Short video about drinking/using/relapse dreams. I share about my recent dream, and provide an article on the subject. Be sure to check out the pre vid live chat of the same title to see what everybody else has to say! ✌ kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKKGj9KHYLTVlbA.html

Thanks! I needed to see that video. You helped me flip my negative to a positive😊 Great job. Stay strong and keep up the great work!

@SoberJames

5 күн бұрын

Thanks @tallkid1858 Stop in for a live stream chat, every weeknight at 9pmET Glad I could reach you kid 🤘

After 35 years sober, yes I too have had those dreams. While very disappointing why dreaming, it is a wonderful feeling to wake up and realize it was a nightmarish dream. They will happen. I have never been able to associate it to any dark desire to drink in real life. But I'm sure all of us fear going back to a horrible life of addiction. I take them as a reminder that we are human and subject to remission. I would not get to worrisome about it, but do cherish the fact it was just a dream. Not a premonition of things to come.

@youknowwho5709

4 жыл бұрын

+1

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree Jim, a "free" reminder of the negative feelings

@sabbithablood5219

4 жыл бұрын

Well said Jim!👍👏🙏 also congratulations on your sobriety for 35 years! That's awesome!👏👏👊

I'm on day 17. I've been having dreams of me drinking so often. It's fun at first but quickly turns bad, I end up embaressing myself and everybody in my life give up on me. I feel so much regret. Then I wake up and feel so amazing that it isn't true, it does motivate me to stay sober because I never want to feel ashamed of myself again.

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

I know right! It's like a "freebee!" I am SO relieved when I wake up, it brings simple gratitude for simply NOT BEING DRUNK AND HIGH! I love that! This last dream was so real, and I was sleeping so deep, that in the dream I said to myself "damn I wish I was dreaming right now...if only this weren't real..." But I was incredibly upset because I was convinced that it wasn't a dream!

I am having alot of dreams lately. Very long dreams. I can even go to the restroom and go back to sleep and return right back to it. It was dark and dirty. Holes in the ground with people hiding in the holes and the dirt was covered by paper with cutout flaps. Weird I know. I recall being deprived and thirsty and Fear of these weird people. Fences and drones and weird events that they held as a community. I don't understand and I DID NOT wake up craving, just weirded out

Day 15 without alcohol day 10 without any drugs

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

Good for you CHOP!

Sometimes dreams are just dreams as well... I had a few dreams where I'm doing tons of drugs I've never done before lolol the mind is a mysterious thing, especially in dream world...

Looking great , I'm glad it was just a dream

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Terr, me too ❤

Dreamy

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

😊

So this is the video we'll be chatting live about before it premieres?

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

What is that drink your drinking in the video?

Hi James! I occasionally have night terrors even though I'm not in recovery! Not sure what triggers it? It's such a relief to wake up!🙏👍

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

Triggers are environmental elements that influence urges or cravings for ones addictive behavior. "The taste of non alcoholic beer triggers me to want real beer."

@sabbithablood5219

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoberJames but if I'm not feeling upset or anxious why do I have such a restless time and wake up trying to scream? I go to bed feeling ok or to me I am! Yet every so often bam! Right out the blue I experience this?

@SoberJames

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure Sabbitha. I remember a guy that slept in the bunk below me, when I was on the ship in the Navy, waking up thrashing and screaming. www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-terrors/symptoms-causes/syc-20353524