---
title: "CBD Seems to Be Giving People Bizarre Nightmares"
description: "In recent CBD news, researchers investigate CBD sleep. Studies reveal a potential link between the cannabis compound and CBD nightmares."
date: "2019-06-18"
modified: "2019-06-26"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/cbd-giving-people-bizarre-nightmares"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
tags:
  - "cannabis"
  - "cbd"
  - "dreams"
  - "nightmares"
  - "the digest"
---

# CBD Seems to Be Giving People Bizarre Nightmares

![An investigation into the potential link between CBD and nightmares confirms that researchers still aren't sure what the cannabis compound can do.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cbd-giving-people-bizarre-nightmares.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Rough Night

Cannabidiol, better known as CBD, gave Yasmin Tayag terrible nightmares. Or maybe it didn't.

The cannabis compound that doesn't get you high is [seemingly everywhere](<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/well/live/cbd-cannabidiol-marijuana-medical-treatment-therapy.html>) right now, so when Tayag received some CBD oil as a gift, she didn't see the harm in smearing it on her forehead before bed, according to a [story](<https://www.inverse.com/article/56802-cbd-weird-dreams>) she penned for *Inverse*.

When the hellish nightmares started, the CBD was the only thing she could think to blame — but her subsequent investigation revealed that, despite its growing ubiquity, no one seems to *really* know what CBD does.

## Conflicting Reports

The logic behind Tayag's suspicion that the CBD oil caused her nightmares is sound — after all, the dreams started when she started using the oil, and stopped when she stopped.

She even found others online who [shared her experience](<https://www.reddit.com/r/CBD/comments/7rkv8m/anyone_else_noticing_hugely_enhanced_dream_recall/>). But then she also found people who said the compound [prevented](<https://www.reddit.com/r/CBD/comments/7rkv8m/anyone_else_noticing_hugely_enhanced_dream_recall/dsxoaeq/>) them from having dreams, and others who claimed it gave them [vivid dreams that weren't scary](<https://www.reddit.com/r/CBD/comments/7rkv8m/anyone_else_noticing_hugely_enhanced_dream_recall/dxrw5cu/>).

And the science on CBD's effect on sleep was about as contradictory as the anecdotal evidence, as Tayag would learn from the [published research](<https://futurism.com/marijuana-scientific-research-weak>) and her conversations with both cannabis and sleep experts.

## Jury's Out

Ultimately, Tayag was left with little choice but to accept that her suspicion about a link between the oil and her nightmares would remain unconfirmed — another indication that our best understanding of CBD [remains thin](<https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cbd-product-boom-science-research-hemp-marijuana>).

"And considering the [gray legal area in which CBD currently exists](<https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006473>)," she wrote, "it may be some time before its effects on sleep, dreams, and everything else it’s purported to touch can be distilled into a science."

**READ MORE:** [CBD Did Something to My Dreams, but Even Scientists Don’t Know What](<https://www.inverse.com/article/56802-cbd-weird-dreams>) \[*Inverse*\]

**More on cannabidiol:** *[Pot Used for Scientific Research Is Pretty Weak](<https://futurism.com/marijuana-scientific-research-weak>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)