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This Vitamin Might Help You Remember Your Dreams
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By: Jordyn Cormier
May 7, 2018
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Do you wish that you could be better at remembering your dreams? Maybe you’ve tried keeping a journal by your bedside table in hopes of catching the toe of a fleeting vision. Maybe you’ve tried some tactics for lucid dreaming–a state in which you know you’re dreaming and you are in complete conscious control over your dreams.
Imagine having free reign over your dream playground. It’s possible, and it may be as easy as taking a vitamin.
On average, humans spend about six years of our lives dreaming. Being able to harness, or even simply recall, this dreamtime could prove hugely beneficial.
You can play out various anxiety-producing scenarios, improve problem solving skills, boost learning, and even work to overcome phobias and trauma; all in the safety of your own bed.
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A lot of us simply aren’t good at remembering our dreams. As soon as we open our eyes, they flitter away. But recent research has an interesting suggestion: vitamin B6 may help.
Vitamin B6 and Remembering Your Dreams
In the University of Adelaide study, 100 Australian participants took a high dose (240mg) of vitamin B6 right before bed over the course of 5 consecutive days. The study was double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled.
Perhaps the study itself doesn’t sound that interesting, but what they found was. While vitamin B6 had no effect on dream quality, vividness, or content, it did help participants remember their dreams–something most of them struggled to do before the study. They could wake up and remember with greater clarity what they had dreamt about.
Participants also were able to remember details of the dream for longer into the day. Those taking a placebo did not experience these gains.
Woman's hands poured the mix of vitamins and nutritional, dietary supplement pills from a bottle, close-up.
It will take more research to determine whether the increased recall is due to dietary B6 deficiency or not.
While dietary deficiency of vitamin B6 is rare, some people may still have low blood levels of the vitamin. If that is the case, that means the dream-enhancing effects of vitamin B6 will diminish over time as blood levels of the vitamin stabilize. But if not, vitamin B6 may be a key to unlocking the incredible power of lucid dreaming for many of us.
In the meantime, it’s a good idea to make sure you are getting enough of all the B vitamins in your diet, as they are essential for brain, immune, nerve, and cellular health. Vegan foods high in vitamin B6 include pistachios, pinto beans, avocados, blackstrap molasses, sunflower seeds, and sesame seeds.
Are you able to recall your dreams? Have you ever tried lucid dreaming? Share your experiences in the comments section below!
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lynda l
lynda l15 minutes ago
Love my dreams.....
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Cathy B
Cathy B17 minutes ago
Thank you.
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C Holmes
C Holmes18 minutes ago
We keep Nutritional Yeast powder on our kitchen shelves, and add a tablespoon or two daily, to foods we eat. It has balanced B-vitamins, and, it’s low cost way to get so many nutrients. Bet most folks didn’t know: many multivitamin makers, use Nutritional Yeast in their MVI products, then charge a much higher price!
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C Holmes
C Holmes19 minutes ago
B6 is also for helping reduce problems with cardiovascular disease.
The government’s Recommended Daily Amounts usually quoted, are bleeding-edge MINIMUMS necessary to keep body and soul together; that can be a far cry from Optimal for health.
It’s hard to overdose on any B-vitamins, since those are water soluble; excess is usually flushed-out via urine [makes pee very yellow-colored].
IF someone takes B-6, several hundred MG’s daily, for weeks to months, THEN there’s possibility of an overdose, which can appear as neurological issues, for instance. Those who were getting adverse reactions/overdose symptoms, many years ago, had taken several hundred mg.’s daily, and for several weeks, to help their cardiovascular conditions.
Consequently, practitioners figured it out, that taking that much daily for so long, was unnecessary, and, problematic...so recommended therapeutic doses were decreased.
The dose listed in this article, should be generally safe, unless one is sensitive to it or the source it comes from, for instance.
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Past Member about an hour ago
B6 or Pyridoxine toxicity is not benign and can cause damage to sensory nerves with loss of sensation. It is particularly dangerous in diseases that cause nerve damage such as Lupus. We only need 1-2 mg/day and is widely supplemented and present in many foods. Supplementation should only be undertaken in those with B6 deficiency. This was a controlled study only over 5 days. Taking 240 mg of B6/daily on a chronic basis is dangerous!
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Fiona O
Fiona O2 hours ago
This is very useful information for someone like me ....who keeps a dream journal. I will forward this to twitter. Thank you for posting.
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Elizabeth H
Elizabeth H2 hours ago
Not all dreams are nice.
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Sandra V
Sandra V2 hours ago
Thanks
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Janis K
Janis K2 hours ago
Thanks for sharing.
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Chrissie R
Chrissie R3 hours ago
I'm not sure I really want to remember my dreams....
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