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[deleted] t1_iuhy8rf wrote

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panspal t1_iuij00f wrote

Well I know for me it's been a blessing, before I started smoking weed I would get the worst night terrors, things got a lot better when I stopped getting dreams I could remember, or any at all.

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__daco_ t1_iuij83t wrote

I can relate. When I was smoking regularly I stopped dreaming altogether (or stopped remembering them), layed it off for a week and suddenly I get lucid dreams every other night.

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tempuramores t1_iuj7dwl wrote

It's really common for people who discontinue weed to get more vivid dreams, especially in the first week or two after stopping. It does level out after a while. (I've taken tolerance breaks several times and have more recently all but quit for about six months now.)

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panspal t1_iuijuu7 wrote

When I have to chill on the weed I get the worst dreams, it's either floating heads outside my window, spiders, or sleep walking. It'll always start the same, with me falling asleep but the dreams start with me in bed trying to fall asleep and then spooky shit happens. I'll jump out of bed, rip off the blankets looking for spiders and really piss of my girlfriend. At least she knows the difference between awake me and sleep walking me. Because only one of those throws shit around then room looking for the window screen to keep the heads out while accusing her of hiding it. May have called her a bitch.

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Beraliusv t1_iuj4cms wrote

Sounds like your psych earns their money, holy shit dude.

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__daco_ t1_iujav9j wrote

Nightmares are bad, I'm glad I'm mostly spared, and I don't really know what to say else, maybe apologize to your girl.

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Brodellsky t1_iujk9ji wrote

Just be sure to keep your THC intake steady or the REM rebound will give you some crazy vivid dreams. Too real, sometimes, at least in my experience.

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confuzzled21 t1_iui44ui wrote

I'm not sure there's been any studies regarding long term use of specific drugs on memory, but there could be some out there.

The best theory put forward by researchers is that REM sleep is, indeed, required to process memory, experience, and cognition that is gained during waking hours. Even if there's been absolutely no study regarding specific drug-induced reduction of REM and how it affects individuals, I'd think it pretty clear that anything that stops/reduces REM, short or long term, is going to cause memory consequences.

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__daco_ t1_iui5mck wrote

Yep thats exactly my thought process. Science on drugs is often rare and not thorough enough to make definite conclusions but it's fair to say that whatever impairs REM sleep must impair memory and possibly other systems as well.

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EldestPort t1_iuie3xy wrote

>I'm not sure there's been any studies regarding long term use of specific drugs on memory, but there could be some out there.

Here is an interesting one

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MotherMaintenance342 t1_iuioylz wrote

Doesn't seem like it's based on specific drugs though, which strengthens their point. Not a bad study, but still not as precise as desired.

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EldestPort t1_iujzyl2 wrote

Yes that is true! I did a little extra digging and found some more studies. This one, 'Pharmacological REM sleep suppression paradoxically improves rather than impairs skill memory', found that SSRIs did not, in fact, affect the creation of new memories. The study 'Sleep and cognition at baseline and the effects of REM sleep diminution after 1 week of antidepressive treatment in patients with depression' similarly found 'no negative effects of a decrease in REM sleep on memory performance in patients taking antidepressants' in their study using SSRIs and SNRIs. Both studies here may imply that new memories can be created during sleep even in the absence of REM sleep.

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