Dream recall/ lucid dreaming and drugs

[Zeroacestar]

I occasionally drink and smoke weed. I hadn't had a lucid dream for about a month and I thought it may have been because of smoking too much weed lol.. Well my roommates birthday was the other day and needless to say, I got hammered and smoked a lot that night. I went to bed and had a very vivid lucid dream and I had actually planned to stop smoking the next day to see if my theory was true. Since I had a lucid dream the night that I got the most trashed, I decided against it. Does anyone else have similar experiences or any input on the effects of drugs with dream recall and attaining lucidity?

[dyeagers]

The only time smoking effects me with any consistency is when i get blazed right before I go to sleep and thats not every time but I do smoke everyday. I try to not smoke for at least two hours before I lay down, as for the drinking I haven't drank in over a year and I just took up lucid dreaming 5 months ago. My dream recall has been improving to even though i smoke, I remember 2 dreams a night on average my all time high is 4

[Zeroacestar]

How does it effect you? I also smoke every day. The days that I don't smoke are few and far between so I haven't noticed much of a difference but one theory I have is that the more messed up you get before you go to sleep, the more messed up your dreams are which makes it possibly easier to tell they are a dream.

[Matte87]

Weed ups your melatonin levels and makes you have longer REM periods later on during sleep. Alcohol suppresses REM and if you haven't had enough of it, you will get long REM periods at the end of sleep. But most likely you'll dream alot more the day after and the alcohol has worked as a REM rebound. I wouldn't advice to smoking every day. I can't say for sure that it's bad for dreaming, but I've read some people saying they have less and less dreams when they've smoked for a while. Or perhaps that was when they quit... Not sure. *EDIT* Oh, I also moved the thread to a more fitting place.