[Lesser]

Hi All,

I have read in a few posts about having "Drug Dreams" as they are going through withdrawal. What are they?

xox
JC

[htoth19]

Originally Posted by Lesser

Hi All,

I have read in a few posts about having "Drug Dreams" as they are going through withdrawal. What are they?

xox
JC

They can be anything. A lot or times though it's when people going through withdrawal have dreams about finding a big bottle of pills, or a dream concerning them in one way or another. I never had that type of dream, mine were more like about my past and things I live everyday angry about. But it's the vivid dreams a person has while getting clean.

[Lesser]

Ahhhh, thank you for that.

I just did a Google search (I guess I should have done that before) and found quite a few references. One interesting article was saying about how the frequency of the dreams could be an indicator if the person was likely to relapse, mainly in the case of people who were using crack.

Thank goodness I have not had any of those, or not as yet. I have always had freakishly vivid dreams, to the point where I sometimes I confuse them with reality. As in, I will be cranky at my husband because he did not rescue me from a big spider, only after being cranky for a few hours I will remember that it was dream.

xox
JC

[ARTIST658]

I don't know if drug dreams are a signal of relapse or not - I just accept that sometimes, they come. It could be that we're under stress, and subconsciously, we have fear of relapse. It could simply be that it was such a part of our day-to-day existance for so long, that our subconscious can't help but go there.

I've been clean over 6 years now, and still one pops up occasionally. Generally, I feel relieved when I awaken, as, even in the dream, I resist the temptation. It can be a positive - a reminder. I lost both my parents this past summer, and that's when the drug dreams recurred - Mom was on heavy-duty meds, so they were around me. My disease is ever there, way back in my mind - and it came forth in my dreams. A reminder... of where one pill could lead me. That was a good thing.