Nightmares: Body Parts?

[Harry6]

I also have dreams of body parts quite frequently, however my trauma has nothing to do with body parts. It's weird though, during my dreams I am not at all disturbed by the blood and limbs . What disturb's me is when I wake I don't feel a thing. One might consider these horrific nightmares but I feel nothing. Is this common or am I a total psychopath!? :S

Psychopath? No, of course not. It is pretty common, one could say "normal" for those with PTSD to experience a kind of numbing. The degree of numbing can in itself be a bit of a shock. It can happen with all kinds of emotions, all kinds of events.

 

[Lionheart]

This thread reminded me of a dream I had where there were legs and arms and other body parts strewn all over the place and there were these angels with thread and needle sewing all the parts back together. I asked this one angel what she was doing and she said that sometimes people fall apart and they have to put them back together.

Trauma rends us to pieces and we have to put ourselves back together, bit by painful bit, but although there are scars from this psychic surgery, when we are done putting things back together, I think that we have something even more precious and beautiful than before...our true, unique, unadulterated, and priceless selves. At least this is my hope!!!

The man in your dream seems to be saying that if you do not attain your 'worth', then you will die. It seems to me, that your brain is trying to work out why you survived and your friend did not and to place you back in the position of self-worth you felt before the trauma. At least this is how I see it.

At any rate, I would like to know if you and your t doc decide to try Prazosin for your nightmares, how it works for you,

wishing you peace,
LH