Good for you claired4, such a relief when the realisation dawns eh?

It's strange how the subconscious throws these things up. I gave up smoking about 15 years ago and still have the occasional dream about that, ditto with the drinking!

I hope you don't worry about the drinking dreams as they seem to happen to all of us from time to time.

It sounds like you have some underlying worries about screwing it all up at your new job, not with alcohol necessarily but those anxieties that we all have when we start a new job. Don't see it as a portent but make sure that you keep your priorities right.

Possibly but I enjoy work....it was stress from parenting that made me go for the wine bottle every night:)

I think drinking dreams, where you wake up relieved that you did not drink, are such a good sign.

To me these dreams mean that not only have we decided, consciously, to not drink but our subconscious is right in line with that decision.

i tried to quite drinking for about 4 years and never had a drinking dream. When I truly did get sober, i had a few drinking dreams that scared the heck out of me and I was so relieved to wake up sober.

I think this dream is a very good sign that you have truly stopped drinking.

i don't think your dream is the least bit boring :) i think it is very good that you shared this.

Thank you:) it's only been 2 weeks but I can really tell a difference in my mood and just how I interact w my family in general. I really am committed this time. I'm glad I had a couple of backslides because it helped me to realize that my affair w alcohol is over.
Just for the record, I'm not talking full on benders here....wine at night w kids in bed etc but I hated the compulsion/guilt cycle that I ended up in.
Well, thanks again....I find reading these replies and other people's posts to be really helpful.

I have been sober for a few years and I still have drinking dreams sometimes. I don't even think about it now I am just used to the fact that it is something that happens. Drinking was such a huge part of my life for so long that I am not surprised that I dream about it sometimes. It was often when I first got sober and is less now but I have never considered it anything to worry about.

Interestingly I never had a drunk dream either until I stopped getting drunk.
Same thing happened when I recovered from my eating disorder. I had eating disordered dreams. Still do though I've been recovered for over 10 years.
My sponsor told me that she'd be concerned if I *didnt* have these dreams given how long I drank.

Isnt sobriety wonderful? No hangover, no free floating impending doom, no wondering what the heck happened, and no shame.
Being a sober mother is also the best gift you can ever give your children.

Nicky...I'm not worried that its a subconscious sign or anything, just found it weird that I'd never had a drunk dream:) Esp since I was a big partier in my 20s......
And not so much after kids Sticky....yes, being a sober mother feels awesome. Even when it was1 or 2 glasses a night I felt like I couldn't get them to bed fast enough so I could "relax"
Thanks both for replies:)