Yeah, so my go to one is for reality check is to hold my nose and try to breathe. And that's a really nice one. Because never in the dream. If you try this you'll be able to breathe it you know but in waking life you can't and there's very low amount of like false negatives basically with the right Rimworld cool. I don't think any of them are foolproof because their habits but but I really like that one. I find that to be the most effective one for me, but everyone kind of goes lucid in their own ways, right? Like it's it's in that's why dream science can become more potent and we can talk about that later too. And we get into what the book says about this. Okay, but um, yeah, right. Like, for instance, I often become lucid in my dreams because I realized that I'm really emotional. Like I'm really angry, or, you know, just having a really slick, super intense experience. And I'll be like, Whoa, I this is unusual. And that's what spurs me on to realizing that I'm dreaming and so it's my it's the altered state itself. It's the emotionality that comes from and so we all have kind of our, our way. Okay. Yeah. Thank you for that. That's great. Yeah, you're welcome. In and I just cycled back on the day Galantamine. Its milligrams, I was blanking, not micrograms, right, but milligrams. And see a comment in the post about saying, I use four milligrams as well of galantamine and I've noticed in effect, sometimes it does produce a lucid dream. It also seems to enliven, even my regular dreams too, and he seems stronger, longer and more in number. And that is great. And that is really, I think, the full picture of what Galantamine does. It's not just about lucidity, it's actually strengthening. REM sleep itself. It's strengthening the, the state of being in the dream, but what it's doing in the brain with making acetylcholine more available essentially, through through all of its different ways. It also creates vivid dreams. And so one of the things that we found out with our research that I did with Scott Sparrow was that a lot of people had a lot more intense emotions in their Galantamine dreams, and they can be negative to experiences even in but they still wake up and say that they had a positive effect, even though there was negative emotionality happening in the dream itself. They wake up and they feel better. And so there's a potential that Galantamine is, perhaps. I mean, it's too early to really say but perhaps it also has a healing potential. And itself where it's sort of potentiate ing a tension or conflict and it could provide even a resolution by creating the strength Taner to be worked through with the dream itself. So, so I think it's a it's a really interesting plant is interested in plant medicine. So let's go on let's I'm looking at the top of the hour, we can read some more, right. We're gonna go for some more. This is a section calls, ultra liminal zones. That's where I kind of really get to nerd out about the archaeology of belief. So using a talisman as a dream tool is an efficient strategy because the dream world is where magical thinking works. It's the dominant logic, creating an increased fusion between subject and object that we rarely see in the waking world. It may reek of New Age sentimentality, but the ability of talisman to transverse the worlds it's just effective. These objects hold the space even for those of us whose default worldview is skeptical, and kind of you know, a scientific materialism. The night demands a different kind of logic and older cognitive strategy. It's not so much superstitious as it is appropriate. It's appropriate to the task at hand which is feeling relaxed and inspired so that we can dance with the wall. Street provides some helpful analogies for centuries in Europe in the British Isles. magical objects have been placed in the threshold spaces of homes, so above lintels and doorframes under a window sills, concealed inside chimneys, and in Smoke halls. Common examples are horseshoes, children shoes, sacred words. Either say in a clay tablet or scroll, or placed in a bottle right? In Iron Crosses, sometimes these objects are hidden and other times they remain in plain sight. The practice is nearly universal because thresholds, those spaces between places have their own magic. Paradoxically, openings into the home provide the ability to move freely and to welcome guests to heat our dwellings and to let in fresh air but at the same time, they're opening the home to unwanted guests and to foul smells and to harsh elements. Right. It's the Gateway it's the gatekeeper. So here's an example of a practice hidden in plain sight. Christmas decorations. wreaths of pine and spruce are evergreen amulets, they protect doorways for bringing in disease. Garlands tied with red cloth had been used to ward off evil spirits for centuries. And even Carolyn has an ancient ritual history that began with people blessing apple orchards to keep them free in malicious spirits for the next year's harvest. All ancient objects and rituals used in liminal spaces to combat those uncertain terrors of the night. However, to protect protection are placed by the chimney on Christmas Eve. All the other openings to the house are guarded. All the spiritual potentials of the non dark night are funneled and focused into this sooty opening. And what's more, the old European use of children's shoes as which traps is subverted, as children are told that the stockings that are held hung by the chimney with care there's filled with gifts and so like the woods people of Northern Europe had been doing long since time immemorial, and offering a food is left at the table. And in this way, modern Christmas decorations are part of an ancient focused practice for inviting a very specific demigod into the home. And that's Santa Claus, right. It's so interesting. It's so interesting to me. So anthropologist see ology, Riley. She's an expert on the archaeology of belief suggests that threshold openings like doorways and windows and chimneys, they have a secret dimension beyond height beyond with this is liminality. supernatural forces arrive and congregate here in these spaces between and they exist, quote in a temporal and spatial sector. That separate from mundane reality. So it's between and betwixt, right. As Riley suggests, liminal zones are precisely where magical objects are most effective. That's really what it comes down to. liminal zones are where magical objects are most effective. And so in this slide, we can see that lucid dreaming is another kind of threshold. It's another kind of liminal zone, where the conscious and the unconscious mind meet. The dream is a magical place where spirits congregate. And all sorts of characters visit with us in the intimacy of the night. So we should not be surprised to discover that dream amulets are quite common throughout history. For example, in eighth century China that back who was a mythological animal depicted on charms, this was a nightmare eater. It looked like a tap year it's a small force like animal that's home to the Malaysian mountains. The creature became popular in the 14th century in Japan and today, many still follow a tradition of putting a wooden carving or a printout were scrawled under their pillow to bring good dreams. This carving depicts a picture of a sailboat, it's loaded down with treasures, and you can see the character buchu still on the sail