Severian

I dreamed I was drinking last night. As I was first waking up this morning I could feel the hangover. Then as I became more lucid I remembered I did not drink last night and therefore could not have a hangover. Very strange!

Snarf

I've had that happen several times. The dreams and the feelings I have in them are so real and intense. So is the feeling of despair when I first wake up. But I sure am thankful it's just a dream and not a reality.

coming_clean

me too....smoking weed that is....actually feeling guilty over the fact that I smoked, while I didn't !!

DayTrader

I've had maybe a dozen of them. The guilt and the shame, the likes of which I haven't felt since I was IN my addiction, came rushing back like an atomic bomb blast. In one, I was in present day and a couple years sober. In the dream I weighed all the pros and cons, thought about my sobriety, thought about how I'd tell my loved ones and the ppl in the meetings.......then just said 'f-it and started partying. It shook me for a good part of the day even after I woke up.

One a good note, dreams like that remind us how precarious our position can be IF we're not taking the actions we need to be taking to maintain our sobriety.

shelly009

Me too!! But I dreamed that I was trying to moderate but then decided to let people know that I didnt drink... then I was naked at a hotel resort we were staying in and my husband lent me his sweater... weird dream

Snarf

How thoughtful of your husband.

I don't think I really remembered my dreams when I was drinking. When I did dream, it wasn't nearly as lucid as the ones I have now.

Lithobid

Definitely been there, crazy huh!! Just goes to show that the mind remembers!!

-Lith

sobermax

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I don't think I really remembered my dreams when I was drinking. When I did dream, it wasn't nearly as lucid as the ones I have now.[/QUOTE]

Exactly the same for me. I had noticed a sense of more vivid dreams this week until your post reminded me that if I drink, I just pass out and don't dream at all. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.

Severian

Some of you reminded me that for a few seconds there this morning I was feeling really guilty for having drank last night. It was a good feeling when I realized I hadn't and that guilty cloud lifted. I also enjoyed spooning up against my wife who usually asks me to keep my stinky whiskey breath to myself on my morning afters.

gallery007

I dream CONSTANTLY about pain pills...it's like I can't even stop thinking about them when I'm sleeping...something that helps me is reading something light and funny before I go to bed--just get my head in a better place ya know? Good luck and sorry to hear about the rough times...but remembers everything passes...it really does

Hevyn

Yes, this happened to me for the first few months. I'd have the cotton-mouth & all - would prop myself up on one elbow and really have to think hard to figure out if I drank or not. Phantom hangovers are common, apparently. Isn't it wonderful when you realize - no, I didn't drink - I'm sober and clearheaded!

gardner

Yes. I have dreamed repeatedly that I was drinking and in the dream I am always doing it in secret. I wake up feeling so guilty. I have also had dreams about smoking cigarettes and taking vicodin. It all feels very real. They can be very unsettling.

Fandy

from 2 months sobriety....here is my wierd dream...

Grateful for a peaceful Sunday morning.....I had a weird dream, i went to sit in an outdoor theater( located at my mother's nursing home)??? and asked a gentleman to move over so I could have the outside seat....he obliged me and opened his envelope style olive green, brown trimmed knapsack and took out 3 large PICKLES...and he told me his name was Clay Aiken......wooh! try to analyze THAT one!!!! it is very funny, no?

Tommyh

I had plenty of them,but not lately
I woke up many times feeling guilty only to realize it is a dream ...woke up scared some too,only to realize it is another dream..what a relief!

Taking5

Yeah, early in sobriety I had a bunch of them not so often now. I also had fake hangovers until I realized I had dreamed it all. Still can't figure out how dreaming of drinking can make me have a headache and be nauseous.

priceyjunk

i had that 3-4 weeks into my sobriety! I woke up, not with a 'hangover', but with the self loathing I used to feel the morning after yet another binge. It took more than a few minutes to shake off the feeling.

you are not alone, it soon pasts!