assuming you are speaking of night-time dreams... our household dreams just like anyone else i suppose.... each of us having our own dreams (sometimes) and sometimes we'll show up in each other's dreams... we keep a dream-LJ, (http://www.livejournal.com/users/raccoons_dreams) but have been bad about writing our dreams out for the past month or so... (gotta get back into the habit of writing them out)...
thanks for reminding us ;-) we had a few dreams last night that we've been thinking about all day... gonna to scribble them out before we forget...
Very rarely remember them, but when we do, we dream seperately. It's usually (but not always) clear who's dreaming, and sometimes we appear as characters in each others dreams.
We rarely dream according to our therapist. She says what we have are memories invading our sleep. memories we've refused to look at while awake and therefore our subconcious mind has us viewing them in our sleep.
I've always called them night terrors. I hate them.
That sounds like a very spurious claim to me, I have to say. What right does your therapist have to decide whether they're dreams or not, to claim to know your mind? The way she phrases it sounds pseudoscientific to me at best. Yes, past trauma can often lead to nightmares, but they are dreams, they are technically REM sleep, and they are rarely if ever literal representations of memories-- they're most likely the brain trying to process the trauma through dreams which incorporate aspects of it.
Also, I'm just sayin', but "you refuse to look at them while you're awake" sounds dangerously along the lines of "you're in denial and only I can tell you what your memories are and when you're doing better" to me. I don't know your therapist personally, but I gotta say I'm a bit skeptical.
actually my counselor took some serious time and a lot of questioning before she made that suggestion, and she's not the first counselor to make that sugestion.
These dreams don't change they are always exactly the same. From begining to end without variation. They are of abuse incidences that I went through. Some of which I remember happening when I was young but have not been able to bring up in therapy. they are issues that I have done my best to avoid thinking about much less talk about.
I tend to believe what she says about them being memories rather than just dreams since some of them I have working knowledge of being memories and because I know how persistent some of my others can be about me facing my issues. It just make pretty good sense to me.
Sometimes we dream separately. Sometimes our dreams get mixed up together. And sometimes we sort of dream as a group - like, it's just like when we're awake and functioning as a group, only, in a dream. It's *weird* when that happens.
Hey, good question. There are times when we wake up feeling that one dream in particular belonged to one specific person in here. People do seem to have seperate dreams, because sometimes we won't remember a dream until the person who was involved in it comes out to front during the day. And there are a few dreams where we all seem to be interacting together in a sort of dreamscape-- some where we have our own bodies; I wish we had more of those. ^^;; Some dreams where we actually do switch off, too.
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2003-11-13 06:58 pm (UTC)thanks for reminding us ;-) we had a few dreams last night that we've been thinking about all day... gonna to scribble them out before we forget...
Juju & Co.
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Date: 2003-11-14 12:38 am (UTC)dream?
Date: 2003-11-14 03:51 am (UTC)I've always called them night terrors. I hate them.
Re: dream?
Date: 2003-11-14 02:57 pm (UTC)Also, I'm just sayin', but "you refuse to look at them while you're awake" sounds dangerously along the lines of "you're in denial and only I can tell you what your memories are and when you're doing better" to me. I don't know your therapist personally, but I gotta say I'm a bit skeptical.
Shiu
Re: dream?
Date: 2003-11-15 08:09 pm (UTC)These dreams don't change they are always exactly the same. From begining to end without variation. They are of abuse incidences that I went through. Some of which I remember happening when I was young but have not been able to bring up in therapy. they are issues that I have done my best to avoid thinking about much less talk about.
I tend to believe what she says about them being memories rather than just dreams since some of them I have working knowledge of being memories and because I know how persistent some of my others can be about me facing my issues. It just make pretty good sense to me.
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Date: 2003-11-14 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-14 03:03 pm (UTC)Shiu