Another busy and productive day today, with a good sleep last night. Last night was the first night that I had vivid dreams after quitting marijuana. The majority of the weed addicts that I know don’t recall their dreams, or have fewer dreams than non smokers. I have heard that it is pretty common to have ‘end of the world’ nightmares when quitting weed. In my previous attempts to quit, I have had some crazy nightmares.
This dream was definitely strange – and I got stoned in my dream…This doesn’t count as relapse right 
. The Dream: So I was outside on the main drag of a town with my colleagues, and a bunch of them were up ahead in a circle. One woman came up to me and said something along the lines of “I smoke, but don’t tell anyone”, and joined the circle. I followed behind her, and next thing I new, I was passed a joint. This was the end of the dream as I remember it. Shitty description, but dreams are hard to describe.
One of the reasons that I wanted to quit is because I didn’t want colleagues to find out about my marijuana habit. I am sure some of them know and don’t say anything to me. Weed made me paranoid so I always wondered if they DID know.
‘Til Tomorrow – which will be double digits sober! Wooohooo!
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Hey thats great you had a good nights sleep.
Im glad the dream wasn’t a scary one.
I had a bad day yesterday fed up with myself smoking you know the story,I haven’t quit but I have cut down HEAPS.Its a start hey ?
Thanks for this website, you inspire me
keep it up, day 3 over here…
Good job man! I’m coming up on day 3 myself. I’d been blazing pretty much every day since I was 15 and I’m 27 now. I’ve been going through the same thing you described with my co-workers and decided it was time to not burn away so much money. While I think that herb is an amazing amazing thing (not just for the high but for all it’s other uses) I think it’s time for me to give it a little rest. I just want to say thank you so much for posting this man. I wish you the very best on your sobriety! It’s been a trying couple of days for me but I’ve heard after the first week it gets much better. keep up the amazing work and expect to hear from me again because this site is bookmarked now.
take care brudda!
I am on day 3 as well. It is tough but I know I need to do this for myself. I have been checking in on your site to keep myself motivated, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Great job and I wish you luck. Take care, PT
I’ve smoked for over 3 years now. In the beginning, it was just when I wanted it. Then I started using it pretty much all day every day for anxiety and sleep problems. I found getting wrecked helped me sleep quite well. I’ve never really had any trouble coming off it either. Two days there may be a little bit of extra temper there, but what drug can you take yourself off of with very little side effects in under a week? I’ve tried numerous antidepressants and they gave me chills, shakes, nausea, feeling like an electric shock was in my brain whenever the dose got cut too low. Just brutal stuff.
I’m on a 21 day cannabis break right now (day 2) and am feeling ok. I just keep busy with little tasks and life in general. I love weed and will probably always use it for the rest of my life, but I think occasional breaks are good, no matter what you’re doing.
DAY 3 HERE!! Keep It Up.
I am on Day 3 of a 30 Day break…. Im doing it to prove I can and to make my tolerance really low!!! Get back to the days of having a pinch to celebrate!!
Yeah, the same thing happened to me when I quit. I had really stange dreams…some even about the end of the world, liek everyone on the world are zombies, stuff like that..
Hi all
Day 9 for me………
I am 35yrs old smoked since i was a teenager, been using volcano vaporizer for last 2.5 years since i quit tobacco…………….I had weird vivid dreams where i had cheated on my girlfriend it felt so real i was so gutted, then when i awoke, boy was i relieved…………Although the dreams are weird it is good to dream again
I quit about 2 months ago, and yes I’ve had vivid dreams almost every night. the other night, was somewhat of a bad dream, I was with my old friends, and of course they were all smoked up, and we got stopped by a detective and everyone had a bag so we all got busted. I remember the detective saying “look at your friends are all stoned, and you’re gonna sit there and say your not?” and I said ” You can drug test me man I’m clean.” but I was thinkin so much for keeping a clean record… which really only by the grace of God I was able to maintain despite many times partying/ being with the wrong crowd at the wrong time… But I feel so much better when I go out, I have nothing to worry about, Nothing to hide. Its a great feeling, one I have not felt since I was 13 or 14, Im now 22 years young.
I am on day 7.
This week has been the longest heckin’ week in my whole life. And it doesn’t help that I have been dreaming about smoking weed, or I’m trying to get weed, every night. It’s horrible. Finally I looked it up on the internet and I guess I’m not the only one who has dreams about it after quitting. Congratulations to everyone who has quit, hopefully you managed to stay straight. Keep on keepin’ on.
these forums are way interesting and inspiring in some cases thanks for the good shit guys. im 18 and ive been smoking for about three years now. Im on day four and am going strong. i had a wierd dream where i relapsed and felt all super guilty (fatty relief to wake up). One thing is my alcohol intake has gone up. i find that i need something to offset my mind. nature helps a shitload too though. anyone got any good substitutes or ideas? i know that to each is there own or whatever and it varies from person to person but still id be interested to hear what helped other people. weed is like a really hot chick that tricks you into thinking you want/need her and then she fucks you constantly (not literally). im glad to have finally turned by back on that devious skank. good luck all. thanks again
slipped up
made redundant fiance cancelled wedding and left me
i have been getting stoned as self med for my depression, but i want to stop again and sort my life out, i believe the weed will leave me in a place while everyone i know moves forward to more success and happiness realising their dreams, while all i do is dream and think about great ideas and things i will do one day, which i forget the following day, as the house gets untidier my health and wellbeing deteriorate, its NOT WORT IT I HAVE TO FIND THE STRENGTH TO STOP AGAIN.
well done everyone
Hey! I was looking up “will quiting weed give you nightmares and I saw this site. But first off I have been quit for 21 days now and I dont think that I would ever go back. But the most strangest dreams have been really vivid like you say, but its not about the end of the world athough im really in to illuminati videos, and new world order videos on youtube I have been lookin at that stuff since new years. Alotta info on there that the media does’nt let out. But differant story… But back to the nightmares. They have been really vivid and scary as I beleive that im dreaming of demons! And its freaking me out dude cause I wake up yelling and sometimes I wake up swinging my arms like I was fighting with it or trying get a way, sommetimes accidentally hit my girlfriend in the process . I tell you its a scary thing for a grown man be so scare to go back to sleep! But also its 9am and this morning was the worst I had and ending up hitting the dresser ouch!!! I just wonder if its got to do with what i believe and that I stop smoking so gotta do a little bit of research. But good luck on everything in the future and quiting smoking weed dude! Have a great sober day!
I’m not trying to quit but there’s nothing around right now (past four days). I am lying in bed all sweaty after having just awoken from a terrible nightmare. Last night I only slept a few hours, just tossed and turned. This has happened to me before and I think all those people should know this is real and can affect your life for a bit. I’ve been a zombie at work because of it! And right now I’m doing whatever I can to stay up because I’m actually afraid of what I might dream about. For your info, I smoked the past few years– chronic, usually an hour or two before bed.
I am quitting pot for my good construction job for a while. Is there any viable substitute that works? Dr Drew says that addiction is defined by consequences. I don’t have any of those except the possibility of losing my good paying job. fuck the man! Anyways, I appreciate any advice.
Whoa, Am I glad to hear about this. I have not been smoking as much lately and I could not figure out why I have been having such HORRIBLE dreams. some of them are about me cheating on my boyfriend, and others are about zombies and end of the world stuff as well. its really upsetting not getting a good nights sleep. I should have put my finger on it when I sleep well after smoking…but cutting down to a time or two during a week is brutal. I really wish I was not dreaming so much..they are SO vivid. I want them to stop, but I don’t want to smoke to make them…I want to smoke when I want to because I enjoy it..
Good luck man!
I hate these nighmares. I ran off this time. I quitted before for several months after smoking for more than 14 years and I been allright.
But these nightmares sucks. I would like chemicals to cover the issue. They always help.
Im on 3weeks now
reali proud of myself,ive smoked pot everyday for 8years.. im still having bad nitemares tho 
i hope they calm down abit.. quitting is hard, an im still craving abit, but it will b worth it all, every1 is doing so well, whether its 3days or 3 weeks, it is hard work and a big leap 4 most of us, the only way i stopped woz going on holiday, i took it with me 4 piece of mind but it became a burden “going 4 a doob” it woznt in the routine which helped, i didnt want it, then i had a spliff afta over a week an went loopy, paranoid, 
an saw wot it had been doing 2 my hed 4 all these years, abit scary reali, so i got home afta 2 weeks, an started a new routine, i kinda 4got about it being there, keeping sum there 4 piece of mind helped, i didnt panic as much knowing it woz there, all my stoner buds r proud of me, id b the last person 2 quit bud out of us all, its starting 2 influence my mates abit 2 in2 stopping aswel, its mad spending lost time with my mum and dad, i feel like i neglected them threw sum important years, and my moods were reali bad, now i feel high off life, facing things head on, its a positive experience, sounds silly but i dnt feel suicidal or pathetic nomore, i feel like life is starting 4 me, maybe 8 years to late but life is getting better, im still quite paranoid, but not as bad as i woz on the weed, i can speak 2 people openly, walk down the street without feeling daft etc, uno wot i mean rite? its reali worth it, i hate 2 say ive missed out on alot, which u dont c being blipt all day 
il keep u all posted as 2 how its going, i like sharing my experience so far, its nice 2 hear from every1 and know im not alone <3 thanx 4 taking time 2 read my post, keep at it, it will b worth it 
every1 is doing great. much love an respect. Rebecca xxxxxxxx
Day two I have been a smoker, grower, dealer for over twenty years.A day or two without has been my longest without it.Now I must quit to maintain my job.Iam feeling good but very challenged it is very helpful to see others are going through this as well support is good.Best luck to all we can do it, mind over matter is all there is to it.stay positive Matt in Alaska
I have been smoking since I was 11. Daily, since I was 13, since I had the “cool parents” who allowed such behavior. I am 27 now and looking back at all the money I’ve spent, the jobs I’ve lost, and the general lack of nothing that I have done with my life. My best friend just lost her kids because of her pot habit, I swear she doesn’t do anything else, even drink. A combination of her circumstances and the fact that I am in nursing school and will eventually face drug tests at clinical sites has caused me to finally stop. Day 20!!!! This is the longest I’ve made it….well…ever! I have lots of strange dreams, whereas I never used to remember my dreams, if I even had any. And yes, I am smoking pot in a lot of them. But honestly I feel better than I have in years. My problem is finding a new recreational activity. Smoking pot has always been what I have done, like I said from an early age. Does anyone have any suggestions?
This is day 20 for me. I’m 20 years old and have been smokin everyday for the past 5 years. This is by far the longest time I’ve gone without gettin blazed. The crazy dreams have definantly not been as prisistant as they were but they still come and go. My worse part was the cold sweats in the beginning I hated those. I’m proud of myself cause I feel alive and motivated. I joined a gym that really helps kill sometime and keep my mind off of it. The money I’ve saved is great. Been using it to put into my car. All of you keep it up. You start to feel alive and more social. I’m never saying I won’t smoke ever again but for now I’m loving this life a hell of a lot more and I hope ill keep it up for a long time. Good luck people and thanks for sharing all of your stories it has helped me tons through this!!!!!
I’m only on day 4; and my dreams have already came back. For the last 7 years I’ve smoked.
I just had a dream where my friends and I were smoking, they left the room to go somewhere and said they were coming back sometime soon. Meanwhile I was to take care of a 300 lb dog. It pinned me down as I was holding its choke collar as far away as I could but it was inches from biting me in a very sensitive area. I laid there unable to move for what seemed like forever waiting for the owner to come back (he never did).
I don’t remember the last time I remember a dream. Id just as soon go without remembering this one.
day 6!! now ive smoked pretty much every day for 15yrs (im 29) ive been doing half a oz a week for the last 5+ years and i dont want it anymore ive had a nice new car and using this as motivation to quit this time as it will help pay for it.
i dont really feel that weed has held my working life back i run my own business and doing ok im married with kids but my wife dont smoke weed. so why did i feel the need to get stoned every night? i relise that life could of been differant for me my best mate i grew up with(also a pot head) is going to aa an also anger management and also on tag for biteing some ones ear off so im told!! i lost contact with him years ago and our paths have gone in different directions although i dont feel i have really close freinds i have my familly.
the dreams i have are really extreme and only having around 4 hrs sleep per night this week and feeling tired but proud. ive quit the cigs aswell as i cant smoke one without the other ive tried before many times i take 1000mg of omega 3 fish oil it suposed to help with the dreams not sure if it does but i will try anything to calm them down! dreamed i shit myself last night i swear i woke up and thought i had!! funny now but at half 5 this morning wasnt a happy guy with my mrs sleeping next to me lol!!! ive gone 4 weeks before and ended up back on the scag. this time i feel will be different i hope it will.
good luck to everyone also trying to quit an thanks for the motivation all the best for 2010
Hey Guys,
Im with you. I decided to stop smoking weed to roll in the New Year (2010), I have been ok, the main reason I quit was because I wanted to dream. Ever since I was young my dreams always made my life a little easier because for some reason anything i would dream about would actually happened and when I realized I became a pot-head and no longer looked like the pageant girl I used to be I began to make a change, I understand that is a superficial reason for quitting but even though Im only 20 I want to get married one day and have kids, so its best to start now Im going to be 21 and feel like Im 40.. YEEAAA that’s how much weed I smoked.. I turned to the weed because it helped me deal with the effects of coming out of an abusive relationship the only problem is I ended up abusing weed myself.. And my life went downhill but I am very happy with my decision within 11 days my butt is getting big again and my breasts are getting bigger I can actually rest my hands on my tits LOL.. which I havent been able to do for a while… I smoked so much weed to the point I lost my appetite, I wouldve rather gotten high than eat food which is weird because weed used to give me munchies but since I’ve stopped my appetite has came back with a vengance. Im so glad I stopped I havent felt this good since I was 16.
i am 39 yrs. old. been smokin weed pretty regular since i was 21 or so. recently i ran into some trouble with the law. i was ordered to take a marijuana education class. up until recenly i remember very few dreams that i’ve had. i’ve been 49 – 50 days without and have dreams i remember nearly everynight. i asked the instructor from this class if there were any link to my regular dreaming now and non use of weed. he said no. are you kiddin me? after reading all these confessions i believe it to be exactly the cause of my regular dreams. none of them have been exactly nightmares. a slightly scary one or two that i remember, but nothing nightmarish. most have to do with people or things that i had spoken about earlier in the day, but not always. last nights was about a childhood sweetheart that i had mentioned to a friend earlier in the evening. i guess i could ramble on for days here, but what i’m trying to say is lack of weed and remembering regular dreams have something to do with one another. i have the same continuing dream all night long no matter how many times i wake up or get up during the night. this morning i got up from the dream and came downstairs thinking i might actually get some uninterrupted sleep on the couch. wrong. i just kept tossing and turning adding onto the dream already in process. myself, i prefer dreamless sleep. at least not being able to remember them. its just wierd. other than court orders i’ll continue using weed til it becomes deadly. i believe that it never has been, and never will be. it’s a natural medicine put on Gods green earth for all to use.
to the moderator; i apologize for the last few sentences of my comment. after posting it i realized that this was an anti-weed page. my reasons for being here were to find out about the dreams i am having and why. good luck to anyone wishing to stop smoking weed. i wasn’t trying to promote it. just stating my own personal opinion. again i apologize, and good luck to those trying to stop smoking.
i been clean now for over 20 days about nearly four weeks.
i still have serious prolblems sleeping and really vivid dreams/sometimes nightmares but always really strange.
im a busy person so i dont have issues with keeping busy my pothead tendecies were strong ( smoking everyday for over ten years) but i always worked and played some sport. i still do that but now this sleep deprevation is realy getting me down depressing me and causing a lot of anxiety. any ideas how long this could last????
Its great to hear from everyone and amazing to hear how much we have in common. I’m on week 3 of kicking one mean addiction to weed. Used to basically live high (one rip of the bong whenever I was coming down), one night I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep so took a rip and went soundly back to sleep. Wouldn’t you know I started waking up around that time every night (the mind is crazy) and used the same remedy everynight. Not only was I high all day but I may be the only one on the planet who woke up in the middle of the night to get a fix! I’m having crazy dreams like everyone else but I see this as a positive. Also coughing up a bunch of grey speckled res (apparently the cilia in your lungs wake up from being paralyzed and start wiggling again to loosen up all the garbage).
For those that need a new vice I say start running! Don’t be discouraged at how out of shape you are at first, the progress is amazing. When I was first bored and decided to go for a run I got maybe a block and threw up! 3 weeks later I push myself to go further and further every day and am now up to running almost 6 km without stopping. Although I’m a looong way from it I’m already reading into how to work up to running a marathon and if I ever did that I would be so proud!
Rambling a bit but the point is in the three weeks I’ve quit weed I’m looking better, feeling better and living overall healthier and don’t think I’ll ever go back. Sorry if this post seemed a bit self centered but I’m very proud of the once ‘midnight toker’ and everyone here should be proud of themselves to! Whoever said weed wasn’t addictive has never spent time on their hands and knees looking for pieces in their carpet! keep up the good work everyone!
I’m experiencing withdrawal right now. Two days off pot (5-6 joints a day) and I am irritable, have a constant headache, find it impossible to have a positive thought, and frequently feel like ending my life. ( I won’t, because I have people who love me , but that’s the about the only reason.) I’ve quit before and the withdrawal symptoms are always the same. I can stop feeling this way instantly by smoking a joint, but it costs over $400 a month to be happy that way, and it’s ruining my lungs.
i had always been an anxious and frustrated person i had a huge issue in my life i wasn’t quite capable of dealing with or even fully understanding (i am presently going through transition; changing sex MTF) so when i discovered weed at 14 and it was able to make me relatively carefree i almost instantly started smoking everyday within less then a year started selling so i could afford smoking all day everyday to forget my problems, actually even solves superficial one (being considered weird also meant problems at school and at home from a very early age) by apparently making me more “normal” but eventually the gender issue started resurfacing more and more often until at 26 something had to be done, i started therapy (for the second time, this time they required i do the therapy sober) that was a really hard time, because my “sober self” clearly felt terrible and needed things to change, while my “high self” felt like what my sober self was feeling was simply insane and the solution was to self medicate, arguing that the social consequences of a sex change where probably far worse then that of simply smoking weed all day everyday for the rest of my life,(i’m honestly still not sure if that’s the case or not regarding functioning in society…
) but the fact is that even staying high all the time couldn’t ALWAYS keep it in check so ultimately the therapy continued and after about a year and a half i got my hormone prescription; soon after my consumption quickly went down, i didn’t feel the same when sober anymore, i didn’t have that anxiety rage and even suicidal tendencies anymore overall i felt “cured” this is still very recent, but after 2-3 weeks i quit smoking entirely, i’m starting week 3 now i feel great at least when i’m awake but when i first wake up in the morning i’m exhausted!, because since i’ve quit i’ve been having creepy dreams all night a basically remember all of them as if i just left for another world when dreaming and spent my hole 24 hours conscious! but about 8 hours of my day was spent in a creepy alternate world, where i still smoke weed sometimes, get attacked or robbed by “friends” (obviously when you go through transition you lose some friends and feel betrayed, likely being talked about behind your back) being attacked by zombies and other monsters and i’ve even died a few times! (luckily at least one of those times i was resurrected instantly witch is apparently a good thing) anyways my waking life is going well so i’m getting through it i just hope these dreams will stop sometime soon or i at least start remembering less of them, because as i said this is getting exhausting!
Just woke up from a crazy dream about 30 minutes ago (3 am). Not a nightmare, but so vivid and intense. Googled and found this article.
Been off the pot for a few days now, weened myself off slowly. It’s great to dream again! That’s one thing that always bugged me about smoking pot is that I don’t dream when smoking. Dreams are so important for us, and is dumb living life without dreaming due to smoking pot. Great to be off the pot again, hopefully this time for good!
Good luck everyone, and KEEP ON DREAMIN’!!
I’m goin back to bed now. Who knows what I’ll dream up this time.
Quitting is not hard, pot is not hard to stop. I like it because i do not dream or remember dreams. Do not tell me how good dreaming is, tell me what is in pot that stops dreaming and how to get it.