The dreams are back!!!!

[nownlater]

I havent had a dream where I was using in over a year. I dont understand I thought I was through with those dreams that I wakeup in a ball of sweet and felt like i just did drugs. I want to ask if any of you had those dreams, after years of being clean and what does that mean? I know that I dont ever want to go back to useing ever again that part of my life is over. Please let me know what yall think and if anyone of you had ever did that?

[nownlater]

I do believe that my dreams had started not to long after my family started having these problems. I am and have been dealing with some very major problems and it concerns my two grandbabies whom i love and adore. I hope and pray this will be over soon. But Thanks for your reply.

[nownlater]

You know come to think of it I am dealing with some family issues and it has affected my entire family. I never thought of my mind to revert back to when I was using and my life was in so much caous I never ever want to remember those days. Thanks, that is possibly the reason i have had the dreams.

[jifmoc]

Hi,  oh God, yes, I have using dreams frequently. In the dream it's always  "accidentally" that I take a pill. I really want it in the dream and I take it and after I negotiate w/ myself about my clean time, figuring out how I can lie about it! A very vivid one was when I had a martini and I was SO pissed because alcohol isn't even my drug of choice and I ruined my clean time over it. Those dreams are horrible!

I have heard folks in meetings that have years of clean time and still have the occasional using dream. Hell, they must be common if someone named them "using dreams.":)

I wish I knew why exactly. Maybe they come out during particularly stressful times?

My sponsor has had them and when she gets the cobwebs out she is relieved that it was just a dream.

[dwhitti777]

Are you feeling like you have a lack of contol over or stress about something in your current life? It could be your mind trying to process that and connecting it back to when you were not able to control your life before...when you were using. Other than that sometimes a dream is just a dream and your brain was just randomly remembering what used to be a big trauma in your life. Maybe just it's way of saying "Remember this? Never again!"