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I smoked weed every day for 10 years and basically forgot what dreaming was, people would tell me about their dreams and I thought they're nuts... I presumed I
by neom 4y ago
I smoked weed every day for 10 years and basically forgot what dreaming was, people would tell me about their dreams and I thought they're nuts... I presumed I must be dreaming but I just didn't remember it, but the idea people could remember these extreme vivid crazy dreams they could control seemed totally foreign to me. I moved to a country where weed was very illegal and stopped smoking it, after about 5 months of no weed I started to have the most insane, crazy cool, very very vivid dreams. Then I moved back to Canada for a year and started to toke, again, I almost immediately stopped dreaming. When I left Canada again, and stopped weed again, dreams came back again. My personal very unscientific hypothesis is that I process a lot more of that emotional/thoughtful stuff when I'm awake and stoned, but honestly, who knows.. I find it somewhat concerning to be honest, the difference in my dreaming on and off weed is markedly very stark.
- enraged_camel 4y agoCan confirm. I visited another galaxy last night. It was wild.
- ABeeSea 4y agoI almost wanted to start smoking again after I quit just to stop dreaming. Quit 3 years ago and the dreams are just so vivid and intense versus the dreamless sleep when I was smoking.
- neom 4y agoI can totally relate, I actually really don't enjoy the intense dreaming either. I find it overwhelming and uncomfortable and much prefer my dreamless sleeping. That being said, I also accept there is evidence that dreaming is important for your health. I don't particularly enjoy having to go pee throughout the day either, but if I stopped doing it, I'd be pretty concerned for my health.
- ProllyInfamous 4y ago"Dreaming helps you to forget." — Francis Crick Good luck on your continued journey. G.Maté's "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" was very helpful for me, in moving past some childhood trauma.