My recurring Amsterdam 'nightmare'

[ed the head]

Maybe 'nightmare' is a little strong. Is there a better word for a very frustrating dream?

This dream always starts off great! To my amazement and elation, I find myself in Amsterdam and
I have to decide where to go first. I am torn between seeing all the people I have missed, mostly at the
Bulldog Hotel, and going to buy some cannabis at Grey Area. All those feelings we write and read
about in our Trip Reports flood me. Total elation. There is no happier feeling for me than 'finding' myself
in Amsterdam.

The dream quickly takes a hard turn for the worse. I decide to just start walking at
which point things start looking unfamilar. Walking takes enormous effort and oddly enough, everything
seems to be uphill.

I wish at this point my reasoning brain would kick in and break the dream
realizing there ARE NO hills in Amsterdam, but I press on.

Everything is bizare and then I am in a bazaar and I stop to ask if I am closer to the Singel or the
Oudezijds Voorburgwal and I am met only with perplexed looks and inaccurate directions. Above the
buildings I spot the west corner of Centraal Station and gain my bearings to press on. The streets
literally become a labyrinth leading nowhere further draining my strength to go on.

Frustrated and lost I search for ANY coffeeshop, finding none open.

Eventually I wake up grumpy, disappointed and aching for a joint.

[Lamont]

Crazy dream i can't say I've ever experienced anything like that. While I've actually had very few dreams about Amsterdam when I do it's usually about walking along the canals or sitting in a CS...all good stuff...

[Quazer]

I had almost exactly the same recurring dreams in the past. I was in Amsterdam with some friends who never been to Amsterdam with me. Then totally hyper in my dream mind, I get this idea to walk to a decent coffeeshop with them. Then the dreams used to end with just walking without ever finding the place or any other coffeeshop.

Slowly those dreams became more positive after I went to Amsterdam more often. Probably because I felt more at home and Amsterdam became more and more familiar, my dream version of it went mixing up with places where I used to live. It went from just getting lost to actually hanging out at dream coffeeshops and even buying weed. The weed always looked totally awesome but for some reason I always took it outside with me without ever getting to smoke it lol .

Now those dreams still occur and they are fun because I don't get lost anymore. I even get stoned and sometimes lecture myself about the bad habbit of spoiling the good weed effects with beer. Dreams are just too real sometimes.

[ed the head]

I had almost exactly the same recurring dreams in the past....Slowly those dreams became more positive after I went to Amsterdam more often.

that's advise I would love to take but it is all I can afford to go once a year

[Quazer]

that's advise I would love to take but it is all I can afford to go once a year

Then you should be fine in about 2 to 3 years. Not a quick solution but at least you can see light at the end of the tunnel. There are also ways to train yourself in controlled dreaming but that goes far beyond of... well let's just say it might go too far.

p.s. sorry for my grammar fuck up btw. gonna edit it out.

[ed the head]

that's advise I would love to take but it is all I can afford to go once a year

Then you should be fine in about 2 to 3 years. Not a quick solution but at least you can see light at the end of the tunnel. There are also ways to train yourself in controlled dreaming but that goes far beyond of... well let's just say it might go too far.

p.s. sorry for my grammar fuck up btw. gonna edit it out.

just noticed that ... corrected my quote too, thanks for the feedback

[Slip & Sal]

Maybe 'nightmare' is a little strong. Is there a better word for a very frustrating dream?

This dream always starts off great! To my amazement and elation, I find myself in Amsterdam and
I have to decide where to go first. I am torn between seeing all the people I have missed, mostly at the
Bulldog Hotel, and going to buy some cannabis at Grey Area. All those feelings we write and read
about in our Trip Reports flood me. Total elation. There is no happier feeling for me than 'finding' myself
in Amsterdam.

The dream quickly takes a hard turn for the worse. I decide to just start walking at
which point things start looking unfamilar. Walking takes enormous effort and oddly enough, everything
seems to be uphill.

I wish at this point my reasoning brain would kick in and break the dream
realizing there ARE NO hills in Amsterdam, but I press on.

Everything is bizare and then I am in a bazaar and I stop to ask if I am closer to the Singel or the
Oudezijds Voorburgwal and I am met only with perplexed looks and inaccurate directions. Above the
buildings I spot the west corner of Centraal Station and gain my bearings to press on. The streets
literally become a labyrinth leading nowhere further draining my strength to go on.

Frustrated and lost I search for ANY coffeeshop, finding none open.

Eventually I wake up grumpy, disappointed and aching for a joint.

Sounds like your dreaming of the future after the weed pass has been around for a few years!!1!

[Adamster]

For about 5 years iv been having the same dream

Starts off im being run after by the police (where i live) im running...i find a bike...start riding..telling myself iv got to get the bridge ... get on the bridge from fare away i see a border...im thinking it the american border so im getting closer every costum at the booth are dead...im not freaking i just start laughing at the situation...i keep riding...the road become 4 roads...i stop , wonder why and what way to go? (i know all 4 road bring me the same place each time iv tried all 4) so..i take a road then turn right and Bang im on Rokin Straat
now for some weird reason i keep telling myself iv got 10minutes b4 getting on the plane back home..always make it to the airport for some weird reason ...flying back is like 10seconds and not the 7-8hours like the real thing...now the dream gets fuck up and change from a lot here on .it almost never the same cuz i either wake up at confused or and try to get back in the same dream..but most of the time im telling ppl iv got to be back on the plane for 845pm cause my return is at that time, if i miss it i wont be able to get back and for some weird reason ppl im telling this too help me whit the aventure back , and help me deal whit alll the stuff that happend 2 me trying to get back to the airport and alot of weird thing happend in them 8kms from my house to the airport ...

Iv been wanting to someone about this
It you didnt read and got what im saying what you think of this dream? fuck up ey?

[pengaldinho]

From the Basjoe thread:

had a nightmare last night,
had just got to basjoe, started chattin to james, then i ask for some royal hash, he says its sold out,
then i woke up

You know if you're dreaming about Amsterdam it's time to go back.

For the last 3 days every dream has been about Dam, the worse one i have is walking round not being able to find any coffee shops. Bit like when i was there in March, was walking round and round and round as you do and could not find one fucking coffee shop

I’ve a few of them fucked up dreams, had the one about not finding a coffeeshop a few times and having to walk to central station without smoking a thing. Proper nightmares them. In another dream all the shops had thick chain mail curtain over the doors & windows so that I couldn’t get in but i could see people through cracks inside smoking.

[ed the head]

From the Basjoe thread:

had a nightmare last night,
had just got to basjoe, started chattin to james, then i ask for some royal hash, he says its sold out,
then i woke up

You know if you're dreaming about Amsterdam it's time to go back.

For the last 3 days every dream has been about Dam, the worse one i have is walking round not being able to find any coffee shops. Bit like when i was there in March, was walking round and round and round as you do and could not find one fucking coffee shop

I’ve a few of them fucked up dreams, had the one about not finding a coffeeshop a few times and having to walk to central station without smoking a thing. Proper nightmares them. In another dream all the shops had thick chain mail curtain over the doors & windows so that I couldn’t get in but i could see people through cracks inside smoking.

Sounds fairly COMMON

[Panog]

I have to admit I always dream about the dam...

[ftcarer]

I have random dreams about Dam , more so when a trip is getting near , so far they have have all been good & basically the same thing , random wanderings puffing away