Impact of Dreams
I had a very traumatic dream last night. Normally, I'll have a scary dream and I will have to turn the light on and read a little to forget it. Scary dreams are only temporary; I'll be stuck with the images of this dream for quite a while. In the dream, some people and I came upon a motorcycle accident. One person was already dead and the other was severely injured. Somehow there was an active phone in an abandoned house nearby. I was able to contact emergency services and the severely injured person was saved.
The traumatic part of the dream was the very realness of the severely injured person. Given the choice, I usually prefer not to deal with mangled bodies but the "right" thing was overriding in this case. Although somewhat cliche, due to a MASH episode I watched earlier in the evening, I extended this dream to myself in a combat or personal preservation situation. How would I deal emotionally with images of people around me who were mangled and in pain? It's one thing to romanticize fights or combat but the reality of people screaming in pain is a wholly different thing. I am going to have to focus my thoughts quite dramatically in order to convince my psyche that I can close off my repulsion to such images. Of course, there will be times that the horror that these atrocities exist in our world will leak through. I will shed my pain with tears and move on. That is the nature of the beast.
Introspectively,
Worthless
The traumatic part of the dream was the very realness of the severely injured person. Given the choice, I usually prefer not to deal with mangled bodies but the "right" thing was overriding in this case. Although somewhat cliche, due to a MASH episode I watched earlier in the evening, I extended this dream to myself in a combat or personal preservation situation. How would I deal emotionally with images of people around me who were mangled and in pain? It's one thing to romanticize fights or combat but the reality of people screaming in pain is a wholly different thing. I am going to have to focus my thoughts quite dramatically in order to convince my psyche that I can close off my repulsion to such images. Of course, there will be times that the horror that these atrocities exist in our world will leak through. I will shed my pain with tears and move on. That is the nature of the beast.
Introspectively,
Worthless
posted by jprg4evr at 09:42
2 Comments:
In my experience, situations that require quick thinking/actions to overcome problems don't allow enough time to fully "process" the entire situation. You take the steps that are required immediately, and save the rest for later.
I'm sure that people have different levels of ability to cope with these kinds of situations. Some people may get overwhelmed and just "lock up" while other people may be able to react immediately and effectively, others react immediately and ineffectively, and still others decide that they are ill-equipped to react effectively.
that's all I got.
Is the author supposed to respond? Or is it just a free-for-all for all others to chime in and resolve the situation?
I've never thought that I have locked up in a tough situation. Of course, I haven't been through a lot of tough situations.
I seemed to get a small glimpse of what soldiers, firefighters and other people have to cope with after a tough situation. Have you ever thought you had to "deal" with something after the fact?
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