto numbers? haha

Diet can definitely help you lucid dream...It all depends on what you believe, really.

Some say eating chocolate at night helps them become lucid.

Answer 7

You're lucky.  I wish I had more lucid dreams.  It's like tripping on acid in your sleep but FOR FREE!