I've never had nightmares about my weight until recently. In them I'm always terrifyingly under- or over-weight. Last night's was particularly disturbing. I was looking at myself in pictures and I looked skeletal. I could see my sternum, ribs and my legs looked like skin on bone. *shudder* But then I've also had them where I was so overweight that I got stuck in the bathtub or in my car and had to be cut out.
Never had dreams like that! Wow. I'd say in my dreams, I'm not really conscious of my weight, at all. When I look down at myself or see my reflection in a dream, it's usually just an average weight. You're probably just getting manifestations from unconscious insecurities? The fear of being underweight and or the fear of being overweight?
I have weight related nightmares, too. In mine, I'm usually in a restaurant or cafeteria setting, just eating and eating and eating. Undoing everything I've accomplished. Even when I wake up, for the first ten minutes or so I'm convinced that I've managed to waste all my hard work, when in reality I haven't done anything of the sort.
For me, I'm sure it comes from a fear of regaining my weight. They're worse now and I have them a little more often since this is my second attempt at this. I lost 100 lbs before and gained every pound back, plus five more.
It seems to me like it's anxiety finding an outlet.
I actually had a nightmare the other night in which people were oinking at me. Nothing like that has ever happened in real life, and this is the first time I've ever had any sort of fat related issues in my dreams. Of course, this also happens to coincide with me falling into a major depression where my eating and exercise habits have been terrible. Are you particularly stressed about your weight at the times when you have these dreams?
I have weight related nightmares, too. In mine, I'm usually in a restaurant or cafeteria setting, just eating and eating and eating. Undoing everything I've accomplished. Even when I wake up, for the first ten minutes or so I'm convinced that I've managed to waste all my hard work, when in reality I haven't done anything of the sort.
Ditto! And it's usually stuff I don't even usually crave in real life, like cake (I'm much more of a salt person than a sweets person).
I've had the nightmares. Usually it is temptations that I cannot escape with people forcing food on me until I am sick. One night this last week got silly - I was being chased through the streets by a 5 foot, probably 500 lb. cupcake!
I am pretty insecure about my weight and weight loss. I don't want to be fat, but the thought of being thin scares me to death. I don't want to be sickly thin, or skeletal or anything, but it's been so long since I've seen myself at a healthy weight, and even then I thought I was fat, so I don't know. I guess it's just fear of the unknown. Last night, after days of being off-plan, I had a dream I was eating wedding cake ALL BY MYSELF. I was eating the entire thing. I woke up terrified that I had done that, and guilty about being off plan. Sheesh... I never realized what a mind game losing weight is.
For the last 2 nights I've been dreaming of chocolate chip muffins from Perkins. Don't ask me why, we rarely go to Perkins and most chocolate gives me a raging stomach ache, so I rarely eat any, so I have no idea what's up with the muffin dreams.
I've had nightmares where I suddenly discover that my weight has ballooned up terribly, those dreams area awful, along with the dreams that my teeth are falling (or have fallen) out and so has my hair. Such bizarre dreams!
Weight Nightmares?
