I consume most of my daily intake of snuff in the hours before bedtime. I’ve found that my dreams have become amazingly vivid, and often lucid. It’s hard to describe-- but the colors are more colorful, my sense of hearing is more acute, my sense of touch is super sensitive, etc. Apparently nicotine suppresses something called PGO waves that spike before you enter the REM stage of sleep. This can cause your brain to mix up awake/asleep signals and sometimes you can maintain awareness and recall when in a dream state.
Does this happen regularly to anyone else? I thought it might be fun if we could share some of our crazier dreams…
In my dream last night I was walking through a field and found a bright orange item in the tall grass. I bent to pick it up and found it was a half-chewed orange slice and dropped it in disgust. Somehow the act of dropping the slimy half-eaten orange triggered my ability to teleport anywhere I desired so I blinked all around the world. My teleporting ‘aim’ was quite poor though. Instead of arriving at the landmarks I intended to, I would end up outside dilapidated houses/buildings in the vicinity of my goal… It was quite a fun sight seeing trip even though I never saw what I meant to see!