I am watching an NFL football game. Suddenly I am in the end zone. The play is over, but somehow, when the ball drops, it is called a live ball. I fall on it first, followed by a huge pile of players on top of me. There is a scramble, and then, the football becomes a ball-sized beer can as a mechanical arm reaches in and scoops me up. The beer can is in my view as the arm on a huge robot takes me for a ride over the city toward the east. All is muffled to silence. Then I wake up and say aloud, “That was the worst nightmare I ever had in my life.”
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That’s definitely a weird nightmare. I’m sorry.
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It is realistic. A big warning sign. Thanks.
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I don’t know much about football rules, but just sounds like a random nightmare to me. It’s cool you remembered it, I often don’t remember mine, and that saves me some stress…
To me, it means being taken on the ride of alcoholism again. The robotic arm is mine, and it seems so automatic, yet mine it still is knocking down beer after beer. It’s definitely a relapse warning sign. I have to be on my guard.
The worst nightmares of my life were one, that my head was driven through an electric wood saw. And two, that my body was undergoing an autopsy, and I was still alive! And three, that my little boy was impaled by a giant stiletto. I used to get nightmares similar to those every night.
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Maybe it’s a good sign? People drink while watching football. You’re so scared of a relapse, that it’s causing you nightmares. You don’t wanna go back there, and the thought of it scares the crap out of you. It’s called a “user dream”. I’ve known drug addicts who have had similar nightmares. Addicts who quit, and found themselves doing the drug in their dreams. And yeah, it scares the ■■■■ out of each and every one of them. They wake up in a bloody sweat, hoping to God it isn’t real. And it isn’t. It’s just a stupid dream. It’s actually a good sign that you’ve mostly recovered. It’s just your brain, trying to work out the details of one of the most traumatic experiences of your life.
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It’s true that it doesn’t mean inevitably that I will relapse. Thanks for this comment.
I’ve had drunk dreams before. I’ve heard other people in AA talk about having dreams where they drank. It’s been fourteen months since I drank, and I do feel better.
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Congrats on 14 months! And many more to you.
Your nightmares are likely not as bad as @Anna’s
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I don’t like to make these kinds of things a competition, it’s the emotion that comes with the dream that counts. I have had some nightmares that don’t really sound that scary talking about them-they can even sound silly!- but in dream it was absolutely terrifying. Nightmares are just plain unpleasant!
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