Waking up with "marks" on my arm

This has been unsettling to me since this past Saturday morning.

I've googled and looked in all the books that I have, and I can't really find anything related to this.

So.

I am putting it here to see if anyone else has experienced this or has any input on what I'm trying to sort out.

So.

Friday night, the husband and I were talking about going to my mom's for Christmas and some really hard things were talked about between us. He actually said he was sorry that I had grown up in that kind of environment.

Well, not in those exact words but that is what he meant.

I went to bed, and the next morning I woke up and had these strange marks on my right upper wrist.

It didn't hurt, it wasn't itchy, there was no bruising or pain of any sort. It was really strange and disturbing to me.

When I looked at it, it reminded me of a picture that a part of me drew in session with my counselor. My mind went directly to it.

I don't really want to go into detail about all of that, unless someone else has had a similar experience and would like to share it here.

I'm more than open to talk about it, I just didn't want to put it out there so open because it really feels "out there".

I'm trying to figure out if I did it to myself in my sleep or if it's some kind of somatic memory bringing itself forward, from what I was sharing with my husband the night before. I've tried to think of how I would have done it and there is nothing that I can think of that would explain it.

It's almost faded away now. There is a trace of it left but there is still not pain, bruising, itching or any after effect feeling of an injury or trauma there.

This is really the strangest thing, next to the picture of the little being drawn, that's happened with me.

Just curious.

in me any time I woke up with unexplainable marks and pains in my wrists it turned out to be a physical health issue like my MS, carpal tunnel, Arthritis, anemia, a sleep walking issue and pressure point (not the kind where you do acupuncture or first aid. it was sleeping so heavily that because of lack of natural shifts of positions spots on my body became sensitive to the mattress springs or pressure of my body laying in a position for so long. and sometimes when I am busy the day before I may not notice the natural bumps like brushing by furniture or that playing with the pets or children caused a sensitive spot on my arms, wrists or legs....

in other words it has always been because of a physical health problem or a non dissociative problem in me.

my suggestion is if this continues to bother you contact your medical doctor who can get you set up for a whole bunch of physical and mental tests like sleep studies, MRI's, and blood work and other tests that can actually diagnose what this problem is in you.

Hi. I am not sure what kind of marks you mean. Bruises? Redness? Old scars looking more prominent?
I don't know. I find bruises/scratches/minor cuts on me all the time and have no idea where they may have come from. From what you say here it seems the picture drawn and the marks are connected. Or at least your brain is finding connections there for some reason. It probably isn't coincidental.
Whatever the cause of the marks on your arm it seems clear that your body-mind is recalling or reassociating aspects of a trauma, and reassociation is a good thing (or so my T tells me - I am not sure I believe that when it is happening).

Right? !

My counselor would most probably say it’s a good thing too, it’s just not him feeling it or trying to sort it out or feel the recourse of it.

I would put it a picture of it here to validate it but there is a part of me that feels like it too personal/intimate.

I’m not sure why I feel that way but I do.

We do.

This is all so unnerving when I can’t find an answer for it.

Thank you for your reply.

I quite often wake with crisscrossy lines on my arms that look almost like little scars but smooth out after a few hours. Is it like that? I think it is due to a combination of an unsettled night so lots of twisting and lying on arms, with dehydration because I don't always drink enough and tend to have less elastic skin (plus I'm getting older which also decreases elasticity)

One of my/our previous hosts used to get body memories and sometimes she would come out of those things with weird marks. I have no idea if it was a thing she was doing to herself while in those memories/moments or if it was an actual body recall muscle memory type response, but yeah, it's happened on a few occasions that 'I' would have marks show up in places where I knew I had been, for example, grabbed before.

-Avery

Thank you for your replies.

I can't wait to talk with my counselor Wednesday and sort this out!

It seems entirely possible that you have touched on some body memory that is now showing visible signs. I know that I feel stuff in my body that happened long ago, so why not have visible signs?

I think what I am currently experiencing is related to the whole body memory kind of thing but I apologize if this is too much information... Since having stuff come up about a last week I have been feeling an almost constant state of and it is so distressing for me. It is just the physical feeling, there is no memory or anything to go along with it but I hate it. I never feel this and now it is here all the time. There is no reason for it to be here, there is nothing it is connected with, just this awful feeling in my body and I don't want it.
I am sorry if this is too much information or too triggering but I think it is related to the same kind of process of dissociated experience.