Hello Everyone. I have been lurking on the board for quite some time and would like to thank everyone for such an informative, troll free, community.

I look forward to learning as much as possible by reading back posts, before I indulge in asking questions.

My interests in this information were spurred by a dream that I had, where I had dreamt about smoking DMT, and was consequently inspired to give up my addictions to alcohol and various mind numbing pharmaceuticals that I have been prescribed by the same psych doctor for at least the past 15 years of my life. To think that just under half of my life has been spent in a state of living comatose has finally become an issue of concern.

I look forward to learning as much as possible, and once again, thank you for such a wonderful vortex of intellectuality.

Welcome ironhorse951, great intro essay! We do have a troll or two around here from time to time, not bad though. I had a similar dream several years ago. That dream turned into a desire to live a cleaner more wholesome life. Once upon a time I also was a person of many addictions. I must admit spice and shrooms played a big role in my road to sobriety.

Thanks for posting and sharing.

IH

Welcome to the Nexus ironhorse951! It sounds like you've had quite the inspiration. Please be careful in going off any medications, making sure to taper off from any that require it and having a trusted someone to give an objective perspective, in case deleterious moods overtake you.

Thank you for the warning about medication discontinuation. I have luckily been gifted with a large enough OCD component to research everything to death before I put it in my body or discontinue its' longterm use. Unfortunately, the latter is more an art, rather than half life science. Although I was prescribed an absurd level of habit forming and mood altering substance by one doctor, I would frequently ignore long term effects and worsening of symptoms in favor of more prescriptions. Through in a regular consumption of alcohol to potentiate the acclimated effects, and my life was literally a pharmaceutical soup from hell. My recent dream has brought this awareness to my psyche and now, I have a wonderfully different perspective now.

I have been one that has experienced insomnia since my earliest memory, and was always described as the most restless sleeper by the parental units. Coupled with anxiety from an early age, and many necessary surgeries in my teens and late surgeries, that resulted in some pretty severe nerve damage, I was ultimately waiting for addiction to the myriad of prescribed agents.

I had luckily stopped consuming all regularly prescribed medications, minus gabapentinoids, with help of a different doctor just over a year ago, but it was "for sobriety", rather than for myself, if that makes any sense.

It strikes me odd that my dreams have actually REDUCED my anxiety almost as much as prescribed anxiolytics, and have actually lifted my mood better than any antidepressant.