r/leaves • u/DOGZRS1CK • 8d ago

When do the dreams chill out?

5 days cold turkey and struggling to sleep, but when I have been able to manage to get to sleep, I've been having the most intense nightmares of my life. Any idea when these will subside? It's making an already difficult time almost unbearable at this point Cheers

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u/BeneficialKoala2 7d ago

I suggest 1-2 months for me after like 8 years of daily smoking, but I still had occasionally crazy dreams and sleep paralysis (would be unable to sleep, try to force myself to sleep and then slip into hypnagogia when exhausted in the early AM) for at least 12 months after. I continued drinking and occasionally taking other psychoactive substances though, so it could have been that.

I think you’ll find that it will get better from here, certainly once you go more than a month without. I know it’s hard waking up and feeling like you went 12 rounds with Mike Tyson, but it will get better.