I haven't been able to safely smoke any dank for a couple weeks due to covid so I've started dreaming nightly again. It's made me remember how much I dislike dreaming.
Most of my dreams are filled with disturbing or troubling imagery, I tend to wake up several times in the night from these dreams, and when I finally wake up in the morning I'm always confused and disoriented for a minute because the dreams feel so real.
I know that boat, condolences comrade. I've alway chalked up the vividness & nightmares from cannabis deprevation to a dam bursting, Lots of psychic build-up. I cant get a good night's sleep for a week when i go sober
I had a fight with a close friend and ex SO that resulted in us (not unrightly) parting ways and ceasing contact. I now frequently have intense dreams where we joyously reconnect and it fucking hurts so bad to wake up from that. I used to love even nightmares but these are so much worse.
I have the same thing and its more than half of the nights I dream.
I dream rarely, but when I do they're generally cool. I totally feel you on the smoking thing though. When I've quit in the past it usually led to a week or two of particularly vivid dreams. Once in a while I dream some odd fucking shit but ehh, what can you do? The subconscious mind is an enigma.
Once I dreamed I was a girl, which was kinda weird. One other time I dreamed I was gay, which was also kinda weird because I've never really been attracted to men in my waking life. One other time I realized I was dreaming and tried to fly, but I could only jump about four stories high. Then I summoned a Lambo with my mind and hijacked it GTA style - only to flip it over minutes later and cause it to explode. More often, I have the creepy dreams where all my teeth start falling out, or I'm caught in public naked (or more recently, maskless). More often than all of that though, they're generally cool dreams.
The worst thing is when you dream all night about work. At least you collect a pittance for the work you do while you're awake, but when you're punching the clock in your dreams you don't even get paid for it.
I also have some serious chronic pain/ muscle tension and I think that translates into dreams about being bullied, hunted and murdered etc much more often than the average person. So yeah, I hear ya
Shit is that why I always have bad dreams? I've got very bad chronic joint pain.
It definitely makes it hard to keep your mind in a positive place, both waking and sleeping. I struggle to keep it from distorting my personality, but basically too late.
I like dreaming but the amount of dream's I have that have me fighting members of my own family probably points to some fairly deep issues.
You're probably having a bit of a REM rebound. Since cannabis suppresses your dreams, you'll have way more intense ones (and more than usual) when you're in withdrawal, which can last for a while.
I also really hate dreaming, and generally use medical marijuana to tone it down. I have CPTSD and nightmares can literally ruin my day/week by putting me into a triggered headspace upon waking. It's kind of like rolling the dice every night on whether I'll have a massive problem in the morning or not. When I was a kid I used online resources to teach myself to lucid dream to try and stop some of the worst ones - it still works sometimes.
