I think it kinda does. I have recurring dreams of confronting symbolic wounds and anxieties and with every night it happens I make just a little more progress.
You’re actually spot on - REM sleep specifically helps process emotional memories and reduces the amygdala’s reactivity to those same triggers when you’re awake, kinda like emotional thereapy happening while you sleep.
It’d be nice if it edited out the shit parts.
I think it kinda does. I have recurring dreams of confronting symbolic wounds and anxieties and with every night it happens I make just a little more progress.
You’re actually spot on - REM sleep specifically helps process emotional memories and reduces the amygdala’s reactivity to those same triggers when you’re awake, kinda like emotional thereapy happening while you sleep.
the teeth falling out or loosening people had that too.
Well it certainly processes them to make it easier for you. Except PTSD, that takes ages.