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Mind mending PTSD dream again

Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I've had plenty of nightmares, and nightmares that hand something to teach me. But now I had a happy mind mending dream again like the Springsteen one I reported here I had last week. Music again. This time I dreamt about Leonard Cohen songs playing a central role in bringing peace and healing in the setting of a fine dinner party. Peaceful fun. I never go to dinner parties and I never date, but I had a great date, and as among friends from here at PTSD DS again. I felt good, like Cohen's song says, "like a bird on a wire/I have tried in my way to be free."

I woke up with the words "enjoy life's accidents" echoing in my mind. Like most trauma survivors with PTSD, accidents have never been anything for enjoy. (I just had a nasty car accident last September 2012!) but the message wasn't that ugly smart aleck comment the heartless people tell those of us who are survivors of rape like me--"you might as well just enjoy it." No, it was a healthy and healing suggestion that accidents would happen in my future that were happy accidents, something my PTSD wariness just doesn't allow much room for in my waking life.

I share this because I share my nightmares just as the rest of us do here. I hope someone else starts having these happy mind mending dreams here, too, like I am. It's the first time in my entire 18 years over being diagnoses with PTSD, and it is very, very welcome.

Blessings, all.
TwilightStar
TwilightStar
Thats great that you had a positive dream experience! You definitely deserve some positive healing especially in the area of dreams.

Thank you for posting, its always refreshing to hear something good happening
arfie
arfie
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah! ~L. Cohen

I am beginning to think we have the same CD collection, muji.

Healing dreams are, indeed, sublime. Thanks for sharing yours.
Mend well.
deleted_user
deleted_user
it is great to have positive dreams, i remember when i was younger i often had dreams about nature and flowers, it was so beutiful, all these flower colors, so with nightmares there was time that i had nice dreams too

now i dont remember that i have any dream and when happens nightmare i dont remember what it was about
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Thanks for welcoming these good dreams, everybody. I was on Seroquel from 1995 until I had to go off of it for kidney reasons last year. For me Seroquel meant control of nightmares, but it also deprived me of sweet dreams, too. So it's a novelty. It's nice to share it with people who will humor me about it, too.

Arfie, what a great thought that we might have the same kind of musical collections. I love that song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. I'm using it in a presentation I'm making in a couple of weeks.
MillaSofia
MillaSofia
Oh, you are being blessed. And Leonard Cohen? Truth telling from the Infinite. My first huge change was after I said, "I gotta make some changes (meaning both at work and at home). A week later, major car wreck, a few years, no husband, complete change of life and how to make a living. I understand. You know what to do. Accept and follow.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Wow, I thought it was epic that all of that once happened to me over the course of a year a few years ago, Milla. And you lived the whole gamut of that stuff in one week. It took some serious Zen to accept that, and yet you did.

Glad you like Leonard Cohen, too. In an interview he once said, without explaining details, that he "got into some trouble" in his life, so he checked in to a Buddhist monastery. He came out an ordained monk himself. I wish for that level of willingness to turn trials into wisdom.
ShadowSue
ShadowSue
I can't wait to wake up from a mind-mending dream! Recently, I've been having this one dream ( nightmare) over and over. If I get the nerve up, I'll write about it in a post. Maybe someone can help me make sense of it!

Thank you for sharing your dream! It offers so much Hope!!

Wishing you a peaceful journey of healing!!
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Thank you. Sweet dreams to you, too!
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