SoberinSyracuse

This is wimpy! It's after midnight here and I don't want to go to bed because I had a bad dream last night!

It was a goofy dream. I was getting married, and got to the church and had left half my stuff at home, so I was trying to assemble an appropriate wedding outfit from a theater costume rack.

I can find NO connection between this dream and anything going on in life. Must've been something I ate.

And of course I'm eating salsa as I write this, after midnight. Okay. I'm off to bed...to get stranded in a distant galaxy because my bus pass expired or something...

Inchworm

Sweet dreams

SoberinSyracuse

I had fallen asleep watching the documentary, Paris is Burning.

Mystery solved!

EndGameNYC

Making a commitment to sobriety or a better life (marriage), leaving behind your past (left half your things at home), and trying on the new you (theater costumes).

SoberinSyracuse

You must have nailed it because my arm hairs stood up.

You're good! (Thanks!)

Ken33xx

Interesting documentary. Saw it years ago.

venuscat

Salsa before bed? Maybe not such a good idea love.

Dreams of having to get to something important and not having what you need are really common. We all have them in one form or another at some stage. For me, it's about our subconscious fears that we aren't good enough.

But we are. And we can do this.

FeelingGreat

Anxiety dream; you're trying to do something and are being frustrated at every turn. Hope you slept better last night.

EndGameNYC

Anxiety, frustration and feeling unprepared are all part of early sobriety. Kinda like being stranded in an alien universe with an expired bus pass.

Thumpalumpacus

Yeah, there's a bloody nightmare, no doubt.

Jsbodhi

I had a dream I got HIV the other night so you're doing better than me!!
Sleep well xoxo

SweatyHands

I have dreams all the time about not having what I need in certain situations. Even now, two years out of being a professional chef, I have dreams about not being able to make the food on order, or having it fall apart when I try to plate it. I try to deal with it as a lesson in impermanence. I try to to go into situations without over-thinking the outcome as a way of relinquishing some of my false sense of control over the universe.

Now the dreams about relapsing, that's another kettle of fish altogether, but this is your thread, so I shan't hi-jack it...

teatreeoil007

Making it on time for a big event on time &having something hindering you are sort of common .. Perhaps it's fear or frustration ... FOMO? Fear of not being truly ready. ?

Soberwolf

The dreams will fade SIS hope you feel better

SoberinSyracuse

ROLMAO! You're a live wire.

I'm loving sobriety but it is definitely a big change! Feeling healthy and confident and being in a good mood is indeed a whole new deal.

SoberinSyracuse

Oh my gosh, now THAT is a nightmare!

Last night, the dream was that my blood pressure was 250/100. I mean, c'mon. The subconscious does worry so!

SoberLeigh

You are very good at this, EndGame.

SoberLeigh

Hope you slept well, SiS.

Hawkeye13

Do you offer classic dream analysis EndGame in your practice?
That was certainly a solid hit--deft and on the money.

Wish I could be your client

Ariesagain

Is this a new one or one you've had over and over?

In mine I'm in an airport where I don't speak the language (usually Tokyo) trying to get on a flight home with an expired passport.

Or I'm trying to pack to go catch a flight and I'm frantically trying to pack and keep finding more stuff and time is ticking away.

Or I'm checking into some enormous hotel jetlagged and half drunk and keep wandering the halls trying to find my room...and if I do, there are already three strangers asleep in it.

Can you tell I used to travel a lot?

Seriously, do these repeated nightmares get better with sober time? Because that would be so wonderful...