Posted by HyperFocus on April 11, 2009, at 18:53:21
In reply to Re: Dreams can be disorienting. » SLS, posted by Sigismund on April 11, 2009, at 17:42:56
>I sense dissatisfaction. I sense loss. I sense death. I sense mourning. I sense unfairness.
I don't really believe in interpreting dreams - I think dreams are just a side-effect of your brain processing and integrating your experiences for that day. I do think however that dreams have theraputic significance - I find it interesting that we seem to experience ourselves in dreams minus our illness (more on this in another post.) At any rate dreams are connected to important things that are going on that we may not be conscious of.
Maybe these things are memories of events that impacted you before depression set in. After a long period of experienceing dissatisfaction, loss, mourning unfairness, death, your brain may have degenerated into depression. As the depression lasted over years you may have become more and more separated from the these original feelings. You may have quickly come to a point where these past feelings and events from long ago are irrelevant to your present life - you just want to treat the depression. But as the biological depression recedes these feelings and events may surprise you by reappearing.
Just a guess but could this be a good sign - that the illness is receding and you are now back in touch with the feelings that may have triggered the depression?
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