The media has always portrayed smoking as glamorous and sexy, though that is changing. Those who smoke may have a relationship with their smoking that runs the gamut from frustratingly addictive to apathetically indifferent to the consequences. Health-conscious nonsmoking individuals can be quite virulent in their objections, and many states and cities have banned smoking in public places altogether. Given these radically different perspectives, if a cigarette features prominently in your dream, you must use your own associations with smoking to arrive at an accurate interpretation. No matter what your personal focus is, the health risks associated with smoking make the symbolic meaning connect to making choices that are not impacted by your knowledge of the consequences.
The factor of addiction is an important element to consider. Smoking can represent any choice in life that is not healthy, but is difficult to avoid. [1]
The smoker misses smoking. He can not smoke during the day, and therefore he smokes in his dreams.
If you are dreaming about being surrounded by other people’s smoke, you may be experiencing some confusion and anxiety in daily life or in regard to a particular situation. Smoke or smoking usually depletes people of energy and hampers ones ability to think clearly and act directly with the issues at hand.
See also: Cigarettes [2]
(1) Smoking may be a substitute for other satisfactions, or a mechanism whereby we blot out certain things (e.g. emotions: fears, anger, etc.) from consciousness, and the dream may be telling us something about these things. (See also: Introduction, page24).
(2) Alternatively, the dream may be asking us to question the self- image that our smoking helps to create or confirm. [4]
2. If smoking a cigarette, one may want to give the habit up.
3. If smoking is enjoyable, one is trying to escape cares, pressures.
4. Phallic symbol. [6]
2. Offence
3. A bad habit;
4. Dulls spiritual vision; Deut. 29:20; Ps. 37:20. [8]
children: as fortune smiles upon the dreamer, a child suffers from a delicate constitution.
cigars: are stating your right in vain to trample over others.
friends: wil enjoy fortunate new acquaintance.
in smoke-free areas: defy the requests of those around you for your financial gains.
narghile oriental water pipe, a: realization of desired love affairs, in mind only.
tobacco through the water in: many women wil pursue you, none wil catch you.
of smoke: tears and disorientation from a clear direction.
being overcome by: are choked up with confusion; clear it up.
coming from a building: glory that is short-lived is displeasing you.
from a chimney: a blackened reputation through machinations of an overzealous friend.
very thick: hostile attacks are obscuring your view.
others who are: one you highly respect is behaving badly.
rising smoke: wil find asylum in another’s place.
dense biting: no escaping from a delusion or the depths of your disappointment.
white: your peacefulness is temporal.
yourself: are disgruntled with your present success. [12]