Dreaming About Smoking

[Larry J]

I had a TERRIBLE dream last night. It even woke me up it was so bad. The worst part about it, on reflection, was that I was smoking in the dream and had to go back into a bad situation because I had forgotten to pick up my pack of cigs! I'm coming up on four years that I've been smoke-free, and this is the first time in almost that long since I've dreamed I was smoking. Has anyone else had that experience after so long?

 

[Beamslider]

Hasn't been 4 years for me. But getting near to two. No dreams about smoking and no desire to smoke at this point.

Still have a unopened pack laying around and it doesn't bother me that it is there. Probably really nasty at 2 years old.

 

[Vapemesilly]

Haven't smoked in 3 years and occasionally have smoking dreams. Haven't drank in over 30 years and occasionally have drinking dreams. Drinking dreams spook me way more than smoking dreams.

 

[jfcooley]

I'm always "smokin" in my dreams.
Cause I'm so damn ugly in rl...

 

[Asbestos4004]

You're allowed to smoke in your dreams. There's no carcinogens in Dreamland cigarettes. It won't even make your PJs stink!

 

[Belhade]

I've dreamt about refusing to smoke. One dream, I was Castle in the tv. show "Castle" and at a crime scene, Beckett was smoking a cigarette which she handed to me while she looked at evidence. I held it, disgusted, at arm's length.

 

[Letitia]

Common to have the smoking dreams after having quit for years.

 

[Diver9543]

Excuse me for laughing when I first read your post. OK, you couldn't hear me laugh but I couldn't help it and needed to apologize. I have been cig free coming up on 3 years the end of the month. I have smoking dreams and in my dream, I know I quit and still continue to smoke. I'm like @Vapemesilly, my last drink was in March, 1986 and they are the dreams that really scare me. The dreams are normal so there is nothing to worry about. Congratulations on 4 years smoke free.

 

[drunky]

I dream about smoking after only a few days off of them. I wake up in a panic like I cheated. Still haven't quit smoking completely.

 

[evan le'garde]

It's when you start "smoke walking", that's when to start worrying !.

 

[davidmcgraw]

awesome post dude

 

[r77r7r]

Had my first just the other day Larry.

 

[stols001]

I have a hard time remembering my dreams, but I am going to bet I smoke in some of them. I did dream about drinking when I quit, my most annoying dream being going to a party, drinking what I KNEW was not alcohol, and getting drunk anyway. I roamed the party in a cold sweat, wondering what was going on. When I woke up, my first thought was, "How unfair, I totally TRIED not to get drunk and did anyway." LOL.

These type of dreams are not uncommon in the beginning, or even sometimes later. I know they did a study on folks who wound up in wheelchairs, and IIRC, it took between a year to about 10 before folks no longer dreamed of "walking." If a huge change happens in your life, well it takes some time for your subconscious to adjust, as it were. I kind of felt sad knowing that even folks who have become paras, will eventually stop dreaming they walk. Although I don't know if that situation is painful, or welcomed. I guess it could be either.

I just started ignoring my dreams, and mostly don't remember them. I was going through a bad time and got sick of the nightmares. I kind of view sleep as "blissful whiteout" these days. LOL.

Anna