Oneironautics

Welcome to the oneironautics portal!

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  Oneironautics is the practice of navigating dreams. This oneironautics portal is a catalogue of information which may be useful for dream navigators (oneironauts) to gain lucidity in their dreams. It attempts to approach the field from a rational and evidence-based perspective to separate it from the misinformation which surrounds the subject.

Oneirogens

• Cholinergics: Choline bitartrate ⋅ Pramiracetam ⋅ Oxiracetam ⋅ Piracetam ⋅ Aniracetam ⋅ Phenylpiracetam ⋅ Alpha-GPC ⋅ CDP Choline ⋅ Galantamine ⋅ Acetylcholine ⋅ Nefiracetam ⋅ Nicotine
• Undetermined action: Calea ternifolia ⋅ Silene undulata ⋅ Entada rheedii
• Endogenous pathway: Acetylcholine ⋅ Melatonin ⋅ GABA ⋅ Insulin

Replications

• Dream signs: Impossibilities ⋅ Improbabilities ⋅ Incongruous features ⋅ Surreal feelings
• Dream control: Summoning ⋅ Psychokinesis ⋅ Shapeshifting ⋅ Teleportation

Experience reports

• Experience index

General

• Dreams ⋅ Lucid dreaming ⋅ Hypnagogia ⋅ Hypnopompia ⋅ Dream characters ⋅ Sleep paralysis ⋅ Dream recall

Lucidity induction techniques

• DILD: Reality checks ⋅ Dream signs ⋅ Intuitive awareness ⋅ Sleep cycle disruption ⋅ Mnemonic initiated lucid dream
• WILD: Wake back to bed ⋅ All day awareness ⋅ Lucid day dream ⋅ Dream exit initiated lucid dream ⋅ Illusions of self motion ⋅ Imagination initiated lucid dream ⋅ Sustained awareness

Stabilizing techniques

• Sensory immersion ⋅ Plot participation ⋅ Calmness ⋅ Environment interaction

Dream control

• Methods: Imagination integration ⋅ Replicating experience ⋅ Extrapolating experience ⋅ Expectation of success ⋅ Dream incubation
• Activities: Summoning ⋅ Psychokinesis ⋅ Shapeshifting ⋅ Teleportation

Related biology

• Sleep-wake cycle ⋅ REM cycles ⋅ Melatonin ⋅ Acetylcholine ⋅ Melanopsin ⋅ Circadian rhythm ⋅ REM rebound ⋅ Withdrawal effects ⋅ Slow wave sleep ⋅ Adenosine ⋅ GABA ⋅ Leptin ⋅ Ghrelin ⋅ Glutamate

Tools

• EEG ⋅ Bedside microphone ⋅ Dream journal ⋅ Blue blocking goggles ⋅ Digital watch ⋅ Reality check bracelet ⋅ Glitching alarm clock