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Old Jan 14, 2019, 08:30 PM
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Since very young childhood I had dreams that I was other people.I would wake up from them and think why did I I dream I was a little boy,or why did I dream I was a little girl with black hair,etc.I always thought it was very strange.The dreams always seemed and felt so real and some were lucid dreams.

To make a long story short now that I'm integrated I know that I was dreaming about my alters and the dreams were actually their memories and things that really happened to me(them) in childhood.I never would have believed that when I was still DID though.I had amnesia for the abuse I was seeing at night and although I knew it was another "me" in the dreams I had no connection to what was happening and thought they were just wacky nightmares.

My therapist and I did some dreamwork during sessions and he found it helpful to learn things about me and what I had went through.I know some people may disagree with dreamwork or that type of therapy but as they say,"there's more than one way to skin a cat" and it was helpful in different ways,just as art therapy,CBT,ACT,DBT,etc were helpful in their own rights too.

I don't know if that's kinda what you're talking about or not.But yes,my alters had their own dreams but actually they were my dreams and they were me but I was someone else in the dreams(one of them).

I'm not sure whether I made that easy to understand or not.LOL
Thanks for this!
ACrystalGem