Hammers

I'm just into my fifth day, I went to sleep a few hours
back.

I woke about ten minutes ago from one of the most
terrifying nightmares I have ever had. it was so real,
so horrible

i am almost in tears

what is this.. its like being a kid again my heart is
racfing at 100 miles an hour and i am covered in sweat
i am wet like under the shower

WTF!!

Dee74

drinking dream and vivid nightmares are pretty common in the early days - please don't think you're the only one Nicholas.

They're not fun but they will fade in time

D

Hammers

It was so violent, it was terrifying..

I have never had this before, bad dreams
yeah, but this took me at least five minutes
awake to realise that I was awake!!

Wow, I don't want this too often. It was
extreme...

sugarbear1

your brain is healing!!!!!!!

It won't last, but it may linger here and there. Relax, you truly are healing!

bigsombrero

This happens to many of us - I had dreams that were so vivid and scary that I almost thought they were real! Think of it this way: your addiction has built a huge, 4-lane highway for all of your neurons to use. For years, all of your neurons have been using this highway. Now that you've stopped drinking, those neurons are using new pathways, paths that haven't been used in a long time. Those neurons stumble across some weird stuff, activating thoughts and feelings and dreams that often leave you feeling strange. Don't worry - it goes away. Until then, just take it with a grain of salt. It's a good sign! Give those neurons a high five!

D122y

Hammers,

I'm curious what you dreamt.

Is something you can text about here or is it too weird or insane?

August252015

Hope you rest well tonight. I had horrible and very vivid nightmares when I was drinking,particularly the last six months, so the second half of 2015. They turned into vivid dreams as I got sober, and now I just have normal dreams, and remember some.

Hang in there- and maybe talk to your dr about help sleeping, if the nightmares don't subside.

Dame

Wow. I wasn't familiar with this, but then I've never looked into it. Gives me much hope about my own dreams.
Hammers. It really will pass. I would wake up in a sweat crying and talking out loud, begging people to stop hurting me. It could take a while before I realized it wasn't real. In a few hours I couldn't even remember it. Pleasant sleep will return.

Soberwolf

Sorry that happened I get nightmares sometimes & know what you mean as for the sweating it will calm down eventually we all went through that it's pretty normal

Belier

Hi hammer, I have been following your posts, you are doing great. Yes the dreams come but then they go. I dreamt someone grabbed my legs and pulled me off the bed and I actually woke up standing! either it was a poltergeist or the withdrawal, I would like to hope it was the latter!

ALinNS

I feel for your situation and it seems pretty common, although I have been sober for some time I still have terrible dreams from time to time, thank god they are not as often as my drinking days.

Something I tried and it often works is to tell myself before going to sleep, if I dream tonight I will remember it's just a dream, I have been able to snap myself out by a self awareness while in a bad dream.

All the best
Andrew

PurpleKnight

Hang in there!!

Some of the early dreams can be crazy, but be reassured they are common and will fade!!

Hammers

I can, as it was just a nightmare. I dreamt about a job
I had in 1987, I have memories obviously, but it was
about the people who I could never have named
normally, but can now. I remember everyone, their
names, where they came from everything. This is why
it scared me so much. We forget dreams minutes after
we wake and gone forever. Not this one

This one I remember everything. I also remember vividly
a relationship with a girl from that time She left, I cried,
so what? I was a teenager, nothing special. Happens to
everyone, right?

What frightened me was that when I woke, I was in the
process of cutting off my own body parts and showing
them to her. It was so graphic. It took me a while awake
to realise I was awake. This happened nearly 24 hours ago
and I haven't slept since. It is really, really bothering me.

I can't have that again...

sleepie

That is very common, mine were quite graphic and disturbing and seemed to go on for days.

Don't know why it can't be something nicer!

Hammers

Yeah!! Not wrong. A nice girl in our early twenties
etc etc etc

Which is odd as I had many "Experiences" as a young
man that were great, albeit breif but large in number,
and emotionally empty, but fun all the same so why can't
it be that!!

Why is it always so Hammer Horror!!!

I can laugh now, but not then. I was terrified,
I really thought I was losing my mind!!

Dee74

After a little while my dreams, while still vivid, lost that horrific edge. I hope the same for you Hammers.

D

Hammers

Thanks Dee,

I really f*****g hope so, I really can't have
that again.

So much so that I would rather be drunk than
face that eveytime I sleep if those are the
options.

That I cannot handle.. Drunk I can just about
survive, but dreams like that would drive me to
suicide..

sleepie

At this point, I actually miss dreaming. It seems that dreaming has vanished .

Those nightmares do abate. You are very early in sobriety.

And, congrats on what must be day 6!

Hammers

Thanks!!

No, day five now.

Posted earlier that I made a mistake when I woke
from a bad nightmare that it was five, when it was
only four.

My last drink was friday 5th August.
Here now is wednesday 10th August
00.30h CET

Thanks,
Nicholas..

Soberwolf

Hammers they will get better I played it down before but truly know what you mean by horrific & can mess up your day panic etc

Stick with it & try some chamomile tea around 6-7pm to help