Due to my mental problems I have some pretty extreme and crazy dreams. Too the point where I wake up screaming at night or knocking everything off my night stand or kicking a wall once (my bed is next to a wall). I have spoken to my psychiatrist about dreams and done quite a bit research about different sleep states and dreams.
First of all dreams are very hard to interpret. It is very likely your dream has absolutely nothing to do with wanting to smoke. It is more likely there is something else going on in your life and this is your brains way of dealing with it. It could also just be completely random and having nothing to due with anything at all. It is nothing more than a dream.
I have a reoccurring dream about being back in high school, but I am the age I am now or have all the knowledge I have now. Like for some reason I decided to go back and do it all over again. It is a nice dream because there is no stress to it. I know must of it is all BS and petty. I also know I have a diploma already so I can just walk out and quit anytime I want. Does this mean I have some deep desire to go back to high school? Or that something tragic happened to me when I was young and I am trying to work through. Nope, not at all. I have NO desire to do that part of my life over again lol. And while my teenage years were not fantastic, they were not all that bad either. I had a pretty average life for the most part.
I also have horribly violent dreams where I am being chased, fighting or killing people. When I am awake I don't feel paranoid, I have no desire to fight, and there is certainly no one I want to kill. And I am not locked in a mental institution so I guess my doctors are not worried about it either.
Last night I murdered someone with a coffee mug. You had a dream you wanted a cigarette. Consider yourself lucky lol. You probably don't want a cig any more than I want to kill someone. My advice is don't worry about and just ignore them.
When we sleep it is sort of like defragging a hard drive in your computer. This is when your brain tries to re organize things or make sense of what is happening in your life. This is why sleep is SO important. Not getting enough sleep is one of the worst things you can do to your body. My simple advice is to not try and make sense of things that will probably never make sense. Just start your day on a positive note and move on. But if you ever need to talk about anything we are here for you.
Thank you for sharing, Paul.