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iamsaint
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My first post here, and ive got a question about lucid dreaming and my sobriety.
#5462428 - 03/31/06 12:47 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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ive been sober for a few months now from all kinds of abusive drug experimentation. my drug of choice was an 8th of weed a day, and occasional mushrooms. lots of pharms too.
now since then, my dreams have been insane. some are real evil rooted and are extremely vivid. for example i recently had one where somehow i was put into a modern - gladiator type arena and it was basically a free for all where everyone had swords and you had to kill the others to stay alive. last one standing wins. it was disgusting, and like i said, extremely vivid, i thought it was real, i couldnt control it, but i could control my actions in the dream, i eventually kicked ass and won, covered in blood. i was scared to go to bed the next night for fear of having the same dream. i had this other one consistently right after i quit using drugs where theres this giant huge ass monster made out of sticks and tree branches and shit, it was always during a nighttime setting, and it would just chase me. that was it. just chase me until i woke up in a sweat.
so yeah, im taking melatonin and other vitamins now, i was on sleeping pills for 30 days (ambien), and i just finished reading the thread about lucid dreaming, would leraning how to lucid dream help me with my sleep? i guess thats my question. and the B6 vitamins, wha
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fazdazzle
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Re: My first post here, and ive got a question about lucid dreaming and my sobriety. [Re: iamsaint]
#5462549 - 03/31/06 01:57 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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My first impression was that drugs could have brought out issues in your life (like they tend to do) that were under the surface before, and now they are materializing in your dreams. It seems to be a pretty common theory that problems you encounter during your dreamstate mirror problems you have in your daily life. It seems like this could be anecdotal proof that this is true. Have you had pretty revolutionary drug experiences lately?
If this is all true then, yes, lucid dreaming could help you immensely. When your lucid dreaming you can decide what your going to do with a clearer head. Instead of taking the instinctive action of fighting with the monster, you could accept it and overcome the problem associated with the monster.
Overall, I would just ride it out. Learn to lucid dream if you can; Good luck though, it's not musical chairs. You could try meditating or spending time to clear your mind before bed.
Good luck to ya, I know how you feel; *every* night after I watch horror movies I dream all night about the horror during the movie...not fun (the Sin City night was real bad).
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CptnGarden
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Re: My first post here, and ive got a question about lucid dreaming and my sobriety. [Re: fazdazzle]
#5462585 - 03/31/06 02:21 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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melatonin and high doses of vitamin b6 cause intense lucid dreams. if your taking vitamins its probably got b6 in it. you sound like a puppet.
welcome to the shroomery.
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Lysergic_Milkman
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Re: My first post here, and ive got a question about lucid dreaming and my sobriety. [Re: CptnGarden]
#5464756 - 03/31/06 04:57 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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drugs and dreaming have a very close relationship; explained simply, it goes like this: When not taking any drug, it is normal to dream every night, and to forget what you dreamt about soon after you wake up. When you begin taking a drug (this applies to almost any and every drug), it is common for you to not dream when you sleep, or have such vague, fleeting dreams that by the time you wake there is no memory of them at all. After you have been using a drug for an extended period of time, your dream patterns will usually return to normal (depending on the drug). the next phase is where you are at. When you stop using a drug, it is common to dream multiple times every night, and your dreams will become increasingly more vivid and real over a short period of time, sometimes to the point of lucidity (actually being consciously awake and aware during a state of R.E.M.). Often times these dreams will seem profound, or to have some important meaning. After a week or 2, your dream patterns should return to normal.
NOTE: Much of the above information is based on personal experience. I have been through many such drug/dream cycles and have always experienced lucid or otherwise vivid dreams at the end of such.
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stemmer
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Re: My first post here, and ive got a question about lucid dreaming and my sobriety. [Re: Lysergic_Milkman]
#5465030 - 03/31/06 06:13 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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After even heavy use of hallucinogens and marijuana, sobriety and dreams work very well together. I have been sober for over a year, and my dreams are like a seperate reality. In the morning I can recall so much of them. They are so vivid yet I can interact with them with a conscious mind, so essentially I am lucid dreaming. I have had dreams where I have broken the fabric of the dream and sort of faked it out. The times I have done this I instantly wake up and know what I have just done within the dream.
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