Want your dreams back?

[Madri-Gal]

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.

You are very kind, thank you for your concern. After this many years, I have come to accept that I have terrible dreams, and poor sleep. I had extremely low Vitamin D levels, so correcting that helps some with sleep, and I am only too happy to not remember dreams. Not all of us enjoy, or want dreams. I wish you had restful sleep, and pleasant dreams. It is a comfort to have FC support. If it weren't for not sleeping, I would not have found this site, and eventually been offered your good words.
Thank you, @ClearBlueLou

 

[nosmoking]

I have serious sleep issues. I don't typically recall dreams or nightmares since I started dabbing. Even before the goal was always to medicate enough not to dream or at least not to know. For years I struggled with sleep for so many reasons and ultimately I could not get enough sleep to prevent episodes of narcolepsy. I recall when I would dream it would be interactive often, as if I was watching myself dream the dream I was having and often I would fall out of a dream into sleep paralysis. Eventually, it got so bad I would fall in and out of sleep paralysis mulitple times in the first 5-30 minutes of my sleep. Sometimes I would be able to sleep at night just out of fear that I would slip into the state of sleep paralysis. This would leave me horibbly narcoleptic the following day.

Dabbing...thats what really made the difference for me. I don't recall having any issues with sleep paralysis or any dreams since I started dabbing. I recall I used to sit in my vape or smoking area when I used flowers and I would hit my heaviest hitters for an hour or 2 just to prepare for sleep. Now its 3 or 4 dabs and I know I won't see the boogie man!

 

[ClearBlueLou]

No experience with sleep paralysis. I have in recent months awakened myself a few times by struggling hard to force myself to say something in a dream (no, no idea what it was)...and I have had one incident of night terrors, I was maybe 42 and it was seriously disturbing. The only time in my life that I felt that kind of fear.

I’ve never really been prone to bad dreams, but as an evangelical kid of the first white-flight generation and only fifteen, I was up late pretty much every night praying to God to take my intense sex-drive away from me, to cleanse my heart of lustful desires, to help me gain control of my mind so I could live like I was supposed to and not be tortured constantly...so I’ve been awake for my nightmares, mostly.

I’ve also had a fair number of lucid dreams, which I’ve always remembered in vivid detail. Some of them turned out to be quite significant. None of any of this correlates to cannabis use on any timeframe.