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    Phantom Limb Syndrome

    I've seen lots of posts about dreams recently, and I've been having my own. Vivid, bizarre dreams that usually involve me drinking and screwing up my 8 weeks of sobriety. It got me thinking about some of the other things I experience after being alcohol free.

    I still:

    - Have dreams about drinking, missing medications, being drunk and stupid
    - Wake up feeling hungover even though I'm not, because my body thinks I should be
    - Smell like stale beer when I sweat at the gym (even though I don't)
    - Absently reach for a beer can on my desk that used to be there but isn't now
    - Feel like I "forgot" something at the grocery store, or plan to make stops at liquor stores
    - Unconsciously plan around drinking days, or social events, knowing I would have been hungover
    - see bottles in my house out of the corner of my eye and think it's a beer bottle

    I attribute a lot of this to "phantom limb syndrome." Anyone else get this?

    I've also been having a lot of dreams involving high school. This last 8 weeks is the longest period of sobriety I've had since my sophomore year in high school (age 15.) Once I turned 16 and had a driver's license, I began smoking cigarettes and weed, and occasionally drinking. Once I turned 17, I got into LSD and various other drugs, and more liquor.

    I suspect my brain is starting to rewire, and is trying frantically to sort out the last 20 years...

    -Moglor

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    Phantom Limb Syndrome

    This sounds like an oxymoron but I know what you mean, even though I can't think of anything to post...or, well, maybe I can, and just don't want to.
    :H:H:H
    :h Mish :h
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    Never give up...
    GET UP!!!

    AF since 25th November, 2011

    What might have been is an abstraction
    Remaining a perpetual possibility
    Only in a world of speculation.
    What might have been and what has been
    Point to one end, which is always present. T.S. Eliot

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