yes, it's very normal. I use to have them all the time in early recovery.
I waked up in cold sweat thinking i wraped my car around a telephone
pole or some crazy thing. I have less of them today. I have dreams
like that maybe once a year,if i remember my dreams.
I think it's just our brain trying to heal itself. During our slumber
is when the body and brain regenerate cells or repair cells.
Our sub-conciouse mind dosn't sort anything, that's why some
of our dreams are fractured. In other words if there was a color
red in a room , the sub consiouse mind will associate red with everything.
If you suffered sometype of turama in the room with a color red,
the brain gose into shut down mode or sub conciouse, to prevent
shock or pain. The brain will still be recording everything.
But later..when you're at a stop light and the light truns red..you
kind get an easy feeling becuase the color red trigger some feelongs
but you don't know why.
In other words to try to figure out red would be insane.
To try to figure out our dreams or make any logical sense
of it can be intertaining. When we sleep, the brain
gose into sub-conciouse mode.
In other words.....don't trip.
As you stay sober longer, you will sometimes notice triggers or urges of
getting drunk or high. If you got drunk during daylight and night time,
good times and bad times, on a tuesday or a sunday.
So you can't really say you only got drunk when life was bad or when you're feeling down.
You got drunk just as will when life was good. A little self inventory or evaluation will
show you this. So when peopls say "don't pick up no matter what"...that make sense.