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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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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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Im not sure how it works. But I’ve asked someone close to me to answer the question, who had memories since the abuse as a child, but also repressed ones that surfaced later in life. Will update soon

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Bessel van der Kolk discusses this in his book “The Body Keeps The Score” it’s rather involved to discuss on Twitter. Abuse can be buried and hidden as a means of self protection as much as it can be faked.

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Here’s the response from the person I know, if anyone’s interested

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I am genuinely open and curious here, and also was molested as a child so I sorta am offended that they're assuming I can't ask these questions. It seems plausible that people abused at a very young age would have a strange relationship to it; I'm asking *how* people know.

7:03 PM · Mar 23, 2020

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Maybe some don’t know for sure. If it happened at like 3 y/o maybe all sone people have is a repulsionir fear and they don’t even know why. I don’t understand why it’s a question in cases where kids are too young to remember. Although I believe the difference between

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Flashbacks and mere dreaming is that flashbacks reoccur, same events. Accompanied by the terror

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