Trees

I vape most evenings after 5pm. I have ADHD and comorbid depression and anxiety. The strains I like to vape keep me motivated and help me unwind, enjoy my evening, get things done around the house, and stretch/do yoga, or some gentle exercises before bed.

I fall asleep easily each night after weed helps me get all that done. I dream just a little, and they're often lost the minute I stand up.

When I take a break, every few weeks or over vacations, it's harder to go to sleep initially, but my dreams are a little more vivid when I do.

My most vivid dreams occurred when I was taking Prozac, which wrecked my body in every other way, so I don't associate dream intensity or recollection with overall health anymore. I'm physically and emotionally much healthier off Prozac, vaping weed most nights, than I ever was on the stuff.

Edit: Seeing some usage discussion, I go through about 1/2 an ounce every 4-6 weeks vaping with a Volcano.

I may be in a minority in this community, but I've found that daily use is really rough on my mind. Taking some time off and returning to weekly use (with occasional months off) benefited both my life in general and how much I enjoyed weed. The anxiety is down, and it's opened up a ton of time to pursue hobbies I find more fulfilling than TV. And when I do sit down with an edible, I really enjoy it.

I also dream now, which I suspect is a factor in everything else. Evolution wouldn't make us dream unless there was a reason for it.

Daily use for 5+ years and I never ever lost my dreams.

I get a lot more recurring dreams though. Unsure if it’s related.

I use maybe once a week and track my sleep with a Garmin watch. On nights that I use my deep sleep is almost non-existent. On the following nights my deep sleep comes back and then some.

Can see this being the reason why many don’t experience dreams on weed and why memory suffers after prolonged use, since deep sleep is necessary for both of these.

whoa! i have to watch that video… been a daily smoker for a couple of time now, but i do dreams sometimes, vivid dreams tho too, but mostly nightmares or waking up covered in sweat like

I'm an ex-daily-smoker (had the habit for the better part of 12 years) and I've certainly learned some things about how my body reacts to smoking every day and how it reacts when I quit.

Just relating my experience - I don't want to disparage anyone currently smoking, because for periods of my life it was definitely very enjoyable to smoke a bowl and play some music or video games. But... after a while, it began to get worse and worse.

For starters, it slowly reduced my appetite, eventually down to the point where I couldn't eat a meal without smoking, and food didn't bring me joy anymore like it would while sober. It almost felt like I just had to cram it down so I wouldn't starve.

I had to smoke just to feel normal. I wasn't able to sleep through the night, often waking up at around 4am feeling gross, taking a small bong rip, and heading back to bed. My digestion was all out of whack, lots of diarrhea and constipation. No dreams, of course. No motivation to do anything that was not immediately gratifying. Drinking alcohol made me feel sick, even if it was just a couple beers. I had more social anxiety, often turning down invitations to go out just so I could stay at home, smoke weed, and play video games. All in all not a good time, but I was stuck in it.

Quitting was a huge pain for me. What little appetite I did have was replaced with nausea, my anxiety went through the roof, and my sleep was awful for a while. But after a few weeks, I'm basically back to normal. Better than normal, actually. Even if some dreams can be wacky or scary, I realized I missed them! It was like I forgot who sober me even was when I was a daily smoker. I'm doing more every day, I'm back into all my hobbies and projects, and life is good again!

My theory is this: our bodies produce cannabinoids naturally, for various purposes, including regulating appetite, sleep, and anxiety (this part is actually proven.) When you go giving your body tons of it on the regular, it stops producing it as much. It throws your body's homeostasis out of whack, leading to the aforementioned issues. It can take a bit for your body to figure out how to regulate it again after you quit, but it does get there eventually.

Anyways, open to discuss any of this with y'all. I'm sure not everybody's experience is the same, but I know there's got to be people out there in the same boat I was.

Personally, (daily user of cannabis, D8, thca, kratom, and couple drinks nightly for years) I've noticed a few things. I still have some (less than avg) memorable dreams using just cannabis or kratom. Since I started using D8 and thca I rarely have any dreams ever or at least ones I remember. If I do have a dream it usually has some kind of subconscious message and it's super wild and I actually feel I have superior dream control since.... Again personally I don't care if I'm having dreams other than the fact that I think my sleep quality is lower. Honestly sometimes I think I prefer to not have dreams because I used to have hyper realistic and borderline horror nightmares as the only types of dreams I had. Oh and since smoking D8/thca on the regular the length of my dreams is noticably shorter. Which is surprising when you realize dreams aren't typically that long any way so for me to notice this change certainly means something I would think.. I really wonder if any of these things might have some type of application for people with sleep paralysis. All that said, I wouldnt recommend D8/thca to most everyone as delta9-thc is much cleaner and for most people going to be way more ideal. The only reason I got into d8 and thca is because I'm pretty poor and it's harder to pay $10/g than 3-5/g..