Which is weird for me because I don't often remember my dreams.

The first one was two nights ago and involved me visiting some Greek-looking marble temple in a city. There were lots of tourists around. The temple was white and had rows of big white marble Japanese Oni statues at the entrance and you could sort of see that there were rows of them down to a dimly lit, huge white marble statue of Zeus at the back of the temple. I was intimidated by the place for some reason.

There was a tour group of some kind hanging around the entrance, they were all romantic couples and I remember the tour guide saying that only couples were allowed in. So the couples were going in and out of the temple laughing and doing touristy stuff while I had to stay outside because I wasn't in a couple. Then I woke up.

And then I had another vivid dream last night that I was hanging out with these random people at their big house during a party and some weeb guy decided we were friends and started telling me how to act "If we're going to be friends you'll need to cut out that narcissism."

I remember saying incredulously saying "Narcissism?" but then we just hung out and played Streets of Rage. While I sat there wondering how I'd been roped into this friendship. At one point his mom arrived and asked me to clean their toilets.

WTF

Have you guys ever had weird dreams?

  • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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    8 months ago

    i get wild dreams. did u stop smoking weed a couple weeks ago? i almost completely stopped dreaming when i was smoking regularly. then i realized whenever i quit for a few weeks, my crazy dreams would come back. im pretty much 6 months sober on weed (quit for 4 months, then smoked once a week for a two months, now im a month off of it again) and two nights ago i had this super long dream where a bunch of crazy shit happened (i forgot it but it felt like an entire day of doing shit in a single dream)

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      did u stop smoking weed a couple weeks ago?

      No, but I do take a very low dose of SSRIs to help with depression and anxiety and haven't dreamed since I started taking them around 10 years ago. I forgot to take them on those days that I had the dreams, so that might be why.

      (i forgot it but it felt like an entire day of doing shit in a single dream)

      The mind is such an amazing thing.

      • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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        8 months ago

        i was curious abt this and just found out that THC is a serotonin reuptake inhibitor. its interesting how much of our lives serotonin affects. also cool how that means weed is kind of a natural antidepressant. makes sense how i used it as a crutch during the worst depressive phase of my life

        hope those days without ur SSRIs weren’t too bad!