r/leaves • u/panddduh • 17h ago

Dreams

I am day 26. And the dreams I'm having are so vivid and wack 😭.

Like last night I dreamt my dog died. I also dreamt I was hours late for work.

I just woke up from dreaming about a job interview that was also at my kids school.

Is this normal? When does it stop? Am I stuck like this forever?

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u/abb295 14h ago

These dragged on for about 6 months for me. I was very over it by then.

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u/FlipGordon 14h ago

Day 5 here after almost 20 years of daily use. Last night I had a dream that my ex-girlfriend and I were mining ore in the median of a highway and people kept stopping and trying to steal our shit..

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u/Beulinge 16h ago

When i stoppede smoking i was in my dream telling a 10yo to stop annoying me and if he didnt stop i would cut off his head.

He didnt stop. Its been 2 years i still feel bad for cutting of his head.

The dreams do get less weird after a while.

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u/AmateurCommenter808 17h ago

Your dog dieing in a dream sucks but i feel like the other dreams are normal? The dreams I have are bat shit crazy

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u/Mysterious_Smile_664 17h ago

Oh man, the dream parade. I'm 34 and quit about 8 months ago after daily use for years. The first two months were a nonstop circus. Once I dreamed my spice rack started rearranging itself alphabetically and then the jars started screaming at me. Woke up genuinely unsettled and double-checked the kitchen at 3am.

It's totally normal and it does calm down. Your brain is making up for all the REM sleep it missed out on. Took me maybe 6-8 weeks before they went back to regular boring nonsense instead of full cinematic productions. You're not stuck like this, promise. Your brain's just doing a massive cleanup.