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Personally I know people in a similar situation who kept heavy usage into their 40s and their memory is amazingly better than anyone and keeps getting better.
by ipaddr 3y ago
Personally I know people in a similar situation who kept heavy usage into their 40s and their memory is amazingly better than anyone and keeps getting better. They can tell you what happened on a certain day or remember a long number instantly. Very heavy usage but sticks to the same strain might be the key difference.
- Synaesthesia 3y agoAnecdotally I'm finding my cognition has certainly improved after cessation of my heavy use, emotionally I'm also better balanced. Physical exercise seems to be the best thing for my health these days.
- mkmk3 3y agoSimilar experience, good job on the change
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoDitto here, and matches the experience of many close friends and even colleagues. The emotional side of things is especially germane, I was definitely using mj to avoid facing up to some emotional difficulties. It might sound a bit arcane, but I attribute a lot of it to REM sleep. When I quit, I had crazy dreams every night, often nightmares. But frankly, I had dug myself into a pretty deep hole in the real world. These nightmares and unpleasant dreams became much less frequent over time, and I still dream almost every night. When I was smoking every day, I didn’t notice this. I don’t notice that was waking up foggy, it was nothing compared to a hangover or a night with little sleep. But now it’s clear. I feel like I have an entire dimension of sharpness and control I was missing and I’m grateful for that.
- saiya-jin 3y agoCan confirm that part about sleep, dreams simply go away or at least I never recall having any. But good 8 hours uninterrupted still feel great. Overall depends what your goals are, not everybody constantly strives to be at their sharpest point, a bit of chill isn't bad from time to time. I think the biggest problem with MJ is that for most folks the best setup would be consuming from time to time, ie 1x a week. But its easy to slip into more frequent usage, where drawbacks become bigger and benefits smaller.
- denton-scratch 3y agoI think weed suppresses dreaming (or at least, the memory of having dreamed). When I quit, I definitely get vivid dreams for a week or so.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoOh definitely, MJ suppressing REM sleep has been studied and confirmed now.
- FeloniousHam 3y agoThis is exactly my experience. Weed steals my dreams. I don't mind this short term: I'm going through an overlong emotional event, and with frequent insomnia, weed takes away the anxiety of anticipating the fatigue the following day.
- misja111 3y agoIt could be that memory improves, but the few long time users that I have known got serious problems when doing mentally heavy task such as arithmetic, for instance. All of them suspected it was due to the long term cannabis use.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agowere you stoned when you wrote this
- brabel 3y agoDefinitely sounds like what someone stoned would write! It helps my memory!! I swear!
- ipaddr 3y agoBrabel your understanding of Rust Hashmaps is lacking. How is your memory, what is your age and usage history?
- ipaddr 3y agoYou seem like a good candidate to test my observations. Let's find out more about you. How is your memory? What is your age? What does your history and current usage look like?
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agoi forget