Thread: Does marijuana help with lucid dreaming?

Out of personal experience I'd say smoking pot before bed isn't a good idea if your intent is to increase lucid dream chances and recall.

I smoke weed on a nightly basis, before I go to bed, and my dream recall suffers from it, but it's just too big of a trade off to stop completely. This isn't to say I don't remember dreams anymore, just less because of it.

About weed making you lazy, this is a massive generalization. Lazy people are going to be lazy people. This isn't the marrijuana. Even when people say it is, it's mostly because they're looking for an easy explanation to rationalize their laziness.

I hear "Weed made me stupid" a lot too. Weed does not make you stupid. Most of the time, like before, they're just looking for something to blame. Because they are lazy, and put no effort into educating themselves, they look for things to blame instead of doing something about it, and then continue with their mindless activities and stop thinking about it.

Originally Posted by SpecialInterests

Out of personal experience I'd say smoking pot before bed isn't a good idea if your intent is to increase lucid dream chances and recall.

I smoke weed on a nightly basis, before I go to bed, and my dream recall suffers from it, but it's just too big of a trade off to stop completely. This isn't to say I don't remember dreams anymore, just less because of it.

About weed making you lazy, this is a massive generalization. Lazy people are going to be lazy people. This isn't the marrijuana. Even when people say it is, it's mostly because they're looking for an easy explanation to rationalize their laziness.

I hear "Weed made me stupid" a lot too. Weed does not make you stupid. Most of the time, like before, they're just looking for something to blame. Because they are lazy, and put no effort into educating themselves, they look for things to blame instead of doing something about it, and then continue with their mindless activities and stop thinking about it.

You really couldn't of expressed my opinion in a better way - I completely agree with you.

Smoking has never helped me to lucid dream...in fact quite the opposite. At times when I used to smoke often my recall would go down the drain and my lucidity was nonexistent.

I believe something like marijuana would not be beneficial for lucid dreaming. You need to be sharpening your mind and your awareness...not dulling it.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Smoking has never helped me to lucid dream...in fact quite the opposite. At times when I used to smoke often my recall would go down the drain and my lucidity was nonexistent.

I believe something like marijuana would not be beneficial for lucid dreaming. You need to be sharpening your mind and your awareness...not dulling it.

It's true, like states above, recall is the foundation of lucid dreaming and without it you have nothing. I would suggest mastering lucid dreaming and dream recall before attempting to experiement with the effects of marijuana on lucid dreaming.