OCD dreams
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In article <6ai7vj$qd…@zinger.callamer.com>, "Lachryma" <a…@usa.com> wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> handy wrote in message <34cb2a26.5033…@news.redshift.com>… > >>>I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would > >>>indicate a person who has accepted their OCD. > >>Why? > >>Sarah. > >An old trick, really. Dreams are the subconscious expressing itself. > >Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an > >acceptance. > >Subconscious is not directly accessible, through definition. But is > >through dreams and other methods. > I don’t think that dreaming about something, or having it in your > subconscious, indicate acceptance. This is clearly absurd, in my opinion, > since everything you have experienced is in your subconscious. Dreams are > not well understood, but I have heard a theory that dreams can sometimes be > a type of problem solving — this explanation makes more sense. > Lonny
Whether or not it indicates "acceptance" is completely up to the dreamer…I am a person who has made a life long study of dreaming, whereby I remember all of my dreams with ease, and am semi conscious in most, and fully conscious in many of my dreams. I become easily annoyed at those who consider themselves authorities on the subject, as the only authority is the dreamer him/herself. My ocd manifests in annoying ways in my dreams states, and I recognize the meaning and significance as it pertains to *me*. That’s all there is to know. After all, they’re MY dreams. ——————-==== Posted via Deja News ====———————– http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
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There is no general scientific agreement about what dreams mean, what their function is or about the whole idea of unconscious in the first place. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -handy wrote: > >>I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would > >>indicate a person who has accepted their OCD. > >Why? > >Sarah. > An old trick, really. Dreams are the subconscious expressing itself. > Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an > acceptance. > Subconscious is not directly accessible, through definition. But is > through dreams and other methods.
– Jim Claiborn Ph.D. ABPP J-Claiborn-…@worldnet.att.net If I survive this life without dying I’ll be supprised. Mulla Nasrudin
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>in the same way. Paying attention to your dreams can be quite helpful in >understanding just what is going on within you. >whatatrip >rbol…@cyberspace.com
Yeah, if only we could remember them. awake = consciousness sleep = subconscious, sub-subconscious, superconscious, sub-superconscious…..
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handy wrote: > >>Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an > >>acceptance. > >What about nightmares? > >Sarah. > Emotions expressing themselves visually.
I have found that dreams pretty much reflect things that go on in one’s everyday life. They can be very helpful in providing insight into concerns that one has and they are very good at expressing feelings and emotions that are covered up during our waking hours. We kind of make up stories in our dreams that reflect our feelings and this is sometimes helpful in problem solving. I have also found that as meds change the way I feel while awake, the meds also change the way I feel while asleep in the same way. Paying attention to your dreams can be quite helpful in understanding just what is going on within you. — Take care of your "self". whatatrip rbol…@cyberspace.com
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In article <34cb2a26.5033…@news.redshift.com>, ha…@redshift.com >An old trick, really. Dreams are the subconscious expressing itself.
That would be one view among many. >Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an >acceptance.
What about nightmares? Sarah.
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>>Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an >>acceptance. >What about nightmares? >Sarah.
Emotions expressing themselves visually.
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handy wrote in message <34cb2a26.5033…@news.redshift.com>… >>>I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would >>>indicate a person who has accepted their OCD. >>Why? >>Sarah. >An old trick, really. Dreams are the subconscious expressing itself. >Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an >acceptance. >Subconscious is not directly accessible, through definition. But is >through dreams and other methods.
I don’t think that dreaming about something, or having it in your subconscious, indicate acceptance. This is clearly absurd, in my opinion, since everything you have experienced is in your subconscious. Dreams are not well understood, but I have heard a theory that dreams can sometimes be a type of problem solving — this explanation makes more sense. Lonny
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>>I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would >>indicate a person who has accepted their OCD. >Why? >Sarah.
An old trick, really. Dreams are the subconscious expressing itself. Once something is in the subconscious, it’s thought to indicate an acceptance. Subconscious is not directly accessible, through definition. But is through dreams and other methods.
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Since I have started taking OCD medication I have noticed more vivid dreaming, but the dreams haven’t been upsetting in any way. So if you take medication to get rid of OCD dreams it would probably lead to more vivid, but pleasing dreams. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Sarah Ettritch wrote: > In article <34dcd5fd.2608…@news.redshift.com>, ha…@redshift.com > says… > >On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:55:57 -0500, "James Claiborn Ph.D." > ><J-Claiborn-…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > >>I have heard this complaint a number of times. It should respond to > >>therapy. Medications used to treat OCD often lead to much more vivid > >>dreaming which can be upsetting but is not a significant problem or sign > >>of any problem. > >I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would > >indicate a person who has accepted their OCD. > Why? > Sarah.
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:55:57 -0500, "James Claiborn Ph.D." <J-Claiborn-…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >I have heard this complaint a number of times. It should respond to >therapy. Medications used to treat OCD often lead to much more vivid >dreaming which can be upsetting but is not a significant problem or sign >of any problem.
I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would indicate a person who has accepted their OCD.
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In article <34dcd5fd.2608…@news.redshift.com>, ha…@redshift.com says… >On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:55:57 -0500, "James Claiborn Ph.D." ><J-Claiborn-…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >>I have heard this complaint a number of times. It should respond to >>therapy. Medications used to treat OCD often lead to much more vivid >>dreaming which can be upsetting but is not a significant problem or sign >>of any problem. >I would think that a person with OCD, having OCD dreams, would >indicate a person who has accepted their OCD.
Why? Sarah.
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My wife suffers from recurring OCD dreams almost nightly. Due to the washing rituals it causes, we are unable to sleep in the same bed. She has been on several medications, with Prozac (100 mg.)being the most helpful. The dreams have been with her since the onset of her OCD. Richard – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -JK Umac wrote in message <19980120164600.LAA07…@ladder02.news.aol.com>… >My son is continually telling me that he has OCD dreams almost every night. He >is starting to respond to Anafranil and starts his structured behavioral >therapy soon, though he has been doing exposure on his own. My question is: do >others experience this? Is this part of his OCD and therefore responsive to >treatment? or is it just like the anxiety dreams all of us have. Just trying to >understand as best as I can.
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On 20 Jan 1998 16:46:43 GMT, jku…@aol.com (JK Umac) wrote: >My son is continually telling me that he has OCD dreams almost every night. He >is starting to respond to Anafranil and starts his structured behavioral >therapy soon, though he has been doing exposure on his own. My question is: do >others experience this? Is this part of his OCD and therefore responsive to >treatment? or is it just like the anxiety dreams all of us have. Just trying to >understand as best as I can.
Just what would you say is an OCD dream? Could you clarify that then I can answer it perhaps.
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Clarification: as near as I can understand his daytime obsessions carry into his dreams and disturb his sleep.
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On 22 Jan 1998 16:01:54 GMT, jku…@aol.com (JK Umac) wrote: >Clarification: as near as I can understand his daytime obsessions carry into >his dreams and disturb his sleep.
I thought there was one time I touched something in a dream and when I woke up went to wash.
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I have heard this complaint a number of times. It should respond to therapy. Medications used to treat OCD often lead to much more vivid dreaming which can be upsetting but is not a significant problem or sign of any problem. JK Umac wrote: > My son is continually telling me that he has OCD dreams almost every night. He > is starting to respond to Anafranil and starts his structured behavioral > therapy soon, though he has been doing exposure on his own. My question is: do > others experience this? Is this part of his OCD and therefore responsive to > treatment? or is it just like the anxiety dreams all of us have. Just trying to > understand as best as I can.
– Jim Claiborn PhD ABPP If the rich could pay other people to die for them the poor could make a wonderful living. Yiddish proverb J-Claiborn-…@worldnet.att.net
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I have obsessive dreams which has been diagnosed as part of my OCD. Sometimes I can not sleep because the dreams play over and over again in my head. I am currently on Luvox and go to talk therapy twice a month. My therapist has really helped me with yhing to help get through these obsessive times. I also think mthaty my medication has been a gift from above.
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I don’t have reoccuring dreams, but I often have very disturbing dreams. Sometimes, they deal with friends and family rejecting me because of my compulsions (I lost a few friends because of OCD before I was diagnosed, and it is a constant fear that I have), but most of the dreams are nightmares, ones that seeem like they could have been real. When I get up, I immediately start with my compulsions. This has been happeneing more and more. I rarely wake up without finding myself performing some type of obsession even when I am trying my hardest to stop. The only thing that has sometimes worked is to change my schedule and move things around my room, etc. Redhead — For more information about this service, send e-mail to: h…@anon.twwells.com — for an automatically returned help message ad…@anon.twwells.com – for the service’s administrator ano…@anon.twwells.com — anonymous mail to the administrator
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My son is continually telling me that he has OCD dreams almost every night. He is starting to respond to Anafranil and starts his structured behavioral therapy soon, though he has been doing exposure on his own. My question is: do others experience this? Is this part of his OCD and therefore responsive to treatment? or is it just like the anxiety dreams all of us have. Just trying to understand as best as I can.
