its 3 am here

i just had one of the scariest dreams i've ever had!!!

me bleeding and killers and people i used to know wanting to beat me up and being lost and my mom in a wierd state and my sister helpless and going in circles not being able to help myself or anyone else, i could feel myself dreaming but couldn't wake myself up

i think i may have had this same dream before

i don't have bad dreams very often

scared to go back to sleep, can't get the dream out of my head!!!

Wendy,

I know about scary dreams. They can seem so real sometimes. I believe dreams are just another version of "worry" or the minds way of dealing with things we don't conscientously think about.  The mind is a complicated "piece of work" anyway and when you add this disease into it, it makes it even more complicated.

I wake up every morning thinking, "what the hell was that I dreamed !!" Crazy stuff goes on in this mind too......

Only my thoughts.........  I know there is much study and research done about dreams.

 

I say; It was just a dream, honey. It was just a dream.

Much love to you

 

Doll

Hi Wendy,
   I can relate to the scary dreams. When I first put down the drink and the drugs, I would dream almost nightly. It may be that I had been dreaming before, but was too wasted to realize it. It passed after a bit, until recently. I am now trying to quit smoking. I am using the patch. Since I started the patch, I have been having wicked, vivid dreams. I don't want to go into details about them here because they disturb me, but they seem so real right up until I realize that they were only dreams. Some of them have been drunk dreams. Drunk dreams so real that when I woke up, I thought I had really relapsed. I think Doll said it well when she said that it is probably our mind dealing with things we would rather not deal with on a conscious level. But at the same time, I hope that doesn't mean that I am not dealing with sobriety well on a conscious level. That's food for thought. The bottom line is that it was indeed only a dream, thank God.

Keep coming back,
Rick L.

Dreams are like miners, digging around in the deepest recesses of our "ID", releasing our deepest fears and desires.  Letting out our "ID" is something all us alcohol abusers are too familiar with. , , , ,

I think that dreams also remind us of the great Truth, that we truly are powerless over much in our lives, and it is in those areas that we have to place our trust in the "power greater than ourselves".

Ya know the dream I hate the most?  It's the one were I'm drinking again, and worse yet really enjoying it. I even sometimes dream of smoking "grass", which I haven't done since college 30+ years ago.  Quite often though, my spouse then comes into it, then we have a loud arguement over my drinking.  I will often wake up feeling as ashamed and guilty as if it had really happened.  I've learned through AA that these dreams are less frequent with time, but can occur after years of sobriety.

Ask Him to protect you and guide you through these fears, Wendy, then walk through them with Him.  I really believe part of His "Great Plan" is for us to learn to understand both our fears and desires, which will give us greater strength over them. 

 Peace, Love & Prayers

Dan

I had a bad dream last night .  I remember jumping to wake up scared.

now it is gone i can't recall it.  ususlly i don't remember my dreams much.

hang in there Gal   your a good careing person   we luv ya

-- Edited by Rick at 10:03, 2005-09-10

wendy i had a dream over and over again about me getting and doing my jail time after trouble with the law . i hate this dream cause it reminds of the hell being in jail is.i not as reourrucing now as it was . the hollow slaming doors and buzzers going off. maybe gods way of reminding me not to go back out. for the trouble that is lurking. god bless u wagon

I think my dreams bring my fears to the surface, allowing me to look at what I don't want to face.

I do know that when we are detoxing, the toxins leaving our bodies cause wierd dreams.

Rick L...one of the side effects of the patch can be vivid dreams. They say that if this is occurring you should cut down the dosage.

Love, cheri

I love dreams, usually remember all of them. last week I had one that prompted me to post the 'scared'  thread. After I'd posted it I remembered that the dream had a logical base in reality (the cause) So I delieted the post.

Dreams are usually nothing more than the brain getting rid of useless crap, That's why they are usually illogical and jump from one subject to another.

Dreams are your own mind doing self therepy!

Relax and enjoy if you can.

I had a great one the other night where I was arguing with my boss, but I was awake enough to realise it was a dream! He got it big time (Verbally) and I know I would never get away with that in real life. It was fun in the dream though!

Hope it gets better for you Wendy.

Best wishes.

 

Chris.