OakTree123
Learning
Hi everyone,
I just had my first EMDR session a couple weeks ago. Ever since, I have been having dreams about my abuser and they all have the same theme to them...it's something that I don't know if it really happened to me or not. I was just wondering if anyone has ever had kind of "false" memories popping up in nightmares after EMDR sessions? I mean, I dream about things that didn't happen all the time, but I know for certain that it's just something my brain made up. What's strange to me is that the same theme keeps popping up over and over again and I wake up in a lot of distress...I feel uncertain if what I'm dreaming about has actually happened or not. It's not the same dream over and over again, but it's more like a suggestion of something.
Has anyone ever experienced repressed memories coming up in dreams? I repressed a lot of things when I was being abused and sometimes I remember things that happened out of the blue...but I've never remembered something after having a dream about it, which makes me think that maybe it's just my brain crafting a kind of made up memory? I was just curious about other peoples experiences.
I just had my first EMDR session a couple weeks ago. Ever since, I have been having dreams about my abuser and they all have the same theme to them...it's something that I don't know if it really happened to me or not. I was just wondering if anyone has ever had kind of "false" memories popping up in nightmares after EMDR sessions? I mean, I dream about things that didn't happen all the time, but I know for certain that it's just something my brain made up. What's strange to me is that the same theme keeps popping up over and over again and I wake up in a lot of distress...I feel uncertain if what I'm dreaming about has actually happened or not. It's not the same dream over and over again, but it's more like a suggestion of something.
Has anyone ever experienced repressed memories coming up in dreams? I repressed a lot of things when I was being abused and sometimes I remember things that happened out of the blue...but I've never remembered something after having a dream about it, which makes me think that maybe it's just my brain crafting a kind of made up memory? I was just curious about other peoples experiences.