Hey Sassy. Some thoughts on the original topic of sleep for your consideration.
For me a bad night of sleep w/o alcohol beats a bad night of sleep with alcohol. Over the years something changed in me so that when I drank I would wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats. I wish I could say sleep got much better when I got sober. But not for me. But when I wake up at 2:00 am sober I still feel better about myself than when drinking. I will say that sober sleep still beats drunken sleep.
Another item for all of us to consider. According the NSF sleep quality generally declines with age. So even folks who did not drink have more sleep problems when they age. My point is that if you are like me and drank for decades, do not expect your sleep patterns to ever return to the better sleep quality of your younger years. We need to understand the effects of aging on our sleep patterns so we don't use the experience of poor sleep in sobriety as an excuse to start drinking again.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/slee...ging-and-sleep