[LA420]

Originally Posted by MSPEACHEZ

There is a study and its a fact that if you medicate before bedtime , you are prone to dream far less . Myself I found I do not dream hardly ever , compared to before I started to smoke marijuana . You sleep more sound and deep on mj .

I've heard this too, but I understand that you still dream, only you don't remember them. I medicate a lot before sleeping and hardly ever have dreams that I remember.

[LemonHerb]

Well for the record last night I had a half bowl of keef and vaporized some green crack and was pretty much knocked out and I dreamt quite a bit.

[plisskin]

I can't help but notice the high number of people here who are glad not to remember their dreams because they have lots of nightmares.

I guess within the MMJ population anxiety is a big reason for people getting their perscriptions.

I have been using every day for ten years. Can't remember my last break but it was more than 5 years ago. I have had recurring nightmares occasionally for all these years. I had them more freequently (or remembered them more) when I wasn't a smoker. But I still get them. And i do still dream vividly, I may just remember them less than when I was sober.

But here's the tradeoff - being stoned all day is like being in a waking dream. And I only sleep 5 hours a day. So i will take the 19 hours of waking dreams vs 5 hours of actual dreams. I don't mind. And I find sleep highly overrated. I feel bad for all those people out there who claim sleep is their favorite part of the day.

And I almost only smoke indicas and I hardly ever get tired. I suppose i will drop dead soon or something, but shit it's been a fun ride.:slaugh:

[Devilicous]

i blaze like all the time and i still have the weirdest dreams as those i had when i was a lad.

[zbestwun2001]

Here is my theory:

Everyone dreams, some don't remember it.
As soon as you enter RIM sleep I think the show begins.

Now...MMJ "may" impede the recall of dreams, but based on my own experience, I still dream and I do recall them.

much love,
zb1

PS:
--- Sorry for duplicating what you said, I must have missed that but you are 100% correct.

[LemonHerb]

If anyone isn't dreaming and misses it I really recomend Fish Oil Omega 3 tablets. I take those all the time since there is like a whole laundry list of health benefits to them, but they really make you have amazingly vivid dreams.

[SuhTeeVah]

In my opinion, whether or not a dream is a dream come true or a total nightmare from Hell, I consider all dreams to be good dreams because they offer a taste of experiencing something that you might otherwise never get to experience...

[suspect420]

I've recently taken a break from using MMJ, same reason as the original poster. I had blank dream patterns when i used it daily. Now that i dont use it, my dreams are really plain and boring! Did the same thing happen to you as well?

[LAHCinc]

I stopped dreaming when i started smoking too... maybe its due to the fact that I dont want to dream... Smoking has brought me closer to reality so its no surprise that I dream less if at all..

[fatbleezy420]

I feel as though blazin the night before will only help to make you more sleepy and thus induce a deeper sleep with more dreams. However, the buds do tend to give off a sort of blacked-out drunk effect on my dreams

[douglasc]

your one in a million, I too from my own expierence put two and two together that i no longer dream from herb. However I must say and you might agree you lightly remember bits and pieces of your dreams. Funny shit girl nice chattin
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[IndicaMeltGuy]

For me this is very true. Currently i'm taking a break from smoking. This is day 5. and for the past few days, every night, i've been remembering my dreams very well. Ironically, they've been about smoking. Strange dreams of old friends packing me bowls and stuff. Smoking in places i would never be able to smoke in reality haha its strange. But i have been remembering them. :slaugh:

[Dopey892]

Human beings don't dream. Dreams are something that greeting card companies came up with. We are just batteries and one day Keanu will save us all. Until then I'll just lie here and be a battery.

[drhystrysmystrys]

i have a lot of vivid dreams and i medicate constantly. i recall them less when i am more heavily medicated but i know i still dream.

[mon-well]

I haven't dreamed in weeks lol.

I don't medicate too much (4-5 times a day) and before night, and I have noticed I just don't dream anymore.

Which is fine by me, since that means I'm sleeping hella good.

[IndicaMeltGuy]

I smoked some flowers last night coming off a ten day break and i still had dreams that night. Very vivid too so maybe if you dont smoke that much you can still remember the dreams

[k.kauf]

R.E.M = The deepest state of slumber in which your body is completely re energizing the reason for dreamless nights .. ?? = due to the fact of habitual use your bodies energy was lower than needed to reach the prime of your sleep see ive habitually been using for about 9 years now and have had dreamless nights for quite some time and ive noticed while smoking to the point of blacking out the reason the body goes through this is that the fact its basically telling you i cant take this no more its to much... i had this same discussion with my professors in class and they reached the same conclusion as i.. indicas would make you have dreams and good feelings as they are prescripted uppers while sativa dominants are body hi's there are holistic medicines ( hybrids ) which are prescripted for the both if your dreamless nights were anything else the medicine thats prescripted to make your body rest would be pointless in using because you would have reached rem sleep due to the effects alone a gram of a sativa would be enough for your body to reach rem sleep at the end of the night taking 100 bong hits a day and smoking away blunt after blunt = an amount the body cant handle which contributes to dreamless nights where the body shuts down in order to maintain and be able to sustain without taking serious effects on your health or brain ! my dreamless nights still remain

[drhystrysmystrys]

Originally Posted by Subway420

I forget where I read it, but I know it to be self evident to myself, that if you sleep, wake up, stay up for an hour or two, then go to sleep, you are much more likely to have a vivid and perhaps completely lucid dream.

that makes sense. i have an inability to stay asleep for long periods of time so my sleep period consists of many alternating awake/asleep intervals. that would explain why i cant sleep without lucidly dreaming.

[Jeffster]

This topic is fascinating. I'm flip flopping back and forth in my mind over this one, but I'm going to say, my body mind let me know that it's better to have come back down as much as possible before sleeping to have a better dream state sleep overall.

[zbestwun2001]

I still dream but may not recall it until something I am doing in everyday life triggers it.

Then again, some dreams are better forgotten.

All and all, my dreams fine...recall sometimes not so fine.

much love
zb1

[TokinKels]

i suffer from this too.... i cannot remember dreams or even the day before haha... memory is shot

[SuhTeeVah]

I started this thread quite some time ago...and am thrilled with the tremendous amount of responses from everyone...so thank you all. I have been out of the loop on medicating for a few months now, and even though I still take a toke every now and then (for flavor and nostalgia's sake), I am a virtual non-smoker now. However, my love, appreciation and understanding of the cannabis flower will never cease. Love to all.

[SmilerG]

I became a MMJ patient back in July.

One reason was to move from taking three 75mg Effexor-XR a day (for social anxiety disorder), to a remedy that is organic/natural.

The Effexor did work initially, but after a year or so, about the only thing it really did for me was to provided rather vivid and highly entertaining dreams. [they were so good, I almost cancelled my cable service!]

After using MMJ for a while now, I've noticed that I'm either dreaming much less than before (or maybe, I'm just not recalling what I dreamed), compared to back when I was only using a "Big Pharma" product.

[Jeffster]

I've come to think that it may be "vivid dreaming" that is affected by MMJ usage. That is, if we medicate daily, and if we are in the group of people who have vivid dreams, then we may notice a reduction in those types of dreams. I'll go along with the notion that we still dream when using MMJ, but offer up the suggestion that it's vivid dreaming which seems to be suppressed by MMJ usage.

Now, even if what I say has some truth to it, it may not be a bad thing to have vivid dreams reduced. Perhaps a positive reason for this would be that the sleeping mind is more realxed, so it does not produce as much vivid action in the dream state, and a more relaxed sleeping mind could be better for overall health and well being. Perhaps those of us who have experience vivid dreaming do so because we are in a more anxious state more of the time than other folks, and our MMJ usage helps calm the anxiousness in us, and so therefore we have less vivid dreams? And if so, then the trade off of using MMJ and having less vivd dreams is really better for our mental health and well being.

I've come back to wondering about this since I cut back on my smoking due to an experience with a too powerful edible. And sure enough, my vivid dreaming has returned in sync with my reduced MMJ usage. So, thank you SuhTeeVah for starting this thread, so I know I'm not alone in all this, and can think through some of this with you and other folks here on WT. Since you posted it here, may I ask, what has caused you to cut back so much on your own use of MMJ? For me, I still consider my break as temporary, but have gone a couple of weeks now waiting to get more regular usage going again.

[SuhTeeVah]

Then again...what is reality but what we choose it to be?...do dreams not offer a possibility of a more desirable state of reality?