Dream hacking: How to use your brain's wildest, weirdest state

It’s the last talk of the night at the Women’s Visionary Congress, a very Bay Area kind of conference. Amidst the yogic cushions and tea tables, volunteers are distributing little plastic baggies, each containing a gram of green leaves with a strong soporific effect. It was not California’s most famous recently legalized substance, but calea zacatechichi, an ancient and federally legal Mexican plant also known as “dream herb.”

Attendees who wish to indulge are asked to go home, brew the herb into tea — one with a taste so metallic and bitter, a plastic bear full of honey will not cut it. We will force it down, bed down for a wild night of weird dreams, and report back in the morning Read more...

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