EPISODE · Feb 27, 2021 · 49 MIN
Mania is not sustainable because life and the world is not designed as a visionary place
from Bipolar Inquiry · host Andrea
so I was thinking about dreams and how dreams at night are the brains way of trying to bring order to the day's experience or past day's experiences and so at night a person may or may not dream and they might dream about something that happened during the day or they could dream about something from the past in this way the brain is sort of continuing to think while it's asleep it's not quiet and sometimes people don't dream at all or at least they don't remember their dreams and to me a person that dreams may be trying to work stuff out in their life and in the same way a person that has psychosis or mania which is like having dream elements projected into daily life maybe needing to work out some internal stuff unfinished business and things to a higher degree than the people that manage to do it through dreams and interestingly enough many times when somebody goes into a state of psychosis or mania they haven't been sleeping so perhaps they haven't been sleeping that haven't been dreaming or maybe it's that they are dreaming but they're awake dreaming so their sleep time that's usually sleep dreaming is now still dreaming time but it's while the person is awake so they're not getting sleep plus the dream elements are being projected and causing trouble in daily life like say what's called hallucinations or delusions which could just be like sleepwalking while actually awake and that's just something I'm thinking about I'm not saying this is true or it's just it's just a conversation and I feel it's important to talk about the stuff and think about it differently because it's it's so fascinating and I'm speaking about it from my own experience not from oh I read this in a textbook it could be in a textbook somewhere or in a book somewhere but from my own experience it does feel like I'm sort of awake in a dreamland and maybe we're all awake in a dreamland but the dream element shuts off for the most part in most people but perhaps if we're not sleeping the dream element comes in and messes up the daily reality but why do we dream at all it seems like it's the subconscious way of reorganizing stuff so basically this dreaming while awake could be a way to reorganize a person's reality because there's elements that need to be reorganized and this could in my case I experienced trauma and it was hard for my brain to deal with that trauma so a way for it to be dealt with was perhaps to create a a mental health crisis or challenge which definitely made my internal subjective reality not really congruent with the outer reality and this is just perhaps a way of the psyches healing process I believe in holotropic breathwork they they talk about how the psyche is always attempting to heal itself it's a self-healing mechanism so psychosis and mania could be some kind of self-healing process but it's met with opposition it's not with the interpretation of being a disease like a permanent thing when it's not a permanent state most times people don't stay in that kind of state forever and coming out of it is usually attributed to medication but how many people are allowed to possibly go through the process without medication and perhaps maybe it would resolve eventually on its own if it's a healing mechanism a healing process perhaps it eventually corrects itself just like if we're sleeping and we have a dream eventually the dream stops eventually we wake up if we were to thank everybody that was sleeping was like dead that and bury them before they woke up well then we would be really silly so just because that happens we never there's not much there's not many opportunities to go through it in a safe way and have it finish almost like a longer sleep dream period imagine it takes for example say it takes 30 days on average now a person needs a nice sanctuary for those 30 days to go through the process but instead it's stopped the process is stopped through chemical means and then it's assumed because a person had that happen that the
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