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.

Yeah but poor quality sleep is still better than no sleep at all.

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.

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.

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!

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