Dream binges

pursuitoffitness
pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
in Motivation and Support
Last night I dreamt that I binged. Like a crazy binge where I just about ate everything. In my dream it was awesome but then I woke up in tears. What's wrong with me? Does anybody else get this?

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  • alyja09
    alyja09 Posts: 34 Member
    I just recently started dreaming about eating bad food! Haha. I ate like 3 cupcakes the other night and woke up feeling so guilty until I realized it never happened! So funny
  • Captain_Spatchcock
    Captain_Spatchcock Posts: 136
    How is your nutrition?
  • bmjeffri
    bmjeffri Posts: 6 Member
    Its just the food devil...lol... nothings wrong...its ok to have dreams like that. my first week consisted of fried food and ice cream. besides you are live your food fantasies through your dreams...enjoy no weight gain there.:happy:
  • pursuitoffitness
    pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
    Is my diary able to be seen by people I'm not friends with? I mean I've had these dreams before. It's a relief when I wake up and not true, but still.
  • midgetio
    midgetio Posts: 57
    I once dreamed I ate a whole tub of ben and jerries and woke up feeling full, it was weird!
  • tinksmommy2006
    tinksmommy2006 Posts: 575
    How is your nutrition?

    ^^^YES! I have the bad dreams when I am to "bad" carb or sugar over loaded.
  • bmjeffri
    bmjeffri Posts: 6 Member
    Thats hilarious!!! i love it:laugh:
  • pursuitoffitness
    pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
    I once dreamed I ate a whole tub of ben and jerries and woke up feeling full, it was weird!

    Same!!! Weird.
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    Yeah, it happens sometimes to me. Usually after I make something impossibly indulgent for someone else and I'd die to have some of it, but can't because a) it's not for me and b) even if it was, it still wouldn't be worth the extra calories.

    The first couple times I actually jumped from my bed in panic and went straight to the kitchen to make sure it was really all a dream, now I just wake up and smile. :)
  • AShawneeF
    AShawneeF Posts: 123 Member
    hey, it's okay. your body prolly doesn't like you cutting off it's food supply the way you are from the way you were before you joined. but in your heart and mind you know that you don't want to do that anymore.

    it's okay.
  • HealthFreak1967
    HealthFreak1967 Posts: 116 Member
    yeah i used to dream about eating tons of french fries or i even once dreamt that I accidentally ate a hamburger and then realized what i'd done (i'm vegan) and threw it back up lol. And I always dream that 'd binge on things that I would never allow myself to eat especially in large quantities like cookies candy processed things etc. I hate those dreams! I have anxiety in real life and when I dream about food it gives me anxiety in my sleeping state to!
  • Captain_Spatchcock
    Captain_Spatchcock Posts: 136
    Is my diary able to be seen by people I'm not friends with? I mean I've had these dreams before. It's a relief when I wake up and not true, but still.

    i wanted to take a peek, but it's not...
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings - at the bottom where it says Diary Settings, you can set it Public.
  • pursuitoffitness
    pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
    yeah i used to dream about eating tons of french fries or i even once dreamt that I accidentally ate a hamburger and then realized what i'd done (i'm vegan) and threw it back up lol. And I always dream that 'd binge on things that I would never allow myself to eat especially in large quantities like cookies candy processed things etc. I hate those dreams! I have anxiety in real life and when I dream about food it gives me anxiety in my sleeping state to!

    I wake up feeling so stressed because I really believe that I ate it!! It's so annoying. I just want them to stop!!
  • BrazenHarpy
    BrazenHarpy Posts: 81 Member
    Weird! I've started having binge dreams since I started dieting. In my last dream, I couldn't stop eating chocolate chip cookies. I woke up pretty upset until I realized that we didn't actually have cookies in the house, so there was no way I actually binged in my sleep :).
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    yeah i used to dream about eating tons of french fries or i even once dreamt that I accidentally ate a hamburger and then realized what i'd done (i'm vegan) and threw it back up lol. And I always dream that 'd binge on things that I would never allow myself to eat especially in large quantities like cookies candy processed things etc. I hate those dreams! I have anxiety in real life and when I dream about food it gives me anxiety in my sleeping state to!

    I wake up feeling so stressed because I really believe that I ate it!! It's so annoying. I just want them to stop!!

    sounds like something that happens when you are OVERLY restrictive in a bad way. how many calories are you eating daily?
  • lil_pulp
    lil_pulp Posts: 701 Member
    When I first changed my lifestyle (nutrition/portion awareness and started working out), I had so many dreams about food. It was a bit unsettling for a while, but eventually it stopped.....and then I started dreaming about the issues that I'd been stifling with food.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    Depends what you were binging on. A few years ago I went on Atkins for a few months and I found that low carb gives me carb binging dreams. I would dream about downing donuts, cakes, cookies, whole loves of bread, muffins, cup cakes, meat pies . . . it was like a bakery smorgasbord. Talking to my mom and sister, they went through the same thing . . . it was worse than the smoking dreams I had when I quit those a few years before. So if that's what's going on, then yes. What I learned from it was that between that and a few other psychological things that happened as a result, I'm not a good low carber and really shouldn't do it.
  • cfregon
    cfregon Posts: 147
    Like one of the folks above, I'm vegetarian and once had a dream I was riding in a car with friends eating. I looked down, realized it was fried chicken with the skin on and everything...I was even cleaning the bones....freaked out...spit it all up, then woke up suddenly, disgusted...funny thing is, the next day I went to a picnic, and they had fried chicken. *grossed out*
  • Car0lynnM
    Car0lynnM Posts: 332 Member
    I dream about food all the time. Like I can't shove the food in fast enough. Oddly, though, I don't think I've had that dream since I started on my healthy eating lifestyle. Interesting.
  • pursuitoffitness
    pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
    Weird! I've started having binge dreams since I started dieting. In my last dream, I couldn't stop eating chocolate chip cookies. I woke up pretty upset until I realized that we didn't actually have cookies in the house, so there was no way I actually binged in my sleep :).

    Or maybe you really did which is why you didnt have them... Lol kidding
  • s_waser
    s_waser Posts: 92
    I have these dreams too or if I crave something and I keep thinking about eating it I feel guilty like I did eat it. Its so weird. I have never experienced withdraw from drugs or alcohol because I have never been addicted but I imagine it is like this. We are addicted to bad foods and our minds and bodys think we need it and want it so we day or night dream about having it.
  • pursuitoffitness
    pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
    yeah i used to dream about eating tons of french fries or i even once dreamt that I accidentally ate a hamburger and then realized what i'd done (i'm vegan) and threw it back up lol. And I always dream that 'd binge on things that I would never allow myself to eat especially in large quantities like cookies candy processed things etc. I hate those dreams! I have anxiety in real life and when I dream about food it gives me anxiety in my sleeping state to!

    I wake up feeling so stressed because I really believe that I ate it!! It's so annoying. I just want them to stop!!

    sounds like something that happens when you are OVERLY restrictive in a bad way. how many calories are you eating daily?

    Around 1,200 maybe more if I exercise alot
  • Captain_Spatchcock
    Captain_Spatchcock Posts: 136
    yeah i used to dream about eating tons of french fries or i even once dreamt that I accidentally ate a hamburger and then realized what i'd done (i'm vegan) and threw it back up lol. And I always dream that 'd binge on things that I would never allow myself to eat especially in large quantities like cookies candy processed things etc. I hate those dreams! I have anxiety in real life and when I dream about food it gives me anxiety in my sleeping state to!

    I wake up feeling so stressed because I really believe that I ate it!! It's so annoying. I just want them to stop!!

    sounds like something that happens when you are OVERLY restrictive in a bad way. how many calories are you eating daily?

    Around 1,200 maybe more if I exercise alot

    likely culprit right there
  • DeTaart
    DeTaart Posts: 93 Member
    I thought this was going to be a "what's your dream binge?" post. Disappointed.


    Oh go on then, mine would be:

    - bowl after bowl of crunchy organic fruit-packed museli with greek yoghurt and a tiny bit of ice cold milk
    - kitkats, lots of kitkats, milk chocolate four finger bars
    - melted mature cheddar cheese on thick sourdough with dijon mustard - three slices
    - massive slab hot sticky toffee pudding with a tiny bit of custard
    - salt beef bagels with hot hot mustard
    - peanut butter brittle smashed over good vanilla ice cream

    Now that's a dream binge.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    I've given up candy and sweets, and the other night I had a dream I went to Olive Garden and accidentally ate one of those Andes Candies before I realized it. Then dream me was like "Oh well, I already messed up" and ate another. -_-

    Not a binge, but it was an interesting food dream.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    yeah i used to dream about eating tons of french fries or i even once dreamt that I accidentally ate a hamburger and then realized what i'd done (i'm vegan) and threw it back up lol. And I always dream that 'd binge on things that I would never allow myself to eat especially in large quantities like cookies candy processed things etc. I hate those dreams! I have anxiety in real life and when I dream about food it gives me anxiety in my sleeping state to!

    I wake up feeling so stressed because I really believe that I ate it!! It's so annoying. I just want them to stop!!

    sounds like something that happens when you are OVERLY restrictive in a bad way. how many calories are you eating daily?

    Around 1,200 maybe more if I exercise alot

    Thats probably the problem. You're 19, you can and should be eating more.
  • KinzieElise
    KinzieElise Posts: 584 Member
    The ironic thing is that I just had my first dream binge last night and then I saw this topic on my home page. In my dream I ate a literal fistful of chocolate chip cookie dough...and then a huge bowl of Neopolitian ice cream! The weird thing is that I don't even like Neopolitian ice cream. I woke up saying to myself "What was I thinking? Now I'm gonna feel horrible the whole day." And then I realized that it was a dream.
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
    I thought this was going to be a "what's your dream binge?" post. Disappointed.


    Oh go on then, mine would be:

    - bowl after bowl of crunchy organic fruit-packed museli with greek yoghurt and a tiny bit of ice cold milk
    - kitkats, lots of kitkats, milk chocolate four finger bars
    - melted mature cheddar cheese on thick sourdough with dijon mustard - three slices
    - massive slab hot sticky toffee pudding with a tiny bit of custard
    - salt beef bagels with hot hot mustard
    - peanut butter brittle smashed over good vanilla ice cream

    Now that's a dream binge.

    Now I'm hungry.:tongue:
  • pittskaa
    pittskaa Posts: 319 Member
    i ate in my sleep....i went and ate three frosted sugar cookies. my brother saw me do it and i have no memory.
    or at least thats what im pretending to make myself feel better about it :)
  • pursuitoffitness
    pursuitoffitness Posts: 45
    Glad to know I'm not the only one who dream binges lol.

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