Does Smoking Weed Stop You Dreaming?

Everyone dreams. It's just a matter of memory of those dreams, not whether they occur or not. A person's body is not just relaxed during REM, it is almost paralyzed. The reason being that you'd act out your dreams otherwise. I watched a documentary where they blocked sleep subject's from receiving the paralyzing message. They sat up with eyes open, talked, smoked looked for all the world like they were aware, but their brains were asleep. None of them remembered anything until they were shown the videos. The sleep researchers in the documentary now think that REM sleep is a survival tool used to experience dangerous situations and try different methods of solution in a non-lethal, matrix-like simulation. A simulation that is so real to the brain that the body must be immobilized. I thought that was pretty cool.

Word BB, the body is an incredibly complex thing that we haven't even come close to figuring out yet. Imagine over the next 50 years the kind of progress we're going to make.. we're living in the future yo, it's happening here and now.

Also you guys should look up lucid dreaming. There are ways of training your mind to control your dreams. It doesn't make any sense until you try it. Give it a shot I promise it will shatter your universe.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyZ

Also you guys should look up lucid dreaming. There are ways of training your mind to control your dreams. It doesn't make any sense until you try it. Give it a shot I promise it will shatter your universe.

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I used to turn my falling dreams into flying dreams. Much cooler with a less stressful wake up . . . :D

Flying is easy man, you just have to fall and miss the ground.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyZ

Flying is easy man, you just have to fall and miss the ground.

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It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

I haven't read what people have said, but here's what I'm going to say:








Marijuana when in the system is received as delta 9 tetrahydrocannibinol which is the product of THC being processed in the liver. Then when it goes into the brain, specifically the pituitary gland which releases DMT(Delta-Methol-Tri something, google it) while the body is sleeping. This is mainly released when someone reaches a deep REM, thus, the dreams you don't remember. You don't remember them because DMT is an extreme hallucinogen which takes control of your conscience/sub conscience while asleep. Once you awake your mind takes control back and you quickly forget what has just been thought about.

When THC is in the blood stream at the release of this DMT it makes the release much more extreme and more DMT is released into the bloodstream helping you fall even deeper into a deep sleep.

This is just what I have gotten from reading all over the internet including texts about cannabis.

-C

Now that I think of it.. I don't think I dream when I'm high. I'll have to pay attention next time to be sure.

Wrong, if you read above, you dream harder when your high, but seeing as DMT is such an extreme hallucinogen and you aren't actually thinking, your thoughts are just being made, you do not remember this.

-C

You dream every time you go to sleep, you just don't remember all of your dreams, and getting high all the time and going to sleep high puts you in a more sedative sleep and could cause you to not remember your dreams.

@ForgetClassC:

Is that a Pug on your avatar?

Indeed, that is THE pug..........lol

He's awesome.

-C

I luv my PUG, it's almost like they have a personality.

This mutha fucka definitely has a personallity, a 60 year old fat guy, lol. All he does is eat, sleep, shit, and fart, lol. Oh and he can't do anything but love, but thats a given.

-C

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Originally Posted by Stoner Shadow Wolf

the reason we are meant to smoke pot, rather the reasons, are many.


one such reason, which pertains to this thread, is short term memory.

We are not supposed to remember our dreams all the time, the reason being that they are there for a purpose, to guide us in life, but remembering them often causes us to apply the lessons inappropriately.


by temporarily forgetting our dreams, we are better able to recognize the areas of our life which dreams become important. this is also called Deja Vu.


We never forget our dreams completely, however because they werent physically real, and because we forget them, they get stored differently in the memory, only cropping up when the situation(s) in life call for them.



When we remember our dreams, we ponder on about them until we truly forget them and they become useless. OR we apply them to the wrong areas of our life.

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Well said... very nice