I have/had a problem with smoking pot too often, but I started having more frequent periods of sobriety once I convinced myself that being stoned is just an extremely low level, cheap sample of lucid dreaming with negative side effects. For some reason that is far beyond my awareness, that understanding wasn't enough to keep me off a few month binge recently. However, something else I realized might be. Pot clouds my dreams and makes it harder to remember them. Dream recall is one thing that helps me have LD's because it keeps the idea of the dream world on my mind throughout the day, which helps me identify the dream world better when I am there. I always seem to have a lot more lucid dreams, and longer lasting ones, when I have gone a while without pot. Also, pot makes me so ridiculously lazy that I don't take the necessary disciplinary action during the hours before bed necessary to induce my LD's at night. I go to work sober, but after I come home, run, eat supper, and take care of whatever business, I fire up my bong and sit in front of the television going, "Uh, I'm on dope. Duuhhhh, I'm too lazy to move, and, huh, what was I saying?" That ridiculous lifestyle has been in the way of my progress. Has anybody else come across any of this?