ah well, keep us posted, Frac_ture. I'd like to hear if it does work.
I'll be happy to do that. I
can offer the results of a few other similar experiments, though...
I definitely had very intense and vivid dreams in much greater quantities than usual when I tried the same thing with amethyst, with lapis lazuli, and with sodalite -- all stones that fall into the blue-purple end of the color spectrum. Using charoite -- which is a beautiful, swirly, purple stone that makes me think of it almost as looking sort of like a purple version of malachite -- didn't produce as much of this effect as I'd thought it might, but I realized the next morning that I was way more scatter-brained and non-linear in thought than usual, so I concluded that that particular stone must really do a lot to hook a person up with their intuitive, non-logical, right-brain. Using the stone called Dream Quartz didn't actually produce much in the way of intense dreams for me, oddly enough, and neither did an attempt with a piece of malachite (both are from the green part of the color-field, so maybe I'm just more wired to resonate the most with blue/indigo/purple). I also tried once with chrysocolla, and I kind of foolishly haven't been keeping good notes in a journal, so I don't remember what the specifics were that time -- I think I had more dreams, and of greater intensity, than I would have on a normal, no-stone-under-the-pillow night, but not as much as with the first few stones I listed above.
I also tried a few different stones grouped together, but I didn't get much to happen, and I definitely suspect that combining the energies of different stones is a more advanced technique, and I might do well to get more familiar with individual stones and their effects on me personally first before I try to combine a bunch of them again...
I do want to press on with similar experiments (the above "data" represent results from only a single experiment per type of stone, and that's hardly a broad sample size on which to base sweeping/definitive conclusions!) , so anyone interested can ask me for updates on the board or via PM, or even request an experiment (if I have the stone in question, of course!).
I also got myself my first pendulum and my first couple of stones to use for scrying, and I'd be interested in talking to people who do work in those areas...