I've been taking chunks of days off from smoking recently. My dreams' vividness and frequency of remembrance increase a lot around 12-24 hours after being sober. That will last for a couple of days. I find I can avoid dreamless sleep if I just smoke less. Sometimes I'll take one fat rip before bed, I'll have a pretty wild dream vividness if I hadn't smoked for a couple of days.
I’m not much of a user in this regard, so I can only comment on the abstract of the question here - but over the last couple of months I started some new medication that caused this. I’d never remember dreaming for quite a while, and then all of a sudden I did start to have very vivid dreams.
They’re not nightmares, thankfully - but certainly the ones that make you wake up and go “What the fuck???”. Recently I had a dream about a game show being started in my house, and the game was very much a “You can’t leave until you meet X goal”.
Then there have been some dreams that were not necessarily odd, not bad, but not “good” I guess?
Last week I had a dream where my boss had asked me to start working again on a project that I lead that was dropped midway. When I woke up, since it was still fresh on my mind, I was very close to messaging my boss to see if he wanted to better set the goals and requirements for the project… Until I realized that the conversation about reopening the project never happened. Thankfully I did realize that, or else it would’ve been quite awkward…
That last one worried me a bit, because I really don’t want to start having dreams that cause me to not be able to keep an accurate accounting of what is real and what isn’t - but thankfully it hasn’t reoccurred.
I’ve just somewhat woken up, and definitely had another “WTF” dream, though I am unsure of what it actually was about.
I hadn’t considered it might be quitting weed since I started an antidepressant around the same time and had been assuming it was that. It’s been a little over 5 weeks and I’m having awful nightmares every single night. Not interesting, just unpleasant and rooted in my various traumas.
Not ideal, but all the other positives of sobriety are worth it.
Antidepressants cause vivid dreams for me. Cyclobenzaprine is a serotonergic muscle relaxer that causes the type of vivid nightmares that make me yell in my sleep.
At first i thought it was about day dreaming…most of people do not remember most of their dreams, and nobody can choose the themes…Is real this question?
I love having really bizarre dreams, the weirder the better.
I had a dream where I was some kinda high ranking engineer on a super weird interstellar craft designed by my partner, and during the dream I was vividly remembering other missions I had been on, and that’s what really stuck with me when I woke up, the fact that I had memories of a past that didn’t exist, and somehow upon waking, those memories stuck stronger than the proper dream portions. This was at a time where I was dream journalling so reading back I can recall a lot of details.
I’m going to buck the trend here and advise the more conservative position. I took a developer job in the insurance industry right out of college, and I have no regrets. The work is rarely exciting, but it’s stable and not very demanding. I have great work life balance. And developer jobs in non tech related industries seem to be largely immune to the upheavals and layoffs currently affecting the tech world.
Ya I chose the safe job, I thought about it and the other job was reallly similar to my last one so I thought I’d at least get new experience while I wait for the Software market to bounce back a bit more
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