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Drunk dreams (Nightmares!)

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deleted_user
I just wanted to share a nightmare I had the other night. I don't know if it's a warning or just a normal process of getting sober. Anyway- I was dreaming that I'm sitting in someones house with a huge bottle of vodka just drinking it straight outta the bottle. I suddenly realize my friends are waiting for me at an AA meeting and I need to get going. But, I can't stand up. I can't mutter a single coherent word. Where the hell am I?! How did I get alcohol? Why am I drinking?! Everyone's waiting on me and I'm drunk as a skunk! How will I face my friends? The AA group, my family? Now I have to start all over again with a white chip and admit I drank and blew it! No...I just won't tell them. I'll put off telling them...I'll act like nothing happened and noone will ever know but me. That old sinking feeling of having to sneak around and lie to hide the truth. I'm so disappointed! I hate myself! Then I sat straight up in bed, dripping with a cold sweat. Was it true? Had I gone on a bender & blacked out? Where was I? Where had I been? Just then the realization set in- I was in my own room, in my own bed, no alcohol, no hangover, no coyote ugly date next to me-LOL! Thank you God & thank you AA.
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i've had alot of using dreams. it's not warning. i think it's just a reminder that we can relapse that quickly and still go back to those old behaviors of lying, sneaking and hiding things. i've woken up and actually felt hungover. but it wasn't from using, it was from being emotionally drained while i was sleeping. my sponsor tells me that this is just part of early recovery. out bodies are not quite back to normal yet and this is just a part of recovery. i just celebrated 30 days after a relapse and it's wonderful. don't worry about your nighmares, they're just part of early recovery. it could last about a year or so. good luck.
deleted_user
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I used to get them a lot. thought it was the ptsd crap coming in. I was wrong the doctor said it was normal. I told him but I'm not normal.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Yeah, 13 or 14 years ago that used to happen to me right after I came out of detox. It's very normal as I have heard of this a lot.

NOW however...I have noticed that I will be talking with someone and they will say something that happened...if I don't remember right away what they are talking about....I freak inside my own head for a moment thinking, "oh my God, did I drink and black that out?" even tho I haven't, and only a few seconds pass before I realize that!

If anyone is reading this, is THIS type of thinking normal??? or am I like "Mark" and "not normal"? LOL!

It really does scare me! I have a poor memory, guess due to many years of drinking, but this needs to stop! lol
deleted_user
deleted_user
this is normal from what i understand...i will never forget my first dream like that...i woke up in my bed and swore i could actually taste the alcohol, but didnt feel hungover...i even walked through the house for any evidence that i'd been drinking or had gone out...then i called my sponsor.

i talked about it in a meeting that night and someone told me i had had a freebie?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have those dreams often.
deleted_user
deleted_user
i hd those dreams for a few years they did go ,but when my husband died aftr being sober for 16 yrs ,they came back again ,i relized it was my illness playihg with my mind ,thank god they went ,and today 23 yrs sober they no longer are my dreams ,it does get better a day at a time xx
4mytasha
4mytasha
14 years sober and I have still have those nightmares all the time.
I think you get them for the sweet reminder for when you wake up, all's good and straight.
Nothing bad about being shown what USED to be a bad thing has now turned into something good.
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