Wow - those two things, dreams and going out, were both topics at my meeting last night.
Two things from that meeting. One guy, Rob, with 2 yrs sobriety said that lately he's been having really vivid dreams about being drunk. So real that he would wake up fearing that he had to reset his sobriety date, that he'd got drunk and blacked out, only to realize it was only a dream. He said it scared him enough to keep him sober for that day.
More than a few people could relate to what he said.
Unfortunately, a couple of shares centered on members who had gone out of the program and were not doing well.
Paul, a member with 17 yrs of sobriety, said this of the members that had left the program, "we can't help them, I can't help them, and I need to focus on my own sobriety because I know I have quite a few drunks left in me but I don't know if I have another sober left in me."
That statement was one of the most powerful things I have heard yet in an AA meeting and I'll try to remember it everytime I think of drinking.