Has anyone tried or even heard of these? The following is an excerpt from “The Home Brewer’s Companion” by Charlie Papazian (a book on home beer making- the section about hops):
"Call it the lupulin effect if you wish, but regardless of what you name it, hops do have a calming effect on the nerves, so much so that herbalists wil recommend hop tea as a remedy for insomnia. More strangely, the smell of hops is said to help induce sleep. Usually hops and other herbs are combined as ingredient stuffing to make a “dream pillow.” When slept with, the pillow not only induces deeper sleep but promotes vivid dreams. Most people are skeptics about this effect, but I have found through personal experimentation that these dream pillows work very well. So, for all the lupomaniacs and hopheads, here is a recipe for making a dream pillow.
The following mixed ingredients will stuff two 8-inch-by-6-inch pillows
2 oz. (56.8 g.) of your favorite dried whole hops
2 oz. (56.8 g.) dried chamomile flowers
2 oz. (56.8 g.) dried rosebuds, crushed
1 oz. (28.4 g.) dried mugwort
1 oz. (28.4 g.) dried lemongrass
1/2 oz. (14.2 g.) benzoin (a natural preservative)
Bag this mix in double-layered cheesecloth. Sew together an outer pillow from material that is attractive and tightly woven. Sleep with this dream pillow near your bed pillows, and be warned that your dreams may be so intense that you may decide to go back to having a beer before bedtime instead."
This is interesting… once again I have made a discovery and then more information has started pouring in from the universe. This happens to me all the time! I think about something and have a question and then answers start rolling in.
I have never been much of a beer guy but I recently started working at a pub near my house. They brew their own beer and we get a free beer at the end of our shift so sometimes I hang around with some of the guys and have a couple before heading home. The first night I did that I had this CRAZY dream where I started it lucid. There was no point where I said “This is a dream” I was just lucid right from the get go.
I went down to this sea shore, the sand was bright orange/red and the sea stood up like a solid wall of liquid. Tropical fish schooled by, out of the wall of water, floated through the air and turned back into the sea again. A flounder-flat sperm whale slowly made its way over my head through the air. It looked down at me as I looked up at it and I could see through it silvery skin… right through to its bones and organs.
I swear it was the beer. I was beginning to wonder what they put in it!
I had another dream the next time I stayed after for a few wherein one of my friends dogs (which he doesn’t actually own in RL) asked me to come back around at four o’clock to watch a concert with him on TV. I looked quizically at my friend who merely said that he didn’t know what concert the dog was talking about. Very vivid.
Sounds like a good idea. Intense dreams mean easy-to-remember dreams, and probably increases chance of lucidity. Now, and i’m probably just being ignorant, what is the dream pillow-beer connection?
The connection is that hops is a main ingredient for both. I had not heard of dream pillows until I read this. For fun (and to remind me to remember my dreams and become lucid) I have a dream catcher, and I thought a dream pillow might be a good complement to that.
Ok,ive been trying to get the ingredients in this hopeless country of mine but as suspected they dont have much here.If they do it comes in liquor state or theres no leaves or.or…or…like i said-hopeless.
Im very keen to try out such a pillow and i write this seeking for help.Is there anyone who managed to make one?Is there a country(possibily eurpean) where buying that stuff is as easy as just going to the shop and buying it?Id appreciate someones help in buying them for me-id pay all the costs and shipping(ummm if its not the fortune,i chcecked some internet prizes and they shocking).
Anyways-you know what i mean.If theres someone who made such a pilow and maybe have leftovers ot easy acces to above id buy it off him/her.Unfortunately i dont have a credit card to get it over the net(and 5.95 pounds for some lemongrass is really impossibile for me:(
thx heaps:)
Hi Cosmic Charly…Crevy told me just now about this topic of yours lol…
I find it very interesting…
I am going to try a different aproach for lucidity with a coffee filled pillow!
I tried already a smell experiment with good succes
If u are interested its at the forum ‘Quest for lucidity’ Topic: Super Dream Recall Method…
Well maybe you find it interesting and u got any suggestions for it!
OK thx for the pillow idea…I test it with coffee…lol
I tried with perfume under my nose and i dreamt of 1001 nude girls lol…no joke!
Tried my coffee smell experiment, works fine, is real promissing!
Wanne try with certain herbs…with a timer and a steam machine if such a thing exist…lol
It works only if u got a really strong scent to smell
