Dreams about feeding into my addiction...

[shawnnam]

So last night I had my first dream... errr.. rather nightmare about feeding into my lust for junk food. I saw myself eating tons of cookies, and I was reaching for another bag when I thought "AHHH what am I doing!?!?!?" it scared the hell out of me because it was all so real!

I just found it interesting because when my mom quit smoking after about 2 weeks she started having dreams of her smoking, without her knowing how she got the cigarette or why and had a lot of anxiety over it.

It goes to show how strong the hold of a food addiction really is on a person!

Has anyone else had these weird food nightmares?

 

[grrrkgrrrl]

no, but i've had dreams of my ex's showing up at my door, acting as if we never broke up, and let me tell you, it was equally stressful!

seriously, those dreams sound normal. you're making a change in your life and your brain is examining it through those dreams.
you long for junk food in your waking time, and since you don't have it, your brain provides dreams of them, thinking it will satisfy those longings, whilst also stressing the "i am on a healthy path" part of you in the process.
they will go away after a while, alond with the junk food cravings and you will laughing all the way to the gym

regards,
grrrkgrrrl

 

[summer123]

I used to have bulimia and anorexia, I still get dreams about problems with either- its an anxiety dream I think. In either I'd be stuck in a situation where I am trapped and cannot repair the damage, so stuck at a meal I have to eat, or eating something and realising several hours later that I had calculated the calories wrong (think full fat drink instead of diet drink) or could not throw something back up again.

I don't know if I'd go as far as to label each of those an addiction- others may disagree, but I do get sit-up-bolt-upright dream/nightmares about them.

I used to be tiny (like 40 kilos or BMI aprox 13) and got along fine with no nightmareish dreams, now my weight has spiralled way out of my control, appetite control is way off (don't feel hungry in the day, feel starving hungry at night despite eating all day) and have an over weight BMI now, and I get more of these dreams then I ever had! Not sure why it happens like that, maybe a sort of PTSD?