Bad Dreams about Eating Meat?

I've been vegetarian (now raw vegan) since last fall, but I never had any dreams like this until I think 2 months ago or something. I never craved meat since last year and I still don't. I've had maybe 2 or 3 dreams where I "give in" and eat cooked meat. In those dreams, I'm not exactly enjoying the meat at all, though I wasn't appalled by it either. I did feel guilty after eating it, though. I didn't seem to be short on food, I just ate a piece of meat. These dreams started happening when I started transitioning to raw vegan.

I still live with my family, who all eat cooked foods. They all eat meat, but I was no longer tempted by the meat, dairy, and eggs ever since I quit eating them. I now feel disgusted to even touch a bag of meat and dairy. I have to admit that the smell of cooked meat is not bad, although I can easily prepare and eat my own vegan meals while being surrounded by the look and smell of cooked meat without feeling deprived at all.

But I'm still wondering: What do these dreams mean? Will I stop having these dreams? Despite having already transitioned, am I having them because I'm not exactly used to eating cooked food yet? I've been completely HCRV for 6 days straight and I wish to keep this up for the rest of my life. Any answers/suggestions would be great Thanks! :D

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Comment by Peter Csere on December 9, 2012 at 8:47am: I've had dreams like this before. Eating chicken soup, pretending it's not chicken, feeling guilty. At a raw fruit potluck with Doug Graham, everyone's eating ham and taters. Plenty of other weird ones. Not all involving meat - sometimes just cooked food, i.e. dreams about eating brownies. They happen when I'm undercarbed.

IMO food guilt dreams happens when you're undercarbed. It's pretty easy to get undercarbed considering you've been undercarbed your entire life before starting a high[normal]-carb diet. Eat more fruit. =D

Comment by Heather on December 9, 2012 at 8:41am: Iv been having dreams like this to!! It's soo crazy. The other night I had a dream I hid in the bathrooms on my lunch break and ate a beef kebab, & the other night I dreamt I ate bacon and eggs.. I felt terrible in my dreams and when I woke up I felt guilty and like I had to start all over but it's good to no there not real. Tho it's a bit horrible knowing I'm dreaming about eating meat :-( I'm fine when I'm in reality, I'd much rather sit down to a big bowl of fruit then a kebab any day!

Comment by Brad Ramsay on October 18, 2012 at 3:25pm: after my second day in a row on the lifestyle I dreamed abour eating unripe bananas. and also that i had this thing i could eat that would immediately optimize my healthy but i didnt eat it (that part was recurring)

last night i dreamed i was in a ghost house and i woke it up. that was kinda creepy

Comment by JustPeachyGaGirl on October 18, 2012 at 9:52am: OK, and now they've started, I dreamed I accidentally inhaled some bread last night *rolls eyes*

Comment by Paulina on October 17, 2012 at 8:19am: I've had a couple of dreams in my first year of going vegan involving me consuming, or just being confronted with meat/dairy... Whenever I would eat it in my dreams I would feel disgust in myself and never really enjoy it, and then feel terribly guilty too. It's so nice waking up knowing that it was not reality! Haha.. I think those dreams came up because once I shifted to becoming vegan, veganism/food/not eating meat/etc were things that were constantly in my mind and part of my everyday reality (by watching vids, reading, talking to people..), so it would make sense that my mind would create scenarios of these things in my dreams. But I don't feel bad about having those dreams, they're not reality. In real life I wouldn't be doing half the crazy and absurd stuff I do in my dreams haha. I think dreams are fun... you get to do all the stuff you would never do in real life and see how you would actually react without having to actually do it.

Comment by Brad Ramsay on October 17, 2012 at 7:58am: yeah its like that reversal that seems to happen when you detox... you probably don't need those memories. i think in Zen you acknowledge any irrelevant thoughts when you meditate, then let them go. probably whats happening here.

Comment by Christian on October 17, 2012 at 7:10am: It happens to many people when they give up smoking and drugs also. Maybe the old brain sorting through old memories make way for some good new ones. I would not read deep into it and just forget about it.

Comment by Seana Marche on October 17, 2012 at 6:41am: I had a dream something like this last night, except it wasn't about eating meat but about mcdonalds fries! Mcdonalds disgusts me, and in my dream people were throwing tons and tons of mcdonalds fries at me and I couldn't get away from it! kind of funny but a tad scary!

Comment by Joshua on October 17, 2012 at 5:55am: Had a dream not too long ago that I was eating those animal crackers and noticed as I was eating them that they were living, reminded me a bit of toy story. That dream freaked me out, woke up in a cold sweat.

Comment by Mera/Feather Story on October 17, 2012 at 3:16am: Dreams are not really "your subconscious"...dreaming about meat does not mean that you want meat or are not used to not having meat. What it means...is up to you to decide and can depend on lots of different factors. We do have dreams based on physiological things going on within us, as well as mental/emotional things, we can also have dreams based on things going on in our outer environment, our community, the world in general. We can have dreams about something that happens next week in (insert celebrity here)'s life...

What I would say is often that it is more like Amanda posted. Often our dreams(especially repeated ones) help us to transform our thought patterns. So instead of judging them, feeling bad about them, feeling confused or frustrated with them or feeling guilty as if we have done something to create the dreams, we could accept them and when we have learned and expanded our minds they then tend to go away.

In most of my dreams I either dream about fruit, or I am in a food court and I cannot decide where I can find the healthiest option of food, so I never end up picking anything. Occasionally I have had meat in a dream and in the dream context, it is appropriate, I think that's something worth thinking about. I think in actuality it is not about the meat... not until you make it about the meat... it is about doing something out of the ordinary, taking something into your body, that you wouldn't normally take, by your own choice, and being okay with it... subtle, simple, but powerful.

Dreams use symbols and codes...I don't think there is a book of symbols that can tell you that eating meat is concurrent with let's say... hurting a friend, but that the symbols and codes are more personal, different each time and often emotional in nature.

Just my two cents. :)