just a quick question for folks cleaner than me, in a few weeks i will have 5 mo. clean from pot, i also take meds for depression. I initially had pretty vivid dreams some nightmares, but not too bad, but recently the dreams have come back extremely vivid and extreme, disturbing, even grotesque nightmares, usually waking me up. I can go back to sleep either to go back into the same dream or into another nightmare. I also started having leg cramps again this week, not bad, and just for a few days. I know there really isnt a whole lot (or i guess) I can do about the dreams, just wondering if anyone else went thru this, still does? will it go away, is it normal? am i cracking up?
thanks jami
i have same nightmare problem sometimes i feel like im having a heart attack
when i wake up been clean from weed for 4months and they are stopping its killing me i hope they go away soon
when i wake up been clean from weed for 4months and they are stopping its killing me i hope they go away soon
yes i am on welbutrin and paxil, but i have taken meds for years, however, i have been stoned for years, ha. the nightmares had gone away, and at first they were just vivid dreams with a few bad ones here and there. now they are just bad, like dead people hid in the closets, and i have to get them buried before someone finds them? my husband has my kids and my mother is driving me to my demise! actually my anxiety seems minimal compared to what it used to be, the racing thoughts and paranoia are gone since stopping pot. i have increased my eating sweets, maybe too many before bed time, an old wives tale. sometimes i dont think i am thinking enough about getting better if that makes anysense. i read the boards a lot and have acknowledge my co-dependence to put my two sense worth in, to help someone else in the beginning stages, but really dont know what my true needs are at this point and seem ok with not knowing or at least not care. if anyone is into dream analysis, maybe my dreams are telling me what my needs are if any one is up to interpretation. thanks for yalls feedback. or at least anyone wanting to crack my co dependent a**!
When you think of dead people how does it make you feel ? "sad", "disgusted", "angry?"
Keeping anything in the "closet" represents "secrets, hiding, shame." or it could mean "privacy". Dream analysis is about whatever the symbolism represents to you, personally. What does the term "in the closet" mean to you?Was the closet open or closed?
For example: Do you feel sad about your privacy being gone and /or exposed due to this addiction?
That'll be 90 bucks, please. LOL
Keeping anything in the "closet" represents "secrets, hiding, shame." or it could mean "privacy". Dream analysis is about whatever the symbolism represents to you, personally. What does the term "in the closet" mean to you?Was the closet open or closed?
For example: Do you feel sad about your privacy being gone and /or exposed due to this addiction?
That'll be 90 bucks, please. LOL
$90, that is a bargain!, I guess the hiding part makes me feel like I am going to get in trouble, so some fear and anxiety, the dead people part is more of that, car wreck thing, you dont want to look, but you cant help it. in my dream, i kept checking to see if they were still there or buried. not many people knew about my use, so not a lot know about my stopping. but the ones that do are the ones that still use and are critical, except for maybe a few. it make u think. thanks for the tips and more to think about. your check is in the mail.
Jamv, I was amazed at how vivid my dreams became after I quit using. There were times when I would wake up and it would take me some time to realize that the dream was not really reality. This was particularly scary when the dream involved smoking pot.
Pot is a depressant and so it stands to reason that our dreams are going to be suppressed when we have all that THC in our system, particularly since it clears out of our system so slowly.
My guess is that your dreams are manifesting a lot of the anxiety and stress you are feeling now that you are trying to live drug free, and I suspect that they will level out after a while. Frankly, I like my dreams, all but the horrifically nightmarish ones, and I seem to revisit the same dreamscapes over and over, such that I am living some weird separate reality. Carlos Castanada, eat your heart out.
I also began taking anti depressants earlier this year, and I have major league Technicolor dreams when I vary my dosage even in the least. These tend to be the most intense, and oftentimes involve very nightmarish scenarios. Hey, I have to pay $8.50 to catch that on a big screen.
Finally, remember that dreams tend to represent those things that we are rejecting or setting aside in our waking life. As you relax more into your new life, my guess is that they will mellow out.
Good luck, keep up the good work.
August
Pot is a depressant and so it stands to reason that our dreams are going to be suppressed when we have all that THC in our system, particularly since it clears out of our system so slowly.
My guess is that your dreams are manifesting a lot of the anxiety and stress you are feeling now that you are trying to live drug free, and I suspect that they will level out after a while. Frankly, I like my dreams, all but the horrifically nightmarish ones, and I seem to revisit the same dreamscapes over and over, such that I am living some weird separate reality. Carlos Castanada, eat your heart out.
I also began taking anti depressants earlier this year, and I have major league Technicolor dreams when I vary my dosage even in the least. These tend to be the most intense, and oftentimes involve very nightmarish scenarios. Hey, I have to pay $8.50 to catch that on a big screen.
Finally, remember that dreams tend to represent those things that we are rejecting or setting aside in our waking life. As you relax more into your new life, my guess is that they will mellow out.
Good luck, keep up the good work.
August
I have only been clean for a few weeks, but I always have dreams that I'm trying to "catch up" to or with something...like, I'm late for work, or lost in a shopping mall, trying to get to a party on time, etc....and I'm always behind.
haha, just had to share, last night, i had a using dream, i did smoke 1 hit of pot, but was also snorting things that i dont think were snortable, ha.
thanks for all the feedback, i may just start writing a book from my nightmares like stephen king does,
august who is consta const...whoever?????
so it sounds like i am just normal as everyone, i think i will discuss a med adjustment, maybe going down on some of the antidepressants, because i really dont feel depressed or anxious, so maybe i am getting an overload, in addition i take multiple meds for asthma which i am sure adds to the mix.
so either i am really supressing a lot, or something.
august i am really disappointed that you didnt jump on my co dependent plug. oh well maybe next time! (hope you are doing well)
everyone have a nice weekend.
thanks for all the feedback, i may just start writing a book from my nightmares like stephen king does,
august who is consta const...whoever?????
so it sounds like i am just normal as everyone, i think i will discuss a med adjustment, maybe going down on some of the antidepressants, because i really dont feel depressed or anxious, so maybe i am getting an overload, in addition i take multiple meds for asthma which i am sure adds to the mix.
so either i am really supressing a lot, or something.
august i am really disappointed that you didnt jump on my co dependent plug. oh well maybe next time! (hope you are doing well)
everyone have a nice weekend.
I have a lot of dreams that I'm smoking pot!
I've been sober 15 years and I still have using dreams about smoking pot and ingesting other substances popular in the 60's. I always wake up relieved that it was only a dream, and that I felt all the guilt for nothing.
JAMV, Carlos Castanada was an author popular during my days as an under-pup at UK. The books purported to be the writings of an anthropology student who had met a Yaqui Indian sorcerer in Mexico named Don Juan. Don Juan supposedly used peyote to cross over into the spirit world to practice his magic. Much of what was discussed in the 6 books I read had to do with developing one's dream life as a "Separate Reality," which if my impaired memory serves correctly, was also the name of one of the books. I seem to recall flunking out of sociological anthropology due to heavy experimenting along the lines of what was advocated in the books.
Later on, they became so fanciful as to be devoid of much credibility, though there were a few concepts that I hung onto, including something akin to Buddhism as it relates to the life of the Warrior. Found it useful years later in my chosen profession. Other authors have covered the same ground though, in a far more credible fashion.
Those books did not even make my recent extensive reading list. Really just drivel from the 60s.
August
JAMV, Carlos Castanada was an author popular during my days as an under-pup at UK. The books purported to be the writings of an anthropology student who had met a Yaqui Indian sorcerer in Mexico named Don Juan. Don Juan supposedly used peyote to cross over into the spirit world to practice his magic. Much of what was discussed in the 6 books I read had to do with developing one's dream life as a "Separate Reality," which if my impaired memory serves correctly, was also the name of one of the books. I seem to recall flunking out of sociological anthropology due to heavy experimenting along the lines of what was advocated in the books.
Later on, they became so fanciful as to be devoid of much credibility, though there were a few concepts that I hung onto, including something akin to Buddhism as it relates to the life of the Warrior. Found it useful years later in my chosen profession. Other authors have covered the same ground though, in a far more credible fashion.
Those books did not even make my recent extensive reading list. Really just drivel from the 60s.
August
Wow, I'm still having a lot of wiered dreams too. For awhile there I wouldn't be able to sleep the following night after a bad bout of them the night before. Then if I happened to have a relatively normal dreamscape I would sleep for hours. What I've found to really help me is i bought a dream dictionary that i could look up the main symbols in my dreams and interpret them. My dictionary is kind of old, but first thing in the morning I reach for it , and I'm finding that the symbols aren't as terrifying as the images themselves. Mostly.. "there is money in your future"..."you will be attracted to a businessman"...stuff like that.They have some really good dictionaries online as well. We are what we think, and some say that the spiritual world speaks to us through symbols. Could be, but reguardless I am finally not as afraid to go to sleep lately.
Great Topic Jamv!
P.S. I picked up a Carlos Castenada book a week or so ago. I read them all back in my LSD days and they were very mystical. They kind of make me long for those days lost in the desert(literally). Great reading.
Great Topic Jamv!
P.S. I picked up a Carlos Castenada book a week or so ago. I read them all back in my LSD days and they were very mystical. They kind of make me long for those days lost in the desert(literally). Great reading.
jojo, found this old post and thought i would bump it up, however, it doesnt really give you a lot of hope because i was almost 5 months clean and started having nightmares again.
but what i can say is that they come and go, and some of the dreams are vivid but good. i cant say i have been bothered by any nightmares lately, KNOCK ON WOOD, tonight will be a doozy. look up some info on PAWS too that will help, although you are probably going through active withdrawals even with the taper.
good luck the dope isnt worth missing out on some of this stuff
but what i can say is that they come and go, and some of the dreams are vivid but good. i cant say i have been bothered by any nightmares lately, KNOCK ON WOOD, tonight will be a doozy. look up some info on PAWS too that will help, although you are probably going through active withdrawals even with the taper.
good luck the dope isnt worth missing out on some of this stuff
jamv- thanks for bumping that up for me. doesn't look like this will pass soon, yet it seems like there is much to learn within these dreams. i'm going to follow advice and try a suggestion for good dreams before i go to bed and see what happens. the clarity and anxiety is exhausting.
thanks:)
here's to sweet dreams for all!
-jo
thanks:)
here's to sweet dreams for all!
-jo
if you have dreams after 5 months go and see a doc
dreams should last 3 weeks at the most. my shrink told me
i had them for one week when i gave up for 6 months lat night. im just a little worried for you/ you should dream. but not nightmares all the time. not now
dreams should last 3 weeks at the most. my shrink told me
i had them for one week when i gave up for 6 months lat night. im just a little worried for you/ you should dream. but not nightmares all the time. not now
I AM INSANE !!!
THEY ARE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY HEE HEE HOO HO HO
THEY ARE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY HEE HEE HOO HO HO
Jamv, ROFLMAO....you're hilarious....
jamv-
I'll greet you at the door. Things are good here at the funny farm, with flowers and trees and pretty words!
I'll greet you at the door. Things are good here at the funny farm, with flowers and trees and pretty words!
