Lucid Dreaming due to cannabis withdrawal
Hello, I quit cannabis 6 and a half weeks ago, completely cold turkey after 20 years of daily heavy use. I have had zero symptoms aside from my sleep. I have been having increasingly intense vivid and lucid dreams, not every night but every couple of times I fall asleep. It's not just the horrible weird dreams that are tripping and stressing me out, although I now wonder whether I should have bothered quitting if this is the horrible experience I'm having to live through without it. It's the lack of sleep, constant exhaustion, and constant headaches I am suffering because of my disturbed and off the clock sleep schedule. I usually go to bed around 11pm/12am, and have a youtube video playing until I fall asleep around 1am or 2am, I generally do not feel tired enough before that time. I then wake up between 8am/10am every day, but by 5pm in the evening, I am exhausted to the point I cannot keep my eyes open and have to have a one to two hour 'nap'. For example, last night, I went to bed around 11.30pm, didn't fall asleep until around 1am, and then woke at 4.30am because of a very lucid frightening somewhat weird dream and couldn't get back to sleep until around 5.30am. I've spent all day knackered, and laid in my bed for the most part, not sleeping, but resting, and then I did eventually fall asleep at 6.30pm and slept until just now which was 10.30pm, and yet I am still absolutely exhausted. I have a massive headache which hasn't left me in days and I'm just wondering if this is all connected to these horrible lucid dreams? It is actually quite shocking to me that people CHOOSE to have these weird abnormal dreams, is it never something I would have wished for myself let alone anyone else, it's one of the most terrifying experiences I've ever had.