How Narcissistic Abuse Impacts Your Dreams

Narcissistic abuse affects both the conscious and unconscious mind. It acts on you by breaking down your conscious reality in its current form and rewriting it according to the narcissist’s grandiose desires and needs. Your new conscious reality involves being in a position of perceived inferiority, an amping up of your fight/flight circuit, the isolation of you from your family and friends, and above all; constant, unrelenting psychological attacks.

Whether the narcissist is love bombing you, judging you, ridiculing you, gaslighting you, exposing you to incessant monologues or pressuring you into behaving how they want; their assault is unrelenting and suffocating.

This naturally impacts your dreams, since dreams represent messages and symbols from y...