I took a potcation

13 days with no marijuana. I know it doesn’t seem like a lot to many people, but I’m a multiple times every day smoker.

A few things about it. First, the reason I did it is because a couple years ago, I heard you get crazy nightmares and dreams when you quit for 3 days. I’ve been trying to put 3 days in ever since and I had only gotten as far as 2 days maybe 5 times in those 2 years.

Second, I didn’t get any nightmares, but the dreams were CRAZY! Really, really vivid. And long. Like, plot driven type long. Different locations and multiple characters. I dreamed about a lot of comedians. And I dreamt about sex a few times.

The craziest 2 dreams involved me in some sort of Avatar-like version of the rainforest in Brazil. The crazy part was that the forest was full of predators that could do me bodily harm or kill me, but it was also full of psychedelic mushrooms, with spores that would fill the air and make you hallucinate. Hallucinations in the middle of a dream are something I’ve never had before. It was scary and amazing at the same time.

The other craziest one was a dream that I was a horse. I’d race other horses, I’d get chased by some evil horses. And I had a crush on a local neighborhood chick horse. Very strange. And it went on and on for days.

I’d wake up from all of these dreams with very clear memories of all the details. And they wouldn’t fade until days later.

In terms of withdrawal symptoms, I had none, save for the dreams. No moodiness, no trouble sleeping, no shaking, not even any coughing.

After I got to 3 days, I heard from somebody on Twitter that days 4-8 were really fun dreams, so I kept going. I figured it’d give me a higher tolerance to take a little break and I wanted to see how long the dreams lasted.

I made it to 13 days and then finally smoked some pot yesterday with a young lady. It hit me REALLY hard. We’ll see how long my tolerance stays up after only 2 weeks off the junk. My guess is it’ll be back to barely anything within a week.

That’s it. Just a little update in case you were thinking about quitting or were wondering what it’s like for heavy users to try and go off pot. No problems at all. The hardest part was not smoking when people offered but it was quite easy not doing it even when I looked at my pot stash at home. And once I had 4 or 5 days, I just told myself that I wanted to have a really fun time getting obliterated next time I tried it, so I wanted to save it for a nice occasion.