not sure if this is the right place, cause it kinda mixes into several categories. anyhow…
i was wondering just how much the iron levels in the blood affect ld’s and your chance of getting them, if too much or too little is a problem for the brains functions and so forth. the reason i ask, is cause my doctor believes that i might have a disease called hemochromatosis, which is a disease that gives very high levels of iron in the blood. some bloodsamples have been sent to analysis, and the results should be back by monday, so i wanted to know a little about the actually important effects of this disease (other than the risk of death, and, god forbid, impotence…).
Here is a link to wikipedia about the disease, if anyone wants to know.
I have no idea if it affects lucid dreaming I have eated a multivitamin that had lots of iron in it, but there wasn’t really a difference between using and not using it. So I don’t think it affect that much. Well it might a bit if you have way too much or way too little iron in your body. But I’ve found that there’s not really that much that you can eat that can affect lucid dreaming. In general if it affects your memory or your ability to think it also affects your ability to lucid dream.
Well iron is mostly linked to hemoglobine, oxygen in blood stream, but i wonder if that really is a great factor because most ppl have a normal iron level in their blood.
i cant say. i don’t know. what i do know, is that this iron problem of mine has kept me dead tired all the time for the last couple years. and by that i mean to the extent that i look like the living dead. it has affected my mind to a degree, in that i have little ability to keep focus on dull and boring tasks, which is why my grades are dropping faster than an erection after seeing a fat lady
i guess it has most to do with the ability to focus and the ability to get a good nights sleep, this disease. i gather as much because i can’t remember the last time i woke up feeling refreshed.
well, i don’t, and thats why i’m asking. sorry if this is rude, but please keep comments without any meaning to yourself. i’m not in the best mood right now (damned ice-cream makes me have to type with one hand. oh, the wasted gaming time…).
anyhow. later i will post a new thread about a different issue, only this time i am going to educate you guys, not the other way round…
Kimius i apologize!
For not having read your post well!
I hope all works out with you and that you dont have hemochromatosis!
About the lds i have no clue then, think not or it would for sure influence your conscious brain functions when u are awake also.
believe it or not, that stuff has helped. every one of my ld’s have been the night after some kind of minor catastrophe, which has affected my mood for the worse, by a lot. i guess the ld’s are there as a kind of safety mechanizm to make sure i don’t get too depressed/angry and do something stupid like a swan dive of a bridge or something.
i do recall one time, a couple months before my first ld, when i almost got one, and that was the only time that was an exception from what i just wrote. that time was the opposite, and i had only a few minutes entered a kind of mild blissful state, caused by some revelation that i can’t quite recall as of yet. that was probably close to the most happy moment of my life, but even that didn’t get me lucid, so i guess that approach won’t work unless i win the lottery or something.
[b][color=indigo]Well I’m anaemic so it’s the other way round for me…too little iron in my blood. But I too have had lds. But whether I would have had more or less if I had a normal amount of iron in my blood I don’t know.
What I do know is that when I was taking iron tablets I had a significantly lower amount of dreams, including lds. But then again that could have been because I was so stressed and tired and doing exams at that time.
I’ll have to try taking thm again for a long time to see if it DOES affect it. But that would only be able to tell you if a LOWER iron count affects dreaming. Though it should be the same the other way round or the complete opposite…so that would be for you to figure out.[/color][/b]
i kinda hope that u are right on that one. if a higher level of iron in the blood means less ld’s, then i can have high hopes for the future.
but then again, i might turn out not to have that disease at all, though i doubt such news will come my way. i can’t believe it, but i actually hope i do have that hemo-whatchamacallit.
I have eated a multivitamin that had lots of iron in it, but there wasn’t really a difference between using and not using it. So I don’t think it affect that much. Well it might a bit if you have way too much or way too little iron in your body. But I’ve found that there’s not really that much that you can eat that can affect lucid dreaming. In general if it affects your memory or your ability to think it also affects your ability to lucid dream.
