You should try supplementing with ZMA while this is going on. The dreams will become so vivid it will be like the movie Inception.

I have had these dreams and I have acted out on these dreams. Not so much lately, though. Perhaps my mental change came when I realized how luxurious (lacto-)Paleo eating is. Cream, butter, cheese, steak, salmon, sashimi, veggies in butter, berries in cream, macademia nuts, BACON, srsly! I could go on and on just about cheese, the varieties, how good raw milk cheese makes me feel, blah blah blah.

Now I just feel like crap when I eat neolithic crap and I no longer dream about it.

"Or I have dreams where I'm walking through a grocery store and can't find anything Paleo to eat or buy." I'm pretty sure that's not a dream, lol.

I used to dream of pizza! I don't know why I haven't for several months.

Once I dreamed I was eating the most delicious piece of buttered toast. I woke up gnawing on my blanket!

I have these dreams a lot even after being paleo for almost 3 years. It always seems so real because it could technically happen in real life too, being stuck somewhere without paleo food or being in a bakery or candy shop.

The worst part is, I can't taste anything in my dreams and have no idea I'm dreaming. So I can't even enjoy it! Probably 90% of the dreams I end up eating a cupcake then wake up in a panic because I would get extremely sick from eating something with gluten. The other 10% I spend the rest of my dream explaining to people why I can't eat the damn cupcake and wake up frustrated and pissed off.

carbs are like heroin (literally attaching to some of the same receptor sites), hang in there...youll be better off after 30 days!

Yikes! I can't say I have! I have had dreams about wods; last night I had a dream I was at a magic show and Chris Spealler was the magician....bizarre. Are you stressed about your diet? Or maybe it's just on your mind-grapes (30 Rock anyone?).

I have these dreams regularly. It's funny that it's usually cake. Sometimes ice cream. And always, in the middle of the binge, I suddenly realize what I'm doing and am like "noooooo!". As I understand it, this is a pretty common psychological phenomenon. The best part about it is you can wake up and realize you are "safe" from the cake!

Maybe if your having dreams about food you are thinking too about what you do or don't eat.

I've been Paleo since the beginning of the year and have had these kind of dreams, though I can't remember specifics. It's probably a sign that you're breaking the addiction to carbs.

I remember my latest one - an ice cream buffet. I ended up eating an entire gallon of cookies and cream. I had one of these dreams maybe once every 2-3 weeks, been happening since I started eating low carbohydrate/no sugar (January 2010) and have diminished since but haven't completely disappeared. But yeah, I'm also in the group that can't tell that I'm dreaming as well, so I get really panicky in the dream.

I had a dream just the other night about eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This dream seemed to be peaceful and more wish fulfillment.

Usually, I am like Kat in that I end up freaking out in my dream and afterwards about being glutened and feeling sick or having to explain my health problems to everyone in my dream after eating a cake or something. No fun. The worst is waking up stressed that you glutened yourself in a dream.

There was a while back when I caught myself eating a pancake in my dream. I was like "WTF man, pancakes ?" I'm not sure if I ate it with "What's done is done" or threw it away but in any case, do not worry about it. It's funny though that I don't feel the desire for pancakes in real life but is it possible that I'm just surpressing that desire ? Leo, help :)

In my dreams, my nemesis is cake and pastries. SOmetimes I am good and don't eat them and stick to my diet and sometimes I am bad and partake while feeling guilty. When I am good, after I wake up, I think to myself that darn, I should have eaten them because dream sugar is probably the only safe kind of sugar!

This is too funny and timely - I just had a pizza-eating dream last night and I got so panicked about halfway through the slice when it dawned on me what I was doing and how sick I could have made myself! I recall the dough being underdone and being quite gluey in my mouth - not warm, fluffy, and yeasty like a cheatworthy slice should be. (shudder)

Quite a relief to wake up and realize I hadn't actually eaten pizza! Though I've had a bit of a dark chocolate / dried fruit bender lately so maybe they are connected (?).

I don't think that dreams like this are weird at all. You have removed something which used to be a part of your life (sugar/processed foods/grains/dairy/etc). Furthermore, you may still have occasional cravings for your food of choice, which you generally deny yourself because you have chosen a new way of life. Thus, your brain conjures these images at night as a way of processing the changes which you have adopted in your lifestyle!

I would have dreams of getting drunk for a while after I quit drinking alcohol. Over time they diminished, as I got used to being sober. Now they don't seem to occur any more, or perhaps I don't notice them if they do.

I dream of pizza! I've been Paleo for 14 months and the dreams are commonplace. Particularly after I resisted a temptation or... the day before a big party. Then I wake up relieved, Phew! I didn't cheat :)

there should be a Paleo dream book... Cara http://primroseandpaleo.wordpress.com

I've been paleo for a couple months so I haven't yet fully broken the addiction to gluten-based carbs. I do agree with most people on here saying it's like heroin, whereas it does attach itself to similar receptors.. But I'm sure nowhere as intense a withdraw as someone actually addicted to real heroin, lol. I do have dreams where I crave a donut or a slice of stuffed crust pizza and I just lose control. Even intentionally, where I know I shouldn't, but I do anyway. For the rest of the dream I feel guilt and remorse for what I did, but then wake up relieved and sort of happy, because I know it was all in my head, and that my dreams are the only place where I can still enjoy carbs, lol. I still do cheat every now and then but it's only a small amount (nowhere near the amount I used to be eating) and then I feel like crap afterwards. The more I learn from these experiences the less I crave them. So it's a win-win.

[mmm] che-e-eating...

in any 'dieting' there is a point of diminishing results; if cheating is something that is beginning to get featured in dreams, then IMO some form of if would be rather beneficial (one can always justify it in terms of restoration of leptin levels / sensitivity, or sanity for that matter)

for me the guru of cheating is definitely Martin Berkhan with his cheesecake mastery and hacks for hedonists

I've been Paleo for 14 months (and have never cheated) and had a dream a few nights ago about eating a Bavarian Cream donut from Dunkin Donuts.
It was pretty terrifying. (Also kind of strange, because those weren't even my favorite kind during my SAD days...)

During my 6-week Paleo Challenge, I had a dream that I was eating white rice, then suddenly dropped my fork in horror and thought, "What the hell am I doing?!?!" hehe.