Nicotine Dreams: Fighting and Floating

This post is part of a series of articles that reflect on nicotine induced dreams. During 2012 whilst attempting to quit smoking, I was using patches as part of a Nicotine Replacement Therapy program. I became very aware of heightened recall of dreams I experienced whilst wearing a nicotine patch and began to document them accordingly. This is one such dream.

I’m walking around a huge warehouse; I come up a flight of stairs and am stood amongst lots of stacked crates and metal mechanical machinery. I am barefoot. I don’t know why I am here. I seem to be following commands. I walk across a small bridge and there is a small rat following me everywhere, I’m very cautious about it biting my feet so I’m jumping across crates and pipes like Assassins Creed; this is probably the source of this being in my dream since I’ve played the games a lot lately.

I get toward the back of the warehouse, and there is an opening to outside where there is a small swimming pool with a metal pole reaching up into the clouds, with a ladder going up it for about 10ft. I swim across in the water fully clothed and begin climbing the ladder; once I get to the top, I let go of the ladder and begin to float upwards facing the ground, up, up and into the clouds until visibility is almost none existent. Then I drop… I fall fast, complete release and free of cares. I fall all the way back down and land in the water on my back. I recall it feels very refreshing and vitalising.

I go back into the warehouse and I am wearing a white sort of Juggernaut suit off Call of Duty, but still barefoot. I become aware I need to get a key from the garage at the other end of the warehouse, but I don’t know how I know this? I head to the garage, open a silver chest high bolt, and open the door; directly opposite lots of soldiers are entering the room, so I quickly retreat into the dark of the warehouse and hide behind a machine.

The soldiers are entering the room looking frantically for me. I am picking up lots of guns and they vanish as I pick them up. I begin singling out isolated soldiers and beating them up. Then I see Ashley Taylor, and I run over and punch him in the face breaking his jaw. I hear a voice say that he’s going to get knocked out, and as he turns I punch him again in the mouth and he falls to the floor unconscious. Next, Dave Corden appears and I calmly ask if he wishes to try and fight me; he consents and says why not. I begin punching him and then Mariie appears and asks what the hell is going on, and why I am hitting Corden? I explain that he agreed to it, and then everyone else disappears besides me and a pretty stranger, a half cast girl dressed in a light blue top and shorts. I calmly take her by the hand, lead her outside into the sunshine and pin her against a glass door and begin passionately kissing her.

Then I awoke.