pain in dreams after quitting pot

[<SpaceHead>]

I've noticed something very strange about the nature of the dreams that you get when you smoke for months/years straight and then quit. I recently decided to quit smoking weed on week days, smoked my last bowl Sunday. On Tuesday I had several nightmares.

I usually always have extremely vivid dreams after I quit. This time i had a dream that I ate PCP (don't know if that's even effective but it worked in the dream haha) I was standing on a bridge over a golden river. The PCP hit and I lost all control of my body. I fell to the ground and started to panic, but I couldn't move at all. This feeling makes me think I may have been experiencing sleep paralysis of some sort. After I fell to the ground my body began to burn like it was on fire, the feeling was alarming and made me think it must not be a dream. I eventually woke up.

Several of my friends, three to be exact claim to have had dreams in which they experienced physical pain after quitting pot after using it very frequently for a long time. One dreamed he was having his wisdom teeth removed and could feel the pain. Another was hiding from the police in a bush and was attacked by bees that burrowed under his skin and he could feel them. Another was put in prison and tried to kill himself by slitting his own throat, and could feel it. So from what I can tell, the dreams that come form quitting pot are pretty intense and usually of a very dark nature. Anybody else have a similar experience?

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

yes, it seems this is caused my melatonin depletion. Stop by the local pharmacy (wall greens, rite aid, cvs etc. ) and pick up some all natural over the counter melatonin sleep aid to help with the withdrawal & ease your sleeping schedule back to normal. When i quit smoking i would be able to sleep maybe 4hours every 48 before waking up from very very intense/vivid dreams drenched in cold sweat with major restless leg syndrome.

 

[<SpaceHead>]

I always thought that pot depleted melatonin, so I assumed the dreams where caused by my brain flooding with melatonin because its usually used to producing so much to compensate for the effects of the pot depleting it. I'll give it a shot, but I figured taking more melatonin would cause me to have even more dreams.

 

[meet the decline]

yeah, i used to have dreams where my jaw would clench so tight that eventually my teeth would fall out. it hurts, i hate those dreams.

i think it has something to do with pot suppressing your REM sleep so once you quit you have intense dreams, maybe?

 

[okterrific]

I also find that when I quit smoking pot i started having more vivid dreams, Now that I use heroin on a daily basis I feel that my dreams at night are the mopst vivid and intese i have ever had, i think the heroin makes you have some crazy ass dreams they feel so real.

 

[tingtangman]

i def. get crazy ass opiate dreams.

 

[drug_mentor]

Since quitting weed I have had some very vivid and bizarre dreams to say the least. While many contained unpleasant content I couldn't describe any as nightmares. I have experienced so many strange dreams since quitting its unreal, everything from being framed for and commiting murder, using all kinds of drugs with family members, being back in school but a totally different school that doesn't exist and a whole host of psychedelic type scenarios, that is barely scratching the surface on the shit I have dreamt lol.
I never use to dream when I smoked ever, and these days i consume alcohol and/or benzos everyday, don't know if that influences it or not.

 

[Ninjetic]

I've been weed free for so long now that I don't even bother to count the days. Each day feels like forever, and the dreams at night (or even in the middle of the day) are horribly disturbing. The worst I've had so far was one where I was in what I think is hell (but I don't believe in hell so I don't understand the dream) I was given two choices, save a man who was about to fall into a pit of spikes or save the child who was stuck in a burning house. Either way I would end up getting seriously hurt but there was some reward in choosing who would live and who would die. I ran into the burning house and got hit by a falling wooden pylon that set me on fire as it smashed my ribs. I ended up pulling the child from the fire at the cost of my ribs and legs being broken and being set on fire. This demon said I was right in choosing the child, because the man was a mass murderer, the child was merely one of the murderers victims. I earned 5 minutes out of hell which I used to snort ketamine (which I have never done in real life) I OD'd and ended up back in hell 5 minutes later. Ketamine in this dream made everything feel like cartoons and marshmallows. Weirdest fuckin shit in the world. I hate sleeping without smoking bud before bed, my dreams are too fuckin weird and real for me.........