Madmartigan

So I'm going on 1 month and 1 week sober. Lately I've been having random things trigger memories of all sorts of things I completely forgot. The type of memories that when you remember them you aren't 100% sure if it's S real memory or a dream you had. I was just watching a movie and a girls haircut struck me as familar. After about a minute it all clicked. It was a girl I dated for a very short time in college, like only a few weeks, but all the emotions just rushed back, like down to the details of how her eyes looked and hair felt. Also how, bad I felt because I just blew her off and she was such a nice girl. Until just a few minutes ago I completely and utterly had forgotten all of that or even that I had a little fling with her. That was a very strange and intense memory flashback. Anyone else experience that once the brain starts to function again during sobriety?

Lorax1981

Oh yeah, big time. Old memories come back and it can be annoying cuz you can't quite place them sometimes like you said. Really goes to show how much drugs and alcohol fog up the brain. It's weird at first but mellows out later on. Good work btw!

entropy1964

I have that kind of thing happen now and again. In another thread someone posted a link with an article about emotional memory management...kind of explains some of this stuff. But I had a memory come back a while ago while I was baby sitting my then bf's grand kids. It was a dream I had when I was a kid about driving around with my best friend in a motorized sleeping bad...had a food replicator (ala Star Trek) in it so we could eat whatever we wanted. The dream made me laugh hysterically so when the memory popped back, that's what I did. I couldn't stop laughing and was actually crying as I was trying to explain to my ex and his daughter....pretty sure they thought I was nuts. Memory is weird stuff.

Soberwolf

I have unexpected flashbacks every now & then