The Most Surprising Side Effect of Quitting Weed
I Quit Ingesting Cannabis Five Months Ago, but Wasn’t Quite Ready for What Would Happen!
Five months ago, in August, I decided I needed to change my life, and it was time to get my cannabis ingestion under control. There are a lot of reasons that I knew I had to quit. Some of those reasons included: we were moving to a state where it wasn’t fully legal, I wanted to try and get a ‘real’ job, I didn’t feel it was adding to my life anymore, and it felt like a vestigial crutch. There are others, and I’ll write about them in the future.
Those reasons would be important — because in order to keep going and not ingest meant I’d have to hold space for those reasons whenever the cravings got bad.
There was one side effect that surprised me, and that was that the entire time I was smoking and taking cannabis — I wasn’t dreaming. Or I wasn’t remembering the dreams. Whichever.
The reason it was surprising is that it had been so long since I hadn’t had cannabis regularly that I didn’t remember what truly vivid dreams, nightmares, and night terrors that I had. One of the reasons that I think I was taking it so frequently, subconsciously, was to deal with the horrible night terrors I get (I’ve talked quite a bit about my experiences with…
