Nightmares about eating junk food?...

[keriann_forgoodthistime]

Originally Posted by SunnySmile501

I had them for quite a while when I started Atkins this second time--100% by the book. They felt so real that sometimes when I awoke, it thought I could still taste and smell the food.

exactly! haha - i wake up with this absolute DREAD thinking "ohmygod, what did i do???!!!" lol

but then i realize - "nope - didn't eat it. time for breakfast, go have some eggs!"

[momonmission99*]

I've had a couple of those! I would wake up feeling so guilty and glad that it was just a dream LOL. At least I get to have some of my old favorites while I'm sleeping LOL

[rajenki]

I've been taking Ambien since about the same time I started on Atkins and have had a few dreams that I honestly...to this day...can't say 100% for sure they were dreams. With ambien, it's possible I really did something but just don't remember. One of the dreams I was standing at the refrigerator noshing on something. The good news, however, is that everything in my fridge is legal, and I didn't find any empty containers of anything...so I'm fairly certain it was a dream.

It really weirds you out when it feels that real though!

[SunnySmile501]

The absolute worst one was the one where I dreamed that I got up to make sure that there was no evidence of me eating junk in the night, and the counter tops and trash can were loaded with empty cookie and snack wrappers! That one was very confusing, because it felt so real.

I never go to bed that there is even one dish left dirty and the entire kitchen is put away and spotless. In the dream, I put everything in the trash and wiped down the counters, because I hate to get up to a messy kitchen. The dream was so real that when I woke up for real, I was shocked that there was nothing at all--no empty chip bags, no empty cookie packages--in my trash can that I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone.


The crazy part is that I don't even like cookies! I love to bake homemade cookies for others, but I can't remember the last time I bought a package of store-bought cookies! Probably more than 20 years ago. But, in the dream, they were definitely store-bought cookies that I ate down to the crumbs.

[keriann_forgoodthistime]

wow - well at least I know i'm not the only one here to be having these dreams.

and - sunny - just like you not eating cookies - that's a lot of my dreams. the junk i eat in my dreams aren't things I'd normally have eaten, junk-food-wise before I was on atkins.

ie - the jelly filled doughnut - i've always thought those were WAY too sweet and always preferred your basic krispy kream glazed. nothing fancy (although chocolate glazed was always good too! hehe).

[msanjelpie]

I'm on Ambien CR too... usually the weird dreams come during the daily naps though, not the nighttime sleep... I refer to them as 'Oh NO!!" dreams...

I'll be eating my favorites, popcorn, chocolate cake etc... and be so worried that I was blowing the diet - and wake up and be SO relieved that it was just a dream...

My other popular dream is that I'm 9 months pregnant, and about to deliver and I can't think up a name... on that one I'll be disappointed when I wake up because the baby is gone, and the dream seemed so real...

[thefemalegreenday]

Yeah I get them all the time!
Like i'll be eating my favorite junk food and then ill finish it off
and start thinking about the diet and realize how stupid I am