It is not uncommon for patients to dream about diseases and themselves as being ill or having a physical illness. Usually, anxiety and stress are on the rise when the patient’s dream reflects a distressing lack of health and well-being. Dream analysis shows that physical illness commonly appears for many reasons. Sometimes, it only points to an encounter with symptoms rather than the actual condition itself.
These dreams of disease usually point to an impending decrease in physical energy or fatigue as well as indicate an ailment of some kind such as a cold or flu that lacks tangible symptoms after awhile. Chronic smokers may have these kinds of dreams because they are being told they no longer have it together in terms of their health.