It was just a dodge ball, I just can't believe how hard he threw it! People never seem to find the whole thing as funny as I do... it is just like cosmic absurdity... makes me laugh when I think about getting the injury.

I asked a therapist friend of mine who was also abused as a child about if anything helps with her nightmares. She said that in the past, a dream journal has helped her (I have tried this, but everyone is different. She also said that if the bad dreams are recurring (the same or similar each time) that she will rewrite the dream, as in write it out in her dream journal BEFORE bed (as opposed to writing it down after she wakes) and make it similar, but change the scariest most disturbing parts. For example, if in the dream she usually gets punched at some point, she could either write it down as she blocks the punch and then pushes the aggressor away and tells him in a powerful voice to leave her alone. She said that sometimes, it carries over into the actual dreams, not necessarily that it goes the same as what she wrote down, but that she finds she has more ability to control what is happening in the dream instead of just reacting to it and being haunted.