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What are drug dreams about?

Drugs are substances that can alter the mind or body This symbol is identified by words like drug.

Drugs in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.5% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 65 dreams.

What are the major highlights of drug dreams?

Drugs is a normal dream symbol. Having drugs in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Drug dreams are friendly

Dreams of drugs have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of drugs will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of drugs are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include locks, gambling, orphans, Croatia, Ecuador, uncategorized, choosing, asking, paramedic, and knees.

Dreams of drugs are aggressive

Drug dreams have more aggressive interactions than a lot of other dream symbols. This doesn't mean that all drugs have aggressive interactions or only aggressive interactions. It simply means that having drugs in a dream increases the probability this dream contains aggression. Other symbols that are like this include summoning_demons, body parts, motorcycles, general thinking, biting, grenades, disguises, fear, Madagascar, and Bahamas.

How does the dream symbol of drugs affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of drugs

Who is in drugs dreams?

Overall, dreams with drugs are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of drugs are more related to different roles, more related to close people, and more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Animals

less than usual

Insects

less than usual

Different roles

more than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in drugs dreams?

Overall, dreams with drugs are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of drugs are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general.

Happiness

more than usual

Sadness

more than usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

more than usual

Confusion

the same as usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

much more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in drugs dreams?

Overall, dreams with drugs are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of drugs are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

Home

more than usual

Work

more than usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

the same as usual
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What happens in drugs dreams?

Overall, dreams with drugs are much more related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of drugs are more related to aggressive interactions, more related to friendly interactions, and more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

Aggressive interactions

more than usual

Friendly interactions

more than usual

Sex

more than usual

Disasters

less than usual
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How do drugs in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with drugs are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of drugs are more related to lucid dreams, more related to nightmares, and more related to sleep paralysis than dreams in general. They are less related to recurring dreams.

Lucid dreams

more than usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

more than usual

Sleeping

more than usual

Waking life

much more than usual
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How do drugs in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with drugs are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of drugs are less related to vision.

Hearing

the same as usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of drugs in dreams?

Drug dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things drug dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and aggressive.

Do you think this is true for your dream of drugs? How might your dream of drugs be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience drugs in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about drugs in dreams. See how you feel about drugs now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of drugs?

Dreams build stories around associations, such as drugs being associated with altered states of mind, which might be a way of saying you haven’t been feeling like your usual self. You’re fooling yourself, the same way an addict does. You’re acting compulsively, taking risks. Or you want to escape reality.

Drugs can be used to tell a story about someone acting like a user: isolated, sleeping a lot, always broke.

They’re associated with addiction. Drug addiction is comparable to other addictions—sex, food, gambling—and the associated thoughts and feelings. These sorts of addictions are known to provide a high, often followed by a low, so a comparison with drugs works as symbolism on two levels: the nature of the situation, and feelings connected with it. See: Addicts

Drugs are associated with experimentation, trying something new.

They’re associated with wasting your life, being a loser, being low on the social totem pole like some drug addicts are.

Drugs are a temptation and can symbolize temptation. See: Candy

Injecting drugs can symbolize taking in bad influences or negativity. See: Injecting

Giving up an addiction is known to spark powerful dreams. The question behind them is often, “Do you remember why you gave up your addiction?” The dream will put the dreamer back into scenes of buying or being offered drugs. And the reaction really tells the story about resolve to kick the addiction.

For example, a man who quit smoking weed dreams about hiding beneath a massive pot plant and stuffing his pockets with its buds, symbolizing that he knows he’ll smoke again in the future.

A man who quit a drug addiction dreams he’s in the back seat of a car driven by his former drug dealer. The dealer’s girlfriend, in the passenger seat, holds up a baggie of the dreamer’s favorite drug, which is how things used to work when he’d make a buy. He turns down the offer and asks to be dropped off, but instead the dealer continues driving to a cemetery and buries the dreamer in a grave. The dreams shows that the temptation to go back to his old ways is still there, symbolized as being offered the drug, and his reaction tells the story: his resolve is stronger. Getting buried means that the addict part of himself is gone. It’s a great sign.

See also: Abusing, Addicts, Alcohol, Candy, Cocaine, Drunkenness, Injecting, Overdoses

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of drugs

Read some real dream reports of drug dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I am seventeen and don't do drugs and this was my dream

A Devil with humongous breasts comes and most of the people go to suck on it. There is cocaine in the devil's breast milk .People get addicted and start killing other people who deny sucking the devil's breasts. Apparently I am the leader of the group which is anti devils breast milk

We fight a war and my group lose because the others are fueled by cocaine enriched breast milk .

A Devil with humongous breasts comes and most of the people go to suck on it. There is cocaine in the devil's breast milk .People get addicted and start killing...

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Can someone please help me interpret

I (42F) had a dream that I was away with my husband and my old high school boyfriend (dated for 6 years) was where we were staying. He had a Dr with him that was going to take him to rehab (which he needs to go to). IRL: I have not seen him since we are 21, but we have talked on and off over the years. But have not talked for years because of his drug/alcohol problem. It makes him abusive.
In the dream I hugged him, told him I love him and want him to get better.
Back to the dream:
He was also throwing up jelly.
Also my husband told me to change my shoes, when I went to put on shoes, because I might have been wearing the shoes his mother gave me 25+ years ago (which i don't own anymore).

In real life I told my husband the dream. There is no jealousy or anything. My ex is a very sick person because of the drug/alcohol. Hes the greatest guy in the world sober, but is a horrible scary person when he's using. I cannot talk to him because hes good one day then threatening my families life the next because I left him and his words "he didn't realize the best girl he would have ever had was the one he met at 15". (I left because he cheated, had multiple girlfriends and the alcohol/ddrugwere already taking over).

I (42F) had a dream that I was away with my husband and my old high school boyfriend (dated for 6 years) was where we were staying. He had a Dr with him that...

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Dreamed about my sister that passed away.

My sister passed away last year after a long battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. This morning I had a dream about her. I want to know what it means.

It was us sitting in this kitchen but it was a kitchen I've never seen before. She was wearing a red t-shirt and jean shorts something she wore often. We were talking about her alcoholism and I was begging her to stop drinking. I kept telling her over and over again I needed her and that my nephews needed her. She then told me that one night when we were drinking together she blacked out but for a second she came to and that we were just dancing and goofing around in her kitchen. She smiled to herself and said "but wasn't that fun?" I told her yeah and then told her if she didn't stop drinking she was going to die soon. She then told me she was sorry but it's so late to change that. I remember we hugged and I woke up.

What do you think this means? Please answer me I've read that sometimes the dead can visit you in your dream was this it?

My sister passed away last year after a long battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. This morning I had a dream about her. I want to know what it means.

It...

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Taking LSD in my dream

I haven’t taken acid in real life yet, but i took some in my dream. I looked in my mirror and my face was morphing, everything was rippling, and I was getting greenish fractals forming on my walls. It made me think how weird it is that you can take brain altering drugs in a dream. Like... your brain is being altered inside itself. Idk it tripped me out when I woke up.

I haven’t taken acid in real life yet, but i took some in my dream. I looked in my mirror and my face was morphing, everything was rippling, and I was getting...

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Very odd, vivid dream that terrified me.

So, a week ago I had a dream that really stuck with me for some reason. I woke up around 1 in the afternoon (I work nights), with my heart still racing from it and feeling extremely anxious. I’m just trying to make sense of it.

In the dream, I had traveled by boat to this woodland-covered island in the middle of the lake that my parents live on/where I grew up. This island exists in real life. It’s about a mile long and maybe 100 yards wide, covered in woods with some native wildlife like deer, grey foxes, armadillos, raccoons, etc. This island sits directly across the water from my parents house, we can see it easily from our backyard. I used to take my canoe over there and explore this island a lot as a teenager. Also noteworthy: This island was the site of a very small summer camp sometime in the 1950s. You can still see the crumbled remains of what were once the camp kitchen and bunks, very simple wooden structures with a few rusted cot frames, misc trash and an old kitchen stove remaining. This island also was once home to a small herd of goats put there to help maintain vegetation on the island, but all had disappeared by the 90s. People camp on it occasionally.

Moving on to the dream! It was broad daylight outside, sometime in early afternoon I think. I went, for reasons unknown, to the island by boat. I don’t recall what sort of boat I was in. I think my husband was with me, but that detail is murky. I walked through the woods to the middle of the island where the old camp used to be. The kitchen mess hall is still standing, a wooden structure about the size of a doublewide trailer with no doors attached to the entrances or glass in the windows.

I go inside. There is no electricity, but I can the interior fairly well from the daylight coming through the open doorways/windows. Inside, it is littered with trash and nylon camping tents/piles of bedding where people have been sleeping there on the dirty wooden floor. There are 2 darkened rooms off each end of the main room. There are also several groups of people milling about inside, talking and laughing like this was just their hangout spot. Maybe 8-12 people total. I am drawn to a tent in the center of the room. It is partially unzipped, so I peek inside. It is empty except for a black plastic trash bag,and lying beside the trash bag is the decomposing body of 1 of my 4 cats. I become instantly filled with indescribable terror and run towards the doorway to leave.

As I try to leave, a young couple enter the doorway as the male half proclaims “alright let’s go cheat!” while leading his laughing female companion towards one of the darkened side rooms. I look back into the main room and see a large but rather skinny pink pig rooting around in the trash strewn about. The whole atmosphere was like a “trap house”, an abandoned building where homeless addicts congregate to squat and use drugs.

In terror, I proclaim “how can you all just sit in here with this dead, rotting cat like it doesn’t exist???” I was especially terrified over the body of my dead cat. I couldn’t even walk near the tent he was in. I remember hoping the pig would just eat his body so it would be gone.

My husband and I are forced to spend the night here. We chose a spot in the building far away from my dead cat. Upon awakening the next day, we make a hasty getaway. Suddenly the doorway has a flimsy screen door on it. I look around the main room once more before we go. The people are gone, but the pig is still there, rooting around in the trash on the floor. I say to my husband “we should leave the door propped open so the pig can get out”. Then we leave.

In reality, my cat is healthy and fine. He’s an indoor-only cat and my baby.

Can someone interpret this wild AF dream for me??lol

So, a week ago I had a dream that really stuck with me for some reason. I woke up around 1 in the afternoon (I work nights), with my heart still racing from it...

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