copperfield

Hello,
I am at 11 days as of today and this is the first time that I've ever experienced 'drinking dreams' on a sobriety journey. I read a post about 5 days back about drinking dreams so maybe that's how this concept got in my head, but now I am having drinking dreams too. Last night I dreamt that I had a glass of white wine in my hand. I had drank part of it as it was half full but I don't remember actually drinking it in the dream. I did turn down shots of jameson in my dream. There was alcohol in the previous nights' dream too. Kinda weird.

someday147

Hey Copperfield,i'm at 23 days and have often had drinking/using dreams. They are now starting to become coupled with me trying to say no to it in my dreams too. Always great to wake up knowing it wasn't real such a relief.

aasharon90

I may have had a few drinking dreams within my almost
30 yrs sober since 1990 the yr. I entered recovery. Once
I began incorporating a program of recovery in all areas of
my life on a continuous bases, my dreams became recovery
dreams instead of drinking dreams.

When I started sharing with others about my experience,
strengths and hopes of what my life was and is like before,
during and after alcohol/addiction, then my dreams turned
into dreams of gratitude, blessings, gratefulness and my
heart is full.

Your can be too.

nez

but not really. Your subconscious is just sorting things out. Don't spin your wheels over it. Just don't pick up in actuality and things will sort out.

copperfield

Thanks Someday - thanks for posting and congrats on day 23. Good to hear I'm not alone with this.

copperfield

Hi aasharon90 - thank you so much for that. I can imagine how bringing the sharing part of your life to reality could then come into your dreams. Really enjoyed reading your share, thank you.

MaximusD

Yeah I think we all experience that. Pay attention to how you feel after. I used to wake up depressed for just a minute or 2 until the groggyness passed and I knew that it was all not real.

prettiekittie

I have drinking dreams anytime I quit drinking. I usually wake up and have that similar dread of “oh gosh what did I do/say?” and then I slowly realize it didn’t happen. It’s rough but brains are weird. I still have stressful dreams of things that happened in childhood. It is what it is.

DreamCatcher17

I think drinking dreams are normal.
I tend to have them more often near my anniversary dates, when I first got sober it was 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. Now it's about once a year. That is until I got pregnant and hormones changes all my dreams, they were a little more regular but have gone away now.

owen90

I don't get dreams about drinking but I do get very bizarre, vivid, nonsensical ones.

copperfield

Owen, now that you read this post about drinking dreams you might get some, I didn't have any until I read a post about them earlier last week

venuscat

I like those dreams.....really I do.
I feel with great certainty that my dreams are all about unburdening my subconscious mind.
Whatever is worrying me....I dream about.
Always.

And so the vivid drinking dreams (haven't had one for a while) where I drink, smoke grass, act out, most likely steal something out of desperation to remain high and then become afraid I will be caught.....those dreams are gifts for me.

I wake up and feel horrendous for a moment for sure, but most importantly I wake up sober and honest.
I wake up and remember that I am not that person anymore.
I wake up and have had a reminder of my darkest days.....and the relief that I am not there anymore is humongous. ❤️

owen90

Damn. Haha 😆

Dee74

Drinking dreams are pretty common. We’re often fed the idea of dreams (any dreams)being unexpressed or unconscious desires but I don’t believe it was that way for me.

I used to dream of high school years after I’d left it - didn’t mean I wanted to go back there .

I had the dreams and stayed sober. You can too copperfield (and someday)

D

least

Drinking dreams are normal in early recovery. They get less frequent with more sober time. It's just a dream, don't attach too much significance to it.

hills

Hi copperfield, I am on day 11 as well and had a drinking dream last night too!!!! It was awful!

Kaily

I have drinking dreams/nightmares regularly and about my ex husband too - we have been divorced 30 years! I am always dreaming of bad stuff from the past. A disturbed mind.

I wake up exhausted.

copperfield

Hey Hills! Good to meet you. Here's to day 12!