Addict Dream Interpretation: Insights from 6 Unique Sources

(DREAM IMAGES: CONSPICUOUS CONSUMER; GLUTTON; WORKAHOLIC ETC.)

Besides the usual suspects—drugs, alcohol, food and sex—one can be addicted to work, sports, television, exercise, computer games, spiritual practice, negative attitudes, thrill seeking and many other activities. When this archetype appears in dreams, it suggests the need to confront some kind of addiction and restore balance in your life. From a symbolic perspective, the shadow aspect of the addict represents a struggle with will power and the absence of self-control.

To dream you are an addict could signify that you’ve lost control of a circumstance. You have given up control and denied all responsibility for your actions. This kind of dream can also indicate fear, low self-image issues, and other latent insecurities.

This is a character aspect of your personality that is aligned with escapism and being out of control.

The state of the addict in your dream will determine how serious this impulse is and what damage it may be doing.

Giving up personal power, surrendering self-awareness to something or someone. Driven by fear and insecurity rather than self-responsibility, denying your own God-self or teacher within.

1. A situation has gone out of control.

2. Inability to control one’s impulses.

3. Low self-esteem.

A warning of one enslaved who needs deliverance; see “loose”