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Dreaming about using

Swimmingdancer

Swimmingdancer

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So does anyone else have dreams about using when they've been clean for a long time? I have been getting them a LOT lately and my cravings have totally gone through the roof. I hadn't used heroin in years and was doing pretty well with managing cravings but I suddenly had one really intense dream about using and ever since them I have been having these dreams every night. There's almost always something preventing me from using in the dream, like I am searching for my dealer, or I have the drugs but can't do them for some reason (can't find a syringe or can't find a private place, etc) and it just goes on and on in a desperate unfulfilled quest to get high. Then I wake up feeling terrible and having super intense long-lasting cravings. I guess I just need some advice because my usual method of dealing with cravings (basically doing something else and hoping it goes away) doesn't seem to be helping. In all honesty I think the only reason I haven't acted on these cravings is because I wouldn't know where to get heroin if I tried.
 
It's totally normal to have using dreams. You will probably have them for a long time. I have them too. I was just watching dr. Drew tonight and someone called in with the same ordeal. As long as you don't act on your feelings you'll be ok I think.
 
I have those all the time, they do tend to induce a lot of cravings. I don't really know if there's any method to cope with them other than what you've been doing though, although if you manage to think about H less during the day you'll definitely dream of it less...
 
If you smoke weed right before you sleep you won't dream as it stops the part of sleep in which dreams occur. I literally mean right before you sleep though, as soon as you are high go to sleep.
 
It's a bitch that we have no power over our dreams sometimes. A frequent one for me is dreaming that I'm sick (from gear) as usually when I wake up I am.. but thankfully it's not often I don't have anything to make it better. I know an ex-addict too, who quit using about 10 years ago. He still dreams about using heroin very often.
 
I often have dreams of taking ecstasy, with old friends long gone. In the dreams, I actually feel it, and it's awesome, and I'm partying with my old friends that I don't see or talk to anymore. I think the reason why I only dream of using MDMA (despite being an ex oxy addict) is because I long for that feeling of empathy, and that feeling of togetherness that I once had with my old friends. I don't get those feelings naturally.
 
dancer-- alike to a lover, the spectre of opiates is a frequenter of my dreams too. Even when swim was on them, the yearning for more (and of course more) made its way into my sleep. Someone above mentioned smoking cannabis before sleep to keep dreams a bit more distant: it works for swim, but if swiy choose to do this, be sure to find an Indica strain...avoid Sativas like the plague. congrats on being off the stuff for so long...my journey has only begun my friend, and I respect your self-restraint.
 
Considering I have a current Opiate addiction, I do crave when its been a while since a dose. Yet I just recently got over a terrible coke habit that I still think of time to time. It takes all my willpower to resist that shit, without opiates I would still be in the bag hard
 
I have dreams as well although not about opiates or any drugs in general, not as reacuring either.
Ive had dreams of I.Ving drugs which is something i'd never do. My dealer giving me a bag full of pingers at a party telling me to sell them, so i ate them all :D
 
Whenever I would dream of oxy, I'd never actually get to have my shot.. something would always go wrong and I'd wake up in a cold sweat and crave like nothing else.
 
The drug changes in my dreams. Can be anything from shrooms to meth. I don't like the Meth dreams though.
 
I dreamt I had a shot one time , and the needle was like an inch wide (the tip) but it still went in , registered , I literally tasted it and woke up rushing for a few seconds , not euphoric or nothing but it was actually really intense . I get using dreams all the time , specifically ice (IV) but also just eating pills , and I've had dreams where there's been a pile of meth I front of me and I'm eating it by the handful , fucked up shit . I haven't noticed it bring heaps more cravings though , sure it puts it in my mind for a while but does go away , tonight I noticed that doing something didn't take my mind off wanting to alter my state of mind though , whether it be a drink a smoke a pill or a shot . And last night was the first using dream I'd had in a while , wouldn't blame it on that though , had a pretty boring / crap day .
 
I dream about using heroin too iv been on suboxone since last October after 3 years on H. Your right it makes you crave more and more iv had dreams were I can't take the drug for whatever reason and iv also had dreams were I actually end up smoking it. It's all psychological though just have to try to forget about it. I'm new to this site signed up couple of days ago think its a great way to talk about things!
 
Think about them like a dream about some asshole ex-boyfriend (or bitch girlfriend). You may want to journal about them as well.

I use to have drug dreams, too, sometimes so vivid that I would wake up worried about having a positive urine when I was being screened! But in the end they are just dreams. They don't mean that you are going to relapse. Read a good book before you go to bed, and ask your mind to dream about something else.
 
I often dream spending a lot of time holding up pharmacies and other junkie shit, like IVing even though I haven't shot up in more than 2 years...
 
I've woke up wondering where my shot was before , with some of the most intense cravings because in the dream I was just about to shoot then I woke up , couldn't get back to sleep and thankfully my friend called at 4 am asking if I wanted to come out cause he had a gram :)
 
Glad to hear I'm not the only one :)
The dreams seem to be getting less frequent and the cravings less intense - for now at least. Maybe talking about it and bringing it to the surface helped.
 
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