siniang
Policy Enforcement
I've been pondering about this for a while. I remember during my initial assessment with T, one of the question was whether I have nightmares. And I don't actually really know how to answer this question. Particularly after having spent so much time here on the forum and reading other's experiences with nightmares.
I have bad dreams. Not nightly. But consistently enough. By usual accounts, the thematics would probably qualify as nightmare stuff. Danger. Death. Being shot at. Wild animals hunting me, car and plane crashes, trauma-themes, ....
I don't have physical reactions. No sweating. No trashing around. No jolting awake. No screaming.
I know I feel fear during those "nightmares". But upon waking, they usually don't leave me feeling derailed. They feel mostly like any other dream - the only difference is that I tend to remember my "nightmares" longer than my normal dreams, which I usually forget within minutes of waking.
Maybe I have a weird image of what are nightmares, thanks to media probably but also reading on it from others' accounts, but they just don't register as nightmares for me. Not "bad" enough.
What makes a nightmare a nightmare?
I have bad dreams. Not nightly. But consistently enough. By usual accounts, the thematics would probably qualify as nightmare stuff. Danger. Death. Being shot at. Wild animals hunting me, car and plane crashes, trauma-themes, ....
I don't have physical reactions. No sweating. No trashing around. No jolting awake. No screaming.
I know I feel fear during those "nightmares". But upon waking, they usually don't leave me feeling derailed. They feel mostly like any other dream - the only difference is that I tend to remember my "nightmares" longer than my normal dreams, which I usually forget within minutes of waking.
Maybe I have a weird image of what are nightmares, thanks to media probably but also reading on it from others' accounts, but they just don't register as nightmares for me. Not "bad" enough.
What makes a nightmare a nightmare?
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