Cheating on your diet in your sleep

Yes!! I feel awful at first and then realize I didn't really eat it, and I feel this immense relief. I dreamed of eating just ridiculous amounts of food that were all terribly high calories, then I felt absolutely miserable about it in my dream. Basically, the same thing that happens to me in real life, except VERY exaggerated.

I dream of eating most nights. Usually stuff I'm not supposed to have (re: high sodium due to HBP). I don't see it as weird or unusually since it happens to me most of the time.

Every time this happens I'd like you to then dream about doing a bunch of extra exercise to burn off those extra dream calories, followed by dreaming that you wrote a post in dream MFP about how guilty you felt about the extra calories you just ate. Title it something like "help me I binged" followed by admitting that it was only 300 calories of fruit and vegetables.

Ok thanks OP let me know how it goes.

:bigsmile: :flowerforyou:



(trolling aside I do think this is a good topic)

I dreamed once that I woke up and it had rained skittles all night and there were 3 feet of skittles in the back yard. I ran outside and dove in. I didn't eat any, but I sure as heck was one happy girl.

The other day I dreamed I binged on a huge plate of spaghetti, butter and cheese and chased it with a huge pizza margherita.

Oh gosh. Now I'm craving. EEEK!

happened to me at least 5 times. when i woke up i was feeling anxious at first but then it was a huge relief because i do binge eat sometimes

I've had cheat dreams. It'd be one thing if I just dreamed that I had a feast of crappy food, but the fact that I *know* it's something I'm not supposed to eat large quantities of, that even my dream-self is aware of that, is creepy.

The past few months, I've found I become lucid at least 4-5 times per week (I don't know why, every few years the lucidity seems to strike me hard. I've done a lot of research on lucid dreams - briefly blogged about them. Lucid dreaming is nifty!), and sometimes it'll happen in a 'cheat' dream. Which is awesome, because then I realize it's a dream and it's not actually a real pizza, and it's not actually going to undo any of my hard work :P

I've also dreamed about logging or being desperate to find the calorie value of something (most recently, it was the Oprah Chai Tea latte from Starbucks - I ended up looking it up IRL the next day and then enjoying one LOL). I think that's a bit more 'normal' for me, in that logging is something I do every day of my life, so it just works its way into my subconscious.

ETA:

freud would love this thread

I think Freud would refer to this dream as an "infantile" one, as both the manifest and latent content are exactly the same: the fear of completely destroying my hard work with enormous amounts of bacon cheeseburgers and frosty mugs.

^ LOL and YES @ both these posts. Something seriously wrong, but hey, I'm a bit neurotic at the best of times :laugh:

Morning all (well, it's morning where I am, anyway),

This is sort of a silly topic, I know, but I was wondering if there was anyone else out there who ever had *dreams* of cheating enormously on their diet. Not getting up and actually consuming anything in their sleep, like some sleepwalkers do. I mean simply dreaming about it.

I've been very good about eating within my calories on a daily basis since the first of April, and I still allow myself treats but I budget them into my calories, so I rarely go way over.

But last night I had a very vivid dream where I downed several cheeseburgers, fries, and LOTS of beer. I woke up feeling somewhat anxious (although relieved that it didn't actually happen!)

I chalk this up to a general anxiety dream. Wondered if anyone else has these occasionally?

Yeah, I've had binge dreams before. Glad they weren't real. :bigsmile:

I once dreamed I was making pancakes over a campfire with Gene Wilder in his Young Frankenstein persona.

freud would love this thread

I think Freud would refer to this dream as an "infantile" one, as both the manifest and latent content are exactly the same: the fear of completely destroying my hard work with enormous amounts of bacon cheeseburgers and frosty mugs.

Yep, and it's all about oral gratification, too.

Most of my odd dreams are about finding money, since I'm always anxious about paying my bills. Not too long ago, though, I dreamed about eating as much prime rib with mushrooms and potato as I could manage, along with creme brulee and chocolate lava cake--I've definitely been wanting all of the above!

People dream of having sex with others (so called married people who NEVER cheat do too I'm sure), so I don't find this and odd dream.
When I quit smoking 10 years ago cold turkey, for about 2 months I dreamed of smoking.

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I had a dream I was having sex with a cheeseburger.

Please advise.

That wasn't a dream.


And it wasn't a cheeseburger.........

lol

People dream of having sex with others (so called married people who NEVER cheat do too I'm sure), so I don't find this and odd dream.
When I quit smoking 10 years ago cold turkey, for about 2 months I dreamed of smoking.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

I quit smoking about 75 days ago (oh, not that I'm keeping track...), went on the patch for 1 week, cold turkey ever since. The smoking dreams are a weekly occurrence. If I had to choose between an entire pizza or a cigarette right now, with no health consequences - you bet your *kitten* I'd take the cigarette!