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Post by ctdave203 on Mar 12, 2016 22:09:46 GMT -7
I have been an arm amputee for 8 years and I have had multiple dreams of me with my arm, but I have never had a dream as an amputee. Has anyone else experienced this? It would seem that my psyche would have gotten used to the idea that I am an amputee.
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Post by snowyh on Mar 13, 2016 4:02:25 GMT -7
Hey, Dave, and welcome to the forum. I've been an amputee for over 40 years now (so my memory's fading a bit), but it seems I must have started being an amputee in my dreams fairly soon after becoming one in the physical. The reason I think this is because when I was in my early twenties (amputee @ age 15) I had a dream in which I had both arms, and in the dream I was aware that I was an arm amputee so having two arms was something special--I just remember being elated and clapping and clapping my hands. I still remember the dream because it was so unusual. Doing the math, I'm guessing that I had been dreaming as an amputee for a number of years as it was so exciting in the dream to have two arms again!
Helen
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Post by ctdave203 on Mar 13, 2016 11:37:40 GMT -7
Thanks for your reply. It isn't something that is significant, but it is something that I am curious about.
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Post by Ann on Mar 14, 2016 2:43:53 GMT -7
I have been an arm amputee for 8 years and I have had multiple dreams of me with my arm, but I have never had a dream as an amputee. Has anyone else experienced this? It would seem that my psyche would have gotten used to the idea that I am an amputee. Hi Dave, I think this is really interesting. I am a leg amputee but like Helen I have been an amputee a long time, mostly I dream that I am not, sometimes I am running, or not really aware of the restrictions I have in everyday life. Mainly the times when I dream I am an amputee is when I am having problems with my walking or my prosthetics etc., sometimes I will dream this before I am physically aware of it. |
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Post by stonecutter on Mar 14, 2016 7:21:42 GMT -7
Interesting topic. I am usually not an amputee when I dream, but there are those weird dreams where I am aware of my amputation. I do have a weird recurring dream where I am faced with another limb's amputation and I do feel like it would be hard to have to go through it again.
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Post by ctdave203 on Mar 15, 2016 13:06:57 GMT -7
I have also had the "hospital" dream, but in those dreams I am not an amputee yet. That is weirdd, because I never knew I was going to have my arm amputated since I was unconscious between the accident and waking up in the hospital.
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Post by cherylm on Mar 16, 2016 23:43:22 GMT -7
Oh, this is interesting! My own dreams seem to be "evenly divided," based on how old I think I am in the dream. If the dream seems to be set somewhere in my two-legged past, the odds are real good that I will indeed have both legs...if the dream is set in my post-amputation life, the odds will be equally good that I'll be a uniped. However....I can recall a few dreams where I was a one-legged child and a few where the dream setting is something where I should be an amp but I have two legs.
The weirdest of these dreams was sometime in the first year or two after I lost the leg. In that one, I was back at work after my surgery. It was a terribly busy day in the office and, all of a sudden, I just got up and started running around frantically "doing stuff"...but I didn't have a prosthesis. I was just kind of gliding along on my one remaining leg, feeling oddly graceful. Then someone said something like "How are you DOING that?" and I replied, "I don't know, but it's working, so let's just go with it!"
It was so bizarre that I've never forgotten it................
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Post by bill04 on Apr 17, 2016 7:16:13 GMT -7
Hi Dave. Been here just a week or more. I'm a fifty year amputee. The only dream I had was my one and only arm cracked into little pieces and fell apart. Scary drewm. Only one I ever had.
Bill
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Post by tjohnusa on Jul 20, 2016 19:05:03 GMT -7
Welcome to the forum....I just had my 1 year "anniversary" on 6/10. In each dream I have had I have not been an amputee but I also never run in a dream...interesting.
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