Comments on: I Had Nightmares http://realmental.org/archives/593 RealMental is a safe community where you can share and learn about mental health and everything that goes along with it. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: noreen http://realmental.org/archives/593/comment-page-1#comment-7903 noreen Sat, 23 May 2009 03:07:20 +0000 http://realmental.org/?p=593#comment-7903 andrew, i have nightmares too. sometimes its shocking to think my brain could even conjure up such things. it can be fascinating, but very frustrating and disturbing. Im curious, have you ever found any person, or writings to help you make sense of what some of the themes mean? the recurring ones must be for a reason. is your mother still living? do the dreams continue to trouble you during the waking hours? are there times you dont recall the nightmares, but then something during the day jars the memory. I was once told last year, by a therapist that dreams arent really so hard to figure out. that they are pretty straightforward. For example, my own mother died from suicide 31 yrs ago when i was 16. STILL to this day, i have recurring dreams that she is alive somewhere, and i am looking for her, i just cant get to her. that she doesnt want to be found. when i wake up its definitley different from a "normal" dream. i feel like she has "visited" me. sometimes it brings me peace. anyhow, my point is, the therapist said...since she died so suddenly that i am still lookimg for her subconsciously, still trying to figure it all out. So i think it needs an outsider looking in. maybe another person can help you, someone who is trained to understand. i dont believe that dreams have NO meaning. if we can figure them out , even a little, then thats a place to start. i hope the best for you andrew, i have nightmares too. sometimes its shocking to think my brain could even conjure up such things. it can be fascinating, but very frustrating and disturbing. Im curious, have you ever found any person, or writings to help you make sense of what some of the themes mean? the recurring ones must be for a reason. is your mother still living? do the dreams continue to trouble you during the waking hours? are there times you dont recall the nightmares, but then something during the day jars the memory.

I was once told last year, by a therapist that dreams arent really so hard to figure out. that they are pretty straightforward. For example, my own mother died from suicide 31 yrs ago when i was 16. STILL to this day, i have recurring dreams that she is alive somewhere, and i am looking for her, i just cant get to her. that she doesnt want to be found. when i wake up its definitley different from a “normal” dream. i feel like she has “visited” me. sometimes it brings me peace. anyhow, my point is, the therapist said…since she died so suddenly that i am still lookimg for her subconsciously, still trying to figure it all out. So i think it needs an outsider looking in. maybe another person can help you, someone who is trained to understand. i dont believe that dreams have NO meaning. if we can figure them out , even a little, then thats a place to start. i hope the best for you

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