Mars,

It is totally possible that you forgot. When I was 4 I was sexually abused by a friend of the family. At 16, I started having dreams about a man named Roby. It felt so weird. One day I woke up screaming and crying and the event just popped into my head, but I still didn't know if it was just a dream or what was going on. I just went up to my mom and asked her "Who is Roby?" Of course she was stunned, but then she told me that he was a boy that babysat me and my brother one day and he did sexual acts to me as my brother watched. He was prosecuted and everything, but I had no idea until I was 16 that any of that had happened. My mom wouldn't tell me the details. So I only have a few flashes in my mind as to what happened, but I did feel like I was going crazy with the dreams about a man I did not even know. I think some day you will know for sure, but it is very possible that the mind blocks things out for your protection.

~Christina