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evlyshrooms
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Marijuana Withdrawal
#26694340 - 05/25/20 07:04 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Have any of you weed heads stopped smoking for an extended period of time? I normally hardly smoke at all, but last two/three weeks I've smoked everyday. Stopped and now I have bad night sweats, to the point I have to change sheets, and my appetite has been slightly suppressed.
On the flip side, my dreams have never seemed so damn real. It's pretty starling. In the dreams I'm somewhat lucid and as things in the dream are happening I'm constantly questioning whether or not it's real. Then I wake up surprised to find that I was in fact was merely dreaming. This happens many times throughout the night.
This has been night 3 like this, and while the dreams are awesome (aside from the occasional nightmare), I'd definitely prefer a good nights sleep over this. What's everyone's experience with this?
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The longer you go without the dreams get better in time. The worst part for me is my fucking arthritis starts kicking off and all my joints hurt. If it’s just the matter of can’t find any, CBD products help with the withdraw, but if you are studying for a test you just have to stick it out cold turkey.
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Re: Marijuana Withdrawal [Re: Antigov]
#26694363 - 05/25/20 07:20 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah I don't plan on having any THC enter my system any time soon and will probably will stick it out without cbd.
This is the result of less than a month of smoking. I was curious as to what other's experience is. I can imagine the withdrawal effects would be amplified for someone who used for a longer period of time.
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Re: Marijuana Withdrawal [Re: Antigov]
#26694367 - 05/25/20 07:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ive smoked for about 9 years daily with a few breaks here and there.
The first few days are the hardest, after a week I start to feel better.. More focused.. More productive... I like it. This motivates me to go longer upto a couple weeks usually then I'm right back to it smoking everyday.
The best I done was a month and felt so proud, all my friends smoke too and the smell of weed activates my hunting instincts like a shark smelling blood. Can never seem to go long without a puff puff.
The dreams are amazing and mostly all of them are lucid ones as you mentioned, guaranteed a crazy intense dream every night when off the weed and it lasts for couple weeks.
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The vivid dreaming seems to be pretty common.
Sweating profusely, I’m not as familiar with although I guess I can’t really say it never happened. I’d guess that will go away but I’m not a professional.
Check this other thread out -
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23258801
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Quote:
evlyshrooms said:
On the flip side, my dreams have never seemed so damn real. It's pretty starling. In the dreams I'm somewhat lucid and as things in the dream are happening I'm constantly questioning whether or not it's real. Then I wake up surprised to find that I was in fact was merely dreaming. This happens many times throughout the night.
This has been night 3 like this, and while the dreams are awesome (aside from the occasional nightmare), I'd definitely prefer a good nights sleep over this. What's everyone's experience with this?
I have insanely vivid dreams when I stop smoking weed.
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Re: Marijuana Withdrawal [Re: viraldrome]
#26694458 - 05/25/20 08:27 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Intense dreams.
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I quit smoking weed after daily use for 20+ years so I could get a CDL. The withdrawal almost killed me. It was terrible, I completely lost interest in Oreo cookies and my energy levels went through the roof. I didn't know what to do with myself anymore. It was a long road and took awhile to adjust, but I managed to regain control of myself in a couple weeks.
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Oh my! Sounds brutal. Glad you made it through man
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Quote:
MightyWhite said: I quit smoking weed after daily use for 20+ years so I could get a CDL. The withdrawal almost killed me. It was terrible, I completely lost interest in Oreo cookies and my energy levels went through the roof. I didn't know what to do with myself anymore. It was a long road and took awhile to adjust, but I managed to regain control of myself in a couple weeks.
Next time you have an oreo depletion please see medical help!
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Re: Marijuana Withdrawal [Re: SonicTitan]
#26695566 - 05/25/20 07:04 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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dreams suck for the most part compared to weed or psychedelics
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NOUS333
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I smoked for over a decade and quit in 2017 I think it was...
Everyone is on the internet and out and about bragging about "dopamine detox" now, well... I'm pretty sure I experienced that x100 when I quit smoking weed.
Thing is, I realized pretty quickly how ingrained the habit was in my thinking patterns...like... just one creeping thought that really wasn't intentional at all, could come up in my consciousness and provoke me to smoke and I started asking myself well what the hell is this? I want to stop... but this thought in me doesn't... how many other thoughts in my head are just telling me to do shit that really doesn't serve me? I started applying this process of analysis to everything from food to relationships...
Was the most transformational year or so of my life.
I never saw the world or myself so clearly.
As far as the dreams go, I remember them being really easy to interpret for a while... like they could be filled with off the wall shit but I knew as soon as I woke up what the off the wall shit represented. And for a long time I would dream that I was pressured into smoking or folded and gave into thoughts that were pressuring me to choose to smoke and the guilt I felt upon waking up was intense enough to keep me from even daring to think about smoking again. This guilt was how I knew that abstaining from weed was something that I, ME, MY SOUL really wanted... otherwise why would I feel bad about it.
They actually started to get too real... in a reality bending sort of way also.. I remember one particular instance where I was dreaming that my dog was looking over my way from a separate room and he was about to bark, I woke up and he began barking.... I remember telling someone that this had happened and their unshocked and unimpressed response was a major indication to me that I had stumbled into some kind of unexplained territory.. I knew there was no way for me to convince this person that something crazy/ almost telepathic happened but it did...
this carried over into everyday life. I would literally see situations play out in my head before they ended up playing out just as I had forseen. This happened mostly with other people and their actions/behaviors. I don't think this was so much some kind of paranormal prophecy type shit, I think I was just so sensitized from depriving myself of all pleasurable escapes that I was just totally in tune with everything and everyone around me. If you had hidden intentions, I could see them. If you were lying, I knew. If you wanted something and were trying not to tell me, I already knew. It was nuts. I was also in isolation, having no contact with my friends and very little contact with family during this time. So there was very little opportunity for interference to cloud my perception.
I was so driven and determined to get my shit together, It's like I created the perfect circumstances to clearly digest reality.
If it wasn't for smoking weed for a decade and quitting this all would have never happened to me, and now that I have been sober for 3 plus years I would be lying if I said I haven't thought about smoking for a while again just to get myself re-addicted psychologically so I can quit again and experience the same thing all over again. But I kind of doubt it would work that way.
I think the brain just does amazing shit like this when it's given new ground to walk on.. intuition kicks into over drive and things like memory are used to empower your decision making in every new moment, even in sleep during dreams. Your self chatter and inner dialogue become meaningful and relevant tools to help you reach a goal or maintain a standard/healthy lifestyle etc.
When you have been smoking weed for 10 years everyday, or if you have been sober everyday for 10 years or if you have been a construction worker everyday for 10 years or a shroomery member everyday for 10 years.. your kinda just living in an echochamber.. your self chatter is likely repetitive nonsense or recycled ideas, notions, names, suspcisions, wants, desires, etc that probably constantly change form and appearance but at their base remain the same. So, I think most of us don't even realize how different, and how much more personally relevant our everyday waking consciousness could be, as well as our dreams. I think we kinda get stuck in ruts and even though they aren't always really that deep, they are surrounded by shit like psychological addictions, emotions, frustrations, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion etc. which just makes any alternative seem impossible to live inside of..
if that makes any sense...
anways.. yeah... those weed withdrawl dreams are nuts. As far as them going away.. I can't say that they have. I had a dream the other night that was so fucking real I still can't stop thinking about it.. it's like how the hell can something so real and relevant to my recent thoughts in waking consciousness/ my overall perception of my own life's unfolding as of late... present itself to me in my head during sleep in such precise and clear hallucinations... it is fucking uncanny...
I'm on my way to a major in Psych and in one of my classes I learned about how dreams are produced.. and experiences like the dream I just mentioned make me call complete bullshit on the shit they put in psychology books... something about different parts of the brain just sending signals where they usually don't and just meaningless shit... there is just no way..
There is much more to your life and my life and all our lives than meaningless neurochemistry. I guess that's another thing this whole experience has taught me... When I smoked weed all the time I had great fucking ideas... awesome ideas, but I thought everyone had access to the same ideas.. I thought everyone thought about the same shit...
After having been sober for 3 years and being around sober people... I realize most people don't think about fucking anything. Most people would rather work everyday of their life at a job they really don't enjoy instead of thinking and imagining themselves in a better place. So, through having the thought "I should quit smoking" I realized the potential of my will, to turn thought into action, into results.
For a while I blamed weed for making me lazy or keeping me 'stuck in the clouds'... but as of late I am beginning to consider the possibility that maybe I just always had an issue of underestimating my own potential, over valuing other people's opinions, and failing to act and believe in myself enough to see those actions through to the results no matter what. I think I now have a much better ability to do so. I still don't plan on going back to smoking though... I will admit I have tried little bits of edibles here and there.. the last time I did so I ended up having a pretty intense revelation about the nature of reality and consciousness which was not new to me and is certainly parallel to most of what I have said here. I think weed can be a priceless tool in perceiving a divine layer of this situation we find ourselves in, but it's like pool floaties or something you know.... some people need them when their a child, others need them when their an adult and hell sometimes they are just fun/interesting to use even when you don't really need them.. but I guess it's important to ask yourself if you wanna be the guy in the pool who's always relying on pool floaty thing to get around and stay afloat... shit if it works for you whose to tell you otherwise? but if you feel a little weirdness when you think about being essentially anchored by your relationship with weed.... I think it's necessary to really examine why you feel that before it's too late.
sorry for getting carried away there. good luck OP.
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Yeah I'm on a break right now gone from everyday smoking for years to only on weekends to now not at all. I plan to go for an extended period probably a few months to re set my system.
Withdraws are real, psychological craving, feeling of malaise, vivid dreams. First couple days are hard but then start to feel some of the positive effects like increased motivation and clear headed thinking.
I want to change the role it plays in my life and want it to be a special thing again. I smoked all day everyday from about 16-24. Weed/hash/dabs/edibles.
I want to respect it and appreciate it again.
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NOUS,
Nice, .
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Re: Marijuana Withdrawal [Re: NOUS333]
#26695955 - 05/25/20 11:23 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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NOUS333 said:
I realized pretty quickly how ingrained the habit was in my thinking patterns...like... just one creeping thought that really wasn't intentional at all, could come up in my consciousness and provoke me to smoke and I started asking myself well what the hell is this?
I wish I would have been told that all repeated behaviors rewire the mind to behave and function differently.
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That’s why I don’t always buy that the path of least resistance is necessarily the best, because often it’s just the most conditioned (neurally).
It’s also partly why people live out their own interpretations as if they were fact.
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I've been a daily smoker for about a decade now.
Every three or so hours, I smoke cannabis. It's a habit. However, I have noticed depending on where I am in my mood at the time, I can completely stop for weeks straight. I've done it several times just to prove to myself it's possible. Last stretch was 12 weeks over spring 2019. I simply stopped calling my guy for that period. I resumed after.
Dreams came back very quickly for me. Appetite was the one thing that got wrecked, which I'll admit is partially the reason I smoke so frequently.
I think it comes down to total dosage/24 hour period. I never smoke more than 2 grams in a single day. Any time I've gone over that I've noticed clear negative effects the next day that I don't usually have. The funny thing is when I stop completely for a bit there's barely any negative effect. I must have my sweet spot .
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NOUS333
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sweet spot, or else you are just different....
some people are definitely just different... which is odd to me because with most other things people are generally the same.
But in my experience weed makes most people lazy and disconnected from the reality of things around them... they say a lot of shit that borders on the edge of being an excuse. They believe a lot of dumb shit.
But at the same time, few and far between there are just brilliant motherfuckers that smoke weed all day and have accomplished more at 25 than a lot of people will accomplish by 50.
There's just something else going on. It's like life is about getting the balance right between time spent in contemplation and time spent applying what is contemplated. Some people just have it right, for whatever reason.
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Re: Marijuana Withdrawal [Re: NOUS333]
#26697484 - 05/26/20 04:58 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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think you hit it right on the money
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