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Good, I am glad :-) I think the most important thing is to go with what you feel comfortable with and you seem to do that :-) I wish you the best in finding your way to beat those horrible nightmares!

I am glad you found the answers you were looking for :-) I do hope you know I was not trying to persuade you into anything, and I did not consider possible negative implications in my first post, simply because I did not think there would be any. Lucid dreaming has always been natural and...

Oh yes, the demon dreams! I have them once in a while. They are so different from normal dreams/nightmares. One demon presented itself to me at one time and said its name was Legion. Demons appear in my sisters dreams too, and we often talk about it.

I guess it is a possibility. I think it was what Hashi experienced. It is the opposite of my own experience though. The dreams are stronger than me when I am not lucid in them, simply due to the fact that I am not aware it is a dream. When I am lucid, I am aware it is a dream and just by that...

I guess it is the same with everything, some find it useful, some do not, but I would disagree that lucid dreaming is an esoteric, difficult skill. I think the sucsess and good experience comes down to making a plan about what it is you want to accomplish in your lucid dream. I can only speak...

I am sorry for what you went through! I want to give you a warm welcome to the forum!

Lucid dreaming can be done and can be helpful for everyone regardless of PTSD etc. It has been practiced for thousands of years in various cultures. First of all, it is quite fun :-) It takes a bit of practise though, and you have to keep it up or you will slip back into your old sleep pattern...

I can not jugde if he is cheating or not, but from reading your post I was thinking: don't be so hard on yourself! If it were me, my trust issues would spiral out of control if my partner would withdraw intimacy from our relationship because of them! I can not tell either if his reaction is...

That is great :-) I am starting to believe that understanding from both sides is the key to make it work! In the beginning, I had this notion that since I was the one with the trauma and PTSD, he should just understand why I have trust-issues and not challange me on them, and just accept it...

It is a good question, and I will say, for me, yes! Not so much because I do not think I deserve it, but it triggers my trust-issues. If I put my guards down and let myself believe it fully, I don't think I would recover if one more person who claimed to love me let me down. It is like a part...

I know! That is odd... Last night I tried to find it to see if I could find what you mentioned, and she apparently set it to private. What you discribe in your last post was excatly the subject at hand in the posts I have read: the blame-shifting, feeling like you are living in a twighlight...

Yes, that is harmful and very one sided to claim! I am surprised she said that. The posts I have read are angry, yes, but I think I would be too if it were me. I know I got quite angry from the brief encounter I have had with a narssicist ;-)

Okay, sorry about that :-) I have not read that! I have read a few of her blogs which I found very interesting and useful. But I am far from an expert on the subject. I am sorry it was not helpful.

Hi SOL, I don't know if this will be helpful at all, but if your mother is a narc, I really understand why you don't feel safe. You are proberly already aware of this, but there is a blog by a girl who also is an adult child of narssicists. It is called House of Mirrors and it provides solid...

I am not 'having it my way' I am simply responding to what I find to be inappropriate behavior, and that is never a waste of my time. Fortunatly, I am not dependent on a reply from you in order to do so!

Mallaky, Ok! I will walk you through it while asking you some relevant questions: In what way are the reactions intense? How did you lighten it up? By your 'Jesus Christ',' stop overreacting', 'please relax now' phrases? There is nothing funny about phrases like that (espacially not to a...

P.S. I will encourage you to keep the respectful tone in your posts that we all so benefit from on this forum. Even though you do not always get the replies you expected or feel misunderstood. If this is the case, you simply explain, leaving out the agressive and condescenting name-calling. It...

We answered you to the best of our knowlegde and the sum of the answers you got were: we cannot answer that question for you! There is no need for the 'overreacting' and 'please relax' phrases, I can tell you so much that that is completly off base, and for the 'I guess you are all burned by...

It is the same thing! It is not our task nor within our ability to figure out whether someone suffers from PTSD or not, and I for one do not feel comfortable judging what could or could not cause PTSD in other people. It feels like comparing trauma. If he wants help, a way to be a good friend...

Hi Mallaky, welcome to the forum!:) It is 'funny' how when I read a story like yours, I used to think like you do: ' Jeez, that must be so indiscribably awful and traumatizing! Who am I to whine!' And I am a rape-victim! One thing (out of many) I have learned from this forum, is that it is...

Good for you, snappy_turtle! :tup:

Hi SOL, As you may remember, (you responded to my thread) I too recently cut a toxic 'friend' out of my life. I had gotten to know some people through her, nice people, but I did not see it as possible to have any contact with them either. So I have deleted all of them on fb too. I know this...

P.S, I find it very manipulative and extremely out of order to claim: I hurt you, I invalidated you and our marriage, but PTSD made me do it, so you the one being hurtful to me!

Dear Jerry, while I do agree with abstract that re-enacting traumatic events can occur in PTSD sufferes, this act re-traumatizes us, it does not 'fix' us! I am a rape victim and my re-enacting back in the day would go like this: I would get very drunk. I was very drunk when it happend, and when...

I was quite shocked when I read this! I totally agree with SOL. Hiding behind PTSD is total crap!