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given up weed...and having weird dreams..am i going mad!!!

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i havent smoked for seven days now and 2 days ago the wierd, vivid, intense, freaky dreams started. even when i take a nap during the day. i forgot how much i love them though. because the situations are always so weird for me its like trippin while sleeping
 
I'm cutting down on smoking, and taking melatonin at the same time. Talk about fucked up. Last night I dreamed the entire film The Godfather 2, and I was Michael, and I was thinking all the exact same thoughts you would expect him to think, only the movie had kind of a Silent Hill horror tinge to it. I was looking over the lake when I woke up. It was fun though.
 
In me, those dreams disappeared the day I learned my drug test was clean, about 30 days later (test taken on day 27)

On my subsequent quit, this time for good (alas...), I just did as you said you won't do and replaced it with sleeping tablets. And klonopin. And dexedrine (thc actually worked for my add-like symptoms, I am diagnosed ADHD-Inattentive, though my new GP told me that I can't be and that I'm bipolar and wants me off all my meds and on anti psychotics, seriously what the fuck?). Besides the residual depression, the weird bizarre dreams I'm learning are kinda cool at times, no longer scare the shit out of me scary nightmares.
 
The nightmares have finally gone, im now into my second month of being a non weed toker although i have to admit i have cheated once and had a couple of bongs..i was battered on just 1 the feeling was great but felt guilty as hell after..
 
Last year, I had a phase where I stopped smoking weed and had some weird ass dreams. I never could comprehend exactly what was going through my mind to think of those dreams. But they only lasted for the first couple of days. One of my friends at work has stopped smoking and it's been about a month and half now and he still says he has weird dreams.
 
your not going crazy man, its just your mind releasing the thoughts or whatever that were blocked for a while because u were smoking. its all pretty normal.
 
It's possible to learn to remember your dreams. This is also important if you want to have Lucid Dreams. Dream diary is very effective in this process. I used to write my dreams down for a few months and nowadays I can recall my dreams (without the diary) very well, even after heavy drinking and/or smoking session. It sure is fun to remember all that mad stuff thats going on in the night time!

some info about recalling dreams and lucid dreaming:
http://www.lucidity.com/NL11.DreamRecall.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream
 
yea i have the ill dreams if i dont smoke chronic for a couple of days...its actually kind of fun to dream again...makes sleep kind of interesting lol
 
I gave up weed about 10-12 weeks ago. Ive quit before, after smoking for about 6-7 years, and it hasnt been particularly hard to stop but ive been having crazy dreams this time around. I also gave up cigarettes cold turkey about 8-9 weeks ago, after smoking more than a pack a day for about 8 years. I dont really understand how i quit cigarettes so easily without even really trying... but thats besides the point.

I didnt have any particularly memorable dreams for the first 3-4 weeks of giving up, but over the last few weeks they've started and have seemed to only be getting more vivid and intense. They're definitely not all bad dreams, in fact i seem to be having some of the best and worst dreams ive ever had at the same time. A couple of them have somewhat recurring themes, im at some sort of swimming pool kinda amusement park... I dont know exactly but there's lots of people and lots of bodies of water. Then basically some crazy dictatorlike people who appear to all be asian (that's extremely odd, i know...) start doing something i cant exactly remember but basically sending everyone else mad and frantically running around the area trying to escape, while there are giant scorpion like creatures in the water and the ground tends to collapse as you run....... I had that dream for the second time last night, well not exactly the same dream but very similar themes. Ive also had a dream a few times where im at an ATM and the dude behind me is about to strangle me with some sort of chain then the guy behind him appears and i think hes going to save me but he actually slashes my throat from 2 steps behind me and leaves the guy in the middle alone... Then i walk around the street for what seems like a remarkably long time holding my neck as blood floods out, thinking "he slashed my throat, damn..."

Other dreams have involved being back at high school and the PE teacher who i and everyone else despised is taunting all the kids as per usual then all of a sudden huge rocks start falling seemingly out of nowhere and exploding and we have 3 minutes to get from point A to B on a giant conveyor belt... Ive had some really good dreams too but i cant seem to remember the details of them as well as i do the unpleasant ones. Good to read that others have experienced similar results after quitting weed, it's somewhat comforting to know...
 
Strangely, i had a 100% positive yet vivid and intense dream last night which felt like it lasted hours and was probably the best dream ive ever had. Awesome! :D
 
Ahhh, comforting to read such reports. I haven't smoked for 2 months after 2 years in the stone-zone. In past quit-attempts that have lasted 1-2 weeks generally I got the vivid dreams, largely focused around obtaining-smoking weed, all those typical and often dissapointing dreams where you spend much of the time trying to score only to wake up before you spark up. But this time my determination is much stronger, and I'm not in a situation where I'm tempted or witnessing bong-ripping and spliffage, so I tend to dream (still vividly with the multiple nocturnal awakenings all mentioned in previous posts) about a much broader range of personal issues. All very sensitive to my day-to-day feelings and experiences. It still only takes the slightest reminder of my former lifestyle to set off dreams involving fat joints smoking multiple bongs simultaneously, like my little bro was playing GTA4 and there's this rasta gangster 'Little Jacob' who's always toking, and that night's dreams were very j-smoking related. stupid, but I guess you can't help your screwed up psychology from digging the green too much. I suppose when/if I grapple with reccommencing smoking the ol' smokey dreams will make a comeback.
 
Forgot that I signed up here almost a year ago...happy to say it will be a year since i stopped smoking in a couple of weeks. Though at this stage i almost feel like smoking wouldn't be that bad now that i dont feel addicted or controlled by it at all. I started drinking heaps after quitting smoking but stopped drinking 8 weeks (and one day...) ago and feel so much better because of it. And the bad dreams have stopped almost completely, and on the occasion i do have a bad dream it feels nowhere near as 'threatening' in my mind as it was before.
 
Mr.Hankey said:
It's possible to learn to remember your dreams. This is also important if you want to have Lucid Dreams. Dream diary is very effective in this process. I used to write my dreams down for a few months and nowadays I can recall my dreams (without the diary) very well, even after heavy drinking and/or smoking session. It sure is fun to remember all that mad stuff thats going on in the night time!

some info about recalling dreams and lucid dreaming:
http://www.lucidity.com/NL11.DreamRecall.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream
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Yup I've found the same thing. I wanted to remember my dreams without having to quit pot, and I found that it's possible by brute force to build recall even when pot is suppressing it. I just couldn't keep it up though and stopped. The thing that helped the most was to write down all my day's events before bed, to practice remembering stuff that I experienced recently. It gave me enough recall to actually recall a dream to write down. Writing down dreams doesn't do a lot of good for recall unless you actually recall a dream in the first place.


On the topic of nightmares, I stopped having them at some point in my life. I'd say I stopped having nightmares when I started smoking pot, but then I also must have stopped dreaming. :P But when I go back into dreaming I wasn't having nightmares anymore.

On the topic of crazy dreams after pot, I think my dreams got a whole lot harder to understand after I started messing with my consciousness. Sure, weird stuff happened before, but at least I could english it when I woke up. I suppose pot could have made them whacky, but I bet salvia and such things gave me the garbled up dreams that make no sense whatsoever, the ones where remembering doesn't help me word it one bit. Less comprehensible than fever dreams.

Pot cancels out my insomniatic tendencies and ended several years of being depressed all the time. It also helps me wind down after work. I don't want to throw away all the benefits just to increase the clarity of my dreams, so sadly I'm stuck using effort alone, when effort and no pot together could give me much clearer dreams.

And I've tried melatonin, valerian, st john's wort, and random other herbal stuff. Doesn't work reliably for me. As long as I've had some pot, I sleep no problem. And you couldn't pay me money to take sleeping pills instead of pot. Just seems like a downgrade...
 
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