Welcome to Dream Views, both of you!

Paul, before you quit smoking, did you have good dream recall? Or, did quitting suddenly make you start remembering more dreams? How heavily did you smoke? It is possible that you have had these types of dreams all along (as far as the content is concerned), but simply didn't remember them. For me, marijuana is detrimental to my dream recall. If I'm stoned, I can rarely remember anything, if anything at all. So, it may be that being sober has simply jump-started your dream recall, but consequently made you more aware of the disturbing things you have already been dreaming about.