Drunk Dreams

[ibizan]

How many of ya been having drunk dreams?Where ya think ya really drank and upon waking find u didn't of of course but felt so real?I had them a lot early in sobriety and later on when stressed out bout something.Last nite i had one where i drank all this beer and i was never a beer drinker!Got drunk in the dream,got caught and had to fess up and was ashamed to do so!Woke up and said man that was weird!Last year was watching show on guy in Harlem.Recovering addict who b-gan a treatment center for other addicts.I fell asleep.Dreamt i was in my pajamas running down the streets of adjoining town smoking crack!But they are a release from the subconcsious mind and it good to get that outta ur system!

[dark69meat]

Charlie's girl  -  You need to get off the anxiety/ guilt trip and get the help you need.  You can't do this alone - no way.  Hope you're not doing the vodka today!

ibizan -  I don't normally dream or remember (unless sex - typical guy thing), but maybe my memory is shot?

walternowotny - I can understand "emigrant dreams" - vivid and detailed.  Interesting coincidence dreams stop / Berlin wall / 1989.

[ibizan]

hey friend...go get ur mind occupied on something else....what is ur weather like over there?nice walk?good book?hows ur AA over there?what it like?have u gone?Inquiring mind wanna know...ur in NEED of a support group girl.Remember..an alcoholic alone is in BAD company!stop worrying about getting those tablets reduced.When u worry about the past and the future u pee on today!

[tigrai]

I wish i could have a few of those drunk dreams....id settle for them write now...maybe my tablets will stop them...id dreading getting then reduced..

[ibizan]

u probably have PTSD from all that!i find that when i'm frustrated with something....emotionally overwhelmed...i'll have one.they happened quite frequently in the first 2 years of my sobriety but now approaching 24 years and not often.but when they do their doozies and i laff AFTER i'm fully awake!

[walternowotny]

I had some"drunk dreams" after I stopped drinking(13+ years ago).They were very similar to"EMIGRANT DREAMS".For years after I defected from my native country(at that time under communist rule) I had"emigrant dreams".I was in my old country and was overwhelmed by fear(well founded at that time since I was sentenced"in absentia" to many years in jail for"betraying the socialist motherland") that I couldn't get out.Dreams were very vivid and detailed.Sometimes I was in a police station begging policemen to let me go ....because I had to be at work in San Francisco in the morning.I was explaining secret police that it is all misunderstanding,that "I do not belong here anymore"(their reaction was always the same...."Yeh commrade...we are not buying that").I usually woke up anxious,sweating...but eventually relieved to find myself in America.All people who left communism had the same dream.Writer Erich Maria Remarque(who left Nazi Germany) had them and described them in details.
I believe those dreams reflect your inner fear.I learned to expect them,rationalize them,accept them....
I stopped having"emigrant dreams" in 1989...after the fall of Berlin Wall.
How long will "drunk dreams"last?I don't know but I know that like Berlin Wall they will eventually disappear
Walter

[ibizan]

u may have em the longer u stay sober,but their not pleasant!hope u don't!yeah,its nice when u wake up that u haven't done it!