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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
Yeah but poor quality sleep is still better than no sleep at all.
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
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.
Well duh but it’s a damn close estimate.
It can maybe detect sleep paralysis or other things that indicate this is REM
They are better than having no data. It does measure a ton of info related to heart and temperature which are decent indicators.
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.
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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