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Saturday, 6 April 2019

Dreams and Nightmares

I wonder about the dreams and nightmares of anyone who is ill, scarred, disabled.

Do you dream about yourself in your current situation?

Do you dream about yourself as healthy?

If you are in a wheelchair, do you dream of yourself as in a wheelchair, or do you dream about walking?

If you were healthy and became ill, do you dream about when you were healthy? Or do your flashbacks reflect your more ill self?

These are genuine questions I wonder about.
Some of my dreams and nightmares are insane. Creative, unpredictable, nothing I could ever consciously think of. However, if I am in the dream or nightmare, I am myself as I am right now. My husband in my dreams is always my real husband. Unless I am having flashbacks about me as a child (in which case I dream of the real houses I used to live in), the house I dream of is the house we currently live in. The dogs around me are the dogs we are raising.
Of course, the husband in my nightmares is often a jerk, but I think that is a fairly normal kind of nightmare. I try not to be irrationally angry with him for what he does in my dreams, but it sometimes takes me a few minutes to cool down.

For anyone who is drastically ill, who has suffered trauma, do you dream of yourself as you are?

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