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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 244841" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Recurring dreams orrecurring nightmares are a sign that whatewber it is tat is bothering you, is not getting sorted out. So it's either an ongoing problem that is really bothering you, or it's a past issue that you're trapped in a logic loop somehow, not resolving it. Sort of like an old vinyl record with the needle stuck.</p><p></p><p>Do vivid dreams/recurring dreams/nightmares indicate a mental health issue unresolved? Possibly. Or it could simply be that life is a challenge and the kid is still grapplnig with a wide range of problems all coming at him at once. And tat is a desription that fits a lot of our difficult children.</p><p></p><p>Technically I wasn't a difficult child, but I remember some very nasty recurring nightmares, as well as certain motifs that kept recurring. Over years. Somtimes I'd have the nightmare several times a week, sometimes not for six month. One nightmare I had over a period of ten years or more. As I got older and learned to control my dreams a bit more, I learned to partly over-ride the fear in the dream and to take control back, to finish the dream on a more positive note (kill the monster, instead of it devouring me). I also learned to wake myself up if a dream was getting out of control.</p><p></p><p>If a dream is unresolved, it will recur in some form. However, it mightn't recur in anything obviously recognisable, until you go in and analyse what it was about.</p><p></p><p>I also meant to say, when I mentioned before about my experience with certain medications making nightmares really graphic and psychologically horrifying, that I reckoned I knew what Stephen King was medicated with!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 244841, member: 1991"] Recurring dreams orrecurring nightmares are a sign that whatewber it is tat is bothering you, is not getting sorted out. So it's either an ongoing problem that is really bothering you, or it's a past issue that you're trapped in a logic loop somehow, not resolving it. Sort of like an old vinyl record with the needle stuck. Do vivid dreams/recurring dreams/nightmares indicate a mental health issue unresolved? Possibly. Or it could simply be that life is a challenge and the kid is still grapplnig with a wide range of problems all coming at him at once. And tat is a desription that fits a lot of our difficult children. Technically I wasn't a difficult child, but I remember some very nasty recurring nightmares, as well as certain motifs that kept recurring. Over years. Somtimes I'd have the nightmare several times a week, sometimes not for six month. One nightmare I had over a period of ten years or more. As I got older and learned to control my dreams a bit more, I learned to partly over-ride the fear in the dream and to take control back, to finish the dream on a more positive note (kill the monster, instead of it devouring me). I also learned to wake myself up if a dream was getting out of control. If a dream is unresolved, it will recur in some form. However, it mightn't recur in anything obviously recognisable, until you go in and analyse what it was about. I also meant to say, when I mentioned before about my experience with certain medications making nightmares really graphic and psychologically horrifying, that I reckoned I knew what Stephen King was medicated with! Marg [/QUOTE]
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