I dream of Cocaine

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July 23, 2014 at 7:23 am

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EPICLULZ

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Since I have been off all drugs for 5 months I have had recurring dreams – Being in bed pulling open my bedside cabinet and doing fat lines of white powder i only imagine it’s coke or some speedy RC, while doing this i can feel the effects of the drug in my dream and get paranoid about being caught of my nut while in my bedroom, then my thoughts go from that to ”What the fuck am i doing, I have to go to work in an hour” I break a sweat and wake myself up. Normally after I wake up I feel fine, and not like I would want to take drugs if i didn’t want to, Do you think this is addiction? Or because when I go away to to I work around 7 months everyday for a year, so I don’t get any down time to take drugs and have fun until my three month holiday?
July 23, 2014 at 11:41 am

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I’ve had dreams like that before after cleaning up my lifestyle for a bit (after moving area to a new job with more responsibilities). Also of being at parties, of being back at my old family house in SE England, of being younger etc. I don’t think these anything to do with addiction and are nothing to be alarmed about although they can be a bit mentally draining.

Out of curiosity does your job involve going to sea and working in a high pressure environment where you are drug tested for “safety reasons?” (I live in a coastal area of Englanf and know a few folk who have to do this).
July 23, 2014 at 12:20 pm

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EPICLULZ

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My Job is out at sea, thought never had any drug testings or been told to expect a drug test. The people who I work with as far as they know i am anti drugs and alcohol. So I guess the worry is being caught on drugs in my dreams.
July 23, 2014 at 4:30 pm

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@everyonesatit 564019 wrote:

My Job is out at sea, thought never had any drug testings or been told to expect a drug test. The people who I work with as far as they know i am anti drugs and alcohol. So I guess the worry is being caught on drugs in my dreams.

That makes sense TBH. The realistic attitude of most nautical folk is that you should stay sober whilst on duty and confine booze/drugs to shore leave. The Dutch still sing this in their coastal bars (whilst drinking)

Er is schip gezonken
Vol bier en brandewijn
De maten waren dronken
En ook de kapitein
Er is een schip gezonken
Vol bier en brandewijn

Ik weet nog goed toen ze uit Rotterdam vertrokken

Die oude schuit zat boordevol met alcohol
En ze hebben met z’n allen nog staan zwaaien
En nu zijn ze met z’n allen naar de haaien
Maar ze wisten wat er in de sterren staat
Dat een drankschuit vroeg of laat ten onder gaat

Een drankschuit is either a vessel of questionable seaworthiness with a drunken captain and crew (or a crazy old woman who drinks way too much gin); but those create less of a safety hazard and are gedoben provided they don’t cause a big crash on their bicycles or beat their dogs in the street, which means they end up on 112nederland website and are hauled off to the sort of rehabs that are still run by nuns, thus their intake of gin is controlled (as it has to be shared out amongst all the sisters :devilish:)

A few years ago (before a lot of folk got older and became parents) I would go partying in the local area and invariably the after party conversations were about nautical matters; one lad had survived being pitched out of a small fishing vessel into the North Sea; another was in a support vessel for the oil platforms and they had fouled the anchor on some big cable or something else solid and had to cut it loose (ending up adrift somewhere between Scotland and Denmark) and call PAN PAN.

Apparently this isn’t such a big deal nowadays and a better option than the boat being tipped over as modern radio equipment automatically transmits GPS position and the Coastguard of more than one country relays the alert to all the surrounding vessels (they were quickly rescued by the crew of another nearby ship)

I can see why everyone is expected to stay sober and alert at sea, in any case sailors are constantly viewed as suspects for drug trafficking anywhere in Europe, the Border Force cutter is a regular visitor to the docksides round here…
July 23, 2014 at 4:58 pm

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wickle

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I Get dreams about drugs all the time, some good, some bad! Coke is deffo a common, as is weed, and pills. strange innit :crazy:
July 23, 2014 at 5:07 pm

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wickle

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years ago when I used to do alot of drugs i’d wake up proper pissed off if I had dreamt that I had shit loads of drugs and money only to wake up and have nothing :hopeless::laugh_at:
July 23, 2014 at 5:41 pm

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Digital Buddha

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dreams are just the workings of your unconscious mind so i wouldn’t get too worked up about having dreams of yeo unless of course you find yourself waking up and then proceding to dial up a dealer.

my interpretation of these dreams you are having is that you still have some unresolved issues with stimulants but not to the point that you are going to lapse and use again so your dreams have become the working ground on which you are working out this issue as self psychotherapy.
July 23, 2014 at 7:07 pm

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EPICLULZ

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@Digital Buddha 564029 wrote:

dreams are just the workings of your unconscious mind so i wouldn’t get too worked up about having dreams of yeo unless of course you find yourself waking up and then proceding to dial up a dealer.

my interpretation of these dreams you are having is that you still have some unresolved issues with stimulants but not to the point that you are going to lapse and use again so your dreams have become the working ground on which you are working out this issue as self psychotherapy.

What do you mean by unresolved issues?
July 23, 2014 at 7:08 pm

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Digital Buddha

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@everyonesatit 564033 wrote:

What do you mean by unresolved issues?

like an unconscious desire to do cocaine.
July 23, 2014 at 8:21 pm

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EPICLULZ

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i see, I know if i wasn’t working i’d jump to put something up my nose.
July 24, 2014 at 9:45 am

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@everyonesatit 564036 wrote:

i see, I know if i wasn’t working i’d jump to put something up my nose.

when i moved here I realised how and why it could be easy to get a bad habit for coke; TBH in any North European country where there is a lot of maritime traffic (both large and small vessels) there is always lots of good drugs as the border authorities simply don’t have the resources to search everything. UK has the most border force cutters (5) out of these countries.

NL could have as few as two (shared with the Coastguard); suspiciously difficult to find out exact info, which is unusual as the Dutch are proud of anything to do with ships (especially as Damen make all of these small to medium size vessels) which hints they don’t have very many!

I worked in Government service (Environment Ministry/DEFRA) from 2002-2006 and nearly considered a transfer to HM Coastguard (to work in the control rooms, as I have 60wpm typing speed) but they don’t pay them a great deal and there were remours of random drug testing. They have closed down our local Coastguard station and monitor the lot from Dover(!) about 150km away.

It got to the point where the local Ofcom man encouraged me to buy a new radio scanner (my old one was knackered from 10 years of being carted around to squats listening to the cops before Airwave, he must have known that as I was only in my early 30s and both of us were originally from London, SE England) and said to me “there might be no more blue lights on the analogue frequencies but that means we don’t mind you having scanners any more, and you are near the coast so there are other things to listen to”. his only condition was that “if you hear any small boat in distress and no one else is relaying it call 999/112 or the nearest marina /harbourmaster” (you do occasionally get yuppies from London who have never been further than the non-tidal Thames going to sea in a hired yacht with a poor quality VHF running aground on the mud near my side of the Orwelll bridge)

TBH I suspect that most of the governments in Europe have to put up with some drugs coming through in order to not delay all the useful legitimate things that ships bring in to a country.
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