To those of you who stopped smoking weed, why did you stop?

[LSD-Rumi]

@Loba I don't focus that much on remembering dreams but It does make dreams more engaging/vivid. What's your experience with SSRIs like. I was on SSRIs a couple of weeks ago. I stopped them and start taking rue. It is working very well for me. With Syrian rue, you have two effects the immediate and latent effect. The immediate effect is an instant elevation of mood and effects like a microdose of acid. You can use this period of increased consciousness to better deal with your shit. and then you have the latent effect which is the elevation of mood for a couple of days.

[LSD-Rumi]

@Loba I suffer from OCD/social anxiety/depression. I am trying to clean my head from all the bullshit that got into it and SRRIs failed to do that for me. My experience with them is very meh, but if it is working for you stay on them.

[LSD-Rumi]

@Loba It also gives a nice buzz, it feels warm but causes some dizziness and sleepiness. And it makes you horny too ?

Edited November 19, 2021 by LSD-Rumi

[PurpleTree]

19 hours ago, Loba said:

@PurpleTree Sure thing, I'm fascinated by dreams and love hearing the stories people have to tell when they wake up.

alright so the two nightmares i've had two or three days ago

i think it was full moon, which influences my sleep sometimes

and i was also in the sauna that day, which makes me sleep worse sometimes

 

So in the first one there was a guy that i know/knew, very tough guy i went to school with his brother and i had a fight with this guy once, the guy did a lot of dirt and stabbed someone in a fight, needless to say i don't like this guy and think he's scary

So in the dream he just attacked me from the front, i couldn't defend myself, it was night and he just slashed my face multiple times with a carpet knife. The cuts felt extremely real and went really deep. So when i woke up my pulse and adrenaline were very high. Then i thought is this dream trying to tell me something. But i didn't know anything smarter to do then just stay with the fear and try to feel it and let it go.

 

So in the second dream i was on a meadow laying on a picnic cloth there was one other person on the picnic cloth, don't remember who. It was a sunny day. So i saw a tick on the cloth walking. And i'm scared of ticks because of lymes disease etc. So i tried to make sure that the tick doesn't get on me. But then i lost him and didn't see him. Then i had the fear that the tick is on my back doing his tick stuff and i can't take him off and i woke up still thinking it might be on my back and was scared.    

The funny thing about the second dream is that i think that it was one of those small cute red bugs with the black dots (don't know the name in english) but it totally represented a tick in the dream. Weird how things can represent other things in dreams or how we be so sure about things in dreams and when we wake up they don't make sense

Edited November 20, 2021 by PurpleTree

[Spence94]

Along with alcohol, weed can be abused as a way to suppress psychological trauma. Sometimes smoking weed makes one more aware of suppressed aspects of themselves and it can be intense, leading to the person smoking even more and just starting numb themselves with  chronic use, or in my case, I turned to meditation and yoga. 

I smoked weed throughout my teenage years, and I quit smoking it when I was 21 right at the time I stumbled upon Actualized.org, meditation and yoga. 

I will occasionally light one up if the spirit moves me and I with the right people and the right setting and I feel like the conversation and experience will be enhanced by it, but for the most part, I'm sober nowadays. 

Yoga, meditation and self actualization got me to go into those suppressed aspects of myself. It's been a long journey, but now I feel high all the time just sober, and I haven't had a toke of a joint in 3 years.

[Carl-Richard]

On 19.11.2021 at 8:19 PM, StarStruck said:

DMT fucks up my circadian rhythm while cannabis doesn't do that.

What kind of carpet dust are you smoking? Cannabis nukes your circadian rhythm, albeit over extended long-term use.

[Leo Gura]

DMT only lasts 15 mins. I can smoke DMT before bed and sleep fine.

[King Merk]

I used to be a hardcore stoner.

Smoked weed all day every day.

I’d go to class stoned. I’d go to the gym stoned. I go to family get together a stoned. All day, every day high.

I develop an entire ideology around being a stoner and my entire social circle was stoner friends.

I tried to quit many times but failed constantly. I did this for years.

It wasn’t until I moved to a new part of the country and left my social group that I was able to quit smoke.

Ironically, I didn’t even really have to “try” to quit smoking weed. As I developed new habits in a new area my urge to smoke naturally went away.

Weed is legal where I live too so it’s pretty accessible. I smoke 1 time per month at most but I went 8 months without smoking not long ago.

Quitting smoking has improved my life GREATLY.

I eat better foods (less binge eating). I am more ambitious. I breathe better. I also have less social anxiety.

One drawback is I’m angry more often without smoking. The weed put my into a dull/hypnotic state where my agression was diminished.

I used to do a lot of various drugs for recreation but now I just do psychedelics. I don’t even really do caffeine now days.

Psychedelics are by far the best tools for consciousness gainz.

Fuck all the other drugs. 

[Striving for more]

I deleted most of my post cos I praised it too much, tbh, fuck weed It messed up my life a lot & I came back to it this summer through social influence & I lost a ton of money & women & oppurtunities because of it. 

I will still smoke sometimes on a 1 off, but no more than once a month, never regularly again.

My brain works bad enough when I live healthily so I can't afford to smoke weed. 

 Still, weed should be legal everywhere & for many people it helps them a lot, it sure has it's benefits & it's place I still account some beautiful experiences to weed. 

but you gotta be very honest about if it harms you & not delude yourself 

Edited December 13, 2021 by Striving for more

[Leo Gura]

Smoked some weed tonight at the club. Did nothing for me.

DMT makes weed feel like smoking astroturf.

One puff of DMT sends me into a state of super-consciousness more profound than any human teacher or book ever written.

[Yali]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Smoked some weed tonight at the club.

It definitely did SOMETHING.

Nothing like DMT though.

 

[Carl-Richard]

13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Smoked some weed tonight at the club. Did nothing for me.

DMT makes weed feel like smoking astroturf.

One puff of DMT sends me into a state of super-consciousness more profound than any human teacher or book ever written.

Just smelling weed sends me into an existential crisis lol. I guess I got some work to do.

[Jodistrict]

I have never smoked DMT (except for Bufo), but I have done Yopo once, which is a Peruvian snuff containinng DMT that they blow up your nose.   The shaman calls it the “abuelo” (the grandfather), in contrast to ayahuasca which is the grandmother.    I remember it lasting for about 45 minutes.

Edited December 13, 2021 by Jodistrict

[TheAlchemist]

48 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

 

48 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

One puff of DMT sends me into a state of super-consciousness more profound than any human teacher or book ever written.

48 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

 

What do you think, would this have happened if you were 20 and smoked dmt for the first time?

Or do the breakthroughs in consciousness with other psychedelics and all the spiritual work and meditation lay the groudwork for this type of insight to occur more easily?

[SS10]

@Leo Gura haha you lost your weed virginity lol. Smoke some weed by yourself and go for a walk in the park and contemplate, youll like it

[Guest EmptyVase]

On 8.12.2021 at 4:38 AM, King Merk said:

I used to be a hardcore stoner.

Smoked weed all day every day.

I’d go to class stoned. I’d go to the gym stoned. I go to family get together a stoned. All day, every day high.

I develop an entire ideology around being a stoner and my entire social circle was stoner friends.

I tried to quit many times but failed constantly. I did this for years.

It wasn’t until I moved to a new part of the country and left my social group that I was able to quit smoke.

Ironically, I didn’t even really have to “try” to quit smoking weed. As I developed new habits in a new area my urge to smoke naturally went away.

Weed is legal where I live too so it’s pretty accessible. I smoke 1 time per month at most but I went 8 months without smoking not long ago.

Quitting smoking has improved my life GREATLY.

I eat better foods (less binge eating). I am more ambitious. I breathe better. I also have less social anxiety.

One drawback is I’m angry more often without smoking. The weed put my into a dull/hypnotic state where my agression was diminished.

I used to do a lot of various drugs for recreation but now I just do psychedelics. I don’t even really do caffeine now days.

Psychedelics are by far the best tools for consciousness gainz.

Fuck all the other drugs. 

That's amazing man. I have a very similar story with weed and also feel the relief of quitting the stoner life. Once in a while it's amazing, but spiralling down the stoner path isn't very exhilirating.

[Ohsee]

I will some daily for extended periods of time, up to a year, then take breaks for months and as little as week-long breaks. It's not so much a system for me but it's just how I naturally go about it. I will say it is quite hard to just stop after you've been smoking for a while everyday. The way I stop is just one day at a time, and get busy, fill up your day and be productive-- don't give yourself the time to load up that bowl and get high. This is the most helpful and it feels great to be busy with your goals and progressing on maybe what you've been slacking on. 

Also, maybe this can help you. Get some organic sage or better grow it yourself and dry it out, and you can smoke it along with cannabis to ween off of cannabis slowly, sage for me goes super well with cannabis and at times I will just smoke sage on its own. There are plenty of smokable herbs that are safe but you want to make sure your herbs are sourced from good places and its best to grow them yourself. 

Edited December 14, 2021 by Ohsee

[Intraplanetary]

I've reduced to smoking weed only once a month or even less and this is the sweet spot for me. weed raises my thoughts but they get interrupted and when I'm on the wave of some deep idea or insightful questioning, i usually don't get far as it gets interrupted and i forget what i've been thinking just a second ago. basically, it's no good for contemplation and although i get some insights when smoking, it's not useful for serious spiritual work.  it's only nice to chill and relax with a good company on occasion. and definitely, not for a daily or any type of frequent use.

a lot of young people smoke and get hooked on it, it'll become a problem in the future for a lot of people, i think. especially when it comes to street weed which is sprayed and highly highly addictive. it messes with people's minds and can become a real issue.

perhaps, it would be good to really question why do you smoke weed at all; maybe you're just diluting yourself thinking it gives you any benefits at all and it's just another way to hide from what is.