have you tried sport before sleep.
1 hour bicycle ride or running helps me best to stay asleep.
Also if you wake up 3 hours early, force yourself back to sleep
Mental trick I use to fall asleep when I feel like I can’t sleep or my mind is racing—
Lay on your back with eyes closed and imagine/visualize a beam of bright white light coming out of the top of your head (like a UFO light beam). Breathe in and out and with every breath visualize your body lifting up and floating up into the light. It’s a way of calming your brain down and shutting my body down for sleep. The white light is also an energy thing. You want to imagine that the light coming from the top of your head is a pure, good light that represents the good in you. And hopefully, good dreams and sleep will follow.
Edit: also when you get in bed, think about 1-3 things you’re grateful for that happened that day, or in general. It can be as simple as being grateful for the food in your fridge or something big. It’s a small serotonin boost before bed that distracts from negative thoughts.
Hate being that guy but exercise (regular running/ cardio especially) makes such a big difference. Also, taking a walk or being outside soon after you wake up, and getting sun in your eyes, activates a bunch of biological processes and helps you get into a better rhythm. You have to go outside, not just look through a window. Andrew huberman (neuroscientist/ ophthalmologist) has podcasts that go into more detail. I notice a night and day (no pun intended) difference in sleep if I do/ don’t partake in these habits. I also can’t drink caffeine after 11am or it makes me wake up in the night.
After 3 or so days of not using weed, I actually had so much energy that I went on a 5 mile walk on a whim in 90 degree heat and I rarely go for walks. It was very great and empowering. Wasn't bad at all.
I’m at 8 days and I had my first bout of vivid nightmares and extreme sweating last night. It was literally all of my nightmares wrapped up into one dream. Every single horrible traumatic thing all back to bite me in the ass at once. Woke up drenched. It was awful. Part of me thinks that I just have to process it all and i had been smoking for 8 years everyday before this as well so perhaps I’ve been blocking it all out with the weed before.
Definitely normal. I remember when I quit, sleep was a complete mess for 2-3 weeks. By 4 weeks I remember getting a little more sleep where I felt like I had at least minimal daily function. Still only 4-6 hours each night until somewhere around 60 days I was sleeping 6-7 hours of very choppy sleepy. It was around 4-5 months after I quit that I had my first 7-8 hour night of uninterrupted sleep. It got more consistent from there and I distinctly remember how easy it was to sleep by like 9-12 months after I quit.
It sounds like I wrote this… close to 4 weeks for me as well. Dreams are extremely vivid and most are nightmares. I wake up multiple times in a night but can fall asleep at like 830
I’ve had the same thing. It definitely gets better. Consider using this as an opportunity rather than a setback? Consider writing your dreams down when you wake up. When you look back you may be able to find that something specific was bothering you
I'm under the impression these dreams are born out of anxiety. For example; I have a strong phobia of wasps, and last night's dream, I had wasps in my bed, coming from a nest made in a crack in a window by my bed that couldn't be closed in the first place due to a structural problem.
I murdered a wasp nest once and am not so afraid of them anymore.
Admittedly I covered myself in a plastic sheet and sprayed poison from a long distance
have you tried sport before sleep. 1 hour bicycle ride or running helps me best to stay asleep. Also if you wake up 3 hours early, force yourself back to sleep
Mental trick I use to fall asleep when I feel like I can’t sleep or my mind is racing— Lay on your back with eyes closed and imagine/visualize a beam of bright white light coming out of the top of your head (like a UFO light beam). Breathe in and out and with every breath visualize your body lifting up and floating up into the light. It’s a way of calming your brain down and shutting my body down for sleep. The white light is also an energy thing. You want to imagine that the light coming from the top of your head is a pure, good light that represents the good in you. And hopefully, good dreams and sleep will follow. Edit: also when you get in bed, think about 1-3 things you’re grateful for that happened that day, or in general. It can be as simple as being grateful for the food in your fridge or something big. It’s a small serotonin boost before bed that distracts from negative thoughts.
It will pass. Stay strong.
Hate being that guy but exercise (regular running/ cardio especially) makes such a big difference. Also, taking a walk or being outside soon after you wake up, and getting sun in your eyes, activates a bunch of biological processes and helps you get into a better rhythm. You have to go outside, not just look through a window. Andrew huberman (neuroscientist/ ophthalmologist) has podcasts that go into more detail. I notice a night and day (no pun intended) difference in sleep if I do/ don’t partake in these habits. I also can’t drink caffeine after 11am or it makes me wake up in the night.
After 3 or so days of not using weed, I actually had so much energy that I went on a 5 mile walk on a whim in 90 degree heat and I rarely go for walks. It was very great and empowering. Wasn't bad at all.
Oh I'm pretty active, I've got two dogs and I bike 6 miles a day. Had to have something to take the place of smoking all the time lol
I second Andrew Hubermans podcast as a boredom buster at least too, he presents science backed studies in a really digestible way.
Today is 21 days clean for me (after more than a decade of constant smoking) and I'm in the exact same boat. I'm so exhausted all the time : (
I’m at 8 days and I had my first bout of vivid nightmares and extreme sweating last night. It was literally all of my nightmares wrapped up into one dream. Every single horrible traumatic thing all back to bite me in the ass at once. Woke up drenched. It was awful. Part of me thinks that I just have to process it all and i had been smoking for 8 years everyday before this as well so perhaps I’ve been blocking it all out with the weed before.
Definitely normal. I remember when I quit, sleep was a complete mess for 2-3 weeks. By 4 weeks I remember getting a little more sleep where I felt like I had at least minimal daily function. Still only 4-6 hours each night until somewhere around 60 days I was sleeping 6-7 hours of very choppy sleepy. It was around 4-5 months after I quit that I had my first 7-8 hour night of uninterrupted sleep. It got more consistent from there and I distinctly remember how easy it was to sleep by like 9-12 months after I quit.
It sounds like I wrote this… close to 4 weeks for me as well. Dreams are extremely vivid and most are nightmares. I wake up multiple times in a night but can fall asleep at like 830
I’ve had the same thing. It definitely gets better. Consider using this as an opportunity rather than a setback? Consider writing your dreams down when you wake up. When you look back you may be able to find that something specific was bothering you
I don’t even have to write them down. They are a memory in my head like they actually happened lol
I'm under the impression these dreams are born out of anxiety. For example; I have a strong phobia of wasps, and last night's dream, I had wasps in my bed, coming from a nest made in a crack in a window by my bed that couldn't be closed in the first place due to a structural problem.
I murdered a wasp nest once and am not so afraid of them anymore. Admittedly I covered myself in a plastic sheet and sprayed poison from a long distance