Quote Originally Posted by Sniper991122 View Post
So I've been an avid pot smoker for probably the past 3 years or so and I'd say that at this current point I'm probably at the peak of my smoking with getting high 3 times a day being a slow day. In addition to this, being in college, I'm somewhat of an alcoholic usually getting drunk 3-4 nights a week.

So, with all personal opinions and everything aside I'd like to bring up my experiences with lucid dreaming. I've done it off and on since I was in high school and recently I've stuck with it more than ever. In my dream journal, I picked back up at the date 10/20/07. I should also inform you that prior to this, I've only had about 3-4 lucid dreams and I always lost lucidity or woke up within the first 5-15 seconds.

So, in these past 17 nights of sleeping I'm going to break down some quick things I've noticed in my dream journal. Of these 17 days I've only had 3 days where I did not remember any dreams the next morning (remember I drink every thursday-saturday night as well as some tuesdays). Out of those 14 nights I remembered dreams, I had 5 different lucid dreams, each one with me gaining more and more control grounding myself and what not.

Now to get to the question I have, if I were to say quit smoking weed for a week what kind of impact would this have on my dreaming? From what I've read, my dreams would be more vivid with more details and I'd remember more dreams but my most recent track record has put up numbers I've never seen before. So I'd like to ask for personal experiences with quitting smoking and how it affected your lucid dreams/dream recall.

If you fit into this criteria, I'd like to ask you how often you remembered/had lucid dreams while you were smoking weed (and how much weed you smoked daily) as how many dreams you remembered/had lucid dreams after you quit?

edit - I'd also like to mention that I've read and searched through most all of the marijuana threads on this board and its hard to gauge responses since half the time I feel people are talking out of their ass and don't know what they are talking about. For that reason I would like to keep the responses to people that absolutely know what they are talking about.
I recently quit smoking pot just a few months ago. I would say I probably smoked about as much as you, 3 times a day (on a slow one) for a little more then 3 years. After I quit I noticed a sharp increase in my dream recall, which slowly returned to normal after about a month, but during that month I could remember several dreams every night, with a few lucids.

Marijuana has always impaired my dream recall significantly if I've been smoking everyday. Currently I'll have around a bowl on the weekends, and it usually makes me have very strange dreams and I can recall them pretty well. Its when you start smoking to much when the pot really begins to interfere with your recall (which, of course, interferes with your ability to lucid dream). When I was smoking heavily I almost never remembered my dreams.

My personal advice to you: if you want to learn how to lucid dream and increase your dream recall ability, quit smoking for a few months and when you go back, only do it on the weekends, and even then not to much. If you don't you will never have steady dream recall because you will never be in a steady state of mind. One of the reasons I quit was because I knew I wouldn't be able to take dream recall and lucid dreaming into serious practice if I was high all the time. And, of course, read the techniques on this site. Its essential that you are sober most of the week if you really want to advance with dream recall. If you practice recall and lucid dreaming techniques and your always high, you won't be able to do it sober!