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I have often wondered if there was any physiological explaination for why this occured. It has happened to me and also to friends I have spoken to about the subject. Dreams are so weird aren't they? Have you ever lucid dreamed or read any articles involving this topic?
Marijuana affects dreams. Stoners say they don't have dreams but if they stop smoking for a few days, they are flooded with dreams. Is there any psychological research supporting this?
Sleep and wakefulness are both parts of a normal daily rhythm. Fish, cats, humans, and many other living things have daily cycles of activity and rest. This daily cycle is called a circadian rhythm. "Circadian" comes from the Latin root "circa dies" and means "about a day." Both external and internal events can influence circadian rhythms. Morning light and alarm clocks trigger wakefulness. When isolated from normal time cues, the daily human cycle is about 24 hours, hence "circa dies."
The study of sleep is fascinating. Sleep has been extensively studied in research laboratories, like the University of Chicago, by measuring brain waves and eye movements while research subjects sleep. Gentle electrodes are placed on volunteers' scalps and near their eyes. While sleeping, the electroencephalogram (EEG) provides evidence of brain activity.
Though sleep seems like a passive state to us, the brain is still very active. In fact, the EEG of a person falling asleep shows five stages of sleep: Stages 1 through 4 and a stage called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Each stage is progressively deeper and the complete cycle is repeated several times during the night. When awakened during REM sleep, subjects report dreaming. So if dreams take place during REM sleep, the question is: Does smoking marijuana interrupt REM sleep?
To address this question, Feinberg, et al. (1975) compared the sleep patterns of experienced marijuana users on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and a placebo. Feinberg, et al. (1975) reported reduced eye movement activity and less REM sleep in the THC condition. They also reported a REM rebound effect, which is more REM activity, on withdrawal from THC. So, there exists some scientific evidence that marijuana interferes with REM sleep.
If sleep is fascinating, dreaming is even more so. No one knows for sure the meaning or function of night-time dreams, but there is plenty of speculation. Freud believed dreams represented the royal road to the unconscious. They told us our secret desires and fears.
In his book Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Jung describes some fascinating dreams of his own. In particular, he describes one dream that haunted him for a long time. When he was about 3-years-old, he dreamed he was in a large meadow. In this meadow, there was a big dark hole. Slowly and cautiously, he descended this dark hole. At the bottom, he found a richly decorated king's throne and on the throne was a huge fleshy object. This thing was about 10 to 15 feet high and came to head but had no face. At the very top was a large eye gazing upward. During the dream, he heard his mother's voice saying that this was a maneater. The 3-year-old Jung, awoke terrified and dripping in sweat. This dream preoccupied him for years. Much later he came to understand the dream as a symbol of a giant phallus and the beginning of his theory of archetypes.
I must confess I have never been visited by a giant phallus during the night, but I have had some pretty cool dreams. During a period of intense anxiety, I was obsessed with death. One night, I dreamed I was sitting in a movie theater impatiently waiting for the movie to begin. My father and my brother were next to me and I was facing the big white screen, waiting and waiting. Finally, the picture began and I was flooded with profound white light and overwhelming love. Death had come for me but death was not scary, it was extremely benevolent, loving and blissful. How about you? Do you have any night time dreams you'd like to share? Any thoughts on marijuana and dreams?
References
Feinberg, I., Jones, R, Walker JM, Cavness, C, March, J. (1975). Effects of high dosage delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol on sleep patterns in man. Clin Parmacol Ther. 1975; 17(4):458-66.
dreams...
Submitted by Eazel on August 22, 2011 - 12:08am
I smoke on a daily basis. i still dream every single night and i am able to wake up, re-experience my dream in my head and then i am able to assume sleeping once again and affect the dream -- possibly -- how i choose to. Whether or not i made an actual change to the dream is one sided since no one knows about the dreams except the one who perceive it anyhow.
This is the biggest and greatest problem with psychology. Saying that "stoners don't dream" like it's fact... i'm glad you perceive that to be true but i still dream on a daily basis. Mostly about ex-girlfriends trying to murder me and their fathers running for cover right along side me, or about video games/experiences i've had recently but every once in a while i see the future... maybe not as someone who practices divination would see it, but i dream of effects that i don't physically see until weeks later.
Deva Vu in dreams is connected with a higher understanding of your sub-conscious and the universe as a whole and i've been having them since i was 10 or so. Absolutes will be the downfall of science and psychology, especially since everyone not only stresses and struggles to be different, but since everyone is actually different.
i feel the same (and have
Submitted by Anonymous on December 15, 2011 - 3:03pm
i feel the same (and have similar dreams lol), i think heavy smokers do tend to have a better understanding of their subconscious and that lends to your being able to regain dreams, and to a greater extent some can control their dreams, and i can allow my body to fall asleep while my mind is awake. This trance state allows you to do some very interesting things with your brain, including things like astral projection or setting yourself up to enter a specific dream. what i find most interesting is that i've also had dreams where i experienced the future, i dreamt my entire first day of my senior year of high school. It really freaked me out when i walked into this room i'd never been in before and recognized it. I'm quite sure pot affects dreams, and in general the basic "i don't dream while im stoned" mantra does seem to work with lighter smokers but once you done it everyday for a few years your brain seems to acclimate to an abundance of cannabinoids and all the time with them lets you watch how they work with your brain and others, which in turn give clues to how the brain works.
Big smoker here. Been smoking
Submitted by Anonymous on October 7, 2013 - 12:01am
Big smoker here. Been smoking daily for almost 10 years but I take a break every now and then. I dont dream when I smoke.
I'm doing a couple tests too
Submitted by Robert on January 26, 2016 - 12:07am
Hey man same here. Frequent smoker, and I also meditate and study dreams, lucid dreams, etc. Made the Brainwave Booster and NuroBoost products. I think I am going to do some studies on smoking cannabis plus brainwave meditation audio plus transcranial stimulation. Should be interesting. Will post the results on http://www.morebuds.com if I find any really good links between sleep, cannabis, dreaming, and other meditative states
I too am a daily user of
Submitted by Anonymous on May 8, 2012 - 6:27pm
I too am a daily user of cannabis as well as an active lucid dreamer. As much as I enjoy enlightening others, I won't flood this post with my ideas. Simply put, stoners do dream, and regularly so. What weed does to dreams, if anything, is slow the REM process and definitely alters the ability to recall, as it does while awake. I record an average of 3 dreams a night and they are no different if when I've been on a break from smoking.
I'm not a regular smoker, I
Submitted by Grace on October 16, 2014 - 10:57am
I'm not a regular smoker, I personally can't afford to be, however when I do smoke I often find I have longer sleeps and more vivid dreams. When I drink alcohol I'm pretty sure I don't dream, or I simply don't remember it, but when I'm stoned I definitely dream, and my dreams are more 'epic' if that makes sense?
sleeping and dreaming
Submitted by Nicholas Zamora on April 6, 2015 - 8:36am
I smoke regularly to but, its different for me i dream sometimes when i smoke but,not all the time.When i do dream,i can remember the dream,if i were to go straight back to sleep sometimes i can go back to the same dream.And wven take control of it almost.because in the dream i can acest that it is one.
sleeping and dreaming
Submitted by Nicholas Zamora on April 6, 2015 - 8:40am
I smoke regularly to but, its different for me i dream sometimes when i smoke but,not all the time.When i do dream,i can remember the dream,if i were to go straight back to sleep sometimes i can go back to the same dream.And wven take control of it almost.because in the dream i can acest that it is one.i also left this out sometimes if i dont smoke for a couple days i cant sleep regularly.
Negative
Submitted by Anonymous on November 6, 2011 - 5:25pm
I consume marijuana multiple occasions per day, I dream every night. The strange thing is that my friends cannot recall their own dreams yet we smoke together every time. I think dreams vary from person to person as do the effects of marijuana per person.
Negative
Submitted by Anonymous on November 6, 2011 - 5:28pm
I consume marijuana multiple occasions per day, I dream every night. The strange thing is that my friends cannot recall their own dreams yet we smoke together every time. I think dreams vary from person to person as do the effects of marijuana per person.
I approve
Submitted by Anonymous on May 1, 2012 - 3:37am
I have been smoking marijuana for the past 4 years before i quit few months ago, it was me and a my cousin who decided to so. it is true dreams become very realistic and are considered to be nightmares. My cousin experienced the same thing, what i think it is that when ur high u do dream but u do not remember ur dreams. when ur sober u do remember everything. after 3 months of quiting i was smoking again and again dreamed disappeared...and and just yesterday (after 2 months of smoking) i decided to quit again, and i dreamt that i was sleeping with a girl (it was a good one) but this dream kept me thinking the whole day; not about the sex but about how deep and realistic the dream was. reading this article made me was a coincidence for me, and i truly believe that quiting weed makes ur dream and remember ur dreams, its sometimes could get scary. I'm off to bed after my second day of quitting, i hope ill have a nice dream just like the one of yesterday!
Same here.....
Submitted by Mick on December 11, 2012 - 7:49am
I've experienced the same thing. I have been smoking for the last 5 years and I decided to quit just three weeks ago. These past few nights I've been having really vivid dreams that feel SO real to me that I will wake up and think about them for at least 30 minutes. Some of them have been bad, but most have been great. I haven't remembered MOST, (not saying all, but most), of my dreams the whole time I have smoked weed, but it seems that every single night I can remember every dream I have, and this includes waking up from one dream and falling back asleep and going into a totally new one. This makes me firmly believe that weed does have an effect on dreams, but some people say that it doesn't. In the end, every person is different and experiences different things but I'm glad to know other people have been having this same phenomenon happen to them.
This, this, this. I smoked
Submitted by Malywnn on January 28, 2013 - 2:19am
This, this, this. I smoked very heavily for about two years and throughout this time, even when I quit for a week or so, I recall that I did not have dreams. I didn't notice until I quit early last year, and I remember that in the weeks after I quit, I had several violent and vivid nightmares. They were unlike any nightmares I had ever had before because they were so real and they terrified me. I also remember that right before I quit I would smoke before bed and be afraid to go to sleep high because I didn't like the sensation that I was just 'dropping' into this nothingness where I did not dream. After awhile I made the connection between my not dreaming and my weed smoking, and it really scared me. I've always had intense and vivid dreams for as long as I can remember, and I truly enjoyed them (when they weren't nightmares). After about a month or so my nightmares stopped and I started having intense dreams again. I still smoke on occasion now, but I do it with extreme trepidation because I don't like the fact that a drug can mess with that part of your brain to the extent that you don't do something that is completely normal to every creature.
In my head, weed and dreaming are definitely connected. But like the above commenter, everyone is a different person. Who knows, maybe if I had continued smoking I would have eventually started dreaming again? To me, my dreams won over the sensation and feeling of being high.
reply to Malywnn
Submitted by qtommyb on November 20, 2017 - 11:18pm
Hi, read your comment and just wanted to mention that smoking and then immediately going to sleep is a really difficult thing for me to do, and probably most people I would imagine. You should probably let the affects of the dose wear off, depending on potency, about an hour after you use, before trying to fall asleep. Then you won't have that falling into nothingness feeling, is my guess.
Cannabis and dreams, a shrink's perspective
Submitted by Avian Caduceus on March 31, 2018 - 11:13pm
I'm a psychiatrist who has smoked nearly daily since I was 19 years old. I have had to quit periodically for drug tests and other reasons. While I definitely still dream while I am smoking marijuana daily, I certainly experience very vivid dreams once I have quit smoking marijuana for a week or so. Perhaps it is that smoking marijuana makes you feel somewhat as though you are dreaming while you are awake... I'm not sure. But while I dream all the time, the vividness and realism of my dreams definitely increases substantially once I have quit smoking for about a week or two.
Lucid dreams
Submitted by Jann Gumbiner Ph.D. on June 26, 2009 - 10:21am
Briana,
Thanks for your reply. Dreams are susceptible to suggestion and intervention. A really fun thing to do when you are in a semi-conscious dream state is try to change your dream. Have you ever done that? More than once, I have had a scary dream and I said to myself in my dream that I was only dreaming. Also, a really fun way to get in touch with your dreams is to keep a dream journal when you wake up. The more you pay attention to your dreams the clearer they become. Creative, imaginative people are known to be more sensitive to hypnosis. How about you? Any interesting dreams? Do you dream in color or black and white?
If you're aware that you're
Submitted by Tokahontas on December 12, 2010 - 5:19pm
If you're aware that you're dreaming, then you aren't fully in a state of dreaming. And if you can change your dreams, you definitely aren't in a total dream state. This is basic Psychology 101. And I should know because I took it twice. NOT because I failed (I got an A both times), but because I missed too many classes.
Are you implying there's no
Submitted by Anonymous on June 30, 2011 - 8:26pm
Are you implying there's no such thing as lucid dreaming? I thought that was discussed in Psych 101.
If you become aware that you
Submitted by Anonymous on August 7, 2011 - 12:53pm
If you become aware that you are dreaming ("become lucid") it doesn't mean that you aren't really in a sleep state. When people realize they are dreaming, they become overexcited and usually wake up. Those who practice lucid dreaming spend considerable amounts of time on practicing techniques to avoid awakening while lucid. It may not have been covered in your Psych 101 class but it is definitely true
staying in the dream
Submitted by Anonymous on September 4, 2013 - 3:53pm
I myself recently started studying and having lucid dreams and the only time i got excited and woke up to check the position of my body outside of the dream was the first time it happened, but now i have them almost every night i sleep
- i also go to sleep stoned every night and i remember my dreams
Marijuana, sleep and dreams...
Submitted by Matthew Lawn on July 10, 2009 - 8:46pm
... in particular, the phenomenon of extremely vivid dreams upon cessation of long term, heavy marijuana use.
I am trying to help a friend quit smoking pot. It seems that a major obstacle in this effort is the fact that within a week of his last high he is troubled by "extremely vivid", frightening, violent dreams that leave him shaken well into the next day. I did not experience this when I gave up marijuana, so I have no idea how to help.
This problem has invariably lead him back to use of the drug. I have found some references to this phenomenon on the internet, but no suggestions about how it might be addressed (medications, supplements). Might you have any information about this, or suggestions as to where I might look?
Thank so much
Scary dreams
Submitted by Jann Gumbiner on July 10, 2009 - 10:27pm
Hi, I would try guided imagery, self hypnosis, relaxation techniques, and a very good therapist. The dreams should quiet down after his sleep cycle returns to normal REM.
okay so i was going throught
Submitted by Anonymous on December 1, 2009 - 1:55am
okay so i was going throught the EXACT same thing as yur friend. EXACT SAME THING. im 18. i'll be 19 in febuary. i started smoking bud wen i was 16. so i been smokin for a while. at first i would always laff when i was high. buh recently wen my first semester of college started in started having these VIVID> EXTREMELY realistic dreams. & i started thinking about my father dying. to tha point i woke up crying. so i stoped for a while. prayd for the thoughts to end. & now when i smoke i subcontiously tell my self that "its tha weed" & i try to focus on whats going on in front of me instead of thing about tha future or a past event. if yu jusst sit there, yur gonna end up pondering into deep thought. so make sure he smokes with other people around. preferably funny pple! now im pretty much back to normal. he should be good in no time :)
Are you sure you were
Submitted by Emily Rose on July 1, 2011 - 12:58pm
Are you sure you were 'dreaming?' Because normally dreams disappear while you're smoking and reappear when you quit. It sounds to me like you had a bad trip and those were hallucinations, not dreams. Just a thought.
Reliving dreams.
Submitted by Joe on May 30, 2015 - 4:45pm
When i smoke marijuana i relive dreams. Specific scenes in my vision are exactly what i have dreamt either the same morning or a couple days before. And thoughts that occur as i smoke make me think of previous dreams, which then my eye catches something suprisingly familiar. Once it was the number 803 on a wall in the lightrail which was after a conversation about us running away from police officers. I instantly recalled a dream i had which led to me relising the 803 on the wall. Then relised that ive seen it before. I honestly think i can see the future in my dreams.
do you think that maybe your
Submitted by Anonymous on September 25, 2010 - 4:02pm
do you think that maybe your friend is using cannabis as a crutch or panacea for some deeper issues he's facing?
people use cannabis for all sorts of different reasons. I would like to think that most people use it because they enjoy it but i know that there are some that abuse it because they have emotional issues.
it would make sense why he's having such disturbing dreams after stopping it since he's no longer washing away his troubles with weed and they're coming back.
basically, i would wonder if there's more to it than just using it because he enjoys it. if he has a doctor that he can talk to about it, i would suggest you suggest to him to do so. there may be underlying issues at hand in his case.
The same thing that happend
Submitted by Anonymous on August 21, 2011 - 1:05pm
The same thing that happend to your friend used to happend to me and a lot of my friends for a couple days after we had been using Molli or Ecstasy we would have really bad dreams. My friends said they took seritonin supplememnts and said that that helped them alot. I hope that helps.
you called it a drug. stop
Submitted by Eazel on August 22, 2011 - 12:10am
you called it a drug. stop it. that's your first mistake. try a less apprehensive approach and then you might find what you seek.
Take 5-HTP for withdrawals
Submitted by jaybird on January 3, 2013 - 12:05pm
Taking the supplement 5 HTP can help relieve sypmtoms of MJ withdrawal such as depression, irritability, sleep deprivation, appetite problems, and the dreadful nightmares. Take 200mg per day for about two months to assist through initial stages of abstinence can be very helpful.
I have been smoking marijuana
Submitted by Kt on September 7, 2009 - 3:16pm
I have been smoking marijuana for years. I stopped two or so weeks ago. My dreams these past few nights have been very vivid and very long; they seem to go on for days. I remember them very clearly and can't stop thinking about them. I never noticed how my dreams have been suppressed by my smoking until now. This is a fascinating topic.
Me too
Submitted by Anonymous on June 4, 2010 - 2:07pm
I am going thru the same thing, I quit smoking marijuana 3 weeks ago and my dreams are not scary but long and I remember them very well. I can even wake up and then fall back asleep and continue the same dream. I think everyone must be different because they are more vivid and I can remember them but not scary or emotionally disturbing. I am thinking these people were having or going to have scary dreams anyways they just didn't remember them. What do you think? Mine were just about the people in my life doing different things or even similar things to what we do in real life. I work in a restaurant and we are always in a similar place.
Well, if this is true, than i
Submitted by ellie on June 17, 2010 - 2:22pm
Well, if this is true, than i should be truly happy for giving up on marijuana a while ago. My reasons were others though, i was worried about my health, and about the addiction which was taking control over me. I still feel the need to smoke it, but i choose to go to some legal smoke shop and get some herbal buds, instead of contacting the same old marijuana dealer.
You are not addicted to mary
Submitted by Bobandy on May 30, 2011 - 1:23am
You are not addicted to mary jane....... It is not possible. You may desire it....for many reasons, but it is not possible to be "addicted" to it.
It is possible. You can't be
Submitted by Rainbow on May 30, 2011 - 10:28am
It is possible. You can't be physically addicted, but you can be psychologically addicted.
You're not addicted
Submitted by Anonymous on August 25, 2011 - 8:02am
Marijuana is not addictive. There are no physical withdraws. You just miss smoking weed. If it's causing you problems then just don't smoke. If it's too hard, then you may need professional help to figure out what situations, thoughts, or feelings, you are avoiding by getting high. You're no more addicted to weed than a workaholic is addicted to work. It's not the work's fault, or the weed's fault. It's a maturity issue, and we all need a little guidance with that process at some point.
The recovery INDUSTRY only tells you it is addictive so they can bill your parent's insurance for talking you out of getting high. Many of them are real former addicts who's sobriety is so fragile that they see marijuana as a gateway back to their old addictions, and they project that on to everyone else. Some of them smoke weed behind closed doors but push the company line in public. Then you have the cops, who get to pump the money from assets seized back into their drug war budget. They want you to think it's addictive too. You also have the big drug cartels that make huge profits from keeping it illegal who benefit from the addiction myth.
If you are avoiding growing up, don't blame a harmless weed.
well put
Submitted by Anonymous on September 28, 2011 - 2:18am
That comment was so very on point, thanks for it.
marijuana addiction
Submitted by Jim on February 9, 2012 - 7:39am
Marijuana does indeed have withdrawal symptoms and is thus addictive, but the withdrawal symptoms are so mild that few people have problems with them. You surely would agree that the herb calms your nerves and destresses you, yes? When you take that away you will experience more stress and the follow-on effects. As i said, it is very mild. Just because something has addictive qualities does not make it bad or evil. The symptoms from caffeine withdrawal are as bad or worse, yet i consume a cup of coffee every morning and tea throughout the afternoon. If i go without, i get headaches and fatigue. Yet i still love caffeine. When i consume herb on a daily basis (at least .25-.5 grams of kb) for an extended period of time, i DO experience withdrawals: insomnia, poor digestion, irritability. The symptoms are very mild and last no more than a few days. If you only use it sporadically you will never experience this. Some people barely notice. I wish people wouldn't get so hung up on whether it is addictive or not. It has been used for thousands of years to help with sleep, stress, diarrhea (one of the main reasons for using it in Ayurveda), nausea, not to mention the enjoyment or spiritual effects. If you use it for a long time and suddenly stop, you might experience some of these for a short time. It's no big deal for me, but some may struggle with it, i don't judge. I mean we're not talking about cocaine or morphine here, we're not even talking nicotine or caffeine. Sure ganja is addictive, but the physical addiction is truly child's play compared to other chemicals (i realize that might sound insensitive to people trying to stop, but compared to kicking heroin, or even cigarettes, there's no contest).
disagree with "addictive" description and use to suppress terrible nightmares
Submitted by Anonymous on December 30, 2012 - 6:39am
I had a very traumatic childhood. It remained traumatic for a prolonged period of time...up to age 12-14. I had the most awful nightmares and was overall a very angry young man. A good kid,not bad, but nagry and anxious noentheless.
I discovered that marijuana suppresses dreams and helps with trauma in other ways as well. This is why I bgan smoking it over 15 yeare ago, and continued everyday, unless circumstnace forces me to stop. When In do stop, there is absolutely no noticeable change, no withdrawal, except that the horrible nightmares that plagued me as a kid come back. And they come back with avengance. I go from being a well, rested, quite active, functional person with plenty of motivation and achievementuntil I stop, and then I cannot sleep fro more than 2 hours at a time and tend to choose to stay up due to the horrible and unexplainable thoughts that take over my subconcious while I sleep.
I resent the word "stoner". I have a masters, a doctorate degree, and have passed one of the most challenging licensing exams for my profession in 3 different states. I strucutre comoplex transactions for a living and would not be able to do any of it without cannabis. WOuld I be even sharper without cannabis? Perhaps. Would my lungs be in better shape? Sure. But we are all on this earht for a limited amount of time,and some of us have experienced things that were out of our control and must live with the fact it has affecred us in certain ways, and is no less a part of me than anything else we have experienced in life.
In my case, in order to continue to advance my career, I have to worry about drug tests, so I must quit for weeks or perhaps months in order to burn all the fat that store the cannaboids in my body, which of course are not water soluble. If I smoked crack, meth, shot heroine or used cocaine, I would be in great shaoe since these employer drug tests will not detect those drugs after only a few days. (Isn't that something?) I also have 2 children I am good father to, and a wife I am good husband to.
Anyhow, since this is a professional forum, I do hope that somehow the industry will find funding to research cannabis and its benefits. I refuse to use synthetic drugs. I much prefer a weed that is part of nature's balance. It makes me feel much more comfortable than getting hooked on drugs concontocted in a lab.
I amwritign thi right now, because still, after 3 weeks, my nightmares are so horrible I had to reach out and find some answers. I was told once I had PTSD, and there seems to be a lot of blogs woth war vets who have found peace with cannabis. The politics surrounding cannabis prohibition are just awful. You would never ever know I used cannabis unless you knekw me intimately. As far as productivitiy in the work place, maybe we shouldnt allow people with children with special needs, or sick parents, or someone who experienced a death int he family to be able to work and make a living since these thigns will ultimately affect productivity. Isn't that the argument employers use for marijuana testing? It will effect productivity in the work place?
Sincerely,
Terrified to go back sleep, but will do whatever it takes to advance my career and make a better life for myself anf my family.
disagree with "addictive" description and use to suppress terrible nightmares
Submitted by Anonymous on December 30, 2012 - 6:40am
I had a very traumatic childhood. It remained traumatic for a prolonged period of time...up to age 12-14. I had the most awful nightmares and was overall a very angry young man. A good kid,not bad, but nagry and anxious noentheless.
I discovered that marijuana suppresses dreams and helps with trauma in other ways as well. This is why I bgan smoking it over 15 yeare ago, and continued everyday, unless circumstnace forces me to stop. When In do stop, there is absolutely no noticeable change, no withdrawal, except that the horrible nightmares that plagued me as a kid come back. And they come back with avengance. I go from being a well, rested, quite active, functional person with plenty of motivation and achievementuntil I stop, and then I cannot sleep fro more than 2 hours at a time and tend to choose to stay up due to the horrible and unexplainable thoughts that take over my subconcious while I sleep.
I resent the word "stoner". I have a masters, a doctorate degree, and have passed one of the most challenging licensing exams for my profession in 3 different states. I strucutre comoplex transactions for a living and would not be able to do any of it without cannabis. WOuld I be even sharper without cannabis? Perhaps. Would my lungs be in better shape? Sure. But we are all on this earht for a limited amount of time,and some of us have experienced things that were out of our control and must live with the fact it has affecred us in certain ways, and is no less a part of me than anything else we have experienced in life.
In my case, in order to continue to advance my career, I have to worry about drug tests, so I must quit for weeks or perhaps months in order to burn all the fat that store the cannaboids in my body, which of course are not water soluble. If I smoked crack, meth, shot heroine or used cocaine, I would be in great shaoe since these employer drug tests will not detect those drugs after only a few days. (Isn't that something?) I also have 2 children I am good father to, and a wife I am good husband to.
Anyhow, since this is a professional forum, I do hope that somehow the industry will find funding to research cannabis and its benefits. I refuse to use synthetic drugs. I much prefer a weed that is part of nature's balance. It makes me feel much more comfortable than getting hooked on drugs concontocted in a lab.
I amwritign thi right now, because still, after 3 weeks, my nightmares are so horrible I had to reach out and find some answers. I was told once I had PTSD, and there seems to be a lot of blogs woth war vets who have found peace with cannabis. The politics surrounding cannabis prohibition are just awful. You would never ever know I used cannabis unless you knekw me intimately. As far as productivitiy in the work place, maybe we shouldnt allow people with children with special needs, or sick parents, or someone who experienced a death int he family to be able to work and make a living since these thigns will ultimately affect productivity. Isn't that the argument employers use for marijuana testing? It will effect productivity in the work place?
Sincerely,
Terrified to go back sleep, but will do whatever it takes to advance my career and make a better life for myself anf my family.
That's absolutely not true at
Submitted by Anonymous on December 31, 2012 - 3:25am
That's absolutely not true at all. If you understand the phenomenon of addiction you will understand that it is the bodies way of compensating for any substance that your body finds puts you out of equilibrium. Each time you use your body compensates. One of the signs is the munchies. This in reality is your body craving sugar to stop the high. I have smoked for 18 years and this is my third bout with quitting. The reality is that Mary is very addictive. Perhaps more so than other drugs because it is underestimated. As my body starts to regulate itself what is very clear is the dependence that I have created by using this herb.
RE: You're not addicted
Submitted by Anonymous on February 26, 2014 - 8:13pm
That's amazing! I have never even thought about it that way before. I agreed, I've smoked for around 5 years and never quit for more than a few days.
I finally quit 2 weeks ago. I felt no withdrawals aside from some vivid dreams for a few nights. I didn't feel insomnia/headaches/paranoia. Some people complain they feel extremely bored when they quit this was not the case.
I agree with what you are saying. Though, I think it could be worded better.
People complain of psychological withdrawals from THC rather than physical withdrawals (nicotine).
I think what you're saying is that these psychological withdrawals are "advertised" to us: we are shown/told people suffer from withdrawals and we assume they will materialize in our own life.
Converse to this I feel that my personal experience does not directly correlate with what others may be feeling. I gradually quit, I cut back to only one joint before bed for 2 weeks before quitting completely.
The subject is still up for debate! This is only 1 person's experience/opinion.
Addiction
Submitted by M. Simon on September 5, 2011 - 5:51am
ALL addiction is psychological. We know how to fix physical cravings for drugs. We call it detox (there is no detox for pot as far as I know).
Since most chronic users are self medicating for PTSD then we can say that such people's return to their drug of choice is self medication. Ask any psychological intake nurse.
The deal is that even most professionals only know what they read in the newspapers about the subject. Even more so laypeople. There is a huge industry (Drug Prohibition) devoted to keeping people ignorant on the subject.
The herbal buds have been
Submitted by nic on October 11, 2013 - 4:14am
The herbal buds have been known to kill people from having contaminants (most is made in China).
Be careful...
Fascinating
Submitted by Jann Gumbiner Ph.D. on September 8, 2009 - 1:14pm
Hi, Kt,
Yes, I think it is a fascinating topic, too, obviously. Are you keeping a dream diary? Are they scary dreams? Can you break into them and change them? Are you willing to share one or two? Yes, dreams are fascinating.
Jann
When I was younger, lucid
Submitted by Kt on September 8, 2009 - 2:25pm
When I was younger, lucid dreams occurred often and I didn't know they were uncommon. But in order for me to gain awareness in my dreams, something supernatural or bizarre usually had to occur. Lately, I've been having normal dreams, so to speak. I haven't been lucid.
I dreamt about fire for the first time in my life a few nights ago. It was a huge, bright, beautiful, fire. I felt no heat from it. I ripped a window net so two cats could jump out of the fire, into my window. They did.
I can't remember having any nightmares in years, although they may have occurred, sparked lucidity, and I may have manipulated myself out of them. Maybe.
Dreams
Submitted by Jann Gumbiner Ph.D. on September 13, 2009 - 10:52am
Hi, Kt,
You saved the cats! Congrats! What a hero!
People with vivid dreams are generally creative, imaginative people. As you pay more attention to your dreams, you will remmember more. Try writing them down.
Thanks for sharing.
Jann
People with vivid dreams are
Submitted by Anonymous on March 19, 2012 - 3:04am
People with vivid dreams are people with vivid dreams.
There is no such thing as natural creativity. All brains are equally brilliant. Anything can be mastered.
not created equally
Submitted by Anonymous on July 12, 2012 - 3:23am
Nope, some only master a few tens of words in their lifetime. These are classified into idiots, morons, etc. See wikipedia for the term moron. These terms however have fallen into disuse due to the euphemism treadmill.
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