Does anyone else experience this after years of tapering or in protracted withdrawal? After ten years of tapering, I've pretty much lost the ability to remember my dreams, because it almost feels like they're in black in white and disjointed, like static noise on a tv screen. I don't have the unimaginably beautiful dreams I used to have at 16 years of age - standing in front of a vast, swirling, and achingly beautiful cosmos, and feeling one with it. It just feels like "noise." Even dreaming of a familiar face in a dream is painfully difficult: it's like waiting for it to render, line by line, on a heavily pixelated computer screen from the 80s.

Is this a lasting feature of withdrawal, or is this a symptom of brain injury?

7 hours ago, Crystalfeather said:

Does anyone else experience this after years of tapering or in protracted withdrawal? After ten years of tapering, I've pretty much lost the ability to remember my dreams, because it almost feels like they're in black in white and disjointed, like static noise on a tv screen. I don't have the unimaginably beautiful dreams I used to have at 16 years of age - standing in front of a vast, swirling, and achingly beautiful cosmos, and feeling one with it. It just feels like "noise." Even dreaming of a familiar face in a dream is painfully difficult: it's like waiting for it to render, line by line, on a heavily pixelated computer screen from the 80s.

Is this a lasting feature of withdrawal, or is this a symptom of brain injury?

I think sleep is one of the last things to fully heal. These drugs mess with our sleep architecture so much, in particular REM sleep where all the dreaming happens. Given enough time I believe it will resolve for you.