Stopped smoking weed, started having dreams again!

quitting smoking weed is as easy as deciding not to smoke weed! it's all in your head. there aren't really any physical withdrawal symptoms.

i don't smoke nearly as much as i used to, and i remember a lot more dreams now. i like it.

 

eggsproq, I would agree 100% there are no physical symptoms...ALL of my problems with stopping/having stopped smoking weed come from my head, or we can get all technical and say they are psychological.
Countless numbers of times, I've looked forward to a joint that would completely change my perception, make me "see everything was going to be alright", or relax me, etc...now, well, that is not there.
I LOVE drawing smoke into my lungs...that is a physical thing that I can get with (hold on now) cat-mint or cat-nip - and have NO gov't added chemicals and one (or even a half) a day is enough for my LOVE for smoking to be sated. I feel literally nothing from it, but get that "thing" I like (love) so much.

 

been having some c-razy dreams this week while in mexico (and not smoking weed)

 

I think everyone experiences it differently, I have seen differences mental and physical in myself and my ex...especially concerning dreams. He always says the same thing happens when he stops for awhile.

 

I found it really tough to quit too. I tried to quit about 9 months before I was able to. I cut back a lot and only saved it for very special occasions, but then those occasions would last a few days to a week.

I definitely found my dreams to be less disturbing(I've never been one to not have or remember dreams) and easier to recall, but also my sleep got better. Not at first, but after a couple weeks maybe.

 

Dude, yeah!
I recently cut down heaps after smoking everyday for about 2 years..
and my dreams man! Holy shit. I've had two lucid dreams and the rest have been so very detailed! To the point where I can remember so much they seem like a memory, it's crazy fun. I'm fucking enjoying this, man.

Peace

 

Smoking weed does affect dreaming, but not in the way a lot of you are thinking. It doesn't impair dream recall, it effects the REM cycle and we literally dream less. Alcohol as well as numerous other drugs also interfere with the REM cycle.

The phenomena of having crazy vivid, nightmare type of dreams when you quit smoking is a very well documented thing called REM Rebound. It is almost as if dreams get piled up and backlogged and then come through in a huge flood and then over a few days goes back down to normal dream cycles.


Same thing happens with any type of sleep deprivation.
Want to drive someone insane and make them start hallucinating?, wake them up every time they start to enter REM sleep. After a few days they will start hallucinating and after a week or more they will be pretty fucking out of it. REM deprivation is used as a torture technique.
It's also why speed freaks will have a major break down and hallucinate like mad, lack of sleep and dreaming.

 

well if you want to remember you dreams, you know what to do.
if you don't you know what to do. pretty simple.
only you can know which you prefer.
and of course, what works one way for one person, might not for another.
i have no idea if there's an actual chemical reason, there might be there might not, or if there isn't.
just that if something works a particular way for a particular person, that's the way it works for that person.
i don't know why this should disturb anyone.

 

OK - now, you seen to have some information I have completely missed. I do NOT care to remember awful dreams. I Do remember them, however...Some of the time I remember "good" dreams, tho' they are rare and few.
I do NOT know this "pretty simple" information you are speaking of.

I am not smoking, period. I have not smoked since May 16th. It is Aug 3rd, so, according to what most people seem to think, my sleeping and dreams should just be all "back to normal" by now, right? wrong

Night before last I slept NOT even one minute. I've learned to sleep in naps, in the day or whenever I can, because if I don't...when it comes time to "sleep like normal people", I OFTEN don't sleep. The remembering of my dreams seems to be something I have relatively no control over.

But back to this "pretty simple" you speak of. What is it? How do you just remember or not remember? I'm not understanding this "pretty simple".

 

some dreams are reminding me about my past life..like some girl i loved and never told her.
all the nice experiences Ive had too..
kinda brining me back to relive them in my sleep.