Book: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. The Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming. Dreamviews. Lucid Dream Plants. Plants have been used for thousands of years to induce states of lucid dreaming by shaman throughout the world.
These plants are often classified as oneirogens. Oneirogen, from the Greek "oneiros" meaning dream and "gen" meaning to create, describes that which produces a dream-like state of consciousness. Silene Capensis Silene capensis, also known as African Dream Root, is a plant native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, where it is regarded by the Xhosa people as a sacred plant. The root is traditionally used to induce vivid lucid dreams during the initiation process of shaman.