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I stopped smoking weed a month ago yesterday, along with all other drugs and animal products. I'm attempting to get to the six month mark before I indulge in anything again.

The first three weeks was fine, more or less, but I'm struggling now.

I keep having either extremely vivid nightmares after which I am so terrified I cannot go back to sleep or dreams in which I am smoking weed after which I wake up sober and craving like nothing else.

I'm often waking up at four or five o'clock in the morning these days. The lack of sleep is really fucking with me. It's affecting my job, my mood, my marriage.

I don't know what to do.

Anyone have a solution?

(Don't say smoke weed.)
 
I know exactly what you mean, when I started to cut back on weed and the dreams started coming back they were so fucking nutty I didn't know what to do. I'm not sure if there is any way of solving this, dreams are a part of normal psychology and if you don't want to alter that with drugs you might have to just stick it out. I have to say that I think antihistamines are going to hurt more than help, Benadryl causes nightmares on its own. All I can do is assure you that it will get better and that I'm rooting for you.
 
same happened to me. someone told me its because when I did smoke weed it didnt allow my body to enter rem sleep (dreaming state) and after i stopped my mind had many things to unravel & thus went wild with the dreams.
when i cant sleep i usually get up, read a book until I feel tired again and then try again, if that doesnt work I just jerk myself off and that always gets me sleepy
 
Every time I quit weed, I get the same kinds of dreams you are talking about.
I believe that the nightmares and the dreams of smoking weed are part of the detox.
I do not dream when I am smoking lots of weed, so all my pent-up dreams need to come out when I quit.
The dreams of smoking weed are a subconscious expression of my love of the amazing plant.
However, I wait it out, and within a few weeks, or a month or two, they stop.
That is when I know I have detoxed completely, and I am clean (and, usually, ready to start smoking again...)
In my experience, to move the detox process along as quickly as possible, healthy food and exercise help more than I can possibly say.

As for the lack of sleep, I completely sympathize. I used to suffer from it as well, particularly after the nightmares. Then I learned meditation, and I began to see my time awake in the night as a chance to meditate, which rests the mind approximately as well as sleep does. I would lie there (not sit up, but lie in bed, to rest my body as well) for 2 hours or more, meditating, and finally get up at 6 or 7 and exercise. Between the combination of the meditation and exercise, I didn't feel tired, though I should have based on how little sleep I was getting. After I learned this trick, I no longer dread waking up in the middle of the night. Sometimes I fall back asleep when meditating, which is great, and other times I just meditate until the sun comes up, and I feel pretty decent through the day.

Good luck!
 
I know exactly what you mean bud and know that we're here for ya.

I too have felt that experience, although it was a bit pleasent to have such vivid dreams regardless of how scary or awesome the dreams I had, were. I recorded many of them on a voice recorder in full details.

It only took me a week of not smoking.

It's all a mind game. Learn to calm the mind and you learn to keep it in check, sort to speak. Do things with your wife (not sexually related), Find a more comfortable way to sleep (I usually take a zany), and keep your mind active. It should put you in a better, well being state which could reflect your inner conscience.
 
Weed never really affected my dreaming much but I'm taking an anti-depressant right now and that has caused some really disturbing dreams, like so disturbing that I'd rather not describe them further.

You should try going to sleep in a better frame of mind. Things like taking a warm bath and listening to some relaxing music while reading a good book (or whatever other activity you enjoy), doing some breathing exercises, can make a huge difference. The best method for me so far has been to walk around for about an hour before I go to sleep: my normal bed-time is 3:00 AM, so I start walking at 1:00 AM for an hour, then go home and relax for an hour, and then go to bed.

There's a lot of good material out there for ways to improve dreaming and sleep-habits, try some googling!

Also feel comforted by the fact that it's a temporary withdrawal symptom that should be gone in a few weeks, maybe a couple of months tops.

Also, avoid nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, really pretty much any psychoactive drug, within three or four hours of bedtime. Even though those things aren't the root cause they're all known to interfere with sleep, so abstaining from them before bed could make a difference for you.
 
Thanks for the responses. I'll try some of the suggestions out.

Can't take xanax or benadryl or anything though because I have addiction problems and am forcing myself to remain completely drug free for six months in order to learn control.

But the non drug ideas might very well prove to be useful.
 
yea getting back to dreaming is something you kind of have to get used to....

i really dont like dreaming, its usually more strange or terrifying than fun for me....

One of the last really vivid dream i had was a zombie apocalypse dream, i was the leader of a group of survivors and we ended up trapped in a grassy field of sorts and had to fight them all off. When it was all over i was the only one left alive thanks to my trusty sledge hammer.... Then the military stormed in..... That dream was actually a lot of fun, if the world has to end, i would prefer it to be a zombie apocalypse....
 
jamaica0535 said:
yea getting back to dreaming is something you kind of have to get used to....

i really dont like dreaming, its usually more strange or terrifying than fun for me....

One of the last really vivid dream i had was a zombie apocalypse dream, i was the leader of a group of survivors and we ended up trapped in a grassy field of sorts and had to fight them all off. When it was all over i was the only one left alive thanks to my trusty sledge hammer.... Then the military stormed in..... That dream was actually a lot of fun, if the world has to end, i would prefer it to be a zombie apocalypse....
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For the past 5 days i've went to sleep high and i've been dreaming of nothing but theme park roller coasters... I want to ride them but for some reason, I could never get on...

Crazy thing is, for the past 3 months I have been wanting to save up to fly to Virginia and visit the Busch Gardens theme park.

About the zombie dream... i've had COUNTLESS zombie dreams in which I remember each and every one of them. I love them. Sometimes I get really high and force myself asleep while watching a zombie movie. Almost always gets me one of those dreams. They're so exciting and vivid and best of all, lucid :)
 
jamaica0535 said:
One of the last really vivid dream i had was a zombie apocalypse dream, i was the leader of a group of survivors and we ended up trapped in a grassy field of sorts and had to fight them all off. When it was all over i was the only one left alive thanks to my trusty sledge hammer.... Then the military stormed in..... That dream was actually a lot of fun, if the world has to end, i would prefer it to be a zombie apocalypse....
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WOAH. This is really weird, because I had my first zombie dream last night...

I'm being forced to quit smoking weed and never knew (until some furthur research on BL today) that it caused such crazy dreams.

It was the most vivid, crazy dream I've had in probably close to a year. It wasn't scary or disturbing, just weird...I remember waking up in the middle of the night thinking, WTF, I just dreamed about a zombie attack? 8)
 
I have insane lucid dreams when i quit weed, like the other night i drempt i was sleeping in my dream and i was dreaming in my dream then i woke up in my dream, 100% lucid and was in this dark room and was scared shitless trying to feel my way out to some kind of door, then heaps of weird fighter jets starts flying really low over me :S Then i woke up thinking WTF.
 
i have a friend who has trained himself to dream pretty much lucidly all the time....

he gets naked and flys around shooting balls of energy at things like hes goku from dragon ball z....

but yea, zombie dreams are awesome... it should have been a nightmare but god damn did i have some fun with it...
 
When I didn't smoke weed for a couple of weeks recently my dreams were so vivid they were indistinguishable from reality. I woke up and asked my girlfriend why she ate the whole pizza. It was a dream pizza. I still felt kind of angry.
 
8L4YN3 said:
I have insane lucid dreams when i quit weed, like the other night i drempt i was sleeping in my dream and i was dreaming in my dream then i woke up in my dream, 100% lucid and was in this dark room and was scared shitless trying to feel my way out to some kind of door, then heaps of weird fighter jets starts flying really low over me :S Then i woke up thinking WTF.
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Lucid dreams are that of your control. Did you want to dream what you dreamt? If so, then thats a lucid. Sounds like your mind took over.

For the past 6 days straight, not joking, I have been dreaming of amusement parks and roller coasters, only because i've been wanting to go recently :)

Problem is, I can never get on a ride. When I dream, I see 3rd person. All the time. If I see myself, I don't see through my eyes, I see my body 3rd person.
 
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