Thread: Quiting Marijuana: Effects on Dream Recall/Lucidity

When I smoke weed my dreams are messed up, even if I only have a tiny bit, the other day I had a puff or two of a joint that got passed to me.
And I had bad nightmares all night. They arent scary they are just confusing and frustrating and wierd.

Multiple times daily user here. Yesterday started a break session for the first time in lets call it 5 years. I use it medicinally so judge if you want, I don't honestly care. Yesterday was my first day without it and it felt great mentally besides cravings (its not addicting you fools you just like it and get used to it). I had sleep paralysis which I actually enjoyed because I've had it once before (on a day I was sick and didn't vape or smoke) and then definitely a few dream sessions. My recall isn't great, but I didn't put in the effort to write it down or anything either.

Also I normally wake up with the feeling that I just closed my eyes and essentially didn't sleep at all. I ended up waking up at 5am thinking "wow I've been asleep for what feels like years" and went back to bed. I slept through my alarm, 13 text messages from my lovely GF trying to prevent me from being late, and 3 phone calls. Besides the fact that I normally wake up at 6:40 for my alarm and today I woke up at 8:06 (6 min late for work) I had easily one of the best nights sleep in my whole life. The feeling of being well rested is there when it absolutely is not normally.

I don't think cannabis is bad at all, but I think if you use it as heavily as I do you should take a break once in a while just to get the sleep benefits while at the same time lowering your tolerance. My guess is that if I go the rest of 2011 without using cannabis, I can get the rest of the cannabis out of my system completely, at which time I should be able to continue using it while still maintaining a quality sleep experience.

I felt the need to share this because I don't think you will be able to find a more extreme example of this particular subject. I used a TON of cannabis, felt like I got no sleep at all every night and as far as I'm concerned I wasn't dreaming. I know its the recall, but the level of sleep was so light that I really question if I was getting any REM sleep at all. Then ONE day off and vivid dreams and full blown SP that I was able to relax and maintain. It doesn't get much clearer than that folks. Breaks are necessary when your sleep suffers to the horrible extent that mine did.

Found this thread in a Google search, was just wondering how all your guys story ended up?

Have you tried any wake-n-bake experiments?

You know that point you get at when you first wake up, but you're laying there or sitting on the edge of the bed and you're in that half-awake, half-asleep state where you might even start dreaming as if you are asleep while you sit on the edge of the bed with your eyes barely open. Alot of times, I will dream like I'm getting ready for work (almost like my brain tricking me so I can sit there in a tired stupor just a bit longer).

Now, I know this is probably gonna sound like a throwback to that movie called Inception, but in reality this has been happening since my childhood, so hear me out if you yourself have not yet experienced this.

There is a point in time when you wake up that, if you allow that "brain-trick" half-awake dream state to take hold, you can dream very vividly for what seems like hours in the span of 2-10 minutes. This is an odd dream-state, because normally (in my case anyways) you are still "aware" of everything going on around you as far as sound, taste, touch are concerned. Your sight and believed reality, however, becomes completely replaced with the dream.

I have found that this state is more readily attained during the right kind of wake-n-bake where you don't necessarily intend to get up quite yet.

Remember, if you can accomplish this, you may get an instant and abnormally vivid dream recall of approximately 10 minutes to seemingly an hour or more within no more than 10 minutes or so of our time.