Originally Posted by
thomas11 
I was fortunate enough not to experience nightmares when I quit. I do dream on occasion in a manner which I think is normal. That said, 2 nights ago I had a terrible dream. I had killed someone (a very bad person from my past) and I spent what seemed to be an endless amount of time running away from being caught with the body. It was intense. I'm sure it had some subconscious meaning.
That's something that happens to me. Freud has not been entirely discredited since it is quite obvious that dreams reflect anxieties, some or perhaps most of them unconscious. Despite my sobriety, I have my share of them, guilt for the drinking years, worry about my wife's possible cancer situation, worry about my sons and grandchildren, even worry about my ten year old dog and what might happen if I die before he does. Whether my wife would be able to take care of him properly or whether he should spend the rest of his life back with his wonderful breeder, happy with other little dogs like he is. He is the sunlight of my life. It's very simple. So often I think that it may be better not to dream. It would be better not to be at all. If it were all as it was before I was born. Not that one should be sorry for the gift of life. Only if it is possible to leave behind something which has changed for the better. That is enough. To leave a footprint behind, like the ones scrawled on walls in WW2: "Kilroy was here....."
W.