Growing Nightmare!

[bigtopsfinn]

I've been listening to old Loveline radio episodes lately, and Dr. Drew Pinsky (works with addicts) has said on several occasions that the nightmares can go on for about 6 months, maybe more. He would say that you have a profound cannabis addiction, and the only way to get over these nightmares is through therapy in a structured environment, and probably some kind of mild anti-depressant or sedative...

I'm just spitting back what he says, so please don't shoot the messenger!!!

:jointsmile:

[8182KSKUSH]

Man... it also happens with me whenever i have a break... after the 2nd-3rd without smoking, my dreams start to get REAL vivid, and after the 4th or 5th day i start to get nightmares (vivid too)... and if the break is a forced one (when i visit my parents home, for example) all my nightmares are about weed, more exactly about someone discovering my stash and throwing it away, or about wishing madly to smoke but having no weed, things like this...

I dont know any way to stop them besides smoking... i dont know if they go away after some time, as fortunately i never had to stop smoking for longer than 1 week since i started to smoke daily...

Anyway, im sure that they are caused by the lack of weed and the fear of not being able to smoke again... a psychologist would have a lot to say about this... :jointsmile:

Ug. Well that's not too promising. I would think that it would just stop on it's own. Surely it's not gonna keep going on and on for months! That would be crazy eh? I wonder what a psychologist might say? Hmmmmm?

I've been listening to old Loveline radio episodes lately, and Dr. Drew Pinsky (works with addicts) has said on several occasions that the nightmares can go on for about 6 months, maybe more. He would say that you have a profound cannabis addiction, and the only way to get over these nightmares is through therapy in a structured environment, and probably some kind of mild anti-depressant or sedative...

I'm just spitting back what he says, so please don't shoot the messenger!!!

:jointsmile:

Oh....
Shit.

Like it's not bad enough that I can't get to sleep until 4 or 5 in the morning to begin with, but then when I do.....
ah hell. Sounds like I may just be up shit creek here for a while. Hopefully I can just tough this out. Therapy? Anti-depressants? Ugh! I think I would rather just try to deal with it. Hell if I go in for therapy, odds are they may not let me leave! No siree bob not me! :thumbsup:
Thanks for the relating the experience coelho, and for the info big. Hope someone else that has beat this chimes in here. Appreciate the posts folks. Good info, let's keep it coming. Thank you.:jointsmile:
This really does re-open my eyes though, and help me appreciate my cannabis even more for it's usefulness. I know there were times that I really did take it for granted, and didn't totally appreciate how valuable it is to me as medicine. So that's something good that is coming from this...
I guess.:jointsmile:

[painretreat]

It is often thought that your dreams are a way of working through your problems. The ones we can't face when we are awake.

Your plants dying isn't exactly a nightmare, but extremely vivid dream that scares you? Because if they died you'd be out the $ plus your time? Plus, no meds and can't talk to your wife?

Dude, you need some growing buddies, surely you have a friend to get with! Go to the MPP meetings in Riverside, at least get a dose while you are there!

This is a funny lol thread and a sad one! PR:hippy:

[boaz]

... It would be alot different if I was single, but I am not, and my number 1 priority now is my son and my family...

right on. hang tuff bro. i also started having really vivid dreams and lucid dreams, where you realize your dreaming, :stoned: once when i had quit for over a month. i've heard that weed makes a person dream less so that when they quit the dreams come back with a vengence. :apachecopter:

i'm not sure if this really works but i've read that if you take Melanonin herbal supplements that this will help, i think weed drains the body of this substance or something. don't know if it really helps but its worth a shot.

my re-occuring nightmare when i quit was that i would be a party or something and someone would pass me a j, i would take a big draw and ahhhh, nothing but air. :wtf: :rasta:

[boaz]

or it might be Freddy, it is Friday the 13th

keep a close watch on that garden today

[JohnnyZ]

It's not even that tough, I could just go to any legal clinic, anywhere in this state and have my pick of what I want. I just made a promise to myself that I would not, I spend too much time, and money on my grow to do that at this point. I have waaay more immediate needs that the money could be used for with my family. And to be honest, even getting it underground here in socal @ $10gram for the same top notch that I can get legally in the clinics is too much. I could blow $300 EZ in less than a month, then I am right back where I started, minus the $280. While that money could have been spent on more important things. It would be alot different if I was single, but I am not, and my number 1 priority now is my son and my family. I feel guilty enough spending the money, (more importantly time) that I do now on my ladies. The only thing that helps me justify that is the fact that down the road, in a year or so, I will have my shit down well enough so that there are no dry times, that's what I am working for. In the mean time, I just want to get by w/out. I just need some other way to cope w/ my own head until later this summer when my shit is ready. Again, any suggestion that don't involve running out and grabbing some is kinda what I am looking for. THat's the obvious answer, but there is really no way I can get enough to last me as long as I would need it to, therefore, that would only be a temporary fix. Kinda like putting a band aid on a severed leg! Thanks for the input though. Believe me, you aren't saying anything that "Bad KUSH" isn't already thinking.:jointsmile:

Ah, well I did not know the extent of your situation. You need to wait it out then dude, it's what you should do as a man for his family. Worry about getting the rest of your life in order, and by the time you realize it your ladies will be ripe for the picking. Just remember this is temporary, and keep in mind you will get absolutely fucking gongshowed the first time you smoke again. That always helps me whenever I'm on a break and I get a craving.. Just close your eyes and think of how high you will get. Always brings a smile to my face

[Coelho]

Just remember this is temporary, and keep in mind you will get absolutely fucking gongshowed the first time you smoke again. That always helps me whenever I'm on a break and I get a craving.. Just close your eyes and think of how high you will get. Always brings a smile to my face

Indeed! Thats the only thing that makes me endure the breaks... :jointsmile:

[8182KSKUSH]

It is often thought that your dreams are a way of working through your problems. The ones we can't face when we are awake.

Your plants dying isn't exactly a nightmare, but extremely vivid dream that scares you? Because if they died you'd be out the $ plus your time? Plus, no meds and can't talk to your wife?

Dude, you need some growing buddies, surely you have a friend to get with! Go to the MPP meetings in Riverside, at least get a dose while you are there!

This is a funny lol thread and a sad one! PR:hippy:

I think you are right on on alot of accounts there. I would love to have some growing buddies, but damn, I just have a hard time trusting people. Here everything is anonymous so it's easy, no one is knows who I am here, so I don't worry about any crazed cdot members showing up at my house and sticking me up, or trying to get me harassed by the all too willing riverside leo for any reason. (Or god forbid the DEA) It's funny, aside from 1 or 2 people, everyone that knows me has no fucking idea what I really do. In fact, recently, I had someone tell me at work that they thought I was mormon for some reason! LOL Can you believe that! I am not a native, and come from a place where mere posession is a serious criminal act, let alone growing. Now I am here, I am legal, but I am still highly paranoid. Nothing is garuanteed you know. You know a little about me, and my experiences here. After seeing what I have seen, it's like that song, "I always feel like, somebodies watchin' meeeee!" Hard to get past it when it hits so close to home.

I don't want this to be a sad, or downer thread by any means, just want to have this discussion in hopes of finding a way out of the woods, or at the least, maybe someone else in the same boat down the road will read this and it will make them feel a little better.
As far as going to meetings, yeah, I have a friend that I could go with, but at the moment he's a little tied up w/ some other stuff. :thumbsup: Hopefully someday.
When my family and I came out, him and his family were the only people that we knew literally, and if it were not for his genorosity, we could have never made it here. Just fucked up how shit happens sometimes, ironic too. Since I was 16, I knew the only thing that I really really wanted to do was come here, and grow my own. Now I am. It just so happens, that the only person that I would ever share this with, I cannot now. Everything happens for a reason though. I am sure that one day, everything will be as it should.
(BtW I was encouraged to go, and reassured that there really isn't anything to worry about, but this is the same guy that honestly believed that the DEA would never in a millon years target him either.)
That is one reason why I am so fond of this community, as well as the other one, aside from my family, (which doesn't want to know what I do), this is the only place I truly feel free to share. And even that now is limited. I decided to no longer post any personal grows here due to some wierdness that had been happening here.
(I do still post though. Just not here.):thumbsup:

right on. hang tuff bro. i also started having really vivid dreams and lucid dreams, where you realize your dreaming, :stoned: once when i had quit for over a month. i've heard that weed makes a person dream less so that when they quit the dreams come back with a vengence. :apachecopter:

i'm not sure if this really works but i've read that if you take Melanonin herbal supplements that this will help, i think weed drains the body of this substance or something. don't know if it really helps but its worth a shot.

my re-occuring nightmare when i quit was that i would be a party or something and someone would pass me a j, i would take a big draw and ahhhh, nothing but air. :wtf: :rasta:

LMAO! That is some scary shit! Hit the bone and nothing but clean air! AWWWW!
I will look into the melonanininaini thing. Can't hurt. I will do some research and see what I come up with.

or it might be Freddy, it is Friday the 13th

keep a close watch on that garden today

Yeah, 2 months in a row huh?

Ah, well I did not know the extent of your situation. You need to wait it out then dude, it's what you should do as a man for his family. Worry about getting the rest of your life in order, and by the time you realize it your ladies will be ripe for the picking. Just remember this is temporary, and keep in mind you will get absolutely fucking gongshowed the first time you smoke again. That always helps me whenever I'm on a break and I get a craving.. Just close your eyes and think of how high you will get. Always brings a smile to my face

It sure does make me smile when I think about that. My hashberry, satori, pure power plant, and mazar-i-shariff all on deck make me smile too! There's gonna be some plant sex happening at my house later this year!:jointsmile: I have always been big on long term plans, the waiting doesn't bother me a bit, and really, going without isn't terrible either, I keep pretty damn busy anyway. I can hardly wait to get my breeding on, and get a serious seed library, it's one of my goals and so far it's all going according to plan!
It's just the sleepless nights, and the crazy sleep when it happens. My wife has mentioned that since I have been 86 I am more moody, but I just told her to shut the fuck up and make me a sandwich! Then I went and whooped the shit outta my dogs, cat, and iguana! Fuck her! She don't know what the fuck she is talking about!
(I am kidding of course! I mean about the whooping the shit outta my pets, I would never just beat my pets for no reason.):jointsmile::thumbsup:

As for the crazy dreams, I am just gonna tough it out. Not much else to do. Just know that if you are reading this thread and are going through the same thing, don't worry, as I and many others have stated, it is apparently normal! That was my main concern. ANd really, if you can you should just get some cannabis, me, I just painted myself in a corner here, and although there were lots of great suggestions, I am gonna just hang in there. If I come across some cannabis, I won't turn it down, but I am not gonna be buying it. Maybe I will get some good karma, I am getting ready to give away about 8 of my MK clones, and then another 11 more in a few more weeks. The person flat out asked how much I wanted for them, I flat out told him, I don't sell period. Clones or chronic. Just won't ever do it. My payment, is just knowing that I am doing my part to spread this plant around, and subvert the government as much as possible w/ regards to cannabis laws. That's worth more than money to me. And if I do that, maybe it will rub off on someone else.
He just looked at me like I was fucking crazy.
Maybe he'll bring a blunt or something when he comes to get them. He is the only other person that I have a real personal relationship with out here aside from Mr. GPSANKLEBRACELETMAN, and he is the only other real person out here that knows what it is that I do.:jointsmile: I kinda communicate with a grower through him. Hopefully my plants will do the talking for me and him and his grower buddy will reap a nice outdoor this year!

Really just talking to you all in this thread has made me feel alot better. Granted, doesn't help me get to sleep or sleep in peace, but literally, when I made this first post, I was steaming mad in the middle of the day about a dream that I had. So I think I will just continue to drop in here and maybe give you some stories about my crazy dreams, until they stop. Again, I appreciate your support and kind words all.
Good night, have sweet dreams, you sleep lovin' jerky jerkfaces!:jointsmile:
Oh and if you need anything, I will probably be up for another 6 or 7 hours, just pop in! LOL

[Markass]

Well, this would be the second time in a row that I have gone to sleep and had some horrible wretched ass nightmare about my plants. It's the same everytime.
I go in, everything is fine, and I look and everything is dead. Not just dead, but dead and rotten! Usually I can control my dreams really well and silly as it sounds, when I sleep, usually I realize that I am dreaming, even if it is a bad one, I am usually aware that I am dreaming and turn it to my will.
However these 2 were really different. They were very vivid, and I had no control. Just pure panic! Very emotional and upset. I wake up and I am drenched in sweat, so is the bed.
Even after being awake for a while, and realizing it was just a bad dream, and being an adult, it still kinda bothers me. I have actually visually confirmed that everything is OK twice! LOL I don't know if there is any relation, but I have not used any cannabis for about a month now. (I refuse to purchase it ever again, so I wait for mines.)
This last one was the worst yet, in my dream, when I walk in, the room is dark! Problem #1! (I am on a 24 hour veg). When I turn on my backup lights to see what the fuck is up, I notice my ballasts are submerged in water! As I said before, the next issue is #2, the girls are all "fin", ALL OF THEM! And nasty slimey and rotten!
I have never really had this happen before, I don't know if it is due to not using any cannabis, this is the first time I have been off my meds in oh, ...
10 years. Literally. Buying some is not an option, mostly due to my pig headedness, I could if I really really wanted to, but I just don't want to. Any good suggestions on how to get past this weirdness otherwise? The dreams are bad, but so is waking up in soaking sheets freezing my ass off wondering why the hell I am so damn cold if I am sweating so damn much? Makes no sense? Just started happening, the last few times I have gone to sleep, whether it is just a short nap, or for the night.
Weird huh?
In any case, just talking about this, I already feel a little better as it pertains to the actual dreams. I am gonna go stare at my girls now and tell them I love them, and that I can't wait to chop their heads off and light them on fire!:jointsmile:

I can't relate to nightmares about my plants because I don't have any anymore, however I can relate to the bad nightmares when without cannabis..it seems as though I basically just go lights out, then back on when I wake up if I smoke before going to bed..

[boaz]

LMAO! That is some scary shit! Hit the bone and nothing but clean air! AWWWW!
I will look into the melonanininaini thing. Can't hurt. I will do some research and see what I come up with.

yeah really scary shite! more irrating really. :jointsmile: but i do remember dreams being really vivid and thinking what do they mean? of course, this one just meant I wanted to smoke out :rasta: i think it all stops after a few weeks.

i think i heard about that melonanininaini thing on this forum so . . . somebody had a whole coctail of herbs to take to get over the bad effects of taking a break. i think i got the name wrong tho, i think melatonin is the herb you can buy, melanonin is the naturally occurring substance the body produces when someone is out in the sun. so maybe you just need to take the family to beach for the weekend.