🌙👁️✨ DREAM ✨👁️🌙
Anima Mundi Apothecary
Sleep Aid · Third Eye Tonic · Lucid Dreaming Elixir
Eight botanicals for deep rest and vivid dreams. 💤
🔮 The Virtues
Taken at dusk, this elixir is composed to ease the passage from waking into sleep. 😴 Its calming roots and nervines, kava, ashwagandha, skullcap, and passion flower, have long been used to loosen the day's tension from the body and quiet a mind that will not stop turning. Ginger and rose warm and soften the blend, so that rest comes gently, without heaviness. 🌹
Once sleep arrives, the dreaming herbs take their turn. 🌌 Blue lotus and Calea zacatechichi are traditionally taken by those who wish to dream more vividly, remember their dreams on waking, and practice the art of lucid dreaming. Many keep a journal at the bedside and set an intention before drinking, making the cup a small evening ritual of its own. 📓🕯️
Used in this way, Dream is less a remedy than a companion to the night: an invitation to slow down, rest deeply, and pay attention to what the sleeping mind has to say. ✨
🌿 The Botanicals
🌱 Ashwagandha: Ayurveda's restorative, to settle the nerves
🌴 Kava Kava: the Pacific's ceremonial root, for ease of body and mind
🌸 Passion Flower: to hush circling thoughts
🫚 Ginger: warming comfort for the belly
🍃 Skullcap: a classic nervine for restless nerves
🪷 Blue Lotus: the Nile's sacred flower of reverie
🌹 Rose: a softener of the heart
💭 Calea Zacatechichi: the "dream herb" of Oaxaca
🍵 To use: 1 tsp in non-caffeinated tea, in the evening.
