Weed reduces the quality of your sleep by shortening the length of REM sleep. If you regularly use weed to help you sleep you may be getting more sleep but you’ll still be tired.
I have opinions about that: I think you should not go to bed high but after the main effects are gone.
This improves a lot of the grogginess you might have in the morning.
This also means getting high earlier in the day, Carpe Diem!
I know that weed reduces REM cycles, but sleep specialists keep prescribing me antidepressants as sleep aids, and they also reduce your REM sleep. I’ve never understood why it’s bad to use weed to kill my nightmares, but good to use pharmaceuticals to do the same thing.
Regardless, I’ve not had dreams since I started antidepressants as a teenager. I didn’t start smoking weed until I was in my 30s, and that was for nerve pain after a car accident. I’m peeved that I needed to rely on my own street pharm knowledge that opiates don’t work on nerve pain, because if I’d relied on the doctors, I’d be hooked on oxy right now.
I know someone who needs it to sleep due to PTSD. I think limiting REM sleep is actually the point for them. Their dreams are horrendous, wake them up, and sometimes trigger panic attacks which makes getting back to sleep quite difficult.
This is how it is for me. Weed keeps me from having ptsd nightmares. I don’t even remember the last time i dreamed. It’s been so many years. I don’t notice any sleep problems though, just zero dreams.
I don’t think weed prevents you from dreaming. It makes REM itself weaker to the point brain does not really register what happened. Opposite of vivid dreams that stay in your memory like a trauma.
My watch says I get a bit more than 2 hours of REM a night which the Internet says is plenty! The biggest changes to my sleep are not eating late and hitting fiber goals.
Your watch can’t measure your brain or eyes, only secondary effects (and not as precisely as actual medical equipment). It’s a rough estimation at best.
Weed reduces the quality of your sleep by shortening the length of REM sleep. If you regularly use weed to help you sleep you may be getting more sleep but you’ll still be tired.
I have opinions about that: I think you should not go to bed high but after the main effects are gone. This improves a lot of the grogginess you might have in the morning.
This also means getting high earlier in the day, Carpe Diem!
Yeah but poor quality sleep is still better than no sleep at all.
I know that weed reduces REM cycles, but sleep specialists keep prescribing me antidepressants as sleep aids, and they also reduce your REM sleep. I’ve never understood why it’s bad to use weed to kill my nightmares, but good to use pharmaceuticals to do the same thing.
Regardless, I’ve not had dreams since I started antidepressants as a teenager. I didn’t start smoking weed until I was in my 30s, and that was for nerve pain after a car accident. I’m peeved that I needed to rely on my own street pharm knowledge that opiates don’t work on nerve pain, because if I’d relied on the doctors, I’d be hooked on oxy right now.
Doctors who arent pauing attention are better replaced by flowcharts.
I know someone who needs it to sleep due to PTSD. I think limiting REM sleep is actually the point for them. Their dreams are horrendous, wake them up, and sometimes trigger panic attacks which makes getting back to sleep quite difficult.
This is how it is for me. Weed keeps me from having ptsd nightmares. I don’t even remember the last time i dreamed. It’s been so many years. I don’t notice any sleep problems though, just zero dreams.
I don’t think weed prevents you from dreaming. It makes REM itself weaker to the point brain does not really register what happened. Opposite of vivid dreams that stay in your memory like a trauma.
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My watch says I get a bit more than 2 hours of REM a night which the Internet says is plenty! The biggest changes to my sleep are not eating late and hitting fiber goals.
Watch sleep trackers are absolute bullshit btw
They are better than having no data. It does measure a ton of info related to heart and temperature which are decent indicators.
No data is better than shitty data more often than not.
Again, the heart rate monitoring and temperature reads are very accurate.
Where’s your* source?
Your watch can’t measure your brain or eyes, only secondary effects (and not as precisely as actual medical equipment). It’s a rough estimation at best.
It can maybe detect sleep paralysis or other things that indicate this is REM
Well duh but it’s a damn close estimate.