Nightmares That Seem To Hint to Forgotten Memories

[BlueMoon_]

This is just a quick vent for me

I always forget my nightmares after they happen, but lately there is something about them I catch for a second that I can't put my finger on. Like it's a forgotten memory trying to communicate itself to me, but I don't know what it's trying to tell me.

[Armee]

I wonder about this too Blue Moon. Sometimes my nightmares have recurring  themes that are clearly related to trying to work through some specific traumas. But every once in awhile I have one that seems as though it is an exact memory coming to me in my sleep. But it's hard to have faith in knowing what is real and true memory and what is not. I suppose that is true for memory in general too.

I guess one thing that helps though is knowing our minds are trying to work through things that need to be worked through. Even if we can't remember the dream or the memory enough. 

[Blueberry]

Like it's a forgotten memory trying to communicate itself to me, but I don't know what it's trying to tell me.

I wonder if you had any more realisations about this? Or if as a vent it didn't really matter to you, maybe just good to get off your chest?

In addition to

I guess one thing that helps though is knowing our minds are trying to work through things that need to be worked through. Even if we can't remember the dream or the memory enough

which I second, I'll say from my own experience that sometimes our minds are protecting us by not allowing us to really remember the nightmare and/or make a connection. At some later time when you're maybe a bit better healed in just some aspect, or maybe when you're in a safer place literally or figuratively, you might suddenly know what it's trying to tell you.

I think also that sometimes things heal to some extent down in the subconscious without ever making themselves known, or not making themselves known till this some extent is past. Hope this makes sense.