I had a dream this morning - the kind of vivid dream I have when I keep waking up repeatedly so I remember it. I'm recovering from a "medical prodedure" that forces me to go to the bathroom frequently. Like every half hour... so the environment was perfect for one of those vivid dreams.
It had other parts but the part pertaining is where I am at an AA meeting - my home group - and it's a small group maybe 7-8 people. I'm there, my daughter is there, and the person running the meeting is my friend who died drunk nearly 2 years ago. Nobody in the meeting - not even my daughter - seems to be amazed that he has come back to life. I go outside after the meeting and my friend has a classic car that he is showing to my wife, and she is looking at the car and talking about our car project, and I say to her, this is my friend - who you never met -that died.
I only spoke a few words to my friend, who seemed to be his old self (sober) and was glad to see me, as it had been a while. I said, I have one question - we went to your funeral a couple years ago. And all he said was "Yeah, I came close to crossing over" or "It's a gray area".
I actually thought in the dream, that how wonderful it would be to post to MIP that my friend had come back to life.... LOL.
I usually realize I'm in a dream when stuff like this happens, that I am aware is impossible, but it seemed for a moment in the dream, I really thought it was real. Then nature called, I woke up and said yeah, it had to be a dream.
I've had dreams before where I was drinking, or had been drinking. Or dreams where my dad (long ago died of alcoholism) comes back. He's there, but doesn't say much, and I never seem to get to talk to him or get an answer as to why he's in my dream. I've pretty much chalked all of these up as ordinary drinking dreams - including the one where I was at a party and bringing drinks to a female singer I was a fan of, not drinking myself but serving her and watching her get drunk.
But this one is different - my friend was sober, no drinking actually involved. Probably just a wacky dream brought on by my circumstances. The 2-year anniversary of his death is still 3 months away, I hadn't really though about him lately. Maybe he's just showing up in my dream to remind me that even sober, successful, wonderful people with long term sobriety can still go back to drinking and die.
Guess I need to call my daughter though - we have, on more than one occasion, had similar dreams occuring at approximately the same time.
That's a pretty crazy dream Barisax. Not sure of any meanings, but if you get something out of it, even if it's a spiritual visit from a friend in a dream, then so be it. I think we are reminded for a reason.
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I had one this morning too. I was vacationing with 3 people and 2 of them held me down and robbed me of my wallet, phone, and keys. strange. One of those dreams that lasted an hour, fading in and out, trying to resolve it. My brain is always trying to fix problems that don't exist. I fancy myself is an undisiplined inventor, but I'm really a delirious dreamer.
