ForestRunner

....this naive little lady asks?

Fallow

Its a time in early sobriety when I start to feel absolutely fantastic.

I feel healthy happy energetic and peaceful. Everything in the world just looks a little better.
I'm feeling like that now.

Unfortunately for me it goes away and real life settles in.

KateL

I find it does come and go.

bigsombrero

In my experience, the pink cloud came about 6 months into sobriety. For one reason or another, my mind just sort of opened up and became really philosophical. I kept thinking about how the earth is just a speck of dust circling the drain of this vast universe, etc, etc. I was enthralled that I'd figured out the meaning of life and all that jazz. I started studying physics and whatnot, and felt I was "operating on a higher plane" for lack of a better term. Then it went away, and I got really grumpy. Took me a year of sobriety to find a comfortable place to level off.

I think it's related to your brain using different neurological pathways. New parts of the brain getting dusted off sparks a really strong reaction for some people.

Twinings

I get the pink cloud about a week into sobriety, when the nausea finally passes, i've eaten right and i feel ready to take on the world, new ideas, big plans, love life... then after about 3 weeks sober I come back down a bit and then its ups and downs tainted with cravings to drink.

LDT

For me, the pink cloud was a feeling of absolute euphoria in my early sobriety. I still have pink cloud days, but now they are just a little less manic and more even keeled.

Mentium

For me it was quite a lot of the above, but I suspect it was the mind and sensed waking up after being dulled and blunted for so long. It can be a real buzz, but it usually passes and something approaching normality gets established.

Olive1

For me, the pink cloud was thinking I was fixed, repaired, recovered. Complacency sets in and addiction sneaks in from behind you and attempts to pull the rug out.

IslandChuck

I could use a pink cloud about now.

FreeOwl

I think the pink cloud is the realization that LIFE REALLY IS JOYOUS!!!

Depending on how bad, persistent, deep or powerful our addiction has become.... we get a glimpse of it or are able to live in it for periods of time... but because we spent so much time in our lives numb, it seems fleeting and strange for us sometimes.

I think the more we welcome the pink cloud, the more it grows and the more we focus on it - even in the midst of feeling lousy, finding at least One Good Thing - then the more of it we get.

Renarde

The relief of freedom from the hell of addiction. For me it came immediately and it has lasted for over four months.

ForestRunner

Thanks, all! That's what I figured, but I secretly wondered whether there was an actual rosy color that washed over everything or something like that...

ronjohn

I am looking forward to seeing some of these clouds!

AloEgo

i'd love some of em!!

SnoozyQ

I have yet to experience " the pink cloud "

cheebiechi

I find that "doing the next right thing" always puts a (pink cloud) above me,

there is not better feeling than knowing you are making good decisions in sobriety compared to the decisions I made while using!!!

Matt

FreeOwl

for those that are asking about experiencing the pink cloud.... I have a suggestion.

Go to the sunrise.

Find yourself a wide open space.... a field at the edge of a wood... a lake... the sea.... anywhere you can get a broad look at the horizon.

Then, go sit quietly at the sunrise awhile.

Do it daily.

It's a damn good place to experience pink clouds....