Thanks for the update... I was wondering how you were doing.
In the beginning, I had really vivid dreams. I was lucky they were not nightmares, but the first time it happened I was disturbed by the amount of images I saw, and the intensity of the dream. After a couple of nights of this, I found myself looking forward to going to sleep to see what entertainment my sober mind would give me that evening. I'm no expert, but I chalked it up to the fact that the alcohol had suppressed a lot of my thoughts and that my brain was now catching up and processing a lot of the things it could not process before since I wasn't going into a deep enough sleep.
Healing is a slow process. Think in terms of a broken bone - it hurts a lot and you cannot see it mending, but it is mending inside. As time progresses the pain subsides and in the end the scar tissue is thicker than the bone around it, and it is much stronger than before.