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Nightmares and multiple separate trauma incidents.

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Freddyt

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If you have more than one trauma, with completely different circumstances do you have nightmares for both?

Are they two separate nightmares?

Are there elements of both in a single nightmare?
 
My nightmares fall into 3 categories
- Total reality (flashback style)
- Blend of fiction and reality (too much nightmare fuel)
- Total fiction (FFS. As if enough bad things don’t happen IRL)

My flashbacky nightmares are just that. Individual, completely distinct/unique to that trauma, no elements of anything else in them whatsoever.

The blend of fiction & reality ones? Often not only have a kaleidoscope of different traumas blended together into a bizarre whole, or pieced together like a stained glass window, or flipbook… but also totally wild never happened/never could components. Both trauma related, and not. Like my family being there, or the ability to fly.

I don’t have nightmares about all of my traumas… and many of my nightmares have nothing to do with my trauma history (like forgetting I put the baby in a dresser drawer for 2 years, ah, parenting nightmares).
 
I wake myself in the beginning of nightmares. I guess its a defence mechanism because I was told "of course you have nightmares after that" so they happened so frequently in the years that followed.

This was a piece of nightmare that had a former co worker in it. It seemed very very different from my old nightmare which was very mono theme. Very disturbing since I haven't had a nightmare since January when I figured out what it was really telling me. When my T and I explored it it has two direct elements (someone unseen, hand over mouth) from that incident.

Funny but thinking about it today - the huge impact of that. Lets just say swimming? Not on my to do list. Ever.
 
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