Anyone having strange dreams?

[enemy48]

This detox is different from all others b/c I got misc. sleep meds & Thomas Recipe.  I alternate the sleep meds & do not take not even a whole xanax or anything.  From day one, I was having such pleasant dreams that seemed so real, that it would take me a few minutes after waking to realize that it didn't really happen.  And DARN!  Some of the stuff would have been incredible if it were to be true.  So you see, I've been waking very, VERY happy.

Last night was different however.  My pleasant dreams turned into 1 nightmare after another.  They too seemed so real.  I felt like I was in Nightmare on Elm Street.  I would wake from one bad dream and think about it for a couple of minutes, when all of a sudden a stranger jumps in the bed w/me.  Hey!  I'm awake!  Am I?  Whoa.....it only got worse.  One hand has a broken vein from hitting the headboard while fighting off someone trying to strangle me.  He flipped me over and had my head away from him........then the struggle stopped....I just layed there for about a minute.....then I saw a spider on my sleeve.  I couldn't move, so I tried to blow it off.  Once my body unfroze I quickly brushed it off and hit my other hand so hard on the night stand.  I turned on the light, looked in the bed and all around and never did find a spider.  I don't even know if it were real or not.

This went on from about 11:00 to 3:15.  Finally, there was no way I was going to let myself go back to sleep.  If I don't beat my own self up, I'll scare myself to death.  I'm trying to survive, not die.

Has anyone experienced something like this?

[northernstar30]

I keep dreaming about what was on tv when I fell sleep, or having dreams about pills and running as fast as I can from them.  Last night I was dreaming about Dr. Drew.  LOL  I was telling on the celebs for having drugs in rehab.  Or dreams about ummmm, sex.  Those ones I like.  LOL.  Today is day 4 for me.  I've been up way to much all nite so I got up and made breakfast for the kids.  They keep asking me what's wrong.  I feel good one hour and the next I feel ******.  But I'm doing it.  Thanks to all of you for your support.

[dove3053]

The dreams are a sign you body is detoxing.That's what I think anyway.
Last night I feel asleep in my chair and woke up yelling Peter. My boyfriend looked at me and said who is Peter. I don't know anyone by that name lol. All I know it that I wanted Peter to sign a contract. ???

I take valium that helps me sleep.

dove

[oxygirl487]

its weird that u mentioned this...when i was in w/d i would have dreams that i was still using id even wake up feeling high.....but now that im clean ive been having nightmares....mostly its someone hurting my kids......scares the **** outta me.....so bad i dont want to go back to sleep because when i do it just starts all over again.....maybe it will end soon i hope....

[msinsane]

i wake up alot still haning nightmares or alot or jerking my whole body will shake so hard i actually wake myself up i also dream about using alot and then i wake up and have to think for a min my memory is still bad at times .... i heard sleep and dreams are the last thing to go back to normak so i am patiently waiting i can not wait to get atleat 6 hours of good sleep....

[hopsing94]

Ohh yes. I have had some dreams. Just like you said it was so real. Two nights in a row when my wife was gone. The first night I heard the bedroom door open and I could here the footsteps come down the hall into bedroom,  felt someone get in bed  and jumped up to find nobody there. I had locked the door before going to bed and of course it was still locked. The second night I could hear somone going pee in the toilet and then the footsteps back to the bed the covers being moved and someone getting in bed. Jumped up and of nobody there. It was very creepy. Still have all sorts of drreams and they seem so real.

[lasherslaugh]

I'm in a methadone taper and yes, a lot of crazy **** goes on in my head at night to.Do you sleep alone? Not trying to be weird or anything but you might be having whats called "night terrors" and if you fight off an invisible foe in your sleep you could actually harm someone next to you and not remember or know what your doing.This happened to me two times years ago and I beat the **** out of my now EX husband but I wasn't on any drugs at that time.But recently (the past year or so) I wake up violently.I did a sleep study,and that was strange.When on drugs I sleep the sleep of the dead I wake in the same position.Also,I was a sleepwalker from 2yrs. old to 8yrs old.But the dreams are like being in a Salvador Dali painting.

[gizzy32]

for sure i craved it, but only the first few weeks. i literally woke up and felt high from the dream and made me want to use, but now when i have them, its just a sick reminder of how drugs made me feel. i believe most dreams really do have a meaning or purpose and this is just part of the healing.

[enemy48]

Glad to hear the warnings, so I'll be prepared knowing that's it's normal.  Do yall get pi**ed off when you awake to the point that you crave it?

[witchery]

well it isnt a relief when u are just about to use drugs u wake up *SOBZ*

[gizzy32]

yes drug dreams are scary. in early recovery they seem to happen everynight, but they do subside. isn't it a relief when you wake up dreaming about using, and then u wake up and realize its just a dream. that's happened to me quite a few times and i thought i relapsed

[witchery]

i hate drug dreams makes me want to have a hit again..

[avisg]

They are here I have a laptop it goes where I do .

[enemy48]

No, no drug dreams thankfully.

And Hey Again!  Guess you're waiting for the children to arrive?

[avisg]

yes , your body is going threw alot of turmoil right now and it will so it still in all different ways one being dreams .Have the drug dreams started yet ?