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TLDR: Is it true that dream journaling keeps nightmares away?
For some background, I was in a year and a half long abusive relationship where I was co-erced to do bad things to my ex and myself for about 6 months. 2 years have since passed but I still get nightmares involving these bad things every night.
In these dreams I would masturbate, have sex with someone, or even rape my ex. My brother tells me it's probably only because I'm a hormonal 17 yr old but I don't like to believe it. I believe it's connected to my trauma, as I've never had these types of dreams before it happened.
These past few months though, there has been a new addition. I've had these sexual and triggering dreams (dreams that makes my body respond, which I really hate and urge me to just commit suicide) for so long now that they aren't all that surprising anymore, so imagine my shock when I start getting animal abuse and torture in my nightmares. I really have no idea where these come from; I don't even watch animal farm factory documentaries or anything like that. They just started showing: gutted pigs, sewn-on dogs, and the likes.
Now I remember I read something somewhere that went along the lines of: if you journal your dreams, even nightmares, they will start to go away; and I'm wondering if this is true at all? Because yes, I already practice dream journaling, but I avoid doing it when I have nightmares because I prefer not to remember those sick images at all.
For some background, I was in a year and a half long abusive relationship where I was co-erced to do bad things to my ex and myself for about 6 months. 2 years have since passed but I still get nightmares involving these bad things every night.
In these dreams I would masturbate, have sex with someone, or even rape my ex. My brother tells me it's probably only because I'm a hormonal 17 yr old but I don't like to believe it. I believe it's connected to my trauma, as I've never had these types of dreams before it happened.
These past few months though, there has been a new addition. I've had these sexual and triggering dreams (dreams that makes my body respond, which I really hate and urge me to just commit suicide) for so long now that they aren't all that surprising anymore, so imagine my shock when I start getting animal abuse and torture in my nightmares. I really have no idea where these come from; I don't even watch animal farm factory documentaries or anything like that. They just started showing: gutted pigs, sewn-on dogs, and the likes.
Now I remember I read something somewhere that went along the lines of: if you journal your dreams, even nightmares, they will start to go away; and I'm wondering if this is true at all? Because yes, I already practice dream journaling, but I avoid doing it when I have nightmares because I prefer not to remember those sick images at all.