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Welcome to my blog. I hope by sharing my own misophonia experiences, others who are frustrated with misophonia sensitivities will discover that they're not alone. I also hope that people who may not have misophonia will gain some insight about what it's like to have this condition.

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Misophonia invading my dreams...

3/24/2013

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So, I don't normally remember my dreams unless they were traumatic or unusually bizarre; but I will say that last night was the first time I've ever dreamt about misophonia.

I don't remember the majority of the dream other than the fact that the majority of it was located in an attic in the house where I first grew up (but haven't lived there in over thirty years). It's even weirder because the attic in the dream was very livable - completely furnished like a bedroom - whereas the one in my house as a child was just for storage, with exposed fiberglass insulation between the open beams.

Anyway, I just remember sitting at a table in that attic (not sure what I was doing there at the time), and a former colleague (someone with whom I worked over fifteen years ago) started whistling right behind me. My dream self was completely enraged and yelled at her to stop. What's weird is that I've never known her to ever whistle and in real life I've never reacted so angrily to a trigger before. Usually, I'd either walk away, put my earplugs in, or discretely try to ask the triggerer to stop.

I don't know what the dream means. Perhaps it was because yesterday afternoon I watched a YouTube video by Josh Furnas of a dramatization of what it's like to have misophonia and saw him yelling at the triggerer, albeit it was clear that the yelling was an artistic way of portraying what was happening in his mind. (Thank goodness it just had soothing music in the background instead of actual sound effects of the eating triggers he portrayed.) Perhaps after seeing that video, my subconscious wanted to release decades of bottled up frustration to misophonia triggers, even if it was only being released in a dream.

Is this just the beginning of my subconscious trying to communicate to my conscious self about our misophonia? Will the more I learn on my journey open that subconscious dialogue even further?
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Isaac
12/22/2018 05:42:34 am

Hello! I know this article is almost 5 years old but I just had a dream last night that involved my misophonia being triggered and I was wondering if anyone else had this same experience. I came across your article because I couldn’t find really anything else. That’s an awful dream to have I’m so sorry you had to experience that. My worst trigger is gum chewing but the sight of it causes the same reaction to me as well. A person who I’ve had trouble with in the past was in my dream and they were chewing gum obnoxiously as if to try and trigger my miso. It was interesting because at first I didn’t really feel the trigger (whereas in real life the trigger response would be immediate) but as it went on in the dream I started to feel the awful emotional response in my dream state but I remember only staying completely silent. When I woke up however I had no symptoms or side effects of being triggered by my miso! While it was a terrible experience I do find it interesting and I’m ecstatic for more research to be done on it in the future because of how unknown this disorder is. Thank you for sharing your ezperience!! Word about misophonia will never get out if people don’t speak up.

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    Emlyn Altman has been suffering with misophonia for over 40 years, even though she only found out about the actual medical condition much more recently. As frustrating as the condition has been over the years, her heightened sensitivities across all the senses considerably influenced her talents within the visual fine arts (particularly sculpture), music (singing, piano, and many other instruments), writing, and culinary backgrounds, as well as professional achievements as an architectural lighting designer. Her goal in developing this website is to promote more awareness about misophonia and help other sufferers as well.


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