Bulimia sufferers often have nightmares in which they experience excruciating hunger, acute weakness, and occasionally even fainting due to pain in the epigastric region. In addition to illnesses of the endocrine glands, this condition has been linked to instances of anxiousness and mental illness.
As a result of the awful nature of this condition, it is not uncommon for patients to experience nightmares in which they "binge" eat, feast on excessive amounts of food, or indulge in similar behaviors. If a person does in fact suffer from bulimia, then they will commonly have the tendency to dream about such things as their subconscious mind attempts to heal them through associations with food. The hormone known as ghrelin is produced in our bodies after we have eaten. Those who have dreams of eating enormous amounts every night because their body is pleading for this hormone to be eliminated, giving them the feeling of satiation it wants. Those whose bodies are begging for this hormone to be removed because they have nightmares of eating large amounts. These dreams might be your subconscious mind trying to warn you about the consequences of ignoring your cravings in the waking world if you keep doing what you've been doing. If you have a dream about bulimia, it may foreshadow that you will be highly anxious about the future when you are awake.
Having a dream in which you are bulimic may be a sign that you are working through the process of recovery. The good news is that studies have shown that having nightmares about being bulimic is a sign that a person is sincerely engaged in recovery from an eating disorder. Consider the dream again; did you see any encouraging omens or symbols?
In your dream, you were engaging in excessive eating.
In your dream, you engaged in binge eating followed by purging.
In your dream, you overate and then proceed to throw up the food.
In the dream, you were always hungry, but once you overated, you started feeling sick.
Your subconscious mind may be showing you someone who is struggling with bulimia.
You were planning on providing care for a loved one who suffered from bulimia.
After eating so much of your lunch in one sitting, you became ill.
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If you have a dream in which you witness bulimia, it is a sign that soon a person will enter your life who will be able to bring about substantial changes. If a woman has a dream in which this embolism appears, it is telling her that the men in her life are going to find her attractive and that she may soon find the person she will spend the rest of her life with. If you have a dream in which you see other people who suffer from bulimia, it is a portent that you will soon be honored with lavish birthday celebrations or wedding festivities. If you suffer from bulimia, this is a sign that you will reconnect with some of your previous girlfriends and friends in the near future. Be wary of having dreams involving people who are suffering from binge eating disorder and vomiting because these kinds of visions foretell of future arguments and unsuccessful efforts.
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If you binge eat in your dreams, it is a sign that something important to you is lacking in real life. You are unhappy with the way that you are currently spending your life, and you look for happiness in other places.
If you binge eat in your dream and then purge the food afterwards, this represents your dissatisfaction with the way things are right now. One has the feeling that their current way of life could use some adjustments in order to be more fulfilling for them.
Feelings such as discontentment and disgust with oneself, in addition to feeling weak or ravenously hungry, can be found in the dreams of bulimics. After feeling okay for a few short moments at best, the bulimic subsequently returns to their state of feeling hungry.
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