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When Your Dreams Create Trauma That Wasn't There Before

I have nightmares about things that never actually happened to me but feel completely real and I wake up convinced that I am in danger.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unconscious processes unresolved material through symbolic imagery that can feel as activating as actual memory.

Ideas that help explain it
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