Smoking

Often this relates to attitudes or habits, or the drug itself, that you use to deal with anxiety. It can indicate that something other than your conscious decision is controlling you.

Some smoking dreams connect with hidden sexual desires, with a comforting friend or a change in mood, such as might occur when we meet a friend. In some cultures and situations it would show connection with others and a special time of togetherness, such as the smoked pipe in the Native American ritual, or when smoking a joint in company. When there are two or three people smoking it could also suggest a clique atmosphere, a togetherness that excludes others on in which, perhaps because you are allaying anxiety by smoking, you feel included.

Defining smoking dreams, Christopher Evans, in his book Landscapes of the Night, says typical dreams are of puffing away in a crowded place such as a party, showing how linked smoking is with anxiety about dealing with being sociable. If they give up smoking, the programming is so deeply etched that they frequently dream of smoking, perhaps without meaning to, but this gradually lessens as time goes by.