BirdsAteMyFace

Usually when I get sober I eventually have drinking dreams. Last night I had a nightmare that I missed an important AA meeting.

I hope my brain is starting to reorganize itself towards valuing sobriety and away from obsessing about booze.

Copper442

That's interesting. Can't say I've ever experienced anything like that. Here's hoping your brain is getting it together!!

SoberLeigh

That must have been distressing when you were in your dreamstate. But, yeah, I agree; it does seem to suggest a reorganization of thought processes and priorities.

Good stuff.

Soberwolf

Dreams Nightmares are common in early sobriety

I have had nearly every sleep disorder going mine have faded heavily in sobriety

MythOfSisyphus

I have found that they come and go. I've been sober for over two years and occasionally I still get a drinking dream that rattles me. But dreams are just that- dreams. They're not real. I like to think they're my Beast; having utterly failed to get to me awake it's trying me in my sleep. But that's another great thing about sobriety; being lucid. When I drank it seemed like I usually spent the first hour or two after waking up being a zombie, just halfways in and halfway out of it. Now I'm 100% awake and lucid within 15 seconds of getting out of bed!

I do want to mention lest I worry you that the dreams- for me- have become much less frequent. Just an occasional thing.