Totally relate to your comments and dream experiences.
For me (I am now 21 mo sober) I had incredibly vivid nightmares the last six months of my drinking, which gradually turned to vivid dreams as I got sober, and keep evolving. I don't dream nearly as much that I remember, these days, and I DO have drinking dreams occasionally - and often it's a really weird scenario that is like a montage of people, places and things that do NOT go together! In color, too.
Early on, I had a couple dreams that I still recall in detail, that were hard core drinking dreams and I woke up terrified they felt so real. One, I even walked to the kitchen expecting to find the typical detritis I'd have left after a typical drinking night. Yikes.
I tend to think my dreams are me processing stuff. I don't overanalyze them but I do think about it for a few minutes when I wake up!