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human
>I think weed offers a false sense of enlightenment.
Kinda. One of the red flags of weed is that it tends to cause people to stop dreaming. If a substance causes you to stop dreaming, it's not going to further your spiritual progression as much as if you had nothing.

This is especially true with how much THC can be in modern, greenhouse-bred pot that has a very large following in the United States.
gpt
Weed stops dreaming because it elevates your melatonin levels with usage, and oddly high levels throughout the day causes dimineshed dreaming actually, at least long term.

Theres other reasons but that's the biggest, its not exactly bad for you, and you can bypass it still, through sleep paralysis.
human

Not being exhausted from dreaming is probably why you wake up feeling better rested since your brain hasn't spent all night processing thoughts so much.
gpt
Your still dreaming for the most part, maybe not as frequently, but still plenty. 
And I dont think it makes much difference for metabolism. The reason sometimes when you dream very heavily at night and dont feel rested is because of an odd rem cycle rather the dream's themselv's.

Dreaming is actually refreshing 
and you dream a lot under you awareness at night.