Experiencing vivid dreams all of a sudden

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Coriakin

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I've been having some pretty vivid dreams, too; I always figured it was because of the nic. I rather like them; while they aren't as enlightening or lucid as some others have reported; they're still entertaining, and at times beautiful.
If I ever get tired of them, or they become frightening or strange, I figured I could just cut down to 6mg before bed and that should help dramatically.
 
Me too. I'm finding that I am dreaming about whatever I concentrated on the most in the last hours before going to bed. Last night I was reading a lot of posts on this forum, so all night I had dreams about e-cig info. Other nights I was reading vampire books. I decided to stop reading those at night! I'm wondering if some light meditation before bed each night might be a good idea. I wish I had wonderful, colorful happy dreams...I wouldn't mind that so much!

For those of you who have been having these vivid dreams, do they seem to be lasting all night? I feel like I haven't slept each morning. I wake up several times every night from the dreams. Does it subside after time? I've only been vaping a little over a week.
 

TheLizinator

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Whenever you introduce some significant change in your life, you will find it reflected in your dreams. Dreaming is the by-product of altering physiological changes. When you stop smoking cigarettes and begin vaping, you are initiating a huge change in your daily habits. This requires some reorganizing of your thought processes. Vaping might seem a decent substitute for smoking, but your brain and body know there's a change. Dreaming amps up in response to this kind of change and (if you recall) you will do a lot of processing to catch up with the altered behaviors and chemistry that you previously experienced. Dreaming is the result of the brain working to organize and process any novel experience and integrate it into your normal routine. The more change that is introduced to your daily life, the more vivid dreams you'll experience. They will settle down after a time. Your brain uses sleep as housekeeping time--organize, categorize and file away anything relevant and useful to your daily life (and toss out the irrelevant). It can be very enjoyable if you can sit back and enjoy the ride. Write them down very soon after waking (while still in bed and emerging from the sleep state). They can be very entertaining and revealing.
 

Eric in AK

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Add me to the list of vivid dreamers. The funny thing is it just started the past couple nights. It might have something to do with how well I breathe while sleeping now, or the fact that many of the toxins that were stored up from all the analogs are finally leaving my system. And, of course, it might just be that the nicotine effect is no longer masked by the other stuff.

Who knows. The good part of this is that I paint, and I've always relied on my dreams to generate the images that form the foundation of what I paint. [Edit: See avatar for example.] This will be fantastic if I can start directing the dreams a bit more. I'm excited to know that others have reported this as a common occurrence. It would be nice if it became a regular thing.
 

mikes

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you are taking in to much nicotine... i had the same problem when i started smoking the e-cig. smoking 36mg and as often as a cig.

i was smoking two packs a day (40) and puffing each cigarette 15 times.

now i smoke my device using 18mg 18-20 times a day and puff 2-4 time per cigarette.

as soon as i stopped trying to smoke this incredible efficient device like a cigarette all the abnormal dreams went away.

I was also getting a raspy voice, throat clearing and headaches...Mike
 

RKayne

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Sleep. Dreams. They both are directly related to tobacco withdrawal. We both experienced trouble sleeping and weird very vivid dreams. We have been having a half or whole analog prior to sleep and have been fine now, and eventually I know we will be able to cut that out.

Not sure about the too much nic, I don't *think* we have been lowering our dose...
 

miakauisan

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I experienced my first "vivd" dreams last night. Nothing scary or imaginative. They were dreams that kinda correlated with everyday life. Like in one, I remember "waking up" and seeing the man was up and listening to a noise he heard. I told him it was just the rain and then went back to "sleep". It was so realistic and still sticks in my mind so clearly, that even after asking him about it and him confirming it didn't happen, I still have trouble distinguishing it between reality.
 
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