RESPONSE TO IBRAHIM'S INTERVIEW: MARIJUANAS EFFECT ON LUCID DREAMING

In Ibrahim's interview, he mentioned that once he began to smoke more, he could no longer dream

lucidly. After thinking about what he had said, it came to attention that this could either be due to the fact

 that he just did not remember his lucid dreams or that the marijuana actually had an effect on his

dreaming abilities.

After reading many posts on other blogs in regards to

marijuanas effect on lucid dreaming, I found that

marijuana actually does have an affect on your

sleeping patterns. In 1975, an experiment was

conducted on the effects of THC on REM sleep

patterns. It was found that "administration of

 THC significantly reduced eye movement activity

 during sleep with REM and, to a lesser extent, the

duration of REM sleep itself" (Effects of high dosage delta-9-

tetrahydrocannabinol on sleep patterns in man).



From the information found by Feinberg in the 1975 experiment, it can be seen how smoking marijuana

alters ones ability to stay in REM sleep for enough time to complete a lucid dream. Not only does THC

affect ones REM sleep, but one can assume that it also affects the ability to recollect what was even

dreamt about, whether lucid dreaming occurred or not. The only other question this brings up in regards

to the initial research question is whether lucid dreaming had some impact on the urge to smoke more

marijuana. Ibrahim stated in his interview that he did not stop dreaming lucidly until after he started to

smoke. Unfortunately, I was not able to find any correlation between lucid dreaming and the motivation

to smoke, but the question is still debatable.