Cannabis and Dreaming

[BrainEater]

i sometimes dream when smoking cannabis but sometimes not.... i wonder whether tobacco has a influence too on dreaming or whether it has a influence on dreaming when combined with cannabis.

it could be that the "cannabis dreaming experience" can be similar to "normal dreaming" but the recalling part can be more difficult. cuz obviously cannabis affects brain-chemistry and brain-chemistry affects consciousness states such as dreaming state or waking state.

 

[Voyager. Rabbit hole]

Smoking befor sleep actually makes it more difficult to recognize you're dream if you have one at all

I noticed when i stopped smoking for 1 month my dreams were MUCH more vivid and occurred almost every night

 

[BrainEater]

maybe you just noticed them then and the dreams themselves didn't change?? i think probably brain-cannabis-dreams are a bit different than just brain-dreams, but who knows... anyways i like cannabis-dreams not less than normal dreams they can be really cool too, if i happen to be dreaming while sleeping baked. they are sometimes like strange movies but created in my own imagination and that's what i like about it, but well that could be attributed to normal dreams too, however cannabis-dreams seem to have a special quality of their own which i can't really describe, but of which i am sure all of you are somehow familiar with!


peace :weedman:

 

[DaZeD]

I am a very vivid and very frequent dreamer, every single day ihave intense dreams, only in the morning i dream, well, that's at least what i remember from it.
I used to smoke weed every day, and i thought this was the cause of my dreams.

Well, dreaming isn't that fun for me, i really want a day off, cause it draws huge amounts of energy from me, cause dreaming is like Clusterface said, like a second life indeed, and it takes lot's of energy to live two lifes.

When i dream a certain scenario i will eventually wake up, when i fall asleep again i usually dream about something else, and this happens to me evry single day, i really want it to stop, i don't like it anymore, not at all, it sucks my energy.

Now i stopped smoking cannabis for two weeks, it's been over 7 years that i stopped this long, and nothing changed, it seems to get a little worse even, yesterday i had this very macabre dream, i was at an art exhibition and apparently it was an art to die, cause a woman was laying on a wooden bench, arms spread, wrists slit, and a huge circular knifeblade was swinging above her belly, coming closer each swing, untill it sliced her belly open, but everyone ther thought this was normal, just another piece of conceptual art.

It's not the first time my dreams are macabre and dark, and it won't be the last either, and i want it to stop, only, there is no way to stop it...

But ok, my point is, i was dreaming very vivid before my cannabis break, and quitting changed nothing.
I will quit for 30 days, so i have 2 more weeks to go, but i'm pretty sure it will still be the same after that.

 

[Yaj]

I have actually had recurring dreams on THC. About work mainly.

 

[Psychoid]

I rarely remember my dreams if I smoke too often, not even just after waking up, I just remember I was somewhere else...

 

[Teonanacapilli]

I was out of weed for the better part of November and early December, and have now been smoking again for a few weeks. I actually noticed I've remembered more of my dreams now. Even stranger is this feeling I get when at work, or walking to or fro. It's like a surreal, even ethereal feeling I get, like I am dreaming just now. I used to get this rarely, but it is nearly a daily thing now. AND my dreams have become stranger, more abstract in a way since starting again.

To: Dazed- You might want to look into ordering some Kava to stop those dreams. From wikipedia: "A potent drink results in a faster onset with a lack of stimulation; the user's eyes become sensitive to light, they soon become somnolent and then have deep, dreamless sleep within 30 minutes." The somnolence is definitely unavoidable, in my experience, but for me it was not dreamless sleep at all. My dreams were even more vivid than usual after sleeping on Kava, try it for yourself though.

 

[BrainEater]

dèja-vu??? i had this often when stoned and it used to feel similar to being in the dream state or being in a dream.

@dazed what about a more positive mindset or a approach to your dreams???

 

[Straroll]

I smoke everyday and sometime i have dreams

 

[Phosphorus]

sometimes, but definatly less then when i dont smoke, if i didnt smoke i remember it easier/longer too, it just seems more clear.

 

[BrainEater]

does that mean in turn, that you really dream less if it's less clear?