I'm having nightmares of getting drunk :(
 

I'm 29 days sober! I keep having a dream that I get drunk and wake up (in my dream) and feel massive guilt and wonder why I did it and try and remember what led me to buy a bottle. In my dream I can never remember why I started drinking I just remember getting drunk. I sometimes shake myself awake for real to make sure it's just a dream and actually feel a hangover for several minutes. I hate this dream and it's really upsetting me!! Has anyone else had this and if so when will it stop?

~Jackie~ :praying

OH! Daisy ! you poor old thing !

Isn't it scarey? I clearly remeber my first "drinking dream", I woke thinking it had been real. i rang my Sponser , who reassured me that it was quite normal, and that a lot of people have them. Mine lessened as I got more sobriety, I think my last one , which came quite out of the blue, was when i was 12 months sober, haven't had any since .

Take heart , it is normal, and it will "pass" LOL

HUGX
Leigh

:hug:
If you do a SR search for dreams
you will find many of us know exactly what you mean.

This is also information you might find interesting

http://www.tlctx.com/ar_pages/paw_part1.htm

Good to see you are making progress
Way To Go on your sober time.
:)

Ah yes, drunk dreams. They can be pretty awful.

I found that they do go away.

Hang in there,

Ted

Yes nearly everyone I have talked to has had these drinking/using dreams. I like you even had a hangover! It's your mind telling your body this stuff. It will pass.

Hey. I have those too. I wake up scared to death that I have to call my sponcer, and tell him that I screwed up. I try to look at it positively. I get to expierence the guilt and shame of taking that drink, with out accually doing it. Reminds me why I need to stay sober. Good luck!!

I'm one of the lucky ones when it comes to nightmares. I remember having some very vivid dreams my first month and a half but never any nightmares. Now drunk dreams I've had a couple. My first one occurred during my second month sober! I remember drinking just one beer in my dream. One beer!! I felt guilty as hell in my dream and even after waking up! The second I had about a month later. This time I remember drinking at a party in my dream. When I woke up I realized I'd had just had a drunk dream and didn't think much of it after waking up.

I understand your dreams are more frequent and it seems more intense. Hold on, its the desease playing tricks on you! Things will get better as your sobriety progreses!

By the way congratulations on 29 days sober!!!!

I've had them too and have woken up in a sweat, before I realized they were dreams.
So far I haven't had any for a long time...I do think they stop.

yes, it's very normal. I use to have them all the time in early recovery.
I waked up in cold sweat thinking i wraped my car around a telephone
pole or some crazy thing. I have less of them today. I have dreams
like that maybe once a year,if i remember my dreams.

I think it's just our brain trying to heal itself. During our slumber
is when the body and brain regenerate cells or repair cells.

Our sub-conciouse mind dosn't sort anything, that's why some
of our dreams are fractured. In other words if there was a color
red in a room , the sub consiouse mind will associate red with everything.
If you suffered sometype of turama in the room with a color red,
the brain gose into shut down mode or sub conciouse, to prevent
shock or pain. The brain will still be recording everything.
But later..when you're at a stop light and the light truns red..you
kind get an easy feeling becuase the color red trigger some feelongs
but you don't know why.

In other words to try to figure out red would be insane.
To try to figure out our dreams or make any logical sense
of it can be intertaining. When we sleep, the brain
gose into sub-conciouse mode.

In other words.....don't trip.

As you stay sober longer, you will sometimes notice triggers or urges of
getting drunk or high. If you got drunk during daylight and night time,
good times and bad times, on a tuesday or a sunday.
So you can't really say you only got drunk when life was bad or when you're feeling down.
You got drunk just as will when life was good. A little self inventory or evaluation will
show you this. So when peopls say "don't pick up no matter what"...that make sense.

Thanks everyone. Thinking that it's a way for my brain to heal makes me feel better. If I look at it in a positive way I guess I can relax about it. I'm really determined this time to stay sober I hate feeling like I relapsed if only in a dream.

30 days sober!!!! :bday7 and it's my belly button birthday too!! :a122:

Congratulations on 30 days AND on your belly button birthday! Right on!

Happy Birthday! :bday3

BTW I still get those dreams from time to time - disconcerting to say the least. Just keep the focus on your sobriety :)

wooo hooo 30 days congrats

I get those terrible dreams too!! When I am stressed to the max, my frustration surfaces in my dreams...:skillet

Hi Daisypops,sorry to hear you and many others are having upsetting dreams.I've had a few where it's a hot day and i'm downing a few cans.As i'm doing it i feel guilty but that doesn't stop me bingeing.I usually wake up and find it quite amusing,as long as it's not real.

I hate drinking dreams! But they have left me disliking drinking even more so...

I've heard that when you dream about doing things you have chosen no longer to do it apparantly means you're better.
However having said that I used to dream about drinking while I was sober for 6 and half years - then I fell off the wagon :(
I also quit smoking for about 5 years, and I'd often dream about that - I then started again.
So, in my modest oppinion, I don't think the psychologists, or whatever, have quite got the dream thing figuered out yet.

Whether the dreams are a good or a bad sign are immaterial, they happen to most of us, they vary from just a little upsetting to nightmares, I have had a few, I always woke up feeling guilty.

Believe it or not, I had a dream last night where I was drinking!
I woke up all scared this morning thinking that I must have thrown away my 3 and half weeks of sobriety last night. Then I realized it was just a dream! :)

Just about everyday i am sober and plan on being the next day i usually will have a drinking dream and sometimes even using dream even though i never did alot of drugs. Sometimes i wake up amused sometimes scared sometimes horrified. But it never last long once i realize im awake and sober. And thats a good feeling all in all. Congads on your 30 days, I hope you will always be 29 days ahead of me and i will be 29 behind you lol. Good luck.

I think it's a healthy sign. Happened a lot to me in early sobriety. I was always so relieved to realize it was only a dream.