I sleep with a snus in my lip 99% of the time. I have napped without snus and that is not a problem but I can not seem to stay asleep the whole night without some snus.
I used to get up in the middle of the night for a cigarette when I smoked and then when I dipped I'd get up for an hour to pack a lip so, the only difference I see here is I can sleep through the night and get my nicotine. I see nothing wrong with that.
I tried not using snus at night when I first started nasal snuff. I kept a tin next to the bed and woke up for that a few times a night for a quick toot but I had a bad experience with some Dholakia White and have been ruined. Do not try to use the white when half asleep, I became wide awake in a matter of seconds and screamed like a little girl. Your results may vary.
I most often sleep with a loose (they're more comfortable and I don't have to worry about breaking it...) and own brown pillowcases just in case I drip. I do not think I drip because i never have found a stain. Brown pillowcase=jenius with a j.
I also can do this easily because that pesky thing that kept me from doing things that make me happy...a wife...now lives with her boyfriend. I almost feel bad for him.
If I wake up in the night to go potty, I will usually take the pris out and not put another one in. Sometimes I do. Depends on how I'm feeling but it is super rare that I wake up in the middle of the night.
Everyone says the dreams are vivid and wild but I only seem to have clearer dreams. Before snus I remembered one in every hundred dreams I had. Now I do remember most nightmares (and a select few stuck with me for a while and were horrible) but that is like once a month. Otherwise, I am sure the dreams are great but i don't remember them for more than five minutes after waking. Also, I have not really had any good sex dreams or winning lottery number dreams with nicotine as my bed partner.
I do have a couple of fears about this though. One night I had a dream that I had to poop and I was running all over my old elementary school building looking for toilet. I woke up in a cold sweat with a turtle peeking. I made it to the bathroom in time but the experience made me seriously contemplate getting sheets to match the pillowcases.
Another fear is the nightmares. They are extremely rare and rather mild for me but I can not seem to wake up from them when I am having one even when I realize it is a dream. The other day I tried this, I started yelling at the top of my lungs, "This is just a bad dream and when i open my eyes i will be safe in my bed!" but when I opened my eyes I was still at work. It doesn't work in the nightmares either.
The final fear is swallowing too much snus. I am not bothered by the juice or bits but the one time I had to swallow a pris I felt a little ill. Maybe it was the thought of what I was doing more than the actual physical act of doing it. Kinda like when you are at a party and you meet a chick and she takes you to her place and has to dress up like a clown (floppy shoes and full makeup) and tie you to the bed with balloon animals, beat you with a rubber chicken, throw pies at you and squirt the bottle of soda up your...you know. Just awkward and an icky feeling afterward.
All in all, the fears are out weighed by the joy of sleeping through the night and for me, it is more about nicotine maintenance and waking up in a good mood than trying to have a cool and trippy dreams.
@midnight- I don't get physically sick from swallowing a pris, just mentally yucky, like I need a shower but am not dirty.
@lxkllr- I like slasher/gore movies for entertainment and those dreams are fine. Just disturbing dreams where I am doing something completely out of character and can not stop or wake up. Like the one about getting back with the ex ::shudder::
For me it is all about a constant level of nicotine so sleepsnusing keeps me from waking up every hour or so for no reason. If my level drops, I get all ramped up no matter the time of day. If I get tired at the end of the day, I just stop using snus and I'll pick up a second wind. After a few hours without nicotine in this situation, I'll get tired and cranky. At this point, a small toot of snuff will "wake me back up" and a large pris will help me sleep.
I have a pretty good handle of how nicotine effects my body, but we are all different. Small doses when my level drops will amp me up. Large doses at that point will put me down. At any time, anything over 9mg/g, with too high a ph or too large a pris of average level snus will make me sick.
I wake pretty frequently at night to piss....guess I should have that checked, lol. I'll sometimes pop in another portion, but rarely. Most times I'll spit the one I have in the toilet while pissing and go back to bed.