I'm starting to remember my dreams on days i smoke weed
They say that smoking cannabis causes you to forget your dreams or to dream less. Well I started smoking regularly around September of 2012. The first thing I noticed when I started smoking daily is that while getting high, out of nowhere I would remember my dream from the night before. Something would just trigger it and I would remember part of a dream that I had completely forgotten after waking up. I thought that was pretty cool. That only happened for about a month.
Usually I don't remember dreams on nights I smoke, but recently I have been. I went to sleep about 3 hours after I smoked last night, and I remember one of my dreams pretty well. Could my sensory/short term memory be getting a little better with my prolonged usage? That would be amazing because that's the only negative effect of cannabis for me. That and not always being to articulate my words correctly. It seems like weed makes it harder for me to talk when most people don't have that problem. It makes me jealous and I usually smoke alone. Now I'm not a junkie, if I'm with friends I won't smoke, unless their stoners too. Anyway, what I'm asking is this: Is it normal to still remember dreams pretty vividly on days you smoke? Maybe if I smoked right before I went to sleep I wouldn't remember, but I rarely do this.
Anyway, on nights I smoke, I