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I was wondering if anyone has a definitive answer on how (or if) intoxication (alcohol and drugs) affect your dreams.
I am almost certain dreams still occur if you're in an intoxicated state when you go to sleep, but I'm looking for a larger consensus. Also how different forms of intoxication, be it alcohol, marijuana, hallucinogens, etc., affect the subconscious before dreaming would be very interesting.
I don't anymore, but when I smoked weed I remembered far less dreams. Drinking I never remembered dreams. Various hallucinogens increased the vivid-ness and bazaar-ness of my dreams.
Alchohol makes my dream more stable ... 90 % of the times . I mean its harder to pull me out from the dream it self .
I registered for this site due to my interest in lucid dreaming, AND my issues with dreaming while using cannabis. This is my very first post here and hopefully it gets read since it is my main focus.
I vaporize cannabis daily to deal with my anxiety and OCD. OCD is very mild, the anxiety varies but is overall pretty bad every day.
When I abstain from vaporizing (same thing applies with smoking which I just no longer do), I am GUARANTEED to have a vivid dream each and every night. I can almost always recall a decent amount of the dream.
Last night for example, I vaporized during the day, but cut myself off at 7pm. Went to bed around 10PM. Had dreams and was able to recall it enough to write it down on my phone. I still remember the dream now in fact.
Whenever I do vaporize at night, I am GUARANTEED to not have a dream (that I can recall). Not only that, but any night I dream I wake up and feel mostly well rested, but on nights I don't dream I feel exhausted when I wake up. Almost as if I just close my eyes and don't even sleep.
I really would love nothing more than to find away to combine the benefits of both. Cannabis really helps me quite a bit believe it or not. I hate the idea of having to choose between my medicine and my dreams.
Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Did anything work for you? I have read many things about heavy cannabis users no longer having (or at least recalling) dreams. I am worried that maybe I am in fact not getting a good nights sleep on the nights I don't dream. Maybe it is more than just not being able to recall them. I am VERY experienced in cannabis use and would say that during my waking hours it has 0 effect on my short term memory, so I find it very hard to believe that I simply can't remember the dream when I wake up.
I used to smoke a lot and now I do not. I have read that smoking weed makes your REM cycles shorter or pushes them back. REM cycles as I am sure you know are when you do most of your vivid dreaming. I really would say just smoke earlier in the day. I understand how it does help with anxiety and other things like that...