Crossfitdad

I was nine days sober and ended up at an all you can drink fundraiser/party. They were serving all you can drink light beer...I found some bottles of IPAs (my favorite) and started drinking those. I didn't have a bottle opener but I somehow figured out how to pry the bottles open with my wedding ring and a little elbow grease. I must have knocked back five or six of them. Then I woke up and went to the bathroom. Man, I was so pissed in my daze that I had drank, but then midway through my pee I realized that it was just a dream. Funny thing was that when I woke up this morning, I felt a little hungover...like I had actually been drinking.

thekl0wn

I'm hoping these kind of dreams are normal for us. I've been having them as well, and they're scary as heck.

Crossfitdad

This one was more of a dream. My last attempt a few weeks ago, I had a nightmare. It was me, my daughter and some strange lady in my atrium. She had a bottle of vodka and started screaming at me and then turned into some kind of banshee like in that movie "The Ring". I woke up in a horrible sweat. Freaked the hell out of me. It was weird because I haven't drank vodka in years.

sober4myboys

I remember those! Waking up feeling terrible that I had given in!! Good news is.... they go away... slowly but surely.

cheapredwino

My AV slipped into my dream last night in the guise of a young lady and lured me into a bathtub with her after whiskey and fish'n'chips. Then I woke up as she submerged her head and moved toward me. It wasn't a nightmare but I was quite disappointed to wake up! :P

ScottFromWI

I didn't start having them until about a month or so in. I still have them on occasion, but it's always a good feeling to wake up and realize it was just a dream.

ClearLight

When I first stopped I would often wake up thinking I had drank the night before. It felt soooo good to not be hungover.
Now that's one of the things I cherish the most - waking up clean! It feels so good.

Olive1

I had a huge drinking dream a few weeks back and I have eight years sober now.

Mizzuno

Wow. That is a scary dream for sure. Glad it is not the reality. I have not experienced drinking dreams. I pray that It stays that way. Keep up the good work Crossfit! Your body, heart, mind and soul THANK YOU!

Isaiah

Drinking dreams! More common than a lot of people may realize, if all the personal stories I've heard from others are to be believed.

I think I had a drinking dream last night. For better or worse I almost never remember dreams.

Stinks you woke up feeling poorly too. Maybe turn it around somehow into a symbol of gratitude...? Celebrate the quasi-hangover for what it isn't?

DoubleBarrel

I feel that having a drinking dream, and waking up upset is great psychologically.
I get to go through the emotion of succumbing to the idea of drinking, and feeling the remorse and guilt, without really having it screw up what Ive worked to achieve.

I think that these are literally a pressure valve for our feelings about using.

Acheleus

I had one drinking dream so far and I am at 33 days. It was scary but I felt kind of relieved that I could experience it and not have to suffer the (real?) consequences. So I think it helped me see drinking in a new way.