Hi all,
i need help and or advise please.
about 8 years ago i woke up to feel like i had traveled back in time to living with my family, my fiancee and my daughter where gone and i was 19 again. During the course of the day my memories began to come back to me as to what was going on in my life when i was 19ish, but my memories of my life that i had up until the age of 27 remaind vivid, especially the last few weeks, my daughters birth, her bdays and all other important and amazing moments over those 8 years.
I didnt take long to realize it was a dream. at the time i was being treated for problems with distinguishing dreams from reality & hyper active brain activity etc and we where getting no where. before this had happened my dreams had been getting longer and longer but never over a month or so on one occasion. on one test i had to stay awake all night before (as usual) then go to sleep in a lab attached to all sorts of machines etc, the doctor came in after about an hour or two and said, sorry its not working your not falling into REM sleep, will have to do it another day. but during that time on the bed i had a very detailed and elaborate dream which i told him about, to which he said, thats not possible as you were not in REM sleep. They tried a few more times then gave up!

anyway, i went of the rails for a few years after that trying to come to terms with all this, but i never really have. weirdly ive forgotten allot about my fiancee, shes faded somewhat, but not my daughter.

im now 27, the age i was when i woke up. 8 years ago in my sleep i was this age and had a loving fiancee and my beautiful daughter Flo. Not a day has passed that i havent missed them and i have not been able to tell anyone. (ive occasionally got drunk and broken down about it to some friends/girlfriends but i think they think im just drunk so ignore me!)
today would have been her 6th bday. The last few years ive wanted to talk to somone about this but given my mental health history (ie depression, as a result of all this- and dream related issues) i dont think i will ever be taken seriously.

Not only do i hope this is informative to all of you but i hope maybe one of you can offer some advice that is maybe a bit outside the box for a problem which in itself is very much outside the box.

thank you for taking the time to read this. Its taken me 8 years to summon the courage to write it.