Sober1111

I usually would drink to numb my fear of falling asleep.......I hear noises all the time ( I sleep in my basement alone)..........for the last few nights I have gotten very scary and intense dreams. I would drift asleep and quickly I would get this dream like feeling of me having a crazy seizure in my sleep (but I'm still conscious). Its so weird. I know I'm awake but I'm not actually shaking in real time. Last night was another one......did you guys get real bad dreams as well??

Dee74

Yeah for sure - they're pretty common.
I'm sorry you're having them but they do go away...hopefully soon

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jocata

Yep, horrible nightmares. Dark, ghostly figures standing over my bed. I would try to yell or scream in my sleep, but the sounds my wife said I made were almost inhuman. It would scare her.

They eventually went away to be replaced now by drinking and drugging dreams.

I don't know which is worse.

God bless.

Sober1111

I heard its maybe called astral projection.........but it doesn't seem so fun at all

evilhalf

I went through them and am now doing it again. It does get better. For me the first month is the hardest. Hang in there!!

DayTrader

I had horrible nightmares for several years. The worst ones would wake me up (and I NEVER wake up in the middle of the night......never), I'd fall back asleep, and go right back into the same damn nightmare! To make matters worse, as I was dozing off and starting to dream again it was like I'd notice I was going right back into that same nightmare and I could stop it by just opening my eyes...........but I'd go right back into it again hoping to "win" this time......and damned if whatever got me the last time didn't get me again in "this" dream too. Usually they centered around me being attacked, kidnapped, chased or something like that. One really bad one had to do with me having to watch as everyone I knew was murdered in front of me by my father - including a bunch of puppies that lived with me in the dream (that's some twisted $hit right there!). Each time I'd go back to the same dream, I'd be pretty sure I found a way to beat it, a way to not get caught, a way to stop "it" from happening again this time......but it never worked. --amazing how similar it was to drinking, yanno?

On the worst nights I'd repeat that process - dream, freak out, wake up, fall asleep, go right back to the same dream, freak out, wake up, fall asleep......etc - I dunno..... 3, 4, maybe 5x or more! They got to be so bad that after a while I'd just say "F** this!" and just get up, no matter what time it was, and just stay up the rest of the night. I knew where "Nightmare on Elm Street" had come from....... I was frickin' living it.

I talked to a couple "specialists," did a lot of searching on the web, you name it, but never found "the" answer. One psychologist told me it was "absolutely" my mind working out the whole "you can't drink ever again / want to drink / keep yourself sober / can you do it on your own / do you need God's help / you're life's on the line" deal in my head and subconscious -- who knows if she was right? After about a year though, they had slowed down considerably. I'd maybe get one every quarter or so. Now, I can't remember the last one I had - was probably a couple years ago or so.

Sunny27

I had frightening dreams for the first 4-5 days but haven't had them since.

I know how scary it can be, but know that it doesn't last.

I am on day 17 now and haven't had any since those first few days. I've had a few vivid dreams since but nothing scary.

Well done on your 4 days and keep going.

Sunny

quitforme79

The first 2 nites I had awful dreams of huge rats taking over my apartment and trying to fight them off, ick. Day 9 and now I just can't sleep at all...the human mind/body is healing so I believe these things are inevitible. Hang in there