I'm open to repressed memories of childhood sexual trauma being a thing, but I'm genuinely curious how they know the memories aren't dreams. I've had lots of childhood memories I thought definitely happened but turned out to probably have come from dreams.
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As in, the felt sense of an extremely faint memory feels identical to me to the sense of a very old dream. I literally cannot distinguish the two without outside help or corresponding markers from other, more concrete memories.
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When street names and factual parts of memories come back with the flashbacks, that would help to confirm
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Yeah, if it were like, facts you couldn't have known otherwise. Unfortunately I suspect most childhood abuse takes place in familiar surroundings which would make that hard to tell.
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How often do you suppose children who grow up in a healthy environment dream about being traumatized sexually?
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It doesn't have to be dreams that happened as children; can be later on. Also I doubt the dreams are *about* being traumatized; most childhood sexual abuse is not reported as traumatic when it occurred.
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even memories change over time…and the whole memories get ‘rewritten’ when you remember them
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My take on the usefulness of exploring repressed memories is that in many/most cases, the process of writing a narrative which allows you to feel relief does most of the work of imparting relief, regardless of object-level truth of the narrative.
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