I love this topic and thread, thanks for starting the discussion
I'm newly sober (40 days)....I also suffered from chronic insomnia for more years than I remember....i would get maybe 3.5-4 hours on a GOOD night, i would fall asleep, go directly into a vague nightmare and wake up about 45 mins. into sleep with such a rapid HR, i couldnt get back to sleep for hours...other than that i never remembered a dream or experienced deep sleep.
about 2 weeks into sobirety i started sleeping like a normal person (6hours usually) and this is the rest my poor newly sober brain needs...dreams are just starting to come clear...last night it was my dishwasher...not cleaning my new coffee mugs, everything came out dirty and i kept rinsing and re-rinsing...but there were still coffee dregs...
i sometimes look dreams up on swoon.com...(they even have worksheets to print out so you can easily write things down.)