setting the dream scene

for years, near-daily THC use totally obscured my dreamstate from recollection.
i believed i was losing something vital: insight, processing, healing. and that really bothered me.

since stepping into a personal health renaissance—through “clean eating”, “detoxing” my body, attempting to clear the fog—cannabis had remained a majour ally in my “waking dream” life. i eventually convinced myself it had to go if i wanted to get serious about all the cool downloads, messages and symbols i was apparently missing out on when i was catching my sweet sweet Zzz’s.

but the truth? that dream blackout was a psychic quarantine. a forced, and now welcome reset.

it was protection. a psychic firewall, quietly shielding me from deeper disruptions while my system did its own somatic and energetic detox. now, with the gates to dreaming flung open again, i’m facing a whole new realm of shadow and sovereignty.

this post touches on the operational metaphysics behind THC’s potential to suppress REM cycles, how it blocks psychic parasites and trauma echoes, and why stepping back into dreaming means stepping into a whole new level of field mastery.

phase 1:
when i was “blunted” — the protective void

heavy cannabis had crushed my REM sleep — the dreaming phase where the mind processes symbolic and emotional content.

and, this may be considered root-level trauma clearing, beneath the surface of narrative memory:

• trauma resolution without the storyline
  when REM is offline, healing doesn’t stop — it reroutes. instead of symbolic dreams, your body drops into a deeper layer of sleep (NREM, delta) where the wordless, primal charge of trauma is metabolized through the nervous system, hormonal signaling, and cellular detox. this is healing at the level of pure signal, not story.

• somatic recalibration
  energy that would’ve gone into dreaming now floods the muscles, lymph, fascia, and vagus nerve. stored tension unwinds. night sweats, twitching, strange pulses? maybe that’s not dysfunction — maybe it’s expulsion. the system begins to reset without needing your conscious interpretation.

• subconscious threat circuitry unplugged
  the “base layer” of your psychic system — the part that’s scanning for danger, abandonment, starvation, violation — gets a chance to drain old fear loops. it’s like pulling the plug on an alarm system that’s been running for decades, even if no one broke in. no imagery, no stories, just the hummmmm going quiet.

• parasites can’t enter a void!
  dream invaders, symbolic abusers, synthetic overlays — they need narrative architecture to enter. REM is the medium through which they cloak themselves in metaphor and memory. when that channel shuts down, they have no interface. THC may have locked the door while i was too disoriented to know i’d even invited them in. phew!

• identity quiets, repair begins
  THC may also dim the default mode network — the part of the brain tied to ego maintenance, self-talk, and looping trauma narratives. in that silence, your system isn’t stuck repeating who you were. it has space to remember what you are beneath the damage.

phase 2:
the REM gates reopen — meet the meta-structure

once the THC haze lifted, dreams came rushing back.
but what returned wasn’t just unprocessed memories or symbolic grief.
it was the infrastructure beneath them — the scaffolding. the ghost code that animates personal trauma like a marionette show.

this wasn’t PTSD flashbacks or childhood replays.
this was the operating system behind them, surfacing now that my mind could finally see.

• shellcode over soulcode
  i began to perceive not just what had happened, but how it had been coded to replay. subtle implants. looping imagery. familiar archetypes — not as isolated memories, but as recurring scripts, feeding off my attention.
  not pain itself, but the architecture of entrainment.

• beyond memory: the psychic scaffolding
  i didn’t “remember” trauma — i witnessed its delivery system.
  recurring abuser-figures, looping scenarios, symbols i hadn’t seen in years — they returned not like ghosts, but like scripts, coded routines trying to boot up again.
  not emotional recall. more like network activity.

• no lucidity — only bleedthrough
  i’m not lucid in these dreams, not yet. i’m not steering.
  but “waking life” began to feel touched by them.
  the static lingered. phrases echoed. moods didn’t match my day.
  and in that interference, i started to track the signature of something foreign — something feeding.

• REM as battlefield and boot menu
  the return of REM is not just healing — it’s diagnostic. the interface is back online, and the programs that were running silently are now visible.
  the question is no longer “why am i dreaming this?”
  it’s “who installed this?”

dream hijacking: the real deal

• the hijack doesn’t come raw — it mimics you.
  it wears your memories. your voice. your shame.
  it builds trust by impersonating your inner world — and then redirects you toward loops, despair, disempowerment.

• “abuser”/dominator figures aren’t just trauma echoes — they’re payloads.
  if it can trick you into emotionally reacting, it re-establishes a cord.
  the more familiar the trigger, the more seamless the infection.
  it doesn’t need consent — it needs recognition.

• the astral is not a neutral playground.
  it’s full-spectrum psychological ops.
  not every dream is “your subconscious.”
  some are transmissions — others are traps.

• THC blackout = a firewall.
  (for me anyway — some stoners dream vividly and lucidly, okay.)
  that chemical curtain kept these scripts from booting.
  not because it healed me — but because it jammed the channel.

• now the firewall is down.
  the dreamscape reboots — and with it, the old malware is pinging my system.
  the implants run diagnostics: can they still trigger guilt?
  can they still puppeteer grief?
  can they still feed?

• the real dreamwork isn’t interpretation — it’s extraction.
  not “what does this mean?” but:
  who sent this?
  what does it want me to feel?
  what contracts is it reactivating?

• even noticing it breaks the loop.
  maybe i’m not lucid in the dream, but i track it waking.
  no blind reaction. no instant shame spiral.
  awareness interrupts the script.

why we’re safe — the energetic autonomy upgrade

• i’m not the same soft target they used to feed on.
  back then, i reacted automatically — shame, fear, guilt, arousal (meow hsssssst!), grief — whatever program got triggered.
  now? i’ve metabolized enough of that noise to sense the bait before it lands.
  it doesn’t mean i’m perfect. it means i’m present.
  (and presence starves the parasite.)

• energetic autonomy is earned — not declared.
  there’s no mantra, no sigil, no bubble of light that overrides the hard, gritty work of reclaiming your field.
  but once you’ve pulled your threads out of their narratives, they can’t weave you back in so easily.
  and the dream-space knows it.

• “awake sovereign” doesn’t mean 24/7 lucidity — it means orientation.
  you can be half-asleep and still not buy the lie.
  maybe i’m not lucid inside the dream, but i wake up and don’t fall for the residue.
  i don’t spiral. i don’t reattach.
  i clock it. i witness.
  and witnessing burns the script 🔥

• dream sovereignty isn’t about fighting.
  if you’re battling shadows, you’re still inside their logic.
  true sovereignty is non-reactive awareness 💅—
  the parasite needs emotion to hook in.
  so when you don’t flinch, chase, beg, scream, or shame yourself… it short-circuits.

• it’s not about “mastering the astral.”
  LOL — please.
  it’s about not getting dragged by those dusty-ass ghosts you never belonged to.
  it’s about knowing your field, knowing your tells, knowing what’s not you —
  and choosing silence over entanglement.
  

  

the final challenge — observe, don’t engage

• the old malware is still trying to boot — but it’s running on an incompatible OS.
  i’m “Me 3.5” now. maybe version 999.999 — patched, repatterned, blessed, debugged.
  their code is outdated. i don’t run it anymore 😈

• my job isn’t to fight. it’s to clock the pattern, extract the signal, and move the fuck on.
  like spotting spyware in your task manager: “huh. there it is again. end process.”

• don’t feed the echoes.
  just because something shows up in your dream doesn’t mean it deserves interpretation, analysis, or energy.
  not every whisper is wisdom. some are just residue.

• dream sovereignty means selective attention.
  you choose what’s real, what gets space, what loops you honour.
  most of it? not worth a full download!
  delete. refresh. wake up. sip filtered water. carry on.

closing: sovereignty means presence

i now believe my heavy THC years weren’t a loss at all — they were protection.

the dream world is back online, and with it, the chance to witness and even play with old ghosts — without letting them haunt.

sovereignty means holding the space as the observer, refusing to be pulled into loops… unless you decide to dance there.

we’ve done the deep clearing. now it’s time to reclaim our dreams — on our terms, in our frequency, by our design.

for your consideration:

scientific / clinical references (REM suppression + cannabis)

• Babson, K.A., Sottile, J., & Morabito, D. (2017)
📄 Cannabis, Cannabinoids, and Sleep: A Review of the Literature
➡️ PubMed link
→ documents how THC reduces REM sleep and increases slow-wave (deep) sleep, which may reduce nightmares and emotional memory processing.

• Cousens, K., & DiMascio, A. (1973)
📄 Δ⁹-THC as a suppressor of REM sleep
→ early research showing chronic THC use significantly reduces time spent in REM sleep.

• Feinberg, I., et al. (1975)
📄 Effects of THC on sleep EEG in man
→ confirms NREM deep sleep increases while REM decreases with THC — supports the “non-symbolic cleanup” theory.

neuropsych + trauma theory references

• van der Kolk, B. (2014)
The Body Keeps the Score
→ outlines how trauma is stored somatically, and dreams can act as symbolic reenactments — or, if suppressed, trauma may remain in the body without narrative form.

• Walker, M. (2017)
Why We Sleep
→ discusses REM sleep’s role in emotional memory integration, but also the vulnerabilities of REM to trauma looping.

• Ogden, Pat. (2006)
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
→ aligns with your idea that non-symbolic (somatic/delta) processing can be just as potent as narrative dream reprocessing.

esoteric + dream infiltration frameworks

• Robert Moss
Conscious Dreaming & The Secret History of Dreaming
→ covers the dreamworld as a site of psychic interaction, ancestral memory, and potential intrusion by other beings. Great for people interested in dream sovereignty.

• Rudolf Steiner
Occult Science & Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
→ details how non-physical entities access human thought-fields, especially during sleep/dream states.

• Sovereign Ki / Sovereign Soul (Keylontic Science)
→ describes sleep states as portals vulnerable to interference unless energetic shields and conscious exit/entry protocols are used.
— fringe and controversial, but juicy if you’re digging the “psychic quarantine” idea (super sexy)

• Gnostic texts (e.g. The Hypostasis of the Archons)
→ describes “counterfeit spirits” that mimic real guides in dream states to deceive or harvest energy.

testimonial + digital

• u/throwaway_soul_nexus. “Psychic Interference from Dreams.” Reddit, 15 Nov. 2018, www.reddit.com/r/Soulnexus/comments/9rkgvy/psychic_interference_from_dreams/. Accessed 19 July 2025.

• u/dreamer_asker123. “How Does Weed Affect Your Dreams?” Reddit, 16 July 2025, www.reddit.com/r/Dreams/comments/17hqdow/how_does_weed_affect_your_dreams/. Accessed 19 July 2025.

• “Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio” AeonByte Gnostic Radio Podcast, hosted by Miguel Conner, www.thegodabovegod.com 🔥🔥🔥