Had a Terrifying Dream/Nightmare!

[cocoloco]

Two things come to mind ... (1) Your woken-mind is thinking about cigarettes enough to carry those thoughts (fears?) into your dreams, because (2) you're depriving your body of nicotine. Maybe if you vaped a stronger juice you would satisfy the body so that your mind won't think so much about it, thus eliminating the dreams.

I have not had those dreams. I vape to physical satisfaction and sleep like a baby.

 

[cbrite]

Nightmares about smoking are so unsettling. I've only had one thank goodness but it bothered me for a few days.

I normally have terrible nighmares about all my teeth falling out. It's like I'm spitting out watermellon seeds, only it's my teeth. rolf.

I haven't had the teeth falling out nightmares, but for a long, long time I had recurring dreams where I was blind and "scales" (for want of a better description--kind of like clear discs) kept falling from my eyes but I still couldn't see. I always thought that they traced back to when I was a kid in Sunday School and we got that message there. But once I had Lasik on my eyes, those dreams never returned. I also have a terrible fear of being blind, so I guess that is the rest of the reason I had that dream for years.

 

[mare ze dotes]

The loss of teeth is common. I get that one. I get flooding. water water every where. I don't know about that one.

 

[rurwin]

The loss of teeth is common. I get that one.

So you feel toothless? Ineffective?

I get flooding. water water every where. I don't know about that one.

Water is emotion. Do you feel inundated?

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

I normally have terrible nighmares about all my teeth falling out.

For some of us that ain't a dream.

 

[MikeE87]

Here is my post that I made a few days back. vaping nightmare indeed. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...iscussion/551377-i-had-dream-share-yours.html

 

[mare ze dotes]

So you feel toothless? Ineffective?

Water is emotion. Do you feel inundated?

Tooth loss is the loss of health and the flooding is loss of territory. Not having a place to go to.

 

[Purplepeeps]

I thought the tooth nightmares were about insecurities about ones looks.

 

[Jimi D.]

I took a couple of hits off a coworkers smoke, to see what all the hype was. After 4 years smoke free it tasted pretty good, but made feel terrible physically. That definitely put the icing on the cake not to ever smoke again

 

[Noble Gas]

In drug addiction recovery, these are called 'using dreams'. In a recovering addict, they can produce profound and even destructive waking reactions; feelings of guilt, shame and terror, even relapse. But it's nothing to be overly concerned about. It's just a mechanism, a normal brain function. Your brain got used to smoking, and now you're not, so the brain is providing a replacement for that missing experience. You don't need to smoke to relieve it, or worry about it at all. The dreams may return occasionally, but they will eventually stop. If you ever stop vaping, you'll probably have vaping dreams, too.

 

[Jimi D.]

In drug addiction recovery, these are called 'using dreams'. In a recovering addict, they can produce profound and even destructive waking reactions; feelings of guilt, shame and terror, even relapse. But it's nothing to be overly concerned about. It's just a mechanism, a normal brain function. Your brain got used to smoking, and now you're not, so the brain is providing a replacement for that missing experience. You don't need to smoke to relieve it, or worry about it at all. The dreams may return occasionally, but they will eventually stop. If you ever stop vaping, you'll probably have vaping dreams, too.

Exactly ! Even with nearly 7 years of being clean and sober. I get those dreams once in a blue moon.

 

[PosingOwl]

I read an article a long time ago that was really interesting.

It said that when we dream, the brain waves travel at the speed of light. With this in mind the article states that when we are dreaming, what we really are seeing, are ourselves in parallel universes. Especially when the dreams are extremely vivid and seem real to us. I always thought that this was a fascinating idea.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Mr Owl, yes, but you come from area 51, where all sorts of new age beliefs abound. Woooooeeeeeioioeiooiiiii.

When I work with dream interpretation, since dreams originate in the dreamer's own experiences, cultural context, desires, wants, and needs, I guide the individual to interpret them, himself. I am not qualified, since I am not the dreamer. A cut and dried textbook approach often serves to foul the picture.

 

[PosingOwl]

Mr Owl, yes, but you come from area 51, where all sorts of new age beliefs abound. Woooooeeeeeioioeiooiiiii.

That may be true, but I was in Germany at the time of reading this article and not in this deserted area. We are the largest city within 100 miles every direction.

 

[rurwin]

Since "brain waves", by which I assume the article means neural nerve impulses, travel at around 200mph, the theory falls at the first hurdle. On the other hand I have often had dreams that seemed to me to be snatches of a different life with a consistent history. But the mind plays funny tricks at the best of times, and just waking after a dream is not the best of times.

As another crazy theory... There's an interesting book: An Experiment With Time by JW Dunne. It's probably way out of print now. He describes how he had a group of volunteers keep both a daily journal and a dream diary. Events from each were blind matched by an impartial umpire. Matches to dreams were found in the journals within a period two weeks before or after the dream, with approximately equal probability.