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Misc Dreams Lucidity and Drug Use

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

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I love to dream. They trip me out so much. It's like going on a crazy vacation in your head while you sleep. Anyways, for a long time I couldn't remember my dreams upon waking up. They say that even if you don't remember them or think they happened, you still have dreams when you're sleeping. Anyways, this turned out to be a consequence of my drug use. When I smoke weed or use dissociatives, benzos, cns depressants, etc. etc., I cannot remember the details of my dreams. Upon waking I generally have no recollection of anything about them.

When I only take opioids I begin to remember my dreams more often, although not in great detail. What I seem to hold on to from the dreams is a feeling, an emotion, a sense of the instinctual. I don't remember any specific content, color, sight, etc. etc.

When I don't take any drugs at all, my dreams are remarkably vivid and I recall every little detail. Not just the feelings they stirred up in my but also the smallest details of their content (sights and smells for instance).

I once found melatonin to increase the vividness of my dreams. The same goes for nicotine patches.

Anyone else relate? Do you have any suggestions to help me increase my dream recall?
 
vitamin b6 crazy real dreams.. and lucid dreaming is when you know you're dreaming and have control of what you're doing and can wake up if anything turns bad.. i have had this issue for years, cuz a 10minute dream can be 4hrs long in your sleep. once i got on meds for bipolar disorder this "skill" slowly faded. but if you wanna induce one i suggest taking melatonin and vitamin b6 along with trying to concentrate on a subject as you fall asleep.
 
no they are time distorted but not 2 seconds long, they have done studies of having a sleeping patient in a lucid dream watch a clock and move his eyes (which in turn move them in real life during REM sleep) i don't know where i read that, wiki maybe, but time goes by differently in a dream than it does IRL but they're longer than 2sec.
 
Forgive me, I was not referring to a lucid dream, but most dreams :) And I would venture to add that most dreams are not lucid. I can't remember the last lucid dream I had....
 
toothpastedog said:
I love to dream. They trip me out so much. It's like going on a crazy vacation in your head while you sleep. Anyways, for a long time I couldn't remember my dreams upon waking up. They say that even if you don't remember them or think they happened, you still have dreams when you're sleeping. Anyways, this turned out to be a consequence of my drug use. When I smoke weed or use dissociatives, benzos, cns depressants, etc. etc., I cannot remember the details of my dreams. Upon waking I generally have no recollection of anything about them.

When I only take opioids I begin to remember my dreams more often, although not in great detail. What I seem to hold on to from the dreams is a feeling, an emotion, a sense of the instinctual. I don't remember any specific content, color, sight, etc. etc.

When I don't take any drugs at all, my dreams are remarkably vivid and I recall every little detail. Not just the feelings they stirred up in my but also the smallest details of their content (sights and smells for instance).

I once found melatonin to increase the vividness of my dreams. The same goes for nicotine patches.

Anyone else relate? Do you have any suggestions to help me increase my dream recall?
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My dreams tend to be more vivid on the medicine ambien. The title of your thread intriqued me because, even though my memory is terrible (due to chronic mj use to some extent probably- don't do drugs just say no lol- and for other reasons- but my point is that I read a book over 20 years ago titled 'Lucid Dreaming' by Patricia Garfield. This is 1 of 2 books I can remember the name and author of out of hundrends read back then when I was on a path of self-discovery, self- 'habilitationn' (not 'rehabilitated' because I was never instilled with basic life skills like how to get along with people and was a basket case and used the method of reading whatever I could get my hands on in an effort to understand why I was the way I was, and to hopefully help myself.

Lucid Dreaming is basically waking up in your dream and realizing your dreaming, while you are still in your dream. This book was/is a how-to guide in how to go about learning to do that and practicing to get good at it. I managed to do it a few times despite not being very committed to the process.

One way to look at dreams is they are a representation of what's going on in your real life, or your unconscious, or a combo of both... although the images and specifics are frequently just representations of something else. For example: Your being attacked by a vicious tiger in your dream. In reality this may represent some problem your having around being afraid of someone in your past or present. The book spoke of a tribe, forget from where, and they consider dream life to be equally important to real waking life. They have pow wow's daily and share their dreams with each other, etc...

Something I took from the book was that when you find yourself to actually being lucidly dreaming you can CONTROL what happens in your dream. Sometimes people, upon hearing of lucid dreaming will remember a time they had a lucid dream (realizing they are dreaming..while still in their dream). So in the tiger example...since your now (lets pretend) lucidly dreaming. So you know you can't be killed or harmed so you can train youself to not be woken up scared by this scary situation. You can fight the tiger and win. And so one theory goes... this will translate to helping you overcome the subconscious representation and translate into improved ability to deal with that fear in your real life. If it represented your boss and fearing him, now since you fought the tiger and won... you will be less fearful of your boss and will be able to interact with him better than before, when you would wake, almost instinctively, as a 600 lb tiger was about to tear you to pieces.

Sorry my post doesn't give more direct info about drugs and helping you remember your dream. I sometimes go off on tangents in my responses to posts. I figured you might be interested as your interested in dreams and remembering them, lucid dreaming is da bomb. I flew in a lucid dream once. It was friggin great. Another time I all of a sudden realized I was dreaming while still dreaming and was like "what should I do?" and I turned around and there was this massive pot field lol I was 19 and madly into pot back then.
Peace,
Titus
 
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