Share a cuppa?

@Glisten , SWs are a term used here for Social Workers. One of mine is highly educated.

@Stout thank you. I’m a novice to all things MH.

I have no doubt that there are a number of very well educated Support Workers.

You are very well informed. Have you studied MH?

The mind paralyses the body during nightmares, so we don't physically re-act to them. But sometimes that doesn't stop me. I can interrupt the fight and pull myself out of it, even abruptly and physically.

They can be truly terrifying.

@Stout I’m almost impossible to offend.

Go with your good self 👍🏼

No @Glisten

Being both Its victim and its client, I have in the past few years picked up on what I need to know.

@Stout your ability to pull yourself out of a dream state when you are having a terrifying nightmare.
Why is that?

Does that say about how your brain works?

@Glisten :

@Stout is almost impossible to offend.

Having endured them all my life, bad dreams at the start were as a kid and youth impossible to do anything about.

But the subconscious/unconscious me was getting sick of it. Because the nightmares mostly if not all are about an attack on me of one sort or another, I tried to fight back. Gradually over decades I gained the power to overwhelm them. but it is not easy. the mind is very powerful.

I can interact with them as well.

I hate them. And some days they leave me with a 'hangover'.