Bad bad nightmare
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Bad bad nightmare
I'm just into my fifth day, I went to sleep a few hours
back.
I woke about ten minutes ago from one of the most
terrifying nightmares I have ever had. it was so real,
so horrible
i am almost in tears
what is this.. its like being a kid again my heart is
racfing at 100 miles an hour and i am covered in sweat
i am wet like under the shower
WTF!!
back.
I woke about ten minutes ago from one of the most
terrifying nightmares I have ever had. it was so real,
so horrible
i am almost in tears
what is this.. its like being a kid again my heart is
racfing at 100 miles an hour and i am covered in sweat
i am wet like under the shower
WTF!!
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It was so violent, it was terrifying..
I have never had this before, bad dreams
yeah, but this took me at least five minutes
awake to realise that I was awake!!
Wow, I don't want this too often. It was
extreme...
I have never had this before, bad dreams
yeah, but this took me at least five minutes
awake to realise that I was awake!!
Wow, I don't want this too often. It was
extreme...
This happens to many of us - I had dreams that were so vivid and scary that I almost thought they were real! Think of it this way: your addiction has built a huge, 4-lane highway for all of your neurons to use. For years, all of your neurons have been using this highway. Now that you've stopped drinking, those neurons are using new pathways, paths that haven't been used in a long time. Those neurons stumble across some weird stuff, activating thoughts and feelings and dreams that often leave you feeling strange. Don't worry - it goes away. Until then, just take it with a grain of salt. It's a good sign! Give those neurons a high five!
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Hope you rest well tonight. I had horrible and very vivid nightmares when I was drinking,particularly the last six months, so the second half of 2015. They turned into vivid dreams as I got sober, and now I just have normal dreams, and remember some.
Hang in there- and maybe talk to your dr about help sleeping, if the nightmares don't subside.
Hang in there- and maybe talk to your dr about help sleeping, if the nightmares don't subside.
This happens to many of us - I had dreams that were so vivid and scary that I almost thought they were real! Think of it this way: your addiction has built a huge, 4-lane highway for all of your neurons to use. For years, all of your neurons have been using this highway. Now that you've stopped drinking, those neurons are using new pathways, paths that haven't been used in a long time. Those neurons stumble across some weird stuff, activating thoughts and feelings and dreams that often leave you feeling strange. Don't worry - it goes away. Until then, just take it with a grain of salt. It's a good sign! Give those neurons a high five!
Hammers. It really will pass. I would wake up in a sweat crying and talking out loud, begging people to stop hurting me. It could take a while before I realized it wasn't real. In a few hours I couldn't even remember it. Pleasant sleep will return.
Hi hammer, I have been following your posts, you are doing great. Yes the dreams come but then they go. I dreamt someone grabbed my legs and pulled me off the bed and I actually woke up standing! either it was a poltergeist or the withdrawal, I would like to hope it was the latter!
I feel for your situation and it seems pretty common, although I have been sober for some time I still have terrible dreams from time to time, thank god they are not as often as my drinking days.
Something I tried and it often works is to tell myself before going to sleep, if I dream tonight I will remember it's just a dream, I have been able to snap myself out by a self awareness while in a bad dream.
All the best
Andrew
Something I tried and it often works is to tell myself before going to sleep, if I dream tonight I will remember it's just a dream, I have been able to snap myself out by a self awareness while in a bad dream.
All the best
Andrew
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I can, as it was just a nightmare. I dreamt about a job
I had in 1987, I have memories obviously, but it was
about the people who I could never have named
normally, but can now. I remember everyone, their
names, where they came from everything. This is why
it scared me so much. We forget dreams minutes after
we wake and gone forever. Not this one
This one I remember everything. I also remember vividly
a relationship with a girl from that time She left, I cried,
so what? I was a teenager, nothing special. Happens to
everyone, right?
What frightened me was that when I woke, I was in the
process of cutting off my own body parts and showing
them to her. It was so graphic. It took me a while awake
to realise I was awake. This happened nearly 24 hours ago
and I haven't slept since. It is really, really bothering me.
I can't have that again...
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Yeah!! Not wrong. A nice girl in our early twenties
etc etc etc
Which is odd as I had many "Experiences" as a young
man that were great, albeit breif but large in number,
and emotionally empty, but fun all the same so why can't
it be that!!
Why is it always so Hammer Horror!!!
I can laugh now, but not then. I was terrified,
I really thought I was losing my mind!!
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I really f*****g hope so, I really can't have
that again.
So much so that I would rather be drunk than
face that eveytime I sleep if those are the
options.
That I cannot handle.. Drunk I can just about
survive, but dreams like that would drive me to
suicide..
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No, day five now.
Posted earlier that I made a mistake when I woke
from a bad nightmare that it was five, when it was
only four.
My last drink was friday 5th August.
Here now is wednesday 10th August
00.30h CET
Thanks,
Nicholas..
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