Smoking Dreams

[RainstormZA]

Has anyone had strange dreams where you took a cigarette and lighted up?

I've had two of those dreams since I quitted smoking one year and 7 months.

Any idea why this happens? I don't miss it and prefer vaping.

 

[Elmien]

It could be that you feel like you are missing out on something and your brain uses smoking as a metaphor for that something. That is not to say that you miss smoking but your brain could be using it since it was a part of your daily life that you don't do anymore and it is an easy image to pull up to represent something that you want that you don't have. I hope I'm making sense here.

 

[lesvaches]

i have dreams where i have a drink and light a cigar while i’m stressed about crap that essentially doesn’t matter. when i wake up i don’t even feel like vaping.

 

[blujeenz]

Has anyone had strange dreams where you took a cigarette and lighted up?

I've had two of those dreams since I quitted smoking one year and 7 months.

Any idea why this happens? I don't miss it and prefer vaping.

I had a handful of those dreams in the 1st 7 years since quitting, they become less frequent as the years roll by.
I remember dreaming that I'd started smoking again and woke up extremely pissed off with myself... until I realised it was just a dream.
Its probably some balance compensation mechanism due to the constant subliminal avoidance of cigarettes, ie nothing to be taken seriously.

 

[RainstormZA]

I had a handful of those dreams in the 1st 7 years since quitting, they become less frequent as the years roll by.
I remember dreaming that I'd started smoking again and woke up extremely pissed off with myself... until I realised it was just a dream.
Its probably some balance compensation mechanism due to the constant subliminal avoidance of cigarettes, ie nothing to be taken seriously.

Nah, I'm just wondering why they happen.

 

[RainstormZA]

It could be that you feel like you are missing out on something and your brain uses smoking as a metaphor for that something. That is not to say that you miss smoking but your brain could be using it since it was a part of your daily life that you don't do anymore and it is an easy image to pull up to represent something that you want that you don't have. I hope I'm making sense here.

That makes sense, maybe I need to get more flavours in with my juices. Lately I've been meh with my current juices. I do have 3 that I switch between. I guess it's time for me to get another one shot of something else. I've been looking for a strong xxx mint type juice recipe and I can't get mine right, the mint is too weak in taste.

 

[Elmien]

That makes sense, maybe I need to get more flavours in with my juices. Lately I've been meh with my current juices. I do have 3 that I switch between. I guess it's time for me to get another one shot of something else. I've been looking for a strong xxx mint type juice recipe and I can't get mine right, the mint is too weak in taste.

Check out this recipe: http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/351070/Fisherman's Friend. Looks to be very minty. Could be what you are looking for.

 

[Dela Rey Steyn]

Not a Smoking dream, but my force of habit/muscle memory (what ever you would like to call it) is so strong sometimes, I'll be watching a movie or show where the person is smoking or starts smoking and I will instinctively reach for smokes that aren't even there, its been more than a year and a half later. If there were actual cigarettes in my house I would most probably light one up, just out of habit. I'll cough out a lung or two, but I'll definitely light it up

 

[RainstormZA]

Not a Smoking dream, but my force of habit/muscle memory (what ever you would like to call it) is so strong sometimes, I'll be watching a movie or show where the person is smoking or starts smoking and I will instinctively reach for smokes that aren't even there, its been more than a year and a half later. If there were actual cigarettes in my house I would most probably light one up, just out of habit. I'll cough out a lung or two, but I'll definitely light it up

Lol I've been through that too.

 

[Neal]

Never had it regarding the fags, but since stopping the booze have had a few dreams of this sort, complete with phantom hangover when I wake up. Really angry with myself until I realise I had not actually relapsed, and also relieved that "hangover" does not exist.

 

[RainstormZA]

I'm now thinking Battlestar Galactica is to blame as I'm watching reruns and a lot of smokers on that ship.