Nightmares....uggghhh!

cramcj01 · Senior Member

Nightmares....uggghhh!

Phil · MIP Old Timer

Hi Chrystal..

What youre going through, is a normal process...

The nightmares will get fewer, as the days go by...

My sleep patterns are rough..also..even on good nights...

Hang in.

BGG · Senior Member

Crystal:

Phil's right; the nightmares about drinking are normal. Used to scare the sh** out of me! But, thank God they are only dreams. And, yes, they will lessen with time.

Take care.

StPeteDean · MIP Old Timer

You only have to go through this once Crystal. Staying sober is a whole lot easier than getting sober. Try to remember these things when things are going well (or not so well) and you think about drinking.

Dean

NELL · Member

Hi Crystal,

I was told that this is normal. Once in a while I still have them, but not
like I used to. I used to wake up so scared because they were so real and for
a moment I would think that I had to change my sobrity date.

Hang in there, it does get better!

Nell

cramcj01 · Senior Member

Thanks everyone. This must be super common cuz I searched it on the internet also.....and WOW, a lot of people in recovery have the dreams. I sure do hate it though : (

"Staying sober is a whole lot easier than getting sober"

I like that.

StPeteDean · MIP Old Timer

jonijoni1 · MIP Old Timer

It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!!....

keep repeating...... :o)

Doll · MIP Old Timer

jonijoni1 wrote:

It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!! It will get better!!....

Ditto!

Dave Harm · Senior Member

I was sober a few years and thought I had left those nightmares behind and then one night I had a very "real" dream about drinking. It bothered me for days.

They will leave eventually. And what I came to accept with those dreams were the feelings that accompanied them - paranoia and shame and a bunch of others

On the bright side after the nightmares - the dreams come alive

Creating Dreams, from the nightmares of hell...

Sobrietyspell · MIP Old Timer

I had a dream in early recovery where I was walking down the street again to my last drunk & I decided to walk another way & stay sober. It is true. Your dreams of Sobriety are coming alive & staying sober is much much easier than getting sober. This will pass & you will get better. Happy Sober Day, Crystal. Keep on doing the next right thing, Danielle x

jonijoni1 · MIP Old Timer

most of my using dreams these days, which still occur a few times a year, are things like the tires being stolen off my car in a bad neighborhood, rifling around my purse and pockets trying to find my money, running around trying to find drugs and alcohol, running away from my family, trying to hide.... it is all so EXHAUSTING once I get up, I feel like I have not even slept! The doom and gloom of it all makes me wake up and be sooooo thankful that for this 24 hours, I don't need to go back there and feel all that exhaustion and fear again.