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Question to pot smokers (or former); I wasn't really a heavy smoker, but consistent (2-3 one-hitters most nights) and had to stop because I have been looking for work and in my field the majority of jobs have drug testing conditions.
So, since I've stopped, I've been noticing that my dreams have become far more consistent and vivid... the first few nights were nightmares that woke me up, but have now toned into more typical dreams.
Has anyone else gone through similar when stopping?
I have heard people seeing things really clearly - redpill level clearly - while smoking pot. This is the first time I am hearing it happening after quitting!
In a waking state, yes. I was a heavy smoker from high-school (a quarter per week or more) that, IMO, contributed to being more generally redpilled. I stopped when I was starting the job hunt approaching graduation, knowing that most jobs would require drug testing, and never really noticed anything aside from the couple weeks where I wanted to smoke up.
I was talking more specifically about dreams, where most nights I will remember that I had dreams, but from a few days after stopping I had some nightmares that woke me up multiple times, and for the past week or so has been very vivid dreams that I could describe in greater detail than average (not sex dreams).
The other explanation I could figure would be that, at my current job, the new management is close to fitting the description of psychologically abusive. (Impossible deadlines, not giving information required, gaslighting, etc), and might have been just the release from taking time off before the Christmas break started.
When it comes to vivid dreams, I have a hard time understanding why people dont remember their dreams. I have been able to remember my dreams vividly ever since I was a child. Those who cant do that, are missing out a lot.
As for nightmares - yeah, a lot of times unresolved stuff in waking life manifests as nightmares - sometimes way out of scale. I would suggest mindfulness, especially before going to bed.
The first few nights of nightmares weren't quite like when I was a child, where I'd wake up still afraid of what was going on. More just disconcerting, in the sense that I preferred to fully wake myself up, drink some water and reset before trying to sleep more. That's really part of the motivation to ask the question because if the unresolved frustrations could be the cause, or the quitting smoking, I know there are other things that can generate more vivid dreams, but not that I've been doing recently to justify the shift.
Usually, I'm aware that I had dreams, just don't really remember the content. This past week or so, after the nightmares, the dreams have been almost so vivid that I would wake up still thinking about what was going on in 'real' terms and took a moment to shake that I had been dreaming.