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.
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.
the teeth falling out or loosening people had that too.
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.