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What Causes Behavioral Problems Due To Dreams?
My partner of 5 years, has told me for years that his dreams are real to him as his waking life, and the people in his dreams are as real as you and me. He has known the same people in his dreams for years. He says that they are his friends and he does not want them to go away.
He told me last night that he has formed an emotional attachment to a woman in his dreams. She knows about me. He sees her every night, and now they have had sex. He said that she knows I exist and that they have talked about me. He confessed this to me last night as if he were confessing a true affair.
I asked him more about it, and he told me I wouldn't understand because he has "like 4 layers of his personality". I am extremely concerned for him, and personally devistated, because this affair is real in his mind.
He told me last night that he has formed an emotional attachment to a woman in his dreams. She knows about me. He sees her every night, and now they have had sex. He said that she knows I exist and that they have talked about me. He confessed this to me last night as if he were confessing a true affair.
I asked him more about it, and he told me I wouldn't understand because he has "like 4 layers of his personality". I am extremely concerned for him, and personally devistated, because this affair is real in his mind.
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Thu, 6 Aug 2015
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Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns
I went through your details. I can understand. Scientific community do not have any plausible explanation for such dreams and fantasies. Scientific / psychiatric / psychologic community terms such incidents / narration as fantasy. According to psychiatry, your partner is living in a fantasy world which he developed himself, away from you, where you do not have any place. In that fantasy land, he has his own world, pleasures and life. Hallucination disorder is what it is called.
According Freudian dream interpretation, these fantasies are triggered by internal subconscious urges which are suppressed during previous years. I suggest you to convince your partner to take psychiatric treatment.
If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible.
Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck. Take care.
Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns
I went through your details. I can understand. Scientific community do not have any plausible explanation for such dreams and fantasies. Scientific / psychiatric / psychologic community terms such incidents / narration as fantasy. According to psychiatry, your partner is living in a fantasy world which he developed himself, away from you, where you do not have any place. In that fantasy land, he has his own world, pleasures and life. Hallucination disorder is what it is called.
According Freudian dream interpretation, these fantasies are triggered by internal subconscious urges which are suppressed during previous years. I suggest you to convince your partner to take psychiatric treatment.
If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible.
Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck. Take care.
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