Primrose oil

Lately I’ve been taking evening primrose oil, because I get itchy when I get out of the shower and I found an article in a magazine which said this helps. For the last few months before hand I’ve been having terrible dream recall, but since I’ve started taking evening primrose oil I’ve remembered a long, vivid dream each night. The first one actually took up 5 pages in my dream diary!

I don’t know, it could be just a coincidence because I’ve only been taking it for about the last 2 weeks, not quite long enough to establish a proper correlation, but if anyone else takes it and has noticed something similar, please let me know.

Thanks Syphex for mentioning that :cool_laugh: , I get itching too sometimes after showering. Now I just have to figure out what primrose oil is in Swedish or Finnish…

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Wasn’t that hard at all to find out what it was, it took about 10 seconds using google :cool: Just search for Oenothera biennis (latin name (I think))

Well, I started taking Evening Primrose Oil 3 or 4 months ago (central heating dries my skin up so I hate this time of year :eh: ) - it hadn’t occured to me that there might be a connection, but the reason I started taking an interest in LDs again was that I am having (-remembering) more dreams than usual recently.

Actually, I do kind of remember reading somewhere that GLA (the active ingredient in evening primrose) also helps with dream recall, so maybe there is a connection?

You might want to try Starflower Oil too (or instead) - this contains a much higher concentration of GLA than ev. primrose so should help more both ways.

Also, try taking a vitamin B complex supplement (such as Brewers Yeast, which I take) - B vitamins are really important for skin health and ALSO (I think?) are associated with better dream recall/ more vivid dreaming, so again should help in both respects.

Other things I take (for healthy skin rather than dreaming now) are Omega 3 fish oil capsules (yumm!!) and lots of extra virign olive oil, poured over just about everything I eat… hope some of that helps! :content: