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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. :) My dreams aren't violent, but they are vivid. PM me and we can talk.
 

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I too have had many cig smoking dreams, after quitting smoking with vaping! In one dream I am searching for another pack of cigs, on dark streets that are unknown to me, and I can't find a convenience store that has a pack of my smokes. I had this strange dream several times.

For a year and a half after putting down the cigs, I kept a half pack in my purse, a partial pack in my car, and I had cigs stashed prior to quitting all over my house and office for emergencies. One or two in my bathroom makeup drawer. A couple in the kitchen cabinets, and in my bookcase at work.

Never touched them, except to toss them out. In my dreams, I'm smoking up a storm! Lol!
 

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I agree with you about there being something more in cigarettes - it's not just nicotine which is addictive, and i have my doubts on whether nicotine is much of a culprit at all.

In the end unlike yourself I don't crave cigarettes anymore, the odd high stress situation yes, but that's it. We are all different how long this nags us I think. .

For me what helped was to get as far away from tobacco flavors as possible, so long as I do that I don't crave.

There is something for you to consider though.. are you stopping nicotine an hour or two before bed? Nicotine can give you more vivid dreams.

A couple weeks ago i had a dream where in it my husband had a heart attack while at work and died (my biggest fear) and in my dream I broke down and started crying and then in my deep sorrow myself began to have a heart attack - in the dream.

I woke up having chest pains and it messed me up physically for the entire day, and still had some recuperating the next day too - all from a dream.

Someone mentioned to me I might have taken in too much nicotine before bed which may have caused a dream that vivid. Which I had done that night actually. .

So, what might help you stop having these dreams of smoking might be to avoid or lessen your nicotine intake before bed.

Just a thought. ..
 

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I agree with you about there being something more in cigarettes - it's not just nicotine which is addictive, and i have my doubts on whether nicotine is much of a culprit at all.

In the end unlike yourself I don't crave cigarettes anymore, the odd high stress situation yes, but that's it. We are all different how long this nags us I think. .

For me what helped was to get as far away from tobacco flavors as possible, so long as I do that I don't crave.

There is something for you to consider though.. are you stopping nicotine an hour or two before bed? Nicotine can give you more vivid dreams.

A couple weeks ago i had a dream where in it my husband had a heart attack while at work and died (my biggest fear) and in my dream I broke down and started crying and then in my deep sorrow myself began to have a heart attack - in the dream.

I woke up having chest pains and it messed me up physically for the entire day, and still had some recuperating the next day too - all from a dream.

Someone mentioned to me I might have taken in too much nicotine before bed which may have caused a dream that vivid. Which I had done that night actually. .

So, what might help you stop having these dreams of smoking might be to avoid or lessen your nicotine intake before bed.

Just a thought. ..

Thank you for sharing! I'm so sorry you had that experience. :( I gave up tobacco flavors quickly after switching to vaping. I actually don't crave cigarettes while awake - I'm cheating in my dreams. :(
 

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I have an occasional dream where I am either thinking about smoking or looking for a cigarette but my last dream was my friends that don't smoke or vape were smoking and trying to get me to smoke not vape:( It was the same friends that were talking to me about vaping to choose a kit for a smoking relative the day before I had the dream so, I believe most of my smoking dreams occur after I think about smoking and vaping during the day. Yesterday I was looking at our Yorkie puppies tiny little feet and last night I dreamed I had tiny little hands, so I guess my dreams are guilt by association.:blush:
 

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Thank you for sharing! I'm so sorry you had that experience. :( I gave up tobacco flavors quickly after switching to vaping. I actually don't crave cigarettes while awake - I'm cheating in my dreams. :(

That's okay sir or ma'am or anything that doesnt manage to offend, stuff happens.. but that is why I illustrated that point. Nicotine does cause vivid dreams. It really may be an excess of nicotine just prior to bed that is causing the dreams, more so than you having some kind of real desire to cheat.
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That's okay sweetie stuff happens.. but that is why I illustrated that point. Nicotine does cause vivid dreams. It really may be an excess of nicotine just prior to bed that is causing the dreams, more so than you having some kind of real desire to cheat.
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Please don't call me sweetie. That's demeaning.
 

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    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.
    I had really bad nightmares for a couple of years like that. Turned out to be my BP medicine. Cut it in half and sleeping mostly good now. Helps to watch boring shows b4 I go to sleep also.
     

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    Thank you for sharing! I'm so sorry you had that experience. :( I gave up tobacco flavors quickly after switching to vaping. I actually don't crave cigarettes while awake - I'm cheating in my dreams. :(

    Hah. My wife used to occasionally get po'ed at me for stuff I did in her dreams. I thought it was one of the most ridiculous things I'd ever heard of. It really didn't calm her down when I'd laugh about it.
     
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    Hah. My wife used to occasionally get po'ed at me for stuff I did in her dreams. I thought it was one of the most ridiculous things I'd ever heard of. It really didn't calm her down when I'd laugh about it.
    I got very angry at my then-husband after a bad nightmare. In the dream, he was laughing at my fear of a giant spider (as big as a building). When I woke up, I got mad at him because he really did laugh at my fears in real life.

    IOW, he did in real life what he did in the dream. Of course, there was no giant spider in real life.
     

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    I got very angry at my then-husband after a bad nightmare. In the dream, he was laughing at my fear of a giant spider (as big as a building). When I woke up, I got mad at him because he really did laugh at my fears in real life.

    IOW, he did in real life what he did in the dream. Of course, there was no giant spider in real life.

    That is at least understandable. The one off the top of my head was a dream she had that I was cheating around, which I never would have done, but she worried about occasionally because she had some self esteem issues.
     

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    That is at least understandable. The one off the top of my head was a dream she had that I was cheating around, which I never would have done, but she worried about occasionally because she had some self esteem issues.
    Sorry, can't like that one.
     

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    I'm positive there is something else in cigarettes that causes the addiction.

    Other (minor) tobacco alkaloids (nicotine is a major alkaloid in a tobacco leaf), perhaps, but nobody knows exactly which one of them. Tobacco MAOIs.

    This has been discussed here for a very long time. Here's a nice post from DVap, one of the inventors (if not THE inventor) of WTA eliquids (he helped Aroma create their WTA formula).

    So - are we getting it or are we not - nicotine
     
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    My wife dreams at my wake she'll meet Jeffrey Dean Morgan and he'll whisk her away to Aruba to be comforted for a week. I said I don't care as long as she goes through with my idea for a reality TV show called "Stunts With Dead People" where during the premier show, they use an old fashion catapult to try and fling my body into the grave from 100 yards away. It combines the thrill of America's love of violence, America's love of Youtube stupidity with America's love a reality tv but no one actually gets hurt.
     

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    Sorry, can't like that one.

    There was nothing to 'like' about it, believe me. It's terrible when someone has been beaten down so much that they don't consider themselves to be worthy of fidelity. It got better. We were together for 23 years, married for 20 of them.
     

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    I agree with opinionated, i have vaped high nic before bedtime and have had some very strange dreams and they were very vivid. The kind that makes you wake up in a cold sweat. I have had dreams about smoking and then i wake up and go oh thank god it was only a dream. I think the mind doesn't forget what works and for so long smoking work for many of us and for many of us oh so many years did it work.
     

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    Not uncommon.
    Using dreams are a frequent topic of discussion at 12 step meetings for recovering alcoholics and addicts.
    They happen quite often in people who are early in recovery, they taper off, but they do recur, usually around anniversary dates, or following some stressful events.
     
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