i know what a dream is
i know what i felt
it happened during my sleep, but it was not "just a dream"
it didn't feel like i remembered the experience, it felt like i relived it
i felt it again, better than i could remember while awake
i didn't dream the smoking part either
call it a dream if you want, if this dream made me relive the experience, i don't see how it's different from a flashback
if someone had had a traumatizing experience and relived it in the same way regularly, that could fuck up his mental health.
imagine being scared every night that you might go to sleep to wake up in hell