Woke up feeling uplifted in 4 years don’t know how to feel
So it’s been 6 days without weed and I think this has been the longest I’ve been without weed in the entire time I’ve spent smoking over the past 4 years. I think the other time was back in 2021 when I went to Mexico for a week but that was 5 days i believe it was also right when I started to smoke but I was still craving it back then. But basically every few days or so during the 4 years of me basically being under the sedation of weed I would get very small short glimpses and brief feelings of a certain nostalgia for when my life felt calm and relaxed and not constantly in search for a fix. I’m not sure how exactly explain it because it was very brief short feelings like maybe the sky was hitting a certain way that I remember from when I was a kid on thanksgiving break with my family or really any time before my addiction. But that feeling was like a longing and it would only last for a short amount of time like literally 3-5 minutes and then I’d go back into my regular state of mind while being high and searching for the next fix basically feeling numb again. I’ve always wanted to get back to what life felt like without needing weed to make it feel good and I never thought I’d get there. It’s only been 6 days but for some reason after my sleep last night I had an extremely vivid dream and immediately when i woke up I got that hit of nostalgia. However this time it’s lasting a lot longer. The thing is it could just be the way the sky is hitting and and the coolness of the fall weather coming in but I’m tying it all together but I could be wrong. Like the nostalgia of before I ever picked up weed and would be done with a soccer game as a kid in the fall and then going home and playing Xbox or hanging out with a friend or it might’ve just been because I was sober and wasn’t addicted to anything constantly craving it. Maybe it was because my dopamine baseline was high back then. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself for thinking this way right now as it’s only been 6 days without smoking. I don’t know how to explain this feeling but after that super vivid dream I had and possibly due to me getting more rem sleep even though I’m only getting 6-7 hours of sleep I feel it has a slight affect on my overall mood. I just don’t know and don’t want to get ahead of myself.
Posted Oct 28, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC