What's with my dreams?

[Esoteric416]

Ok, so I know we all dream every time we sleep (or at least sleep long enough), but ive noticed that when I smoke on a regular basis I very rarely remember my dreams, and when I lay off for a couple weeks or longer I start to remember my dreams pretty frequently.

Does this happen to anyone else and does anyone know why this happens? Is it an effect of THC or is it just my own physiology?
Also does anyone notice an opposite effect when they smoke?

[pit6ull420]

idk , seems like if i didnt have any weed i would
probably remember them ... because they would
be nightmares :jointsmile:

[Oh My High]

At low doses, marijuana may cause drowsiness, but at higher doses it seems to interfere with sleep. Specifically, it tends to decrease total REM time and also decrease eye movement during REM sleep.
Re: What are the hamful effects of marijuana? (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1997-12/875400410.Ns.r.html)

(I love to dream, but I stop remembering them when I get stoned)

[Markass]

Ok, so I know we all dream every time we sleep (or at least sleep long enough), but ive noticed that when I smoke on a regular basis I very rarely remember my dreams, and when I lay off for a couple weeks or longer I start to remember my dreams pretty frequently.

Does this happen to anyone else and does anyone know why this happens? Is it an effect of THC or is it just my own physiology?
Also does anyone notice an opposite effect when they smoke?

I have really strange dreams that are incredibly vivid and usually I wake up due to them....At least now that I had to quit smoking pot altogether

When I smoke marijuana before bed I don't have any dreams. It's lights out until I wake back up, which is what I like.

I've asked my brother and a couple of my relatives if they notice the same thing and they do. Somehow, marijuana limits if not eliminates dreams altogether...Which in my case is a good thing...

[Coelho]

Well... it also happens with me... when i smoke is harder for me to remember my dreams, and when i have a break my dreams become easier to remember, and also more vivid... unfortunately whenever i have a break i have nightmares about weed, and theyre very bad... usually i dream someone found my stash and throw it away, or someone discovered i smoke, or shit like that... not good... thats why i dont take breaks anymore... :stoned: (well the actual reason is that if i can smoke every day, why not to? The life is too short to be wasted being sober... :stoned::rastasmoke::jointsmile:)

[NaughtyDreadz]

man I'm happy.. I usually have night terrors or have complete conversations with family members, and even sometimes try to leave my house... I haven't done that in ages or whenever I visit family in brazil... ( where I can't get weed, or smoke as much as I do here)

[Esoteric416]

Damn. Sounds like for most of you guys this effect is a good thing. It's not necissarily a bad thing for me, but I usually have nice dreams (or interesting in any case), so I'd like to remember them more often.
A friend of mine has been reading some books on lucid dreaming recently and he's planning on sending them to me some time soon so that should be interesting to see if I can induce lucid states even while smoking regularly. I'd have to guess that it wont be easy since I'm not good at inducing lucid dreams anyway.

[Coelho]

Well... having lucid dreams is possible even when you smoke... i do it very frequently. Its easier to dream (and thus became lucid) when youre sleeping more than your body needs to... like, if you sleep one or two hours more, after you were ready to awake, you will dream a lot more.


(Completly off topic but whatever: Naughtydreadz, where does your family lives?)

[Esoteric416]

Hey thanks for the dreaming tip, Coelho :D

[NaughtyDreadz]

(Completly off topic but whatever: Naughtydreadz, where does your family lives?)

SP baby....

[g_dogg]

i dont stop dreamin when i take a break, but quite often my dreams merge with reality and it confuses me to think if something really happened or i dreamed it haha

[hazetwostep]

lucid dreaming is a hobby and interest of mine. all the literature i have read supports what everyone is saying. don't get me wrong, i love weed, but i don't think anyone can deny its clouding effects on the mind (hell, if it didn't i would want my money back!).

from what i have gathered it is not that smoking weed stops you from dreaming completely (though it can lessen REM sleep time which is when you dream), but mainly limits you remembrance of the dreams.

want to have some real vivid dreams? pop a nicotine patch on before bed. nicotine is a stimulant which help keep you conscious mind more alert during sleep which will help connect you subconscious and conscious mind in the dream world... of course this will leave you feeling less rested.

[ijustloveweed]

it is totally random for me , but if i don't smoke I will stay up so much later and not get as much sleep. The cool thing about dreams is you can control whatever is happening, you just have to think hard enough.

for example, i had one dream where i was pulled over by the cops and they took my stash. If you can tell yourself that you are dreaming and none of this is real you can do whatever you wish to those cops.... its really fun and challenges your mind power i guess

[hazetwostep]

aka Lucid Dreaming

[melodious fellow]

Well... it also happens with me... when i smoke is harder for me to remember my dreams, and when i have a break my dreams become easier to remember, and also more vivid... unfortunately whenever i have a break i have nightmares about weed, and theyre very bad... usually i dream someone found my stash and throw it away, or someone discovered i smoke, or shit like that... not good... thats why i dont take breaks anymore... :stoned: (well the actual reason is that if i can smoke every day, why not to? The life is too short to be wasted being sober... :stoned::rastasmoke::jointsmile:)

That is exactly what happens with me. I usually get nightmares when I take breaks.

I really hope that link he posted about weed interfering with REM is incorrect, as REM is quite important for learning and memory formation and stress management and such.

[Coelho]

i dont stop dreamin when i take a break, but quite often my dreams merge with reality and it confuses me to think if something really happened or i dreamed it haha

Thats crazy... sometimes it happens with me a similar thing... when im stoned i remember things that i dreamed... sometimes i remember dreams from years ago... they just come to my memory, suddenly, without any conscious control... and the worst part is that its becoming more and more usual, and as more i remember my dreams more i can find an underlying order in them... like... there are some places that i frequently dream of, but i never went to this places... they are places that only exists into my dreams... but they always are there... sometimes i remember things that i did in my dreams... as if my dreaming life had a continuity on its own, much like our waking life has a continuity on its own... like... when we are awake we remember what we did when awake, who we are when awake, etc... yet we only remember a part of what we dreamed... and this pieces of memories usually have not much sense... im starting to think that i have some kind of this continuity when dreaming... like if when i was dreaming i could remember who i am when dreaming, and to have another life there, and have only slight memories of what is to be when awake... its trippy man... maybe im becoming crazy... who knows? Or maybe its just too much :baggy:... :stoned::stoned::stoned:

[jdez87]

i actually have the craziest scariest dreams when I smoke, but not as much as wehn I'm on vicodine now that stuff gets me all jacked up in every aspect

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

The reason the brain must dream is so that it may unwind, and conquer it's challenges in life, and understand new ones.

When high, the brain is better able to relax, due to the increased distractibility, the introverted thoughts come to surface, and sleep becomes more important for the body than the brain.