Weeks? Months? Years? Any other interesting experiences?
I was a heavy user for years and it helped suppress dreams a lot while I was using. At the time I also had an early morning college course. When I would come back from that class and pass back out, I was able to consistently trigger lucid dreams like clockwork, which was awesome.
When I quit smoking, I had insane, cinematic dreams for probably about 3 weeks before my normal REM cycle returned.
I hadn’t considered it might be quitting weed since I started an antidepressant around the same time and had been assuming it was that. It’s been a little over 5 weeks and I’m having awful nightmares every single night. Not interesting, just unpleasant and rooted in my various traumas.
Not ideal, but all the other positives of sobriety are worth it.
Antidepressants cause vivid dreams for me. Cyclobenzaprine is a serotonergic muscle relaxer that causes the type of vivid nightmares that make me yell in my sleep.
Not a super heavy user but when I stopped regular edibles (basically daily for months) I hit the dream wall.
I didn’t realize I’d stopped having them until they started again. Weird dreams about school, past relationships, etc. Mostly awkward social situations that my brain mashed together, thankfully nothing downright horrid.
I’m a heavy daily user and have been for two decades, but I regularly have vivid dreams. I’ve also quit a few times, once for three months, but I didn’t really see a lot of difference when it came to dreaming.
Not a weed smoker, but I am in mental health. Two things:
1.) That little factoid is a falsehood. Plenty of marijuana users remember their dreams.
2.) As indicated at the end of #1, you always dream when you sleep. You just don’t necessarily remember your dreams when you wake up. We don’t know exactly why we dream—there are several theories—but we know it’s an integral part of our sleep. It’s theorized that what we experience as dreams may be our brains encoding our memories of our experiences since the last time we slept into long-term memory and possibly doing a particular type of problem-solving about things weighing heavily on our minds of late.
Oh my god the arrogance of professionals.
Just because you know a lot does not mean you know everything. Making statements of the form “X doesn’t happen” is foolish.
A lot of people think that wolf packs have an “alpha” wolf, but wolf experts will tell you that’s a myth.
OP said they read that weed makes you not dream. I happen to know from my education that is not the case.
Sometimes X really doesn’t happen. I never claimed to know everything, but I do know this.
And I happen to know from my experience that it does.
One example of a phenomenon happening is sufficient evidence to overturn claims of the form “X doesn’t happen”.
If your education convinced you that you can eliminate the possibility of things happening entirely, then you were mis-educated.
