Too much of a good thing?

[fr33th3w33d]

first off, let me preface this by saying- to each his own.

with that said, i have come to a juncture in my journey with cannabis. i love getting high, i love smoking, rolling, baking.. what have you, ever since i started smoking back in highschool. but as my use and appreciation has increased, i have found myself high from pretty much the time i wake up to the time i go to bed, with maybe a few sober breaks inbetween. it doesn't interfere with my daily life or anything of that magnitude, except for the occasional "where the fuck are my keys" episode.. but lately, a certain guilt has emerged with an evergrowing prescence in my psyche.

basically, this guilt is based upon the idea that i am losing touch with what i know and have known as "reality". like i feel guilty for being delightfully high all day because sobriety has become the backup reality.

have i filled my belly with cookies and ruined my appetite?

i am not claiming addiction or anything, but i am wondering if this nagging has some basis to it.

the way i figure it i dont really get high anymore anyway, so i am going to take a well needed break to clear my head, drop my tolerance, let me wallet recoup, and get my fill of sobriety.

so what are your thoughts? too much of a good thing? or is there no such thing as too much?

 

[Guest]

im right with you
i've taken 2-3 month breaks for exactly the same reasons. Sometimes sobriety really is a great alternative to being high all the time. To be honest, I only smoke on weekends and some weekdays right now, just because if i do it more often it becomes habit, and habit gets boring.

sometimes a good break is needed, for whatever reason it may be

 

[hunt4genetics]

I am on a little brake now from weed. It really helps. It is almost 2 months, my tolerance has dropped which is a good thing. I am a fan of the break. In the past I took two years off... when I came back shiiiiiznit!


peace

 

[HeadyPete]

My fave part about getting high is the "getting high", the rush up to that point of stoned. To go from on the ground sober up to stoned is really a thrill.

I found that if I was high all day then I wasn't getting that rush and it all sorta blurred into one big buzz with no up or down.

For that reason I lay off when I can, usually not smoking in the day to wait for the evening after dinner, get on the couch and enjoy the high.

Works for me.

 

[Humanure]

as with any substance,
you've got to know when to take a break

its easy for me to kill off a quarter z of my weed every day,
but the tolerance that builds up needs to be broken every so often
..to make if enjoyable again.

moderation is key!

 

[Sheriff Bart]

moderation is key!

oh but what is this so elusive "moderation"?
i can never seem to find it

hmmm..

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm


i need to take a break too....maybe....

 

[Smurf]

So true!!

Have done it in the past... raged continuously all day, sunrise to sunset but just don't seem to appreciate it.

As for now....nothing before or during a working day for me,, I wait till the end of the day (after work) and then sink a couple of cones with a bourbon, awesome way to end a day!,,, but then each to his own.

 

[Guest]

I think picking your moments to get blazed carefully is much more fun than being buzzed all the time. It also helps to stay in controll of your life doing it that way. Take care of your important business first......then party.
However, some boring/mindless tasks, like mowing the lawn & raking leaves just seem to go by quicker when baked (just make sure you wear shoes & don't mow off a toe).


Bh

 

[Guest]

moderation in all things...including moderation.

that means breaks are good. and so is going into all out party mode. but probably mostly just using it moderately in between..

i think this is a great way to use the herb

 

[Sheriff Bart]

well, sobriety here we come!

1/2 my choice, 1/2 im poor, 1/2 its drying up......


you heard me....

wish me luck!

 

[begeesterdechol]

well, sobriety here we come!

1/2 my choice, 1/2 im poor, 1/2 its drying up......


you heard me....

wish me luck!

Same Here! Sobriety sucks those first days.

 

[Tarkus]

Just went through my first week of sobriety since I started smoking, 10 years ago. Ain't too bad, just a tad bored.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

Ain't too bad, just a tad bored

yea im making a list of all the shit i can get done now! esp like wakin up at 8am or soemthing and putting in a full days work...time to make some mula maybe...then really celebrate the unsobering...

thank god for melatonin in a pill though. i cant ever (well eventually i'll pass out of exhaustion) get to sleep w/out the mj but melatonin def helps. now i will also have time to try out some smoke blends i am putting together, hope i jsut dont start using the O daily now...that would be a real prob...maybe we should start a sobriety thread/support group.,...

 

[Tarkus]

I do have a lot more dreams now that I am not smoking, they also make less sense than ever. They used to be a bit odd at times, but now they are down right strange. To the point that it wakes me up thinking "What the hell was that about??"

 

[killa-bud]

^ i hate that,if i don't smoke before bed,i get the most fucked up dreams,and really vivid

 

[Sheriff Bart]

yea that was one of the only effects i didnt like about pot, no dream recall (or very little if any, sometimes, but rarely) so now i am expecting some good dreams. gunna take my melatonin tonight along with some Calea zacatechichi herb and see what happens...i love dreaming, except the ones that seem so real you wake up to find you arent making out with a beautiful women and are completely alone, those make me depressed....

 

[Pixelante]

I'm currently quite sober, but it's not by choice. It turns out that the big bust in my town the other day (there's a post on it somewhere on this board) is where my guy got his stuff. Sooooooo...I'm boned indefinitely.

I do like a break for a week or two every once in a while. I use it as my opportunity to get shit done that I otherwise don't do while blazing, like cleaning my apartment back to it's normal pristine condition. I also use the time to eat more healthy and work out.

As for dreams go, I have pretty vivid dreams if I hit the sack while stoned, but usually only for the first few nights.

If you guys want some really wild dreams, take 2 benadryl about an hour or so before you go to sleep (this works if you're stoned or not). If you don't take it regularly, it gives you crazy dreams for like a week.

...i love dreaming, except the ones that seem so real you wake up to find you arent making out with a beautiful women and are completely alone, those make me depressed....

SLEEP DAMN YOU! SLEEP!

 

[Tarkus]

I always have dreams, and they are always extremely vivid...I also remember at least 3 or 4 from every night. I wake up and go through my dreams, thinking they might mean something...but nah. I should really keep a dream catalog, as I have a better dream memory than almost anyone I have ever met.
But when I don't smoke, boy howdy are they strange ones. I had a dream about the captain planet kids, and it woke me up. For the life of me I could never remember the African kids name (the Earth ring), and I remembered it in my dream so vividly it woke me up. Kwami. It has been bugging me for a while now, and I didn't want to google it because I knew I remembered somewhere in my subconscious. What do you know, out it came in sober sleep.
I also have more recurring dreams when I am stoned. One of them had been going on for years and years, but I have not had it come back in a while. I am walking through a really run down house, looks like it had been in a bad fire years and years ago. Grass growing through the foundation, mostly just the frame now. For years I kept walking through it, only to get a little further, maybe investigate a new room, and then I would wake up. Eventually I made it outside, to find a motorcycle. I hop on the bike and ride through a meadow of really tall grass. I guess that is the end, because I only got to the bike twice and I haven't dreamed it since. Never had it unless I went to bed gone.
I have many recurring dreams, and I always get a little further, a little further. Used to kinda spook me, now I just run with em.
Do ya'll dream in color??

 

[Sheriff Bart]

color, sound, pain, tripping. now that was something, i ate some mushrooms in a dream once, and well i tripped! woke up sober but that dream got real crazy....

i used to have many reoccuring dreams as a child. also those were much much more lucid...man i think i might just take like 12mg melatonin right now and get knocked out for the night before the time that i usually toke comes up....

 

[fr33th3w33d]

melatonin is horrible dude. stop using it right now if you wish to ever have a restful nights sleep without it again. seriously.

anyway, i dont think ill take a full out break, ill just save tokin for the right time.

continue on with your discussions of dreams or whatever the hell happened here.