Bad Dream?

(Vatchi): That's the scary thing, Sotto. When someone gets sober, the mind wants to forget the bad parts. The alcoholic past can seem like a dream, like it didn't happen, like it couldn't have happened, that it couldn't have been as insane as it seemed. Like a bad dream.


    This is one dangerous door, the door of "it couldn't have been that bad."

   Relapse remains an insane possibility.

  Wake the fuck up, Jim.

  It wasn't a dream.

from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 35)