endlesspatience

I was warned this might happen and it has. Yesterday, after numerous attempts to reach this stage, I celebrated more than a month of sobriety and picked up a chip from my AA meeting. I am attending AA every day and going to counselling once a week.

I came home, watched a bit of TV, ate a healthy supper, made a cup of hot chocolate and went to bed. I kept waking up in the middle of the night with vivid dream of being drunk in a pub and then fearing the consequences. I remember being in bed and asking myself am I really drunk or sober?

Fortunately when I woke up I realised I am still sober. A disturbing experience. Anybody else had this?

bellakeller

All the time. Most of the time I wake up relieved and thankful it's not real. Sometimes the severe negative feelings get hard to shake as the day progresses. I am glad they are just dreams.

Kjell

Hi EP-

I'm 18 months sober and I still have "drinking dreams".

What I find interesting, and case-in-point to your post, is that there is always a negative undertone to the dream.

I've yet to have a "fun" drinking dream.

To me, that says so much about the fact that I am an alcoholic.

Kjell~

TheJungianThing

I had one a few weeks ago, my sobriety date is in 2002.

I woke up a bit freaked out. A friend recently relapsed and I had been hanging out with him trying to be of help. I guess subconciously the reality of "it could happen to me if I don't stay in the middle of the circle and triangle" hit home. While I slept my subconcious played that out in the oddesst of ways in a drunk dream.

I literally woke up at 3 AM, nearly convinced I had relapsed. I found myself recounting my day. 1. Work, 2. Gym. 3. Dinner and meeting with this friend. 4. School work, 5. Sleep.

Nope, nope i didn't relapse.

Trippy stuff. I'd also come off several days of working OT and schoolwork wherein I only got 6 hours of sleep in two days, so maybe that had something to do with it too.

erikm02

Good thing you were unhappy about it! lol

endlesspatience

Thanks everyone. I had experimented by putting cinamon in hot chocolate. Perhaps that was part of the reason....

Kjell

Nah, I think it's just that for so long, we went to bed f-ed up.

Now we're going to bed sober and our minds are wondering what's going on?

Kjell~

skinnygenes

I had those dreams my whole first year in recovery, it's scary but I cherished the feeling of "it's just a dream" when i woke up, even tho they felt so real!
Someone told me it's just a process of the mind that is letting the addiction go, dunno about that but they became less frequent about a year and a half in

Enoy

After 36 days I've had a few of them. Usually a fun dream in the beginning but I always turn to a very negative outcome just before waking up.


A bad fight , Cops, DUI , etc etc.

So I feel that my HP or my subconscious (whichever you want to believe) was reminding me of the terrible consequences I will face if I think that I can attain that joyous feeling of drinking.

Reset

Yeah I've had them. Just be glad it was only a dream!

MsCooterBrown

I had experimented by putting cinamon in hot chocolate. Perhaps that was part of the reason....

I make it a point to never let my cinnamon touch my chocolate..

Glad it was just a dream. I haven't ever had one. A drinking dream that is!

Krang

I have drinking dreams all the time. It's nice to wake up in bed, sober, and know it was all dream. Our brains like to play tricks on us.

Boleo

I can't say as I have ever even once woke up wishing I had not gotten so sober the night before LOL!