Could a gas leak in the house affect someones dreams?

Question

I know people can hallucinate from it, but what about when youre sleeping? Can you have a crazy dream because there is gas in a room?

Answer 1

Yes you can. It can also cause brain damage.

Answer 2

Sometimes smelling certain things can affect your dreams just like other forms of sensory stimuli such hearing sounds or feeling things. Similer to how when the radio sometimes turns on while your sleeping and you dream of dancing (if u dont wake up from it), certain smells can do it to.

Answer 3

Yes it can. Although your senses have largely withdrawn from your surroundings, your body is not insensitive to contact or the atmosphere. If your body was totally cut off from its surrounding you could not be woken up by someone who called you to get up or shook you to wake up.

Many experiments have been made to show that outside stimulus is incorporated into current dreams and translated into typical dream scenarios. One dreamer was sprayed with a fine spray of water which the dream translated into a shower of rain outside in the fields. A dream of church bells ringing was found to be connected with the alarm clock going off. The interesting thing about that dream was that the dream came before the alarm next to the bed of the dream rang out!

In such a case it is difficult to say that the alarm clock triggered off the dream. It would be more exact to say that the dream anticipated that impending sound of the alarm clock.

So could it have been in your case that the dream anticipated that gas leak and then incorporated it in the dream, modifying the dream accordingly? Your gassing leaves us guessing since there is not dream story or general description of the incident.

Perhaps the most famous and perplexing dream caused; no APPARENTLY caused, by an outside influence, was the dream described by a French investigator into dreams. His name was Maury. In his report of 1878 he has listed a number of experiments which I want to mention before coming to the really stunning dream. In one such experiment someone tickled his lips and nose with a feather. The dream translated this into frightful torture. In another case he was given perfume to smell. The dream transported him to Cairo into a shop with various scents. When in another case he was pinched slightly on the neck, he dreamt that he was being given a mustard plaster by a doctor who had treated him in childhood.

The dream that made Maury famous was about the French Revolution. He was actually in the grips of a fever at the time of the dream which had placed him into the time of the Reign of Terror. After witnessing scenes of murder he was brought in front of the tribunal and interrogated. In the end he was condemned to death. He climbed the scaffold of the guillotine which then separated his head from his body. He woke up from his nightmare to find that the top of the bed head (behead was my typing error) had fallen on his neck exactly where the blade of the dream guillotine had struck him.

Because of his previous experiments like the tickling on the nose with a feather and the fact that this dream was as long as a feature film, he, his contemporaries, and later Sigmund Freud, who cites this dream in his book, "The Interpretations of Dreams", were all totally confused.

How could a split-second whack on the neck trigger off such a long dream? You will appreciated that all answers must have been way out, including Freud's, simply because they and he, did not consider that dreams could be precognitive.

Indeed no-one took notice of dreams such as that of the church bells that announced the impending sound of the alarm bells minutes before they would actually ring out. Even today's Science is reluctant to deal with this vital question.

But once we acknowledge that dreams are anticipatory, that they are about the future, we can solve this Maury mystery easily: The last dream before waking can be as long as 40 minutes; time enough to tell Maury's revolutionary adventure. The dream knew that at the moment of the bed head coming down on Maury's neck it had to hit him with the dream guillotine!

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

No, dreaming in sleep requires massive amounts of oxygen to the brain.  Breathing in gas would hinder that need.  And so, your body would tell you to wake up.