I wonder how much 'trauma' or whatever we have from having nightmares as children
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I will never forget the Stick Monster, ritualistically swaying through my front yard beneath churning, thunderous skies. I dreamed that 33 years ago.
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i think it is actually the opposite
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Imagine I can create a world and place you in it. Time passes 100X faster in that world than in this world. I then make you experience your worst fears without any actual risk. I pull you out of the world. You're sweaty, out of breath. You need a minute. But you're free.
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I used to have the same type of dream for years until in my early 20s I took charge in the middle of the dream and changed the outcome. I can tell you about it if you want.
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I think nightmares are an indication that trauma has already occurred... I think they’re an indicator not a cause... and the dreams are trying to tell us something about how to heal.
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Probably very little on average. Bad dreams are just that. Real life problems create more issues.
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I was just telling my wife that I always notice I'm in a really good mood after a night when I had a dream that I'm in a car wreck or something. Maybe dreams have some kind of counter-intuitive, emotionally stabilizing function?
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Had one in 1st grade where all my classmates got kidnapped by murderers on a class trip, were lined up by said murderers, and given lethal injections
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I had a memory as a young kid (<6 years old) that when I was a baby, I was in a room by myself with a doctor and my mom on the other side of a window. There were alternating blue and red lights, as some kind of test? Why the hell did I have that dream/fake memory??
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