I've been smoking every day for around 5-6 years. But ever since the start of this year, I can't smoke so much anymore. Whenever I get significantly stoned, I end up having terrible nightmares and wake up so tired, sweaty, and worn out. Anybody have any ideas what this could be? Ive spent most of this year dealing with it, but it is totally not normal for me to be effected by ganja in this way. I can smoke a very small amount daily and be fine, I just get nightmares when I get significantly stoned. My tolerance is so low now too, that I have to be super careful not to get too stoned. It is just so odd, because before this year started, I smoked/dabbed like a mad man. Then all of a sudden it really messes with me. Got any ideas?
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Help with Marijuana-induced Nightmares.
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Yeah, but you might take it as a joke.
Take control of your dreams and die in them. No bullshit. Once I started dying in my dreams, which happens often enough that I can reasonably expect the experience every night, I stopped having nightmares. Soon enough, I even stopped being disturbed by my own death(s). I've been in plane crashes, trapped in floods, shot/stabbed/beaten, hit by cars, fallen/pushed from the top of buildings, and one fucked up dream that I've actually tried to continue (unsuccessfully) where I was skinned alive. I never finished that last one.... fucking alarm went off before the dream just faded to black and let me have an internal dialogue about what the fuck just happened, which is what happens in my dreams when I die. I take the hit, feel the pain, and then.... blackness. No stimuli other than my own thoughts, which is more of a disembodied voice just bouncing around complete blackness, analyzing everything that just happened and wondering what's next after fucking death.
It's... hard... for many people to take control of their dreams, though. Most people, they realize they're dreaming and wake up. Some of us, though? We realize we're dreaming and the fucking fun begins.
As I've been typing this up, though, I was going to end with how keeping a dream journal helped me become more aware in my dreams because of a high school psych class I took. I was going to suggest that as a method to helping you become lucid whilst sleeping, but then I thought that a dream journal in and of itself might help you better cope with traumatic dreams. Could help you better understand what's really bothering you, because I'm fairly confident that cannabis is only acting like a catalyst for your bad dreams. I could be wrong, but my experiences tell me otherwise.
Yeah, I had the same problem. I started a dream journal and read a lot about lucid dreaming. Nothing helped, so I did something drastic and stopped smoking for about 2 months. The first two weeks were the hardest. I did't control my dreams, they even got badder. And the swetting was horrible, but I drank a lot of water in a day time and exercised. So after two weeks I could sleep normally again. I continued to not smoke for 2 months. When I felt I was ,,clean,, I smoked again. I did't start to smoke everyday, because I am still afraid of the nightmares, But now I have been smoking 2-3 times a week for a year and no nightmares. PS! You should still keep a dream journal, I can now lucid dream quite easily.