badfish45
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Hello everyone -
So for a while now Ive been trying to get down the art of lucid dreaming, but my busy schedule and youth created a lack of focus, making my efforts on and off, so Ive never really gotten it down. This week, I decided to spend the summer to become rather serious about the practice.
I am a light marijuana smoker. I smoke everyday but only have two sessions a day, one around 3 PM and the other usually at 9 PM, and during each session I only smoke about 2 hits from a bong. So from a physical sense Im not a "heavy" user. But as I look at studies online it seems that people report marijuana affecting their REM sleep, and after attempting to journal my dreams from last night I realised I couldnt remember anything.
Ive decided it would be effective to cut out my nightly smoke, because it usually occurs 1-2 hours before I fall asleep. But do any experienced tokers and lucid dreamers have a method for incorporating both into their life, or do I need to quit/cut back to a couple times a week in order to successfully do this? Also does being a daily marijuana user affect your overall dream clarity?
Ive found a study on the effects of marijuana on REM sleep, but as usual the test subjects were administered copious amounts of THC (that reflects the use of a medical patient/extremely heavy user), so I figure those involved with both "practices" themselves can offer me some better insight
So for a while now Ive been trying to get down the art of lucid dreaming, but my busy schedule and youth created a lack of focus, making my efforts on and off, so Ive never really gotten it down. This week, I decided to spend the summer to become rather serious about the practice.
I am a light marijuana smoker. I smoke everyday but only have two sessions a day, one around 3 PM and the other usually at 9 PM, and during each session I only smoke about 2 hits from a bong. So from a physical sense Im not a "heavy" user. But as I look at studies online it seems that people report marijuana affecting their REM sleep, and after attempting to journal my dreams from last night I realised I couldnt remember anything.
Ive decided it would be effective to cut out my nightly smoke, because it usually occurs 1-2 hours before I fall asleep. But do any experienced tokers and lucid dreamers have a method for incorporating both into their life, or do I need to quit/cut back to a couple times a week in order to successfully do this? Also does being a daily marijuana user affect your overall dream clarity?
Ive found a study on the effects of marijuana on REM sleep, but as usual the test subjects were administered copious amounts of THC (that reflects the use of a medical patient/extremely heavy user), so I figure those involved with both "practices" themselves can offer me some better insight