Want your dreams back?

GetLeft said:

Do you get your turmeric via supplement? I'm thinking I'm going to start supplementing it. Probably not my own concoction; it looks like there are good options out there in the supplement aisle.

I hadn't considered my dreams or my lack of dreams in a good while. I think I'll start paying attention.

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Powder. I had a bottle of the pills too but after that I decided to go with the powder and other ingredients because its alot cheaper and also gets you bigger doses than the pills.
I started making a cup every night before bed and its got to be doing something. Last night I had a dream that my hot step sister was riding me with our clothes on.

Well two days after consciously putting myself to the task of monitoring my unconscious, I recall a couple of dreams. One I still have clear and it's a little weird. I'm walking toward my house from a wooded patch to the back and side. Perfectly normal occurrence. It's evening and autumnal. As I'm walking suddenly appear two lost cats, both ours. They seem a little worse for the wear but there they are. Good to see them. (In the real world they're both deceased). I'm not a true cat person but we've had some cats I've had good respect for. Anyway, I'm getting close to the garage. The cats are the main theme so far. But as I get close to the door I see it's opened and out run our two dogs (still alive in the real world). When they get out it's never good, so, as I've been known to do in desperate circumstances, I grab at whatever I can of each of them as they run by - scruff, leg, tail, whatever, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that I keep them from getting away. As I have a very tentative hold of both animals and realize that I need help, I start calling in the hope that someone inside will hear me and come out to help. 'Help,' I call. 'Help!' I call more loudly. No one's hearing me. I'm wondering why. I yell with some conviction this time and in doing so, wake myself up mumbling 'help.'

That might be an interesting dream to analyze, if you believe in that sort of thing.

I would just like to recall some again. I miss them...

GetLeft said:

Do you get your turmeric via supplement? I'm thinking I'm going to start supplementing it. Probably not my own concoction; it looks like there are good options out there in the supplement aisle.

I hadn't considered my dreams or my lack of dreams in a good while. I think I'll start paying attention.

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Get some decent organic turmeric powder. Make absolutely sure it's organic though honestly when you're taking these spices and herbs for medicinal purposes you are only getting a few percent of the benefits with non organic I promise you that. And the same goes for flavour and aroma as well in all cases in my experience of long-term self medicating and healing.

Supplements are considerably more expensive. And besides you really want quite a large days at least one heaped teaspoon of turmeric powder everyday 1.5 to 2 teaspoons is still unacceptable medicinal dose. It's really amazing stuff on multiple levels and is actually my number one recommended supplement for people to take first and foremost if they could only have one for the most amount of all round benefits for the least cost.

We get all of our spices online now and we don't bother with non organic for any of them after we saw that they just pale in comparison. We get a double strength organic turmeric powder which is absolutely incredible stuff. If you can find something like that check it out but always look for organic.

Alexis said:

Get some decent organic turmeric powder. Make absolutely sure it's organic though honestly when you're taking these spices and herbs for medicinal purposes you are only getting a few percent of the benefits with non organic I promise you that. And the same goes for flavour and aroma as well in all cases in my experience of long-term self medicating and healing.

Supplements are considerably more expensive. And besides you really want quite a large days at least one heaped teaspoon of turmeric powder everyday 1.5 to 2 teaspoons is still unacceptable medicinal dose. It's really amazing stuff on multiple levels and is actually my number one recommended supplement for people to take first and foremost if they could only have one for the most amount of all round benefits for the least cost.

We get all of our spices online now and we don't bother with non organic for any of them after we saw that they just pale in comparison. We get a double strength organic turmeric powder which is absolutely incredible stuff. If you can find something like that check it out but always look for organic.

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I'll follow that advice, seeing as you've converted me on the matter of salt. My family thinks I'm crazy but I definitely notice the great flavor improvement with the Redmans. Can't say I notice any health improvement, but it sure tastes good.

EDIT: Looking at turmeric on amazon. If I buy pure turmeric, I need also to supplement a bit of black pepper for absorption, correct?

Has anyone tried 5htp? It's mainly used for depression but can be used for sleep disorders.

GetLeft said:

I'll follow that advice, seeing as you've converted me on the matter of salt. My family thinks I'm crazy but I definitely notice the great flavor improvement with the Redmans. Can't say I notice any health improvement, but it sure tastes good.

EDIT: Looking at turmeric on amazon. If I buy pure turmeric, I need also to supplement a bit of black pepper for absorption, correct?

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Yes the pipperine in black pepper has been firmly proven to significantly enhance the absorption and bioavailability of curcumin in the body. But black pepper also works with the cannabis high the same pipperine slows down the degradation of cannabinoids inside the receptors so I always take my cannabis edibles with a big dose of black pepper.

I take a lot of turmeric like 1.5 to 2 teaspoons daily largely for respiratory symptom management and antimicrobial support but also because I love the taste and for the myriad of other benefits. I don't always take it with black pepper but I will have some with black pepper at some point each day.

It's also beneficial to take it with fat if you heat the turmeric in a healthy saturated fat like coconut oil or ghee that will also enhance its properties and how deeply it reaches into the body.
Yes the Redmond salt is nice stuff I do like it. It will certainly be benefiting your health although something like this is beyond your perception unless you are particularly in tune with your body.

I am thus way myself, my long-term Lyme and crazy allergies have demanded that im in fine tune and touch with my body at all times.

Hehe, don't worry about your family thinking you are crazy just hope that they can learn and be open to ways of improving their own diet and health in time. It isn't their fault they can't understand it is the media and the bastard governments who have made sure that the truth on all things health and diet has been deeply buried.

Thanks again for your open-mindedness and receptivity, I hope you get on very well with the turmeric and thanks for sharing.

I don't have any issues dreaming. They come and they go. Some are wild, some scary and some are just ok. The ones that freak me out a little are the ones where I'm half out of the dream state but can't physically move and have to force myself to fully awake to clear the stage.

The one thing that never failed to give me extremely vivid dreams was when I used those nicotine patches to help quit the gretts 20 years ago when I was 40. I wore those patches 24/7. The dreams tended toward the sexual side and even at 40 there was a lot of cleanup.

My weed use has been steady since I was 15 so I guess I'm lucky that it hasn't interfered with my dreaming.

BaconTrousers said:

Has anyone tried 5htp? It's mainly used for depression but can be used for sleep disorders.

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i do use 5htp when im feeling down in the dumps, after about a week of normal dose im good and discontinue. it does help me sleep better when i take it but ive not noticed dream changes with it.

black pepper, damn i love that stuff....i go through it like most go through sugar or salt. when i season my potatoes/grits/soup with it you cant even see the food anymore. i blame my grandpa, learned it from him and over the years ive kept increasing since it seems ive become desensitized by the taste hence i need a lot. good to know about the absorption, it has quite a bit of iron so i try to regulate but its hard when grits are a staple.

back to the "sleep vape", ive taken a ~5 day break from it and dreams are gone (or at least not remembering) so i plan to hop back into it and see what happens, like to know if its a fluke.

well, for me....fluke=no...ymmv. took about 3-4 days again of continued use. at this point though im not entirely sure its directly the ingredients that provide the "dream material" or my body is simply getting better sleep so hence i have dreams. after my 5-6 short hits i feel quite tired within about an hour and half, which subsides after another hour or so if i fight going to sleep.

I have used 5-htp to effectively combat sleepless from t-breaks. I makes it much easier to drop the thc.
And I am a heavy user.

I think dreams are other lives we exist in, they are on a huge dial of dreams that are selected
due to some type of stimuli during the day either consciously, subconciously, or unconsciously.
I think that cannabis allows us some type of vague control?

P.S. Disregard this! Pertty Hgih

ejackyou said:

I think dreams are other lives we exist in, they are on a huge dial of dreams that are selected
due to some type of stimuli during the day either consciously, subconciously, or unconsciously.
I think that cannabis allows us some type of vague control?

P.S. Disregard this! Pertty Hgih

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And yet, I think you are right! Cannabis makes you insightful.

I'm not a big dreamer. In fact I can't remember the last dream I've had. However, cannabis, particularly indicas, help me sleep pretty well. As long as I'm sleeping through the night I can deal with not dreaming.

no, I definitely don't!

It's probably Sativa that either stimulates Your dreaming, or allows You to Remember them more?

I'm grateful for cannabis, it takes away my memory of my nightly nightmares, makes sleep truly restful, and lightens the fury, sadness, and digust with daily existence. For as long as I can remember I have had only surreal mishmashed dreams and violent nightmares. Discovering cannabis's dream/nightmare quashing properties has been a godsend.

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zor said:

I'm grateful for cannabis, it takes away my memory of my nightly nightmares, makes sleep truly restful, and lightens the fury, sadness, and digust with daily existence. Discovering this dream/nightmare quashing property has been a godsend.

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Yes, exactly. I couldn't have said it better @zor

I picked out what I believe to be a quality turmeric / curcumin / black pepper supplement, and coincidentally got a gift of turmeric / ginger tea (probably as a joke) which I'm enjoying thoroughly. Without a doubt, since I started reading this thread recently and started thinking about dreaming and taking the turmeric (not for dreaming but for overall health benefits), I'm remembering more dreams. I don't want to suggest for a moment that this is a good thing or a bad thing. I was fine not thinking much about dreaming and I have no objection to remembering some dreams.

What I'm not clear on and will have to read up on is the issue of dreams occurring during rem sleep, which supposedly occurs around 90 minutes after falling asleep and around 90 minutes before waking. I'm pretty sure that most of the dreams I'm remembering these days are closer to waking up time than 90 minutes prior. Sometimes I'm remembering them as I'm waking up.

a lot of what's being discussed here (dream recall, REM cycles, etc.) is covered in 'why we dream' by alice robb

https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Dream...57&sr=8-1&keywords=why+we+dream+by+alice+robb

I highly recommend it.

I think dreaming is more connected to rest than anything else: after my daughter was born, I stopped dreaming FAI&P...and really, I’ve only begun to dream again over the last year. Yes, I know they say that everybody dreams, but I actually did several years of deep dream work, wondering what I was hiding from myself. Aside from training myself to come awake in any dream that actually held meaning for me, I got nowhere for a long time.

I did finally ‘break thru’: I discovered what I was doing ‘instead’ of dreaming, and in doing so, I understood why I would never remember the next morning. That allowed me to stop wondering and to stop trying to break int my dreams, and I shed a surprising amount of stress as a result. I began to sleep much more soundly, regained the ability to roll over and go back to sleep and, after a couple years, I began to dream again. It’s been fun. I like it!

Never any correlation to cannabis usage that I’ve been aware of.

Does anyone else not want his dreams back? I almost never remember my dreams but every single time I do it's always some weird, creepy shit that leaves me uncomfortable with my own brain for the whole day.

I don't want mine. For as long as I remember, I have had terrifying nightmares. Blood, gore, flying flesh-eating monkey's, etc. Even if it starts out ok, by the end of the dream it's a gory mess. What I would love, love, love, is to fall asleep, then wake-up and it be morning after a restful night's sleep. That never happens. It's insomnia, secondary insomnia, nightmares. If I remember my dreams less because of cannabis, then it's all to the good .
@The Beagle , you aren't the only one. I'm sorry you have this as well.

Alexis said:

Get some decent organic turmeric powder. Make absolutely sure it's organic

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The same (federal) government that defines "organic" bans cannabis. You trust that? It's a legislative definition that empowers the agricultural mega corporations of Big Farma to weaponize "organic" to drive out local growers.

Madri-Gal said:

I don't want mine. For as long as I remember, I have had terrifying nightmares. Blood, gore, flying flesh-eating monkey's, etc. Even if it starts out ok, by the end of the dream it's a gory mess. What I would love, love, love, is to fall asleep, then wake-up and it be morning after a restful night's sleep. That never happens. It's insomnia, secondary insomnia, nightmares. If I remember my dreams less because of cannabis, then it's all to the good .
@The Beagle , you aren't the only one. I'm sorry you have this as well.

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I am so sorry you have that to endure. I had a restless ten years during the crash, when I got into the habit of drinking myself to sleep, only to be jerked awake after a couple hours by some new catastrophe my brain had just thought of.

Please be kind to yourself.