Dallas Bragg talks to gay men in recovery from crystal meth about drug dreams that keep coming back. He separates nighttime dreams from daydream-like thoughts that happen when you're falling asleep or napping, and explains how you can actually interrupt those waking fantasies and steer your mind somewhere else.
Hey, if you're trying to get sober from crystal meth and you're having using dreams, here's what I did. First of all, it's tough for a gay man who's been on crystal meth to return to the scene of the crime every single night. Because when you're on, Tina, that's where most of the action happened, right? On a bed somewhere. Maybe yours, maybe not. Maybe a hotel room, maybe not. So there's a big difference here between using night dreams and using day dreams. The using day dreams are going to come when you're in that twilight stage between awake and asleep. You're laying down for a nap, you're laying down to go to sleep, that's when you are invaded with repetitive scenarios of when you've been on crystal meth. Those are when you can take control. Those are when you can guide where it goes. So when you start having those scenarios repeating in your mind, a lot of times you want to say, oh, I don't want to think about
