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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
Has anyone had a dream, where you wake up in bed but the dream felt real and later found out it was a memory of something an alter did? Or is a dream a dream and a memory a memory? Understanding this is important to me.
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when this happens/happened to me my treatment providers called it many different things... lucid dreaming, psychosis/delusions/ depersonalization/ intrusive thoughts, dreams....
here where I live and work treatment providers believe this kind of thing where a person has trouble telling the difference between dreams, reality and memories normal brain activity..
the brain forms dreams out of a persons feelings/emotions/perceptions of what they have encountered / stress/ sensory perceptions...
therefore its pretty normal that a person mentally disordered or not will have dreams that feel so real that they are hard to differentiate between what is real, part of a memory, part of something they experienced, or just an average dream not meaning anything...
I know many people non mentally disordered and mentally disordered that have this problem where their dreams are so meshed with the elements of memories, feelings/emotions, reality, non reality that they wonder whether they are sleep walking, going off the deep end, tapping into their paranormal sides, tapping into their alters memories ...it happens with normal people, DID people and with all other mental disorders too in some way or another...
my point is you're not alone, I go through lucid dreaming, (or what ever term for it that is used in your location) as does many people that I know.