Oh lord the DREAMS!!!!

[duckandcover]

On day... 27 (or so) clean off Oxy (40 mg per day chewing when I quit).  I think I've entered yet another stage of this weirdness.  

Detox. Withdraw. BAD anxiety for a few weeks but getting much better now.  And now.. DREAMS!!!  

I mean really super spectacularly Weird Dreams!  I dreamt that I stole a car.  It was a purple and Gold 57 chevy convertible.  Then I was driving towards downtown with 100 or so other cars on the road towards a giant tornado in the center of the city.  I then got truck by lightening in my neck.  In my dreams there was a bright white flash and a jolting pain in my neck.  The really strange part is that I woke up at that exact moment and my neck was spasming.  I thought I really DID get struck LOL.

How long is this one going to last... Sheesh!

[forumryder]

haha that is so cool everyone else has dreams. i am tapering off oxys and i am down to 3 perks a day form taking 150 mg a day.  i have had weird *** dreams so far i thought it was just me haha.

[BigWill79]

This a good post for me this morning.  I had some crazy dreams last night.  Don't know if you guys have seen There Will Be Blood, which is amazing by the way, but I dreamed I was in the movie.  Then I got into a shoot out with Daniel Day Lewis at a friends wedding on a plantation in Georgia.  This mess is crazy.  Glad to know I'm not alone.  

[Jacqui805]

On the nights that I'm lucky enough to get any, it's in short bursts of 15 min. at a time, sleep that is, and I only get a total of one to two hours, but man, the second I fall asleep, I'm instantaneously dreaming the most bizarre dreams.  I always did have bizzare dreams though, so the new addition to them just gives me more creative stories to tell.  I actually don't mind them, for me it's like watching a movie.  The first few however, were disturbing to me because they involved bad things happening to my kids.  

[MizDemeanor]

Oh wow Im so glad its not just ME! ROFL. I am having the most vivid dreams and I am not usually someone who dreams (I saw some people saying that dreams "come back"..does that mean the drug suppresses dreams? )
I have spent SEVERAL nights with the characters of the soap Bold and Beautiful. OMG if anyone watches that show you can imagine the **** I see!! lol
I have also had the drug dreams. One time I had a bottle, but they looked BIG and like capsules. I took some and then flushed them because I felt bad. Last night I dreamt that I was going back and forth between my old docs trying to get the nerve up to ask for a script. (OK that qualified as a nightmare!)
Whew Im glad its not just me.

[hope08]

i hate these kinds of dreams. i actually just had one last night. and it seems the days that i am actually feeling pretty good about life in general, that is when i have a bad dream. last night it was my friend giving me some vicodin for a migraine, but i took the pills and like, let them dissolve in my mouth or something....and it was so much that i almost began to choke, yet i still tried to eat them. it was disgusting. i hate the taste of ANY pill in my mouth, let alone vicodin. the one before that i was actually snorting them. it is strange for me because i never chewed them, or snorted them....it's like my dreams are way too extreme. i don't like it.

[flmagi]

I've heard alot of people say they have weird dreams and dreams about their DOC.  Some of these people have them for a pretty long while. It probably depends on how physologically addicted you are.
Sweet dreams!!

[enemy48]

Dreams or Nightmares?  I went through a phase of nightmares on Elm Street. I'm sure a lot of people here remermer b/c I was freaked.  The dreams were so real....like I knew that I was awake,  then all of a sudden a stranger would jump into the picture and threatenen my life.

It 'hasn't happened again for about 2 weeks.  People her told me it was a part of it. It's so scary.

[Angeleyez28]

The dreams are crazy for me 2 & I'm SOOO relieved 2 hear that this is normal withdrawal symptom. I've had the strangest dreams (Lortabs w/faces jumping around talking 2 me,)-I had a dream one night that my fiancee (who has supported & helped me through this 100%) dreamt that he told me that, "he couldn't take it anymore & he was leaving for the bar". I SWORE it was real-I woke him up & asked him y he told me that he'd be there for me & then just turned his back on me-he looked at me crazy &said that he'd been sleeping the whole time & never said that-it took me awhile 2 believe him bcuz I was SURE he said that..I've also experinced & still do-nightmares. Is this a noral w/d symptom & how long will they last? Has anyone ever dreamt of the very drug u are w/ding from & u feel like u actually took it?? I get those ALL the time. Is that just part of the process??*Angel*

[GoingToMakeIt]

I can relate to the dreams. I was talking with my wife last week about her reading the stuff on PAWS that I printed up. She knew nothing about it! I knew we had talked.
Found out it was a dream. As vivid as if it truly happened. It will continue for a while.

[duckandcover]

I won't bore you with all of them but I could write a book from the stuff my brain has been processing in the last week or so.  The best part is that there really haven't been any bad nightmares.  Just strangeness.  I hope that trend holds.

[GoingToMakeIt]

One more wonderful step in the road to being clean. HD dreams! Mine lasted maybe a month. I would love to hear what others experienced.