Calea Zacatechichi (Awaiting Experience)

[Midwinter Mist]

Ah, Calea Zacatechichi, giver of bodacious names and dreams.

As a big dreamer and somebody with light experience in lucid dreaming, I decided it was time to order my first batch of Calea Zacacatacatechca…chi…ca… well, you know its name by now.

I don’t write down my dreams so often and I’m sure it’d benefit me greatly if I did, but I do still experience highly vivid and lifelike dreams, which I’ve been experiencing and remembering for most of my life. I can still recall some childhood dreams and not the kind that involved me wanting to be a greasy Rock Star (I just made that up), and my many dreams have taken me through all sorts of beauty, wonder and hellish experiences. However, there is still much to be done!

I’ve ordered Calea in capsule form (twelve capsules, to be precise), and I am hoping that they push my inner self just that bit further for me to have a burst of colourful lucid dreams. I cannot say for sure that it’ll happen, but it’s known that Calea Zacata-chicachica does inspire the lucidity, but why go on when I’m telling you something you already know and most likely years before me?

So, providing my twelve capsules (two must be taken at a time so they won’t last too long) pass airport security (you can never be 100% sure in this day and age), I am planning to document my six nights of Zacachiti in this topic.

Now, as a note, I don’t know when these capsules will even turn up and it would have made more sense for me to post this at a later time, but I’m afraid that I’m bored and wish to pass the time I’m painfully enduring right now (‘tis very boring).

If I can obtain a sufficient level of awareness (preferably not the semi-level of awareness I tend to obtain, acknowledging the dream at the same time as I continue to brush off much of it as reality and ignore the fact that I’m awake in a f****** dream! Excuse my censored language), I have a few plans in mind I’d like to carry out.

By the way, isn’t it annoying for us not-so-hot lucid dreamers? You know, we’re left in absolute shock with lucid dreaming in our waking lives. We drop our jaws even at the idea of being conscious in the subconscious/unconscious, standing in an entire universe within a universe before intelligent thought-forms and other more suspicious beings, while we endure lifelike pain, emotion, etc., prior to becoming lucid in a dream but still we brush it aside. The glory swarms around us and we just shrug and probably say something like ‘cool’ and leave it as that.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! Old news, that, isn’t it? It still amazes me to this day, though. The sheer reality that is lucid dreaming is astounding and even today it is barely known to the masses, regardless of what information comes out.

Anyway, I was saying about a few plans in mind. However, my way of bloating the post has created a sudden change of heart. You will now have to wait until another post to hear my mighty plans.

I just hope this Calea Zachticochicoco works as this will otherwise be a large waste of time! Dream fingers crossed, eh?

[MiBeloved]

What do you think is the main reason why your lucid dreaming did not take off before?

[Midwinter Mist]

Originally Posted by MiBeloved

What do you think is the main reason why your lucid dreaming did not take off before?

I have had numerous lucid dreams and have had chances to contact guides, while playing about with altering temperatures, my surroundings, etc. So, it definitely did take off but each of those occasions were brief and half-assed. In many 'lucid' cases, I could accept that I'm awake, but still rationalise a lot of things. For example, I'd know I'm dreaming, yet I still believed my ex-partner to my side was still with me and everything was normal like in waking life (but waking life wasn't like that).

Recently, I became lucid in a dream, but let's say about 80-90% of my awareness was still being manipulated by the dream, so I was unable to do anything and remained in that lucid state for a mere few seconds. I very briefly tried to make a large and menacing dragon appear, but instead I got more of a toy and was unable to change it.

Despite performing reality checks and noticing odd things in a lot of dreams, things became more difficult and I just couldn't seem to grasp that rope to pull into the right state of 'mind'. I'd count thirteen fingers, know it's wrong and means I'm dreaming, but still shrug it off and slip back into a completely regular dream.

I think my difficulty has been a combination of little experience and a lot going on in my life, which came with incredibly high stress levels. This made it difficult for me to make the effort to write down the majority of my dreams or really focus my mind on it all. However, there is just a slight ease coming into my life at the moment, so I believe that and the Calea could enable me to have a burst of lucid dreams. I will most likely be more focused on it, but it could turn out I get nothing from the capsules.

That's the other thing, by the way, my lucid dreams, whatever the level, usually came in bursts, so I'd either get a bunch so many nights in a row or barely anything at all.

[MiBeloved]

People who consistently have lucid dreams are usually one of two types

1. Those who are gifted psychics
2. Those who have practiced for some time and who kept a dream journal
Erratic experiences and irregular lucid dreaming are natural. Stress and preoccupation with worldly concerns add to the irregularity and absence of the lucid dreams.

Even for those who have success there are periods of many lucid dreams and then periods of few experiences.

It seems that the realm of lucid dreaming has its weather pattern too and on some days it is more favorable than others.

Have you considered developing a meditation practice?

That is what I use to induce and have regular astral projections and lucid dreams.

[Midwinter Mist]

Originally Posted by MiBeloved

Have you considered developing a meditation practice?

That is what I use to induce and have regular astral projections and lucid dreams.

I have definitely thought about it, though I find it difficult to do. Having said that, I haven't had a huge amount of practise. Fortunately, I have ordered a large sum of CDs, each of which contain music that I believe will be perfect for me when it comes to meditation. I will have to give it another try and with that very music playing.

I do in fact plan to get back into writing my dreams down. The only reason I stopped was due to tiredness, lack of motivation but also the fact I remembered the majority of my dreams without writing them down. Of course, I won't lie, they do wither in time.

I think another major problem was when my lack of drive was beginning to turn my reality checks into habits! I remember I'd keep performing reality checks like a habit, not always realising I was performing them right away and thus not really emphasising what I needed to but that is again because of the stress. It's probably why the dreams turned out the same way, involving me performing a reality check and then just ignoring it. Things will be slightly more at ease soon, at least, as mentioned, though my stress will not disappear for a very long time - such is just my life.

[bluestar]

Yes I too have dreamed lucid on many many occasions, then might go for ages with nothing of the kind happening! And because it's all under the control of the Subconscious Will, it's difficult to do it to order.
It will be very interesting to know what you experience on this Cala Zach....sorry I can't even pronounce it and certainly can't remember how to spell it....
Are you sure it's safe to take this herb? (is it a herb?)
Whatever, I am sure you will be protected. Take care though. post back updates!

[Midwinter Mist]

The Calea has arrived!

Bluestar, from what I can see, the herb is crushed down and put into the capsules. I've heard it's safe and only creates relaxation outside of sleep. Of course, I will see how I feel after the first take and won't continue if I notice anything wrong.

I'm thinking of waiting until the new week before making a start as I've just had a sudden increase in stress! It's tough to focus and to make matters worse I am currently in a very cluttered home. However, I have some of my new CDs, which are great for meditation and actually come with free incense sticks. So, I'm going to do what I can to ease the tension and then I'll post an update when I get started on the capsules.

For the record, there are various things I want to do in my lucid dreams. I tend to create priorities and focus on them as I've noticed that a plan helps my lucid dream a bit more. I still wish to attempt communication with my spirit guide as we've discussed before and I recently picked up the idea of becoming the great Bruce Lee.

I imagine myself generating a circle of golden light, which falls upon me from the sky, before various lights, energies and a dragon (made up of both) swirl into me, all the while I'm emphasising Bruce Lee and his abilities.

I am hoping that with that, I can get a chance to experience him within me, from his mentality to his physicality. I want to experience his incredible awareness, focus, fighting speed and power and so much more that made him what he was.

I can only imagine how incredible it would be to call upon such powerful energy in a lucid dream, so that's another priority (possibly the second). I just hope that such energy won't be so overwhelming as to wake me up.

[Midwinter Mist]

Update:

There was a change of plan and I took the Calea, after all.

I managed to resolve just a few things and was able to restore some calm, so I chilled out, relaxed my mind a bit and figured I would give the Calea a go.

Now that the night has passed, I can tell you that the Calea did nothing.

After I took it, I'll admit it did take me a long time to fall asleep. I also ate right before it and I don't know if that makes any difference, but I'd imagine something did because although lucid dreaming isn't guaranteed, people do pretty much guarantee a noticeable experience when taking Calea, usually in the form of dreams that are shockingly lifelike, vivid and colorful (like some kind of awakening of the senses).

Well, maybe that's where I went wrong. Sure, my dreams were lifelike and colorful. I remember coming back into a room that had been decorated with this lovely yellow / orange that altered in tone depending on the light and it was very nice on the eyes, but none of this is unusual for me. I'm at a point in my life now where I acknowledge that every dream I encounter is as lifelike (and beyond) as the waking world. I experience it all the time, although I do still feel there is just another extreme, which for me would be through lucid dreaming and a strong level of awareness opening up the senses even further. But, I don't know, maybe Calea is for people who don't usually dream so well...

Nevertheless, I still have the item and I'll give it another go at another point.


Edit: In fact, now that I think about it, I could have sworn I read somebody saying somewhere that they didn't get anything from it on the first night but after that it happened. So, fingers crossed.