Drinking dreams
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I've had drinking dreams where after waking up I'm unsure if I really drank the night before for a few seconds. I know what you mean about thinking you might be hungover for a second. I've woken up thinking oh no how much did I drink last night. Then it comes into focus that it was a dream and it's a relief. The mind can do funny things.
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Not unusual. I've had many drinking dreams. The weirdest was the one where I dreamed I had started drinking again and I was telling my mother. While she and I were talking she kept kicking the bottom of my chair with her pointy-toed shoe and I could feel it through the chair. When I woke I discovered my dog had climbed into bed and was attempting to make more room for herself by pushing my butt with her feet. 
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Originally Posted by nonsensical 
not unusual. I've had many drinking dreams. The weirdest was the one where i dreamed i had started drinking again and i was telling my mother. While she and i were talking she kept kicking the bottom of my chair with her pointy-toed shoe and i could feel it through the chair. When i woke i discovered my dog had climbed into bed and was attempting to make more room for herself by pushing my butt with her feet.
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I noticed a strange progression in my drinkinking or pot smoking dreams from early sobriety to now.
At first, I would wake up distraught, glad it had been a dream and I hadn't in fact relapsed.
After a year or two, I would notice a change in my reaction to dream drinking, a nagging thought creeping in that, oh, wait, I'm in recovery and why am I drinking?
That type of dream hung around for a year or two, with me struggling in my dream to equate the dichotomy of being in recovery and having a beer in my hand or being in a position where I was smoking pot.
In the last year or two, I have actually been in dreams where I decline that joint or beer bottle.
It's amazing to me that over the years even my subconscious has accepted sobriety.
At first, I would wake up distraught, glad it had been a dream and I hadn't in fact relapsed.
After a year or two, I would notice a change in my reaction to dream drinking, a nagging thought creeping in that, oh, wait, I'm in recovery and why am I drinking?
That type of dream hung around for a year or two, with me struggling in my dream to equate the dichotomy of being in recovery and having a beer in my hand or being in a position where I was smoking pot.
In the last year or two, I have actually been in dreams where I decline that joint or beer bottle.
It's amazing to me that over the years even my subconscious has accepted sobriety.
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I had a few after I stopped drinking where I would drink in the dream. First time I woke up after a drinking dream I was was a little angry and thought I had actually had a drink.
The last couple I remember saying to someone in the dream that I quit drinking and cannot ever have alcohol again. Maybe my sub-conscious mind finally gets it.
The last couple I remember saying to someone in the dream that I quit drinking and cannot ever have alcohol again. Maybe my sub-conscious mind finally gets it.
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Oh god yea had another one myself the other night. Drunk 2 glasses before realised what I was doing then thought may as well finish the bottle seeing as already messed up. Woke up feeling really ashamed and then realised was a dream and was so relieved lol. Weird thing was the friend who had initially offered me the drink in the dream is the one who has supported me 100% and kept telling me I had to stop completely before I was ready to listen. Subconscious is a weird thing xx
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