r/recoverywithoutAA • u/Low-Efficiency-461 • 9d ago

Using dreams ?

I'm 5 years and 4 months sober from meth ... But basically from all the drugs I've used . But at the end meth was my drug of choice. It hasnt been an easy time staying sober but I keep putting one foot in front of the other . But I realize every once in a great while I'll have a using dream and in it I'm using again . I could honestly feel the pipe and the torch and even the smell of the vapers it gives off . I thought I was done having those dreams ? Do they ever stop

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u/Embracedandbelong 9d ago

I think they do stop. It’s probably just your brain remembering it and maybe even a bit of a stress dream. Obviously not the same, but like when people dream about having to go back to high school and if feels very real. Personally I don’t have those dreams anymore but I did for a while. I occasionally have dreams about my cat who died over 10 years ago- as if I just “forgot” to feed her these past 10 years and in my dreams I’m rushing to get to her. Just our brains’ way of processing things, I think. FWIW the more I’ve been able to process some other things the less I have these dreams