Originally Posted by SuhTeeVah  Prior to my habitual use of medical marijuana, I was notorious amongst my friends for having the most far-out, detailed and trippy dreams that anyone could ever have...it was a highlight of all wake and bake road trips to school...I'd get in the car, take a rip, and begin with, "Dude, last night,............" and proceed to tell a 10 minute long story about what I had dreamt the night before. It was so much fun, I'd have them laughing their asses off, or totally shocked, or whatever have you, in addition to sparking up their memories of their own dreams, all in all great conversation and introspection amongst friends.
However, after about 4 years of continuous use, I gradually began to remember less and less of my night adventures, until finally, they became nonexistent. I had been smoking pot for so long, and the dream loss had happened so gradually, that I never correlated the two. Pot smoking, to me, had always had nothing but postive affects on my psyche, and thus, my lack of dreaming simply could not have had anything to do with my lack of REM...or so I though.
It wasn't until I took a much needed break from the herb (I had a bad case of black lung and was coughing up a whole lotta you know what) that I began to start recalling my dreams again. After my cough and throat began to patch up, I started smoking again, habitually....and once again, my dreams became nonexistent...it was then that I realized that smoking pot was keeping me from dreaming!
I've mentioned this to several of my friends who smoke every day, and a lot of them were totally shocked when they recalled their history and found that they too had not been dreaming since their habit formed.
Now, I know for a fact that the REM phase is supposed to be the point in the sleep cycle where you are in your deepest state of sleep, and thus the most reparative. So, is this to say that pot smoking keeps one from reaching that deep slumber?..or that it just represses one's ability to recall?
Let me know what you think. |