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I’ve been having drinking dreams almost every night now.. I know these are common but they have been increasing in frequency and they are very vivid.

Perhaps subconsciously I want to pick up. I have no intention of drinking again, but I am ashamed to say that I still keep the prospect of drinking as a ‘last resort’. An emergency hatch of sorts that I can jump down when things get too stressful for me. These are stressful days.

Just checking in on the morning of day 103. I will not be drinking today!

Anna

Clarkkent, keeping the thought of drinking as a last resort is likely what's causing you to have vivid dreams at night. Maybe, if/when you let go of the idea of ever drinking again, the dreams will stop.

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Robbie64

I'd be a bit uncomfortable if I was having a drinking dream every night. I do sometimes get them when I've gone long enough without a drink and that can make me feel uncomfortable. I also get smoking dreams too (I only smoke when I'm drinking). But they are usually only once a month or so. Then again I rarely remember what I've dreamt about so perhaps I get them more frequently than I realise. I tend only to remember dreams I've had if I wake up soon afterwards.

103 days - almost 15 weeks - is great going and it would be a real shame to throw that time away. Especially if it's just in response to a dream. How long have you been having them as frequently as you are doing?

Lucinda2

I don't know about the dreams. When I quit drugs some years ago I had some pretty vivid using dreams for quite some time. I still get the odd using dream now and I am over 15 years removed.

But you are right these are stressful days and finding ways to manage my stress is something that I am currently looking at. I am compiling a chores and activities list because I am definitely better if I can tick things off a 'to do' list. Perhaps the dreams are indictive that you might also benefit from re-visiting your toolbox for managing stress?

Congratulations on your 103 days.

D122y

Drinking dreams were sort of good for me because every single time during the dream and when i woke up (from my nightmare really) I had horrible guilt and remorse.

Crazy to think that having a drinking dream can cause remorse, but the coolest thing was it was like a free look at what a relapse would feel like.

I am betting on lucky 7 that if I were ever to relapse the remorse would sit with me for years.

Years!

That is a scary proposition and one I don't want to allow to become reality.

There is no problem drinking can't make worse. Taking a nap, getting a good night sleep, eating something very good for me (e.g. oatmeal, an apple) etc etc all make me feel amazing and make me feel like a proper adult.

I actually feel sorry for folks (so called normies) that need a drink to make things right. Needing a drink to make things right is not normal, it is addiction.

Call it functional they may, but I call it addiction.

We here have the real truth and are fortunate to be free of the learned behavior of drinking.

I don't believe the hype anymore. Drinking booze is an antiquated process.

Thanks.

anxiousrock

I get them too a lot

Lucinda2

I like your spin on this. It also seems to be true that those dreams never seem to be euphoric, they are always truly horrid.

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fini

wondering if you’ve considered AA, where there is a suggested program of recovery that deals with addressing the “how” and the wrongs done to others.
possibly making amends to those you have wronged would take care of guilt-ridden dreams and anxieties.
not trying to push it on you, just genuinely wondering.

DriGuy

Anna might be onto something. If drinking is still in the back of your mind, it maybe jump-starting the drunk dreams. Occasional drunk dreams may just be your mind reliving a discarded habit. I don't know why we have them, but they are common and unsettling, but I never could put my finger on whether they are important or not. If anyone learned something from a drunk dream, I would enjoy hearing about it, because I've always puzzled over them.