As I was unpleasantly reminded yesterday, I can't change history, however much I try to forget or avoid it. I think Anthony is right - the only way to deal is to face it head on. A lot easier said than done though, specially when you've spent most of your life trying to forget....I'm pretty sure that the reason we get nightmares is to try and deal with things that we can't or won't voluntarily deal with.

I do get what you mean about having a lot of incidents. I have a lot that I can distinguish as distinct events, but a whole lot more that seem to mesh together yet don't quite feel as if they should be together. It's probably just the brain cells trying to make some sense of a senseless situation - doesn't necessarily mean things are made up, more like confused or mixed up.

Anyway, this is all far too sensible thinking for this time of day (8am here). I'm going to go and find something vaguely edible. :)