Holds1325

Anyone have stupid dreams during recovery?

I'll have dreams im in a zombie apocalypse and wake up scared which is weird because when I drank I use to not care about those dreams (I watch way too many movies like that, stopped though after I quit).

I'll then have dreams about something nonsensical, for example I finally make it to a store to buy something awesome and then I forgot my wallet on my way back at my car, and I'm like what? Then i wake up nervous

I know we've all had this dream, relapse! I dream that I'm driving to the store or I bought my drink of choice and I'm about to drink it then I wake up!

Anyone have this experience? Also, did it ever get better? I seem to have this happen almost everyday since a few weeks ago. I can usually get back to sleep but I seem to wake up every 2-3 hours then by morning I'm just exhausted like I can sleep 10 more hours. I try to get 9 hours tops so I go to bed around 9-10 then wake up 7am for work.

I don't take any medication for sleep and it usually doesn't take me long to get to sleep at all.

Soberwolf

Yes !!!! They will fade

Holds1325

Thank you for the response,

I just get discouraged as I lay down sleepy and actually feel okay ready to sleep then I keep getting woke up by these annoying dreams that keep me thinking. I then tell myself okay they are just dreams nothing more and its all in your head which sort of helps. I just hate constantly feeling like this every night, really sets my mood off for the day.

sleepie

Mostly just recurring dreams about past traumas and anxiety related stuff.

zjw

relapse dreams are something. they dont happen often anymore but whenever i had a dream that i relapsed and drank i was always so dissappointed with myself in the dream but if i had a dream where i smoked cigarettes or something I always found that enjoyable go figure.

I had one really wierd one once where I dreamed my real life sobriety was actually indeed all just a dream So i woek up having achieved a few years sobriety only to realize It was all just a dream and i was back to day 1 again. That had to of been the cruelest dream I ever had. All the struggle to remain sober for a couple years in this dream the whole 2+ years of events etc.. only to wake up within a dream that it was all just a dream and back to day 1. It was awful would make a good movie story tho. Thankfully I woke up and really indeed had the 2+ year sobriety in real life.

JeffreyAK

I had regular relapse dreams the first 6 months or so, and occasionally I'll get one now, 5 years in, but they are extremely rare. Mostly, mine were dreams about being on the verge of drinking and fighting it, like some evil force trying to force a relapse, then waking up scared and wondering if I had in fact relapsed. They fade over time.

dwtbd

Dreams are odd at times arent they ?
The 'drinking'dreams have faded for the most part, an occasional one now and again, the best part of them is waking and realizing it wasn't true.
Actually had a weird one the other night even commented on it to my wife. I was volunteered or elected as mayor of 'my town', though it wasn't my town , I was adopting the position after my sister in law , who wasn't my really my sil because she kept morphing into my first grade teacher, only younger in the dream than she was when I knew her. The ceremony was being held at a house that had a glass second floor, so you could see the first floor through it, I thought it was weird that the furniture changed when viewed from 'upstairs', but not surprised at the glass floor, go figure. The weirdest part was the apprehension I was feeling about having to refuse the champagne toast , that I had the sense was traditional . So yeah dreams are weird, right ? Or should I look into seeing someone?

Dee74

I've had some very vivid dreams but I kinda got sober before Zombie became a thing

They are very common , and they will fade, in time, Holds

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GnikNus

I used to have frequent nightmares, but they've subsided in recovery. Usually, unpleasant dreams now are a reflection of what's worrying me in my day to day life.

Alcohol is so bad for us it won't even leave us alone when we sleep.

Holds1325

Thank you all,

I had a better sleep last night, not perfect but I slept longer than usual. Had a dumb dream that didn't mean anything.

I still can't shake waking up anxious no matter what I do which I'm going to bring up at my appointment. Still I know, give it time...