I’m a recovering opiate addict and also a big fan. Here’s the thing, if he wasn’t who he was, none of you would care at all, most wouldn’t anyways. And as addicts, we are very insecure about talking about our addictions, so we find other ways around the core reason we kept taking them (as artists anyways)- because they calmed down our over worked out of control emotions. Opiates specifically don’t just put you to sleep, they fill you with intense euphoria for hours, and it’s Heaven on earth, removes every possible bad thing for a while. If you watch the FULL clip, he explains that it was because he was struggling with the emotional turmoil that came from going on stage to thousands of screaming people to going back on the road, alone and unstable. He was also trying other drugs, smoking weed, coke, and whatever else he may have tried. I’m not saying this to down him, I love Matty and I empathize with him very strongly. But when I have ever talked about my own addiction issues, seems like most just want me to shut up because it’s so uncomfortable. This is why talk therapy and NA/AA is so important for addicts, because the general public can’t understand it, and they usually don’t want to hear about it. It’s pretty sad, but what’s worse is the industry built around soaking up post addicts money once they get into treatment. Most addiction treatment is incredibly expensive, and effective treatment is unaffordable to most. I’ve around 500 dollars a month on opioid treatment for the last 7 years, and I’m just now about to be done with it - specifically because I decided the clinics I was going to had no intention of helping me at all. I’m spending 8000 right now, all my savings from my severance package just to get actual help getting off the more addictive drugs I was put on to help me stay clean from street drugs. Opiate treatment is vampiric and parasitic - put all addicts on Suboxone at the highest possible dose for the longest time possible with no way of getting off. I was on street drugs for two years, yet I’ve been on Sub for 7 years lol when they could have put me on a minimal dose for a couple months at most and helped me stay clean afterward. But nah, the system in the US is dog farts, and it’s built and running off our backs, not anyone else’s, and the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors love it, and it probably won’t change because it makes so much money. I appreciate it if anyone at all actually read through the whole thing, I’d be very shocked lol.
I read it. I’m a Matty/1975 fan and I take opioids - just lean and a few codeine tabs atm. I used to be on oxy too and morphine when I could get it. I’m currently tapering myself down, currently on about 400mg which is only a fraction of where I was at. Luckily I don’t struggle with addiction too much. I’ve quit smoking whenever I’ve wanted to, only drink alcohol sporadically these days, and managed to taper my opioid usage purely out of choice. So while I can relate to how amazing opiates are and can easily see how they could grab a hold of you, I can’t really relate to the weak mindedness. Almost ALL drugs are great - when used responsibly. But when we have a lapse in mental strength and give in to the “but they make me feel good, I want it all the time :(“ thoughts, that’s when we f up. Glad you’re doing better ✌️
Being an addict myself, you were high when you wrote this without question . Lol. It happens. You’ll get super inspired and end up writing a novel of comment on a video and halfway through you’ve strayed far from your topic. Seen it a thousand times , champ. But this was certainly one of the better ones I’ve come across of that helps hah
I read the whole thing man. Being addicted to pills is just such a hard thing to get over! I have chronic ankle problems, and have had surgeries. But the pain is so persistant! None of my doctors can figure it out, or maybe they just dont want to. So ive been on narcotics for years, till it started to develope ulcers in my stomach! Even tho my feet still hurt ALOT, nothing compares to that stomach pain, so i just went cold turkey...it sucked! Like badly! Cos the withdrawals were insane! I couldnt eat i couldnt sleep for about 3 months. My weight dropped so dramatically, and i was always weak, BUT i got through it eventually! Im so happy to hear you are almost done with your treatment! Good for you! I hope you have a nice fulfilling life after drugs! You deserve man! :)
@@zeroh7671 as a fellow recovering addict, I couldn’t disagree more. Some folks are just articulate, some have a lot to say. That’s why many use drugs, they have such a desire to connect w ppl but can’t figure out how. So they write comments like this online. He said he’s been in recovery for 7 years and is weening himself off now, it’s pretty disrespectful to just assume he was high because he wrote a few paragraphs. If anything YOUR comment comes off as deflective, perhaps trying to attribute your own insecurities about yourself onto another just so YOU don’t feel so alone in your “quirk”, as I’ll put it. What a bizarre assumption for you to make, and a rude comment to share. I find myself inspired to write long comments every now and then, and I haven’t used in years.
This is the realest shit I've heard in a while. Most people don't realize that people that use so hard are trying to forget. And dreams will never let you forget. It's sad but true, dreams are terrifying sometimes and a lot of us will cheat to not have to go to the terror realm every night.
I used to have night terrors, I never took strong drugs and didn't even do weed like typical ways. But I had her. She gave me happiness, she gave me hope She left me and I was beyond heartbroken, still recovering from it now. And I'm finding myself but I do miss her at times
I truly understand him very well Cuz my older sister also got the same thing When she dreamed it was like she was awake in there the imagination and when she wakes up she didn't feel like she rested at all so she has to take several drugs to stop dreaming so she can rest peacefully
Bollocks. Most drugs actually enhance dreaming. The strong drugs like Matty is referring to here, heroin for example, make you have very vivid dreams. Trust me on this.
@@mattiemclean9882 okay, that's your experience, but clearly other people have had different ones. A lot of the time it can depend on the existing chemistry of your mind. I get the impression Matty is someone with ADHD, obviously I could be totally wrong there I'm just speaking from my own ADHD experience, and the way you "treat" ADHD is with stimulants so taking downers like heroin I can imagine would have an extremely dampening effect on everything and maybe even affect your ability to be conscious of your dreams (everyone dreams, not everyone remembers them or dreams for a long time). I know that drinking even a few drinks for example makes me extremely tired and low functioning. I'm not on meds for my ADHD, but I am on anti-depressants and they affected my dreams a crazy amount. They've always been vivid and sort of soul-sucking in that I feel tired later, but antidepressants made them repetitive. The same places, people, storylines, every single night.
When you're using hard drugs and pot specifically. They CAN dull your dreams........at first they enchanced them but once you form a tolerance and do them regularly you won't dream......as soon as you get sober tho they become vivid and unavoidable..........it's different for everyone but as someone who has dreams majority of nights that's how I experienced it. I used drugs out of boredom and to cope with stress.....
I suffer badly from sleep paralysis. I've had it since I was a kid. I assumed it was just nightmares. But in my teens I just woke up paralyzed but didn't see anything so just didn't think anything of it. But when I got to like 19 the same experience I had as kid I got back but worse. Am 28 now. I now get it more going to sleep rather waking up in it. I just went to doctors and they told me about it. Unfortunately I was made like I was a weirdo so didn't like talking about it
I totally relate with Matty when it comes to sleeping and dreaming. Sleeping is really hard for me ever since and it's getting worst lately and i keep dreaming too much lately. But the diference is i don't want myself to come to the point where i need to use drugs.
He had the addiction gene his mum is a recovering alcoholic. His mum and dad are British actors Tim Healy & Denise Welsh. He didn't pick up heroin just to sleep. Being in recovery myself it comes from generations of addiction from one side of my family. Good on him beating it because it destroys generations
I've had so few good dreams in my life. As he said, my dreams are just terror. To the point that, on the ultra rare occasion that I've actually had a good dream, they're horrible to wake up from. Can you imagine being so used to horrible dreams, that you'd be afraid of a nice dream? Because waking from it is so disturbing. To know it's not really real. It sucks man. Real bad. Especially if you could afford all the drugs you want like Matty could. I'm so happy he's gotten off the hard stuff at least. Stay stong, yall! ❤
I'm on anti-depressants and they affected my dreams a crazy amount. They've always been vivid and sort of soul-sucking in that I feel tired later, but antidepressants made them repetitive. The same places, people, general storylines, every single night. Every year or so the "universe" I dream within expands or changes, like literally more shops are added or new characters. It's bizarre.
My mom was recommended by a doctor an antidepressant before. Gladly, she never took it. She's been ok but sometimes, she does have nightmares she said. Generally, she is ok. It's better not to take that medication in my opinion
I take Prozac and that has a similar effect. The dreams aren’t extreme because I was never a lucid dreamer anyways, but I find the dreams are strange rather than nightmarish.
@fed_to_the_wolves it’s a weird one, the whole class of drugs is, could add cannabis to suppress dreams but most likely mirtazapine will push through it
I have the same issue, I have horrifying nightmares, not dreams. Awful awful nightmares where things are done to me or I’m forced to do things to others, always struggle to stay alive!😢
I have this same type of issue. All my dreams are nightmares. Only recently that I have accepted Jesus and prayed and thanked him for taking care of my children and those who have passed have I gotten any dreams that I am surrounded by love but, still only after a nightmare of sorts. My dreams are better with Jesus than ever before. We need Jesus. More than ever right now.
Interesting how people of faith truly benefit from praying. As a muslim, listening or reciting our holy book also makes me sleep much better at night & calms me down during the day.
My dreams are always nightmares too 😔 or stress dreams. It’s like I’m fine thru the day and whatever I may b worried about in my life, comes out in my dreams. It rly sucks
Same. Feel like I’m cursed. All my dreams are.. feelings of fear or dread or overcoming .. eerie landscapes. Trying to get down from a height. Hold my breath as a wave goes over. I’m a pretty happy introspective person so .. don’t know why and it gets me down sometimes I never wake up going aw that was a amazing! It’s more of a relief 🥲
I used to have only nightmares before, and I discovered it was due to my obstructive sleep apnea, I got tested, they put a machine at my house, so now every night I have a tiny mask that's just in my nostrils that mechanically forces me to breathe, it's not a continuous flow it's a breathing cycle, so the machine send me lots of air that forces me to inhale then stops, forcing me to exhale. I barely have any nightmare now. And when I do it's because my nose got stuffed and I couldn't properly breathe with the machine.
I have cPTSD and was prescribed aproprozosin to stop nightmares from abuse, it works I’ve only been on it for 4 years but its helped a lot, he might want to see a professional to check if he has anything like this condition. Night terrors are a big sign of this sort of condition as is being trapped in your sleep. Sending aroha, love and compassion to all suffering from these things ❤
This is the exact cause of my addiction. My relationship with sleep is not well. Never had a sleep like I did with an opioid. Anyways I’m clean now cheers 🥂
I just hope he gets appropriate support, otherwise sadly he might go the same way many of drug users - lose their lives, which would be so sad and a waste of his great talent and life. His family should help him soonest, please.
Hang in there Matthew. You and your music are helping me cope with my depression,anxiety and addiction. I hope I am not alone cheering for your success as a musician and most importantly, as a young Man. ❤
I feel this. I used to get raped as soon as I would fall asleep. This was between the ages of 6 and 13. Then again in my 20’s. I developed an incredible fear of sleeping. As an adult, married to a good man, I have tried to escape while still asleep countless times. I have gotten tangled in my blankets and hit my head domineering out of bed. One time I woke up, looking in the bathroom mirror with blood all over. I had broken my nose trying to “escape”. If you are able to sleep without mortal fear, consider yourself very lucky!
I had this same issue, except I just smoked weed longterm and it fw my sleep habits. Anyways, got sober and would have the freakiest dreams. Turns out it’s a withdrawal symptom mixed w depression/anxiety/ptsd, but mainly the withdrawal half bc after about 4 months the dreams leveled out some and the whole time I was seeing a therapist so yk, dude was with me step by step. But yeah, just so y’all know- a withdrawal symptom can include FREAKY dreams. I’d dream about inception-y clowns chasing me w a knife, or sleep paralysis bs…eeek I hated it so much. Anyways love my dreams lately, I’m constantly dreaming of meeting my “soul mate” now and it’s sick 10/10
Its just horrendous... celebrity parents... both with alcohol and drug abuse so how so they expect their offspring not to follow suit. They all try to pass it off like it doesn't matter and they do it because of this and that.... its ridiculous
Yep it's genetic and his mum Denise is in recovery for alcoholism and his dad Tim Healy not sure but addiction ruins generation after generation of families. No one picks up heroin just to sleep..HE had the addictive urge in him so when he was offered he caved. Glad he's in recovery
My girlfriend is the same. She doesn't need to do drugs to solve it, but she does sometimes. She needs to have the TV on or a fan going, or else she will have what she calls lucid nightmares. She's aware she's dreaming but can't do anything to stop it, and as soon as she becomes lucid, it turns into a night terror.
Recreational drugs are rarely a solution to anything. Cigarette addicts also think cigarettes make them relax, but they don't. They're more nervous because they're addicted, not because they are stressed. Gone through that myself
I used alcohol to forget, the unlucky use something stronger. I am grateful that I managed to avoid that path. I still can't stop drinking, but my worst is probably their best. If you know what I mean.
I have a mental condition where I have difficulty telling the difference between what’s real and what’s dreamed - and the things I dream about are things that could easily occur in real life. I’ve noticed that if I wake up in the night and then try to go back to sleep, it is then that the most disturbing and violent dreams start. So when I wake up in the night, if I’ve had at least a few hours sleep, I get myself up. I’d rather be a bit tired all day than have to go through truly awful dreams
I know I had that experience too. I spent my teenage years having 3-4 different lucid nightmares every single night. It was horrible. I grew scared of sleeping alone cause that's only when I had sleep paralysis. One day I just said to myself that if all I dream are nightmares then I won't dream at all. Strangely that worked and I actually dont dream anymore.
@@kimtata2831 horrible isn’t it I’ve had them pretty much every night since before my teen years tbh and I’m 28 now. I’ve woken up crying from them and I used to talk in my sleep with my eyes half open too. It used to freak some people out 😅😂 I think I still talk or mumble in my sleep now and again too. I’ve also had my partner tell me that it sounds like I stop breathing when I’m asleep or struggle to breathe. I can snore too but mainly when I’m on my back. Sometimes I wish I didn’t dream. I have had short periods in my past where I have not had a dream but it’s rare.
Absolute horse shit. Drugs do not stop you dreaming. Quite the opposite in fact. As much as I think this guy is talented, I also think he has exaggerated his drug use to make him look cool. Like a Pete Doherty/Russell Brand character. If you watch enough of his interviews you will see that he copies lines directly from Russell Brand. Wanna know why I believe this to be true? Because HIS MUM is a friend of RB and asked him to mentor Matty
@@mattiemclean9882 he’s literally been to rehab several times and if you’ve watched his performances from years ago can tell how drugged up he was, it was really sad to watch
@@mattiemclean9882 did you ever smoke a joint or 2 before bed and remember your dreams? Let me know. I know for a fact this is true since I was prolific smoker for a good part of a decade. Then I got pregnant and was forced to stop. Genuinely started having the wildest dreams and could actually remember them in the morning.
I get what he's saying. Though I've used drugs, I've struggled with falling asleep and having random intrusive thoughts and horrible dreams that kept me up at odd hours.
Unlike Matty I have had plenty of good dreams, but I also have a lot of terrifying nightmares. Like Matty, I also have a history of substance abuse, mainly drinking in my case. I don't know if he (or any fellow addicts reading this) ever had this, but in the last few years the scariest thing in my dreams is heroin. I've never tried it, hell I've never come across it, but I fucking *dream* about it. Sometimes the dreams are Burroughsian, Naked Lunch type nightmares. More often than not though, they're good dreams. Dreams where heroin solves everything for me, where I feel perfect sedation and contentment. I just wanted to share this, idk if anyone will relate or anything. Just needed to get that off my chest.
Yep - terrible dreams used to smoke a spliff before bed everyday for 2 years which completely stopped dreaming. Took a 2 week holiday with my girl with no access to cannabis and my dreams came back 10x worse
I take a prescription med to stop me dreaming. Having nightly terrors and nightmares is exhausting, soul destroying, depressing and dangerous if you voluntarily sleep deprive yourself for fear of those things mentioned. With the drug I can get 4/6hrs of dream free sleep, its bliss.
I also only have "terrible" dreams. Not like dream dreams like when someone positively says "this is like a dream", rainbows, milk and honey, laughter kind of thing.... So do people normally have nice dreams? How is it for you? I wonder if it's normal that I always have such rather stressful and dark dreams
I’ve never done drugs so I can’t relate to that but I can relate to having awful dreams.. like my dreams scare me because like 90% of them come true, In a dream I’m saying a specific sentence in a specific car going a straight with the sun hitting my head, the smells, my outfit my friends outfit. I look in the mirror & see myself. And then I never know when it comes true. Sometimes it’s that next day or a week or a month later then in real life Its happening exactly like my dream & im self aware & it makes me feel uncomfortable af.. so when I have nightmares then I just end up worried that if it’s gonna come true in real life🫠
Wrong ,drugs help you forget the dreams …you still have them ! You may not remember the terror but you went through it …do the drugs lucidly and not to help sleep ,you could cure the reason all the dreams are nightmares!
When you stop doing drugs. You have the worst nightmares ever. When I miss my meds I have vivid night mares or just extreme dreams. Crazy Stephen King shit
I can’t relate to this at all…, I sleep 8-12hrs every night‼️‼️ My dreams are pretty good and some wonderful. I used to have sleep paralysis during college years but that’s about it.
Same lmao most of my dreams are horrible and I smoked weed non stop for 4 years to stop them from happening. Another reason Matty has ways been easy for me to relate with
That's kind of an excuse cause I've been through a similar thing but my dreams got better off of addiction. Idk I guess to each their own. I love Matty but not every drug will stop the dreams. To each their own like I said.
Noone picks up heroin just cos they cannot sleep. He has the gene his parents and his mum has the addiction gene so it's kinda to be expected. My mum is the only one from 8 siblings who escaped addiction.
I’m a recovering opiate addict and also a big fan. Here’s the thing, if he wasn’t who he was, none of you would care at all, most wouldn’t anyways. And as addicts, we are very insecure about talking about our addictions, so we find other ways around the core reason we kept taking them (as artists anyways)- because they calmed down our over worked out of control emotions. Opiates specifically don’t just put you to sleep, they fill you with intense euphoria for hours, and it’s Heaven on earth, removes every possible bad thing for a while.
If you watch the FULL clip, he explains that it was because he was struggling with the emotional turmoil that came from going on stage to thousands of screaming people to going back on the road, alone and unstable.
He was also trying other drugs, smoking weed, coke, and whatever else he may have tried.
I’m not saying this to down him, I love Matty and I empathize with him very strongly. But when I have ever talked about my own addiction issues, seems like most just want me to shut up because it’s so uncomfortable. This is why talk therapy and NA/AA is so important for addicts, because the general public can’t understand it, and they usually don’t want to hear about it. It’s pretty sad, but what’s worse is the industry built around soaking up post addicts money once they get into treatment. Most addiction treatment is incredibly expensive, and effective treatment is unaffordable to most. I’ve around 500 dollars a month on opioid treatment for the last 7 years, and I’m just now about to be done with it - specifically because I decided the clinics I was going to had no intention of helping me at all. I’m spending 8000 right now, all my savings from my severance package just to get actual help getting off the more addictive drugs I was put on to help me stay clean from street drugs.
Opiate treatment is vampiric and parasitic - put all addicts on Suboxone at the highest possible dose for the longest time possible with no way of getting off. I was on street drugs for two years, yet I’ve been on Sub for 7 years lol when they could have put me on a minimal dose for a couple months at most and helped me stay clean afterward. But nah, the system in the US is dog farts, and it’s built and running off our backs, not anyone else’s, and the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors love it, and it probably won’t change because it makes so much money.
I appreciate it if anyone at all actually read through the whole thing, I’d be very shocked lol.
I read it. I’m a Matty/1975 fan and I take opioids - just lean and a few codeine tabs atm.
I used to be on oxy too and morphine when I could get it. I’m currently tapering myself down, currently on about 400mg which is only a fraction of where I was at.
Luckily I don’t struggle with addiction too much. I’ve quit smoking whenever I’ve wanted to, only drink alcohol sporadically these days, and managed to taper my opioid usage purely out of choice.
So while I can relate to how amazing opiates are and can easily see how they could grab a hold of you, I can’t really relate to the weak mindedness. Almost ALL drugs are great - when used responsibly. But when we have a lapse in mental strength and give in to the “but they make me feel good, I want it all the time :(“ thoughts, that’s when we f up.
Glad you’re doing better ✌️
Being an addict myself, you were high when you wrote this without question . Lol. It happens. You’ll get super inspired and end up writing a novel of comment on a video and halfway through you’ve strayed far from your topic. Seen it a thousand times , champ. But this was certainly one of the better ones I’ve come across of that helps hah
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I read the whole thing man. Being addicted to pills is just such a hard thing to get over! I have chronic ankle problems, and have had surgeries. But the pain is so persistant! None of my doctors can figure it out, or maybe they just dont want to. So ive been on narcotics for years, till it started to develope ulcers in my stomach! Even tho my feet still hurt ALOT, nothing compares to that stomach pain, so i just went cold turkey...it sucked! Like badly! Cos the withdrawals were insane! I couldnt eat i couldnt sleep for about 3 months. My weight dropped so dramatically, and i was always weak, BUT i got through it eventually! Im so happy to hear you are almost done with your treatment! Good for you! I hope you have a nice fulfilling life after drugs! You deserve man! :)
@@zeroh7671 as a fellow recovering addict, I couldn’t disagree more. Some folks are just articulate, some have a lot to say. That’s why many use drugs, they have such a desire to connect w ppl but can’t figure out how. So they write comments like this online. He said he’s been in recovery for 7 years and is weening himself off now, it’s pretty disrespectful to just assume he was high because he wrote a few paragraphs. If anything YOUR comment comes off as deflective, perhaps trying to attribute your own insecurities about yourself onto another just so YOU don’t feel so alone in your “quirk”, as I’ll put it.
What a bizarre assumption for you to make, and a rude comment to share. I find myself inspired to write long comments every now and then, and I haven’t used in years.
Gets to a point where you're too scared to sleep
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it does.
Yep. I get that. Going to sleep sober can seem impossible.
I been through hell! Literally. With horrific terrors
Yes, that’s me too.
This is the realest shit I've heard in a while. Most people don't realize that people that use so hard are trying to forget. And dreams will never let you forget. It's sad but true, dreams are terrifying sometimes and a lot of us will cheat to not have to go to the terror realm every night.
Omg. What an enlightening perspective for real ❤️🩹
I used to have night terrors, I never took strong drugs and didn't even do weed like typical ways. But I had her. She gave me happiness, she gave me hope
She left me and I was beyond heartbroken, still recovering from it now. And I'm finding myself but I do miss her at times
I truly understand him very well
Cuz my older sister also got the same thing
When she dreamed it was like she was awake in there the imagination and when she wakes up she didn't feel like she rested at all so she has to take several drugs to stop dreaming so she can rest peacefully
Bollocks. Most drugs actually enhance dreaming. The strong drugs like Matty is referring to here, heroin for example, make you have very vivid dreams. Trust me on this.
@@mattiemclean9882 okay, that's your experience, but clearly other people have had different ones. A lot of the time it can depend on the existing chemistry of your mind. I get the impression Matty is someone with ADHD, obviously I could be totally wrong there I'm just speaking from my own ADHD experience, and the way you "treat" ADHD is with stimulants so taking downers like heroin I can imagine would have an extremely dampening effect on everything and maybe even affect your ability to be conscious of your dreams (everyone dreams, not everyone remembers them or dreams for a long time). I know that drinking even a few drinks for example makes me extremely tired and low functioning. I'm not on meds for my ADHD, but I am on anti-depressants and they affected my dreams a crazy amount. They've always been vivid and sort of soul-sucking in that I feel tired later, but antidepressants made them repetitive. The same places, people, storylines, every single night.
When you're using hard drugs and pot specifically. They CAN dull your dreams........at first they enchanced them but once you form a tolerance and do them regularly you won't dream......as soon as you get sober tho they become vivid and unavoidable..........it's different for everyone but as someone who has dreams majority of nights that's how I experienced it. I used drugs out of boredom and to cope with stress.....
I suffer badly from sleep paralysis. I've had it since I was a kid. I assumed it was just nightmares. But in my teens I just woke up paralyzed but didn't see anything so just didn't think anything of it. But when I got to like 19 the same experience I had as kid I got back but worse. Am 28 now. I now get it more going to sleep rather waking up in it. I just went to doctors and they told me about it. Unfortunately I was made like I was a weirdo so didn't like talking about it
Ambien makes you have very vivid dreams I know this because I've been on them for about 20 years now.
I totally relate with Matty when it comes to sleeping and dreaming. Sleeping is really hard for me ever since and it's getting worst lately and i keep dreaming too much lately. But the diference is i don't want myself to come to the point where i need to use drugs.
Maybe get off your phone once in a while
@@JM91x acting as if you know everyone in the internet. Maybe get a life first than minding other people's life.
@@xcxii you know I’m right
He had the addiction gene his mum is a recovering alcoholic. His mum and dad are British actors Tim Healy & Denise Welsh. He didn't pick up heroin just to sleep. Being in recovery myself it comes from generations of addiction from one side of my family. Good on him beating it because it destroys generations
@@JM91x your comment has nothing to do with what they said
I've had so few good dreams in my life. As he said, my dreams are just terror. To the point that, on the ultra rare occasion that I've actually had a good dream, they're horrible to wake up from. Can you imagine being so used to horrible dreams, that you'd be afraid of a nice dream? Because waking from it is so disturbing. To know it's not really real.
It sucks man. Real bad. Especially if you could afford all the drugs you want like Matty could. I'm so happy he's gotten off the hard stuff at least.
Stay stong, yall! ❤
I'm on anti-depressants and they affected my dreams a crazy amount. They've always been vivid and sort of soul-sucking in that I feel tired later, but antidepressants made them repetitive. The same places, people, general storylines, every single night. Every year or so the "universe" I dream within expands or changes, like literally more shops are added or new characters. It's bizarre.
My mom was recommended by a doctor an antidepressant before. Gladly, she never took it. She's been ok but sometimes, she does have nightmares she said. Generally, she is ok. It's better not to take that medication in my opinion
I take Prozac and that has a similar effect. The dreams aren’t extreme because I was never a lucid dreamer anyways, but I find the dreams are strange rather than nightmarish.
Mirtazapine will give you crazier dreams than you’ve ever had ever ever
@@prepareforwinter213 True. I don't take that stuff any more. The dreams were too weird and disturbing to be honest.
@fed_to_the_wolves it’s a weird one, the whole class of drugs is, could add cannabis to suppress dreams but most likely mirtazapine will push through it
I have the same issue, I have horrifying nightmares, not dreams. Awful awful nightmares where things are done to me or I’m forced to do things to others, always struggle to stay alive!😢
I have this same type of issue. All my dreams are nightmares. Only recently that I have accepted Jesus and prayed and thanked him for taking care of my children and those who have passed have I gotten any dreams that I am surrounded by love but, still only after a nightmare of sorts.
My dreams are better with Jesus than ever before.
We need Jesus. More than ever right now.
It's emotional trauma dreams and pray 🙏 I used to have sacrum dreams until I prayed
Interesting how people of faith truly benefit from praying. As a muslim, listening or reciting our holy book also makes me sleep much better at night & calms me down during the day.
My dreams are always nightmares too 😔 or stress dreams. It’s like I’m fine thru the day and whatever I may b worried about in my life, comes out in my dreams. It rly sucks
Same. Feel like I’m cursed. All my dreams are.. feelings of fear or dread or overcoming .. eerie landscapes. Trying to get down from a height. Hold my breath as a wave goes over. I’m a pretty happy introspective person so .. don’t know why and it gets me down sometimes I never wake up going aw that was a amazing! It’s more of a relief 🥲
Unsolicited suggestion: Prayer before bed
I used to have only nightmares before, and I discovered it was due to my obstructive sleep apnea, I got tested, they put a machine at my house, so now every night I have a tiny mask that's just in my nostrils that mechanically forces me to breathe, it's not a continuous flow it's a breathing cycle, so the machine send me lots of air that forces me to inhale then stops, forcing me to exhale. I barely have any nightmare now. And when I do it's because my nose got stuffed and I couldn't properly breathe with the machine.
@@chelseaandhobbesget tested for sleep apnea
I have cPTSD and was prescribed aproprozosin to stop nightmares from abuse, it works I’ve only been on it for 4 years but its helped a lot, he might want to see a professional to check if he has anything like this condition. Night terrors are a big sign of this sort of condition as is being trapped in your sleep. Sending aroha, love and compassion to all suffering from these things ❤
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This is the exact cause of my addiction. My relationship with sleep is not well. Never had a sleep like I did with an opioid. Anyways I’m clean now cheers 🥂
I just hope he gets appropriate support, otherwise sadly he might go the same way many of drug users - lose their lives, which would be so sad and a waste of his great talent and life. His family should help him soonest, please.
Exactly my thoughts. I believe he's just smoking now though, thankfully.
Hang in there Matthew. You and your music are helping me cope with my depression,anxiety and addiction. I hope I am not alone cheering for your success as a musician and most importantly, as a young Man. ❤
@@davidkoplitz1969 you definitely aren't ❤️
@@pixie_saga6288 Thank you ♥️
I feel this. I used to get raped as soon as I would fall asleep. This was between the ages of 6 and 13. Then again in my 20’s. I developed an incredible fear of sleeping. As an adult, married to a good man, I have tried to escape while still asleep countless times. I have gotten tangled in my blankets and hit my head domineering out of bed. One time I woke up, looking in the bathroom mirror with blood all over. I had broken my nose trying to “escape”. If you are able to sleep without mortal fear, consider yourself very lucky!
I didnt use drugs/alcohol to make me happy.. i mostly used to help forget how sad i truly was
Whenever you sad meditate is helps, try 🌈
Yooooooooo wtf? I never put it into words. But my mind stopped me from dreaming after nightmares were constant when I was a kid. I never dream anymore
I had this same issue, except I just smoked weed longterm and it fw my sleep habits. Anyways, got sober and would have the freakiest dreams. Turns out it’s a withdrawal symptom mixed w depression/anxiety/ptsd, but mainly the withdrawal half bc after about 4 months the dreams leveled out some and the whole time I was seeing a therapist so yk, dude was with me step by step. But yeah, just so y’all know- a withdrawal symptom can include FREAKY dreams. I’d dream about inception-y clowns chasing me w a knife, or sleep paralysis bs…eeek I hated it so much. Anyways love my dreams lately, I’m constantly dreaming of meeting my “soul mate” now and it’s sick 10/10
Only one person can made him sleep -" I scratch your head and you fall asleep "
I feel ya.. I hardly dream at all and if I do they’re usually not a good one.. so I prefer not to dream at all
Its just horrendous... celebrity parents... both with alcohol and drug abuse so how so they expect their offspring not to follow suit. They all try to pass it off like it doesn't matter and they do it because of this and that.... its ridiculous
Yep it's genetic and his mum Denise is in recovery for alcoholism and his dad Tim Healy not sure but addiction ruins generation after generation of families. No one picks up heroin just to sleep..HE had the addictive urge in him so when he was offered he caved. Glad he's in recovery
To anyone without an addiction problem, stay fucking sober…
I just Love his realness
My girlfriend is the same. She doesn't need to do drugs to solve it, but she does sometimes. She needs to have the TV on or a fan going, or else she will have what she calls lucid nightmares. She's aware she's dreaming but can't do anything to stop it, and as soon as she becomes lucid, it turns into a night terror.
This is for sure a spiritual issue! You can get deliverance from it
He’s not truly sleeping. His body and brain are not receiving the rest and resources they need.
Recreational drugs are rarely a solution to anything. Cigarette addicts also think cigarettes make them relax, but they don't. They're more nervous because they're addicted, not because they are stressed. Gone through that myself
I used alcohol to forget, the unlucky use something stronger. I am grateful that I managed to avoid that path. I still can't stop drinking, but my worst is probably their best. If you know what I mean.
If you want to quit you can do it , 💪✌️
He needs Counciling.
It’s good to try counselling but it didn’t help me except to rule it out as useful. FREE autodidacticism for the win
Yep.
I feel bad for those who suffer with sleep
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I have a mental condition where I have difficulty telling the difference between what’s real and what’s dreamed - and the things I dream about are things that could easily occur in real life. I’ve noticed that if I wake up in the night and then try to go back to sleep, it is then that the most disturbing and violent dreams start. So when I wake up in the night, if I’ve had at least a few hours sleep, I get myself up. I’d rather be a bit tired all day than have to go through truly awful dreams
I have bad night terrors. But I did find a med that actually stops the night terrors for the most part. It’s actually a blood pressure medication.
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You tried to buy some pills, from a friend of friends of mine - Taylor Swift 🎵
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I feel this. Almost all of my dreams for decades have been about being hunted by groups of people who want to hurt or kill me.
That’s really sad
Holy shit this is how I feel.
I get nightmares pretty much every night, but I don't take drugs. I did used to smoke weed though and tbh it didn't really help with my dreams.
Try playing some meditation music when you are going to bed.
I know I had that experience too. I spent my teenage years having 3-4 different lucid nightmares every single night. It was horrible. I grew scared of sleeping alone cause that's only when I had sleep paralysis. One day I just said to myself that if all I dream are nightmares then I won't dream at all. Strangely that worked and I actually dont dream anymore.
@@Eve-hb I have tried that tbh and it still doesn’t help much
@@kimtata2831 horrible isn’t it I’ve had them pretty much every night since before my teen years tbh and I’m 28 now. I’ve woken up crying from them and I used to talk in my sleep with my eyes half open too. It used to freak some people out 😅😂 I think I still talk or mumble in my sleep now and again too. I’ve also had my partner tell me that it sounds like I stop breathing when I’m asleep or struggle to breathe. I can snore too but mainly when I’m on my back. Sometimes I wish I didn’t dream. I have had short periods in my past where I have not had a dream but it’s rare.
@@kimtata2831 having sleep paralysis must be horrible 😢
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Absolute horse shit. Drugs do not stop you dreaming. Quite the opposite in fact. As much as I think this guy is talented, I also think he has exaggerated his drug use to make him look cool. Like a Pete Doherty/Russell Brand character. If you watch enough of his interviews you will see that he copies lines directly from Russell Brand. Wanna know why I believe this to be true? Because HIS MUM is a friend of RB and asked him to mentor Matty
@@mattiemclean9882 he’s literally been to rehab several times and if you’ve watched his performances from years ago can tell how drugged up he was, it was really sad to watch
@@JazMegan boo hoo
@@mattiemclean9882 did you ever smoke a joint or 2 before bed and remember your dreams? Let me know. I know for a fact this is true since I was prolific smoker for a good part of a decade. Then I got pregnant and was forced to stop. Genuinely started having the wildest dreams and could actually remember them in the morning.
I get what he's saying. Though I've used drugs, I've struggled with falling asleep and having random intrusive thoughts and horrible dreams that kept me up at odd hours.
Man can I relate to this
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Man i have no idea who he is but i hear him. My dreams are always negative or scary or argumentative.
I can relate 100%.
If I forget to take my anxiety medication, I have nightmares.
I like this Matty
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Ohhh Taylor what were you thinking...
Unlike Matty I have had plenty of good dreams, but I also have a lot of terrifying nightmares. Like Matty, I also have a history of substance abuse, mainly drinking in my case. I don't know if he (or any fellow addicts reading this) ever had this, but in the last few years the scariest thing in my dreams is heroin. I've never tried it, hell I've never come across it, but I fucking *dream* about it. Sometimes the dreams are Burroughsian, Naked Lunch type nightmares. More often than not though, they're good dreams. Dreams where heroin solves everything for me, where I feel perfect sedation and contentment.
I just wanted to share this, idk if anyone will relate or anything. Just needed to get that off my chest.
I use legal opiates cuz my body is messed up but when you’re in withdrawal, you have the most vivid dreams ever. It’s actually really cool.
When I use drugs I end staring at my bedroom ceiling all night 🤦🏼♂️
i love how he is talking to Ebba Busch about this
Anyone who knows anything about ADHD, will understand this.
Yup all my dreams are nightmares
Yep - terrible dreams used to smoke a spliff before bed everyday for 2 years which completely stopped dreaming. Took a 2 week holiday with my girl with no access to cannabis and my dreams came back 10x worse
My dreams are always me dying.
I take a prescription med to stop me dreaming. Having nightly terrors and nightmares is exhausting, soul destroying, depressing and dangerous if you voluntarily sleep deprive yourself for fear of those things mentioned.
With the drug I can get 4/6hrs of dream free sleep, its bliss.
if your dreams are terror, you should analyze your reality very deep
I do the same with alcohol. I use it so that even if I dream, I don't remember my dreams. I just don't want to dream 😔
F**king sameeee 😢
Same actually with weed
With weed? Pmsl
@@mattiemclean9882 why you laughing for? You must be 15
Yup. I take sleeping medicine because without it’s all the most horrific nightmares you can imagien
I also only have "terrible" dreams. Not like dream dreams like when someone positively says "this is like a dream", rainbows, milk and honey, laughter kind of thing.... So do people normally have nice dreams? How is it for you? I wonder if it's normal that I always have such rather stressful and dark dreams
Massive reason i became an opiate addict .i have been terrified by a demon all my life
I’ve never done drugs so I can’t relate to that but I can relate to having awful dreams.. like my dreams scare me because like 90% of them come true, In a dream I’m saying a specific sentence in a specific car going a straight with the sun hitting my head, the smells, my outfit my friends outfit. I look in the mirror & see myself. And then I never know when it comes true. Sometimes it’s that next day or a week or a month later then in real life Its happening exactly like my dream & im self aware & it makes me feel uncomfortable af.. so when I have nightmares then I just end up worried that if it’s gonna come true in real life🫠
Facts.
I can relate to that
My wife has the same thing. She always has scary dreams.
I'm with you on awful dreams my man
Wrong ,drugs help you forget the dreams …you still have them ! You may not remember the terror but you went through it …do the drugs lucidly and not to help sleep ,you could cure the reason all the dreams are nightmares!
I have the exact same problem with dreams
The nod.
Cannabis/Marijuana/Weed is excellent at supressing dreams. However, you'll have the craziest dreams after quitting.
Hearing more and more about people self medicating to sleep with trauma and neurodivergence un discovered
‘I use drugs so I don’t have nightmares’
Why do you have nightmares?
‘Because I use drugs’
He is very pretty in this interview😂😂😂
When you stop doing drugs. You have the worst nightmares ever. When I miss my meds I have vivid night mares or just extreme dreams. Crazy Stephen King shit
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When was this interview?
Feb 2019.
I can’t relate to this at all…, I sleep 8-12hrs every night‼️‼️ My dreams are pretty good and some wonderful. I used to have sleep paralysis during college years but that’s about it.
Dudes Charon is prolly in the 12th house. I be having horror films in my sleep too Matty!
Same lmao most of my dreams are horrible and I smoked weed non stop for 4 years to stop them from happening. Another reason Matty has ways been easy for me to relate with
I have bad dreams if i feel i have no autonomy in my waking life.. Took me ages to figure that out
@@kkibela are you sure it's that? did the dreams ever stop when you felt like you had some sort of autonomy finally?
I have the best dreams
Drugs DON'T stop you from dreaming.
Weed definitely makes me remember dreams less
I've always had a horrendous relationship with sleep but at least my dreams tend to be very positive
Dreams be like 😈
I dream every night every single night more than once but i find em interested and they help me understand myself
I love my sleep
That's kind of an excuse cause I've been through a similar thing but my dreams got better off of addiction. Idk I guess to each their own. I love Matty but not every drug will stop the dreams. To each their own like I said.
Noone picks up heroin just cos they cannot sleep. He has the gene his parents and his mum has the addiction gene so it's kinda to be expected. My mum is the only one from 8 siblings who escaped addiction.
Agree
Drugs don't stop the dreams, It can only make it worse gradually
I use yo be in other dimensión You aré so creative ❤
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I love my dreams
Drugs don't stop you dreaming.
get baptized in holy water get saved, nightmares will go away
I know exactly what he means.. I bet alot of us do
So true
I feel exactly what guess saying
*Edit: I get exactly what he’s saying.
(What was wrong with me when I wrote that, lol! )
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Harry styles admited to using mushrooms to help write a album .
Weed helps with night terrors
Drugs make your dreams much worse tho.
Totally get this a use to take weed
Prazosin is a good nightmare pill
Ricardo te pareces a joji
I think he means cbd edibles
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There are these things…..called….pushups…..
WHAT is his hair im so very sorry