Nightmares
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Nightmares
Good God...Before I couldnt sleep and was having nightmares when I finally fell asleep.
Now I can get to sleep but am still having nightmares. For like the past week..everynight.
Dead people..confrontations with people..cops..uneasy feelings of something is there but dont know what. Now the using dreams are coming back into them. This is all in one dream. And I will wake up all through the night and go back to sleep and dream somemore crazy $hit.
Ghosts..like in the house but dont see them. Just a feeling something is there. But it is always in the house I grew up in thats in Florida.
Rage and just weird dreams everynight for the past week.
I wake up every hour or two all night.
This is going to sound like I am really insane.
But you all saw I was questioning my faith last week.
Well..I have stopped that and lookng more toward God and believing again.
And when I was little I stopped praying at night because when I did I had nightmares.
I use to go to church with my best friend when I was a teenager.
First time I ever really went to church. We went every Sun because her mom made her. So I would go with her.
I was 13. I will never forget this.
After like a month of going I was dreaming one night and it just cut away to me all alone in front of the church. Real quiet..windy and gloomy looking. And I heard a voice say " Dont you ever pray again." Then I dont remember after that.
I feel like I am really mental. I must be nuts.
I know this sounds so freakin insane.
I havent prayed in a long time.
I just did for the first time in awhile.
I feel like I am losing it.
Now I can get to sleep but am still having nightmares. For like the past week..everynight.
Dead people..confrontations with people..cops..uneasy feelings of something is there but dont know what. Now the using dreams are coming back into them. This is all in one dream. And I will wake up all through the night and go back to sleep and dream somemore crazy $hit.
Ghosts..like in the house but dont see them. Just a feeling something is there. But it is always in the house I grew up in thats in Florida.
Rage and just weird dreams everynight for the past week.
I wake up every hour or two all night.
This is going to sound like I am really insane.
But you all saw I was questioning my faith last week.
Well..I have stopped that and lookng more toward God and believing again.
And when I was little I stopped praying at night because when I did I had nightmares.
I use to go to church with my best friend when I was a teenager.
First time I ever really went to church. We went every Sun because her mom made her. So I would go with her.
I was 13. I will never forget this.
After like a month of going I was dreaming one night and it just cut away to me all alone in front of the church. Real quiet..windy and gloomy looking. And I heard a voice say " Dont you ever pray again." Then I dont remember after that.
I feel like I am really mental. I must be nuts.
I know this sounds so freakin insane.
I havent prayed in a long time.
I just did for the first time in awhile.
I feel like I am losing it.
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sorry you're having such a bad time of it Chiy. Yeah I'm currently having a respite from the dreams (swapping them for insomnia) but they're pretty freaky. Lots of blood death and gore and always in the same place...which as far as I know I've never been to. Our minds are pretty freaky places sometimes.
But at least sober it's a nightmare we can wake up from hey ?
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But at least sober it's a nightmare we can wake up from hey ?
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Hi Chiynita,
Check this site out
http://www.dr-dream.com/nightmar.htm
I had AWFUL nightmares when i was in rehab. I used to wake up in sweats.
Now, I hardly sleep so I can't have nightmares...
I hope they go away.
Liz
Check this site out
http://www.dr-dream.com/nightmar.htm
I had AWFUL nightmares when i was in rehab. I used to wake up in sweats.
Now, I hardly sleep so I can't have nightmares...
I hope they go away.
Liz
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Chynthia -
It's more than likely the toxins working in your body; then the mind translates it into symbol that match the feeling.
Doom despair, etc ...
kinda like eating pizza with anchovies right before bed then you dream about having to eat coals ...
just say yer prayers for protection, and let HP do the rest.
It's more than likely the toxins working in your body; then the mind translates it into symbol that match the feeling.
Doom despair, etc ...
kinda like eating pizza with anchovies right before bed then you dream about having to eat coals ...
just say yer prayers for protection, and let HP do the rest.
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My nightmares were caused by certain medications that I had been prescribed.
I have that sort of reaction to most of the common sleep meds.
That is now.
Originally my night terrors came from real life trauma.
But the ones I have had for the last couple of years are drug induced.
I have that sort of reaction to most of the common sleep meds.
That is now.
Originally my night terrors came from real life trauma.
But the ones I have had for the last couple of years are drug induced.
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim 
Liz - what does the falling dream mean? I have one when I jump and don't come down again and I go up really high and get way out of control.
According to biblical interpretations, dreams about falling have a negative overtone and suggest that man is acting and walking according to his own way of thinking and not those of the Lord.
Chinay, yeah, it's de-tox & early sobriety messin' with your head. They'll lessen eventually. Then, as others stated, you get to experience insomina
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Thanks for all ur replies...Funny thing is..After I prayed.
And mind you it has been a looooong time since I prayed.
But i asked for guidance in my recovery and to help me stay focused and on track.
I prayed for these dreams to stop and just help me in recovery and my mental state.
I went back to sleep and dreamt of cooking hamburgers and stuff. Way different. and way better.
MAybe it is all in my mind.
Is there still detoxing even after 40 days?
I am experiencing insomina. and have been taking melatonin an hour before I think I will be ready to lay down. They work. But they make me feel groggy all morning.
I just hope they stop. I havent had any urges in these 40 days.
The first couple weeks were nothing but using dreams . Then just normal off the wall ones.
Then the past week as I find myself looking toward God for support and guidance and trying to get my faith back. I have had these horrible nightmares. Last 3 days even using has been a factor in them.
I just dont like the using dreams. And The dead people and confrontations.. And the feeling of something supernatural is there. I dont like those dreams.
I aways have disturbing dreams about my old house in Florida. Thats where all my addictions started.
I think I will bring this up in my next therapy session.
I am a deep person. I believe and am very consciece of the deeper thinking. Not so scientifical ways alot.
If you know what I mean.
And mind you it has been a looooong time since I prayed.
But i asked for guidance in my recovery and to help me stay focused and on track.
I prayed for these dreams to stop and just help me in recovery and my mental state.
I went back to sleep and dreamt of cooking hamburgers and stuff. Way different. and way better.
MAybe it is all in my mind.
Is there still detoxing even after 40 days?
I am experiencing insomina. and have been taking melatonin an hour before I think I will be ready to lay down. They work. But they make me feel groggy all morning.
I just hope they stop. I havent had any urges in these 40 days.
The first couple weeks were nothing but using dreams . Then just normal off the wall ones.
Then the past week as I find myself looking toward God for support and guidance and trying to get my faith back. I have had these horrible nightmares. Last 3 days even using has been a factor in them.
I just dont like the using dreams. And The dead people and confrontations.. And the feeling of something supernatural is there. I dont like those dreams.
I aways have disturbing dreams about my old house in Florida. Thats where all my addictions started.
I think I will bring this up in my next therapy session.
I am a deep person. I believe and am very consciece of the deeper thinking. Not so scientifical ways alot.
If you know what I mean.
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I believe in spiritual dreams..I have dreams of living daily life
and my father is in them...it is not until the end of the dream I
say to him.."Daddy..you died..how is it that you're here?"
I still have drinking and using dreams..but they have lessened
as time goes on.
Pilgrim..I sense that your dream of falling then going up
and out of control may be fear of success..
Very common with us alkies!
Chiy..you've been through so much recently....
the things we don't like to see or are afraid to face will work
themselves out in our subconcious while sleeping.
It protects us from going nutz while waking...
I am glad for that!
Love,
IO
and my father is in them...it is not until the end of the dream I
say to him.."Daddy..you died..how is it that you're here?"
I still have drinking and using dreams..but they have lessened
as time goes on.
Pilgrim..I sense that your dream of falling then going up
and out of control may be fear of success..
Very common with us alkies!
Chiy..you've been through so much recently....
the things we don't like to see or are afraid to face will work
themselves out in our subconcious while sleeping.
It protects us from going nutz while waking...
I am glad for that!
Love,
IO
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Even after 40 days your poor old brain is still recovering I think Chi. I have very weird dreams sometimes, I can still remember one where lots of people were walking aimlessly, me included, gradually I realised we were all ghosts-it was SO real I can still remember it vividly. I usually have anxiety dreams like being lost etc.
I had one about 20 years ago about a car crash and this voice boomed-'never be a passenger in a car!' a bit like your praying dream.
Usually I am trying to get home and cant find the right bus/train or I have an exam and dont know what the hell its about.
Steph, that floating dream is weird, I have the standard falling of a cliff and waking up ones. Yours sound much more interesting, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar-hard not to try to interpret them tho.
I had one about 20 years ago about a car crash and this voice boomed-'never be a passenger in a car!' a bit like your praying dream.
Usually I am trying to get home and cant find the right bus/train or I have an exam and dont know what the hell its about.
Steph, that floating dream is weird, I have the standard falling of a cliff and waking up ones. Yours sound much more interesting, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar-hard not to try to interpret them tho.
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Can you read something peaceful and uplifting when you go to bed?
Not deep, deep thinking, just something gentle and good.
Not issues, just good thoughts.
The first Buddhist practice, which I studied, and find oh so helpful, is to focus all my being on my breathing and then to just keep the idea of compassion in my mind.
I wasn't much good at the meditating on compassion, because it was so relaxing I would fall asleep.
Not deep, deep thinking, just something gentle and good.
Not issues, just good thoughts.
The first Buddhist practice, which I studied, and find oh so helpful, is to focus all my being on my breathing and then to just keep the idea of compassion in my mind.
I wasn't much good at the meditating on compassion, because it was so relaxing I would fall asleep.
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Originally Posted by IO Storm
I am very recently retired..(June 1) after a year of time off due
to disability.. and have recurring dreams of being late for work
or showing up naked!
IO
to disability.. and have recurring dreams of being late for work
or showing up naked!
IO
lol....that is so funny...you cracked me up!
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