Background

What are drug dreams about?

Drugs are substances that can alter the mind or body The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about drug dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with drug dreams. These are the words that make drug dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of drug dreams can be illuminating about show drugs affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example drug dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how drugs in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that drug is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that drug is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, drug dreams have more health events than 99.6% of dream symbols, more eating and drinking than 96.3% of dream symbols, and more sex than 93.0% of dream symbols. On the other hand, drug dreams have less disasters than 84.4% of dream symbols, less animals than 79.6% of dream symbols, and less natural places than 77.0% of dream symbols. Notably, drug dreams are sexy! Dreams of drugs are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. Sex in a dream can be great, confusing, digusting, or be just sex. It all depends on the context. Don't assume anything about dreams of drugs. Explore what is there. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of drugs is different than dreams of drugs in general.

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of dreams have drugs

How common are drug dreams?

1.8% of dreams have the drugs symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 55 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively uncommon.

Identification

How are drug dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like drug. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols events and health events.

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What is most related to dreams of drugs?

Drugs dreams are notable because they have substantially more addicts, cocaine, overdoses, Bolivia, injecting, Haiti, acid, medicine, Madagascar, verbs, alcohol than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of drugs?

Drugs dreams are notable because they have substantially less buffaloes, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Barack Obama, Legolas, Gimli, Bilbo Baggins, Princess Leia, Voldemort than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into drug dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in drug dreams.

Who is in dreams of drugs?

Who is in dreams of drugs?

Dreams of drugs are more related to unnamed people, more related to peers, 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.

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What are the emotions in dreams of drugs?

What are the emotions in dreams of drugs?

Dreams of drugs are more related to happiness and more related to hatred than dreams in general.

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Where do dreams of drugs take place?

Where do dreams of drugs take place?

Drug dreams are more related to home and more related to work than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of drugs?

What happens in dreams of drugs?

Dreams of drugs are more related to friendly acts, much more related to sex, and much more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to disasters.

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How do dreams of drugs related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of drugs related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of drugs are more related to lucid dreams, more related to sleep paralysis, and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to good dreams.

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How do dreams of drugs related the senses?

How do dreams of drugs related the senses?

Dreams of drugs are less related to vision.

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How can you make sense of drugs in dreams?

Drug dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things drug dreams are sexual. Do you think this is true for your dream of drugs? How might your dream of drugs be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

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

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.

An interpretation of drug dreams

An interpretation of drug dreams

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. 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

Examples of dreams of drugs

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of drug dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for drug dreams. Read at your own risk.

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