Can dreams cause traumas?

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[idester]

dreams are oftentimes the personification of one's own trauma but i don't think it can cause them

[qpardo]

no

[Kobs]

Possibly temporary ones like when you have a nightmare and you wake up screaming but it's only for a few seconds after you're out of the dream

[Kamiyama]

Nightmares can be very disturbing sometimes and can have lingering effects for sure.

Usually if I can manage to unpack mine and try to understand what it meant, come up with an "explanation" it affects me less.

Trauma is usually the result of pain and nightmares usually don't cause pain to the dreamer. Though they can present horror imagery, cause fear, even terror, and psychologically mess you up.

However if you are experiencing pain for another reason, like an injury, your mind can incorporate that into a nightmare. The other day I saw a story on youtube about a camper who was attacked by a fox when she was sleeping outside while camping. It started gnawing on her head and she had a nightmare about someone forcing a crown of thorns down onto her head. It was really traumatic for her when she woke up and she won't go into forests now.

[Your_White_Knight]

Първоначално публикувано от КСГО RUSH Б:

Can dreams cause traumas?

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I rather doubt it... how could someone be traumatized by their own dreams?

[Fire Angel]

Yes. I had a dream when I was little that I was in the grocery store with my Mom and I saw blue & white frosted chocolate cupcakes. I got so excited and my mom bought them for me but right after she bought them I flipped the plastic container holding them upside down and ruined the frosting.

My Mom scolded me and went back to swap them with another and told me not to flip the cupcakes upside down or she would be angry with me. We then walked out of the store and I accidentally flipped the cupcakes again so we walked in to switch for a second time.

My Mom then told me if I flipped the cupcakes one more time that I would be having no cupcakes at all. I promised her that I wouldn't and we walked out of the store. However, she soon looked at me with a face of anger and disappointment. In my hands were the cupcakes flipped upside down but I didn't even move them so I got no cupcakes and was miserable.

Now whenever I go into a store and see cupcakes that dream plays through my head and I become traumatized.

[permanent name]

No, they just help remember things you forgot.

[024]

No, dreams can be a reflection of your trauma though

[Lochlann]

Probably not, but some very vivid dreams can do weird stuff

[Irene ❤]

I don't think imagination can cause traumas.

[Vinegaroon]

Last night I dreamed I was taking an algebra final terrifying....

[Lochlann]

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Last night I dreamed I was taking an algebra final terrifying....

truly terrifying, hope you're doing ok

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

nope, trauma causes dreams though.

[permanent name]

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Yeah, one time I dreamt I had a negative k/d ratio, and almost thought I was a scrub for a second there. Phew... that was a close one.

I had one like that where I got mad at all the scrub tactics they were using and went “man, fight me irl.” And my chair grew living straps and strapped me down while my monitor grew a body and pulled a sword out of its face and started stabbing me with it.

I was of course stoic about it, demanding the game git gud and kill me or gtfo already.

So it decapitated me and left, then came back and started arguing with my head while I rolled my eyes and stuff.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Pretty sure it's the other way around...