FreeOwl

Whoa... so this morning was really weird.

I was dreaming that I'd been drinking, like full-on all-out sloppy-disaster binge-drinking.

When I woke in the half-light, I actually had a headache, a terribly dry mouth, nausea, bed spins.... the whole thing. I lay there for a few minutes in cold horror believing that the entire scene had been real.

Slowly, the spinning faded and the nausea passed and I realized with incredible relief it had just been a dream and I was exhausted but sober and fine.

So strange. Screw off, booze.

LBrain

wow! I have never had a real drinking dream. Only one in Feb that I had a bottle and tried to hide it from my dad. He's been dead for 13 years.

Chicagoan

While in detox and recently, I have had
some weird nightmares, waking up
screaming. I tried a sleeping pill,
but that doesn't work. That booze
really does a number on you.

FreeOwl

happened again... WTF?

SoberLeigh

I have had similar dreams, FreeOwl. I am not drunk in the dreams but the dreams always start in a place where I have finished a drink and I am in a state of distress/self-loathing over having done so. It's never pleasant and I am so relieved when I wake up.

Change4good

I had the EXACT same thing happen the other night. I am 10 days sober. I literally felt sick to my stomach, dry mouth, the whole deal. After being awake for 15 minutes, and realizing it was just a dream, it all went away.

But crazy how my mind manifested all the symptoms from just a dream!

LBrain

Are you seeing a therapist?
Many have these dreams in early sobriety. The depth of the dream follows the depth of the drinking history. It is part of the healing process. It's your subconscious inner conflict - the battle raging while you sleep. This is my guess.
Just don't drink and stay the course.

FreeOwl

not seeing a therapist at the moment, though I have off and on over the past few years. Kind of been taking a break and working on 'self-therapy' (AA, creativity, journaling, guitar, working out, etc).

I'm definitely not going to drink over it and I feel really good about my sobriety at the moment. I've had drinking dreams before but these were so vivid and the really wierd thing is having the physical sensation of BEING horribly hungover when I wake for a few minutes.....

so weird.

yeahgr8

I'd get back into a recovery program, maybe back to the meetings after all! This time sponsor and steps?

I've had a few drinking dreams, they are funny but the ones you describe I had in 5 months abstinence when I was in Antabuse and I ended up drinking again.

ktwsober

Most call these "Use" dreams. They are quite normal. I had them all the time in rehab. I was told my brain was thinking I was still drinking. They go away!!!!