Posted by HyperFocus on April 11, 2009, at 19:09:42
A question to all: when you dream do you experience yourself as ill or 'normal'? In your dreams are you ever depressed or anxious or obsessive or bipolar or psychotic?
I find it fascinating that despite having severe social phobia for nearly 20 years - 2/3 of my life - I never dream myself phobic. In all the thousands of dreams I have I've never dreamed myself in a social situation with the slightest tinge of anxiety - the anxiety that has been part of my real day-to-day existence for so long. No matter what I dream, I am never depressed, anxious, obsessed, neurotic, et. al
So how come the actor playing HyperFocus in my dreams doesn't have mental illness as part of his repertoire? Is this true for everybody? Is it that the parts of our brain responsible for dreams are somehow cut off from the parts responsible for mental illness? Or is there some sort of switch that gets thrown that turns off the illness in the dream?
How cool would it be to be able to throw the switch that turns off mental illness when we are awake?
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