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Old Mar 22, 2012, 07:37 PM
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Hi fellow members I'm diagnosed with DID and lately I've had a few things going on that I've never experienced before,I'm just interested to see if anyone else has had this happen to them? I've also posted in DID forum as I didn't know where to put this issue I'm having.
Firstly I keep dreaming about years ago and when I awake I can't figure out if its really happening to me at this time in life or not,if this makes sense.
For example say if I dreamt about an ex partner when I awake I don't know if I'm still with this person or not,it takes me around an hour to figure it out. I seem to float in and out of sleep about 20 times a night.
Another thing is I dream about things that happen the next day or a couple of days after,things that I couldn't of possibly known about?,I don't claim to be a psychic or anything its just an issue I've had for years.
I know it might sound ridiculous to some but its every single night and its driving me mad!
Any advice or personal experiences you could share would be so much appreciated
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Old Mar 23, 2012, 01:00 AM
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I too have woken up before and forgotten where I was or what year it was, thinking I was living somewhere else or with someone else, etc, all things that were from the past. It's very very normal.
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Old Mar 23, 2012, 01:11 PM
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Our dreams use our own images and memories so, yes, I too have found it hard to get disentangled from them, especially if I'm in similar environs or not "doing" very much in my waking life that might help me re-orient myself by competing for head time.

Another problem I've had is later in the day/week having an image from my dream happen in real life; I walked past an area where, in my dreams there were snakes and, when I walked past it days later, I was afraid there were snakes. It's a little like having the dream "again" but in real, waking time, but I just had to work a bit to disentangle myself from the image, realize that the likelihood of snakes actually being in that piece of ground were small and that "snake" was probably representative of something else in my dream image and should not be literally translated. In my dream I had "needed" snake for something and my current, big City surrounding history came up with that location as "most likely" to work okay for me in the dream.

But I don't feel the dream "foretold" my walking past that location and/or the link still existing between my life and the dream a couple days later. The "idea" of what could happen tomorrow (run into my friend Susie) is not "new" to me and I believe that my running into Susie may be a "fun" coincidence or synchronicity but not foretold by the dream. I have known/seen/run into Susie before and the dream used that to have me run into her in the dream. The literal future is not that connected to the imagined, past dream. The opposite seems more true to me; running into Susie now has meaning because I ran into her in the dream in the past; not the past dream determining that I would run into her now, in its/my future. We have multiple synchronicities that happen daily, like we have multiple dreams at night and daydreams during the day; all of them are psychological unconscious/subconscious "information" for us to help us live our lives/"survive".
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Old Mar 25, 2012, 01:13 AM
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I've had times like that. I don't know that it is related to the DID though. I'm intergrated and I still have times when that happens. Usually it happens in times of high stress. Maybe it is a way for our brains to try and deal with the stress, or at least my brain. Trying to put everything into nice neat catagories and working over time to do it under extra stress and it just overloads the sensory systems? I don't know, but I know my brain has done some pretty wonderful stuff for me. So I try to not let myself get to freaked out about this any more. I've talked to my T about this a lot because I used to let it freak me out, I'd think everything was going south again. Now I just thank my brain for working hard and try to do extra meditative and relaxing things to de-stress. Positive visualization, baths, the zen of nothingness, use aroma therapy before sleep.
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