Well it’s been 6 days, and it’s been a rough time. My addiction to porn has been a time sink for sometimes hours every day for as long as I can remember. Around my 4th day, I started having extremely vivid dreams of myself looking at porn. Everything felt so real… the guilt, the pleasure, the brain melt, all of it… Even in my dreams I’ve been coming to this app and resetting the time counter. I even woke up today and immediately checked the app to see if my timer was indeed reset, it wasn’t. Still 5 days strong and working on my 6th. I almost considered resetting my timer anyways because I wasn’t sure if I should call that a relapse or not… I can’t really control my dreams you know…
Congratulations on 6 days free from ur addiction! Even tho my addiction isnt porn (its drugs amd alcohol), i have experienced crazy vivid dreams of me using. They have been so real that i wake up feeling extremely guilty and remorseful until i realize that it was only a dream. They dont happen as often anymore but in the beginning they happened often.
It really is quite common. I have read quite a few posts about people having addiction type dreams. I find too that the more stress i experience during the day, the higher the chance of me having a using dream that night. I guess its the bodies way of trying to destress during the night thru our old ways of coping.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one. Once or twice a week I’ll have dreams when I’m drinking too, and I wake up slightly panicked but then relieved that it isn’t real. It all depends on how the day before went. Sometimes if I’ve had a rough day the dreams are a bit more intense.
