your brain creates its own reality every night.

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Dimethyl Tryptamine. There's a process that goes something like melatonin -> serotonin -> DMT. The last one is theoretically why children have such a vivid imagination, see things adults don't, etc. When we hit puberty, the pineal gland produces less and less DMT.

There are a few ways I've heard to stimulate production of it in adults. One is "dark room" therapy that can last for weeks. I think Mantak Chia runs these regularly.

Another I read about online from someone who sells a concentrated whey (film on top of milk curds) supplement. According to him, it increases melatonin, which then increases serotonin, which then kick-starts production of DMT.

Dark room therapy also mentions this, saying that over the first several days we catch up on years of sleep (melatonin) and are left feeling happy and relaxed (serotonin). Eventually, we start to recover a lost feeling from childhood, something we forgot even existed. This, apparently, is DMT.

When released from the room into the daylight, many people purportedly feel "renewed".
 

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Dream Play
In a dream you are basically aware of so many facets of an event that many of them must necessarily escape your waking memory. Yet any real education must take into consideration the learning processes within dreams, and no can hope to glimpse the nature of the psyche without encouraging dream exploration, recall, and the creative use of dream education in waking life.
Seth, Nature of The Psyche, p. 166

In all of Seth’s books, dreams play an important part. He considers familiarity with the dream state a necessary prerequisite to understanding the true nature of our reality, and how we create it.

In waking life, our most direct connection with Framework 2 (that inner reality on which our outer reality is based) is limited to intuitions and hunches—messages sent to our ego by our inner self, operating in Framework 2. Before sending these messages, that suggest actions for us to take, the inner self sorts through the data constantly flowing into it and tries to determine which actions to suggest. One important way to make this determination is via dreams, in which various possibilities are rehearsed and from these the most productive actions chosen.

In the dream state the inner self and the outer self—the dreaming ego—meet in a way not possible in waking life, with the inner self observing the dream dramas and the ego participating in them. Through this interaction the ego gets a firsthand view of how physical reality is created, becomes aware of its ideal psychological pattern, and also experiences the multidimensional world of inner reality—in which we have our after-life existence. For this reason, Seth stresses the importance of becoming consciously aware in the dream state. Through bringing this state to conscious awareness, there is much to be learned, for through manipulation of dreams, we can change our physical reality into a more harmonious and fulfilling one.

Repeatedly, Seth suggests that we adopt a sleep pattern that lets the waking mind and the dreaming mind become more aware of one another. The ideal pattern would be to take two three-hour naps during a twenty-four hour period, and certainly to sleep no more than six hours at a time. Anything more than that widens the gap between the dreaming and the waking states and cuts down on mental and physical efficiency. Shortening the sleep time, Seth says, enables the waking self to recall more of the dream adventures.

Another way for us to become more consciously aware of our dream environment is simply to suggest, before going to sleep, that we will “come awake” in our dreams, bring our waking self into the dream and remember the experience. If we use this suggestion repeatedly, night after night, and sincerely want to have this awareness, not harboring any hidden fears about what we might meet in our dreams, eventually we will be able to take the conscious ego into the dream and become aware of depths of experience and knowledge unknown before. This will result in much more flexibility and expanded awareness in waking life.

Dreams are highly creative and playful. Seth likens them to childhood games where children scare themselves on purpose, well aware that it’s only a game and that when their mother calls them to dinner, the bogeyman will go away. As we grow older, we learn to feel foolish in pretending, life becomes a serious matter, and our playfulness comes out only in the dream state.

This exercise will focus on a waking dream. It should be done repeatedly. The exercise will work best if you are also recording your nightly dreams at the same time, so that you can compare waking and sleeping dreams. Each night, before going to sleep, suggest to yourself that you will remember your dreams and that you will be consciously aware of them when they are happening. Repeat this suggestion several times, slowly and earnestly; then relax and fall asleep. Keep a notebook and pen next to your bed so that you can write down your dreams as soon as you wake up. But don’t just write them down and forget about them. Try to analyze them and see what they are trying to tell you.

Now, in your journal, create a dream for yourself. Do this playfully and without trying to structure what you are writing. Just begin writing and let the images flow without trying to figure out what they mean. Don’t try to be logical and stick to one idea. If, in the middle of a sentence, you start going off on another train of thought, let this happen. Try not to put any value judgments on what you’re writing (“This is really weird”) or lead yourself in a certain direction. Imagine that you are your inner self, watching this dream unfold as you write it down. Imagine, too, that you are the dreaming ego, acting out the events in the dream, playfully, as children do in games. Don’t try to put a conclusion on the dream-let it end the way it ends, even if that seems up in the air.

Now try to interpret the dream by playing around with some of the images you came up with. You might want to do some free associations by writing down whatever comes to mind about some of the images. Don’t try to force meaning on the dream. Play with it, and see what meaning emerges. The main value of this exercise will be in giving you insights into the nature of your real dreams, and show you what it is like to operate with a more flexible consciousness within a multidimensional reality. Repeat this exercise regularly, and take note of how your made-up dreams change as your reality goes through its characteristic fluctuations.
 

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