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Sexual abuse/assault?

User Profile: modestBunny3714
modestBunny3714 July 24th, 2023

I need help determining what I experienced was sexual abuse/assault…

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User Profile: modestBunny3714
modestBunny3714 OP July 24th, 2023

Trigger Warning: possible sexual abuse

I feel like I can’t really post or ask this since I know people have been through worse. But I was laying down with my boyfriend and was dead asleep. But all of a sudden, I feel a tug at my pajamas pants & thought of my boyfriend & felt rubbing but I let it continue because I thought I was having some type of sex dream about him. I was like in and out of consciousness, I thought I was dreaming. So I don’t know what exactly happened during that night, how it started, if anything else happened. I just remember vaguely that and I swear I felt him physically move away from me. I don’t know how long after that happened that I had woken up to my own hand down my pants with no recollection of what had just happened. I just remember wondering why I had my hand down my pants, (I didn’t remember doing that at all but just thought I might have done it in my sleep) and after that, I pulled my hand out and looked over at my boyfriend to see him on the far end of the bed. And remember, I don’t remember what had happened so I’m laying there, still half asleep and wondering why he was laying so far from me and why he wasn’t cuddling with me. So I just turned to my side and fell back asleep. I woke up that morning, thinking “oh thank God that was just a dream”. But throughout that day, I kept wondering about it because I remember hearing.. it. Like those (sorry if tmi) but wet noises when stuff like that happens. I kept thinking maybe it was just lucid dreaming? But I kept remembering how I woke up, with my own hand down my pants and kept thinking maybe I was the one who did that? That maybe I started doing something to myself and I just thought it was a sex dream about my boyfriend and thought it was him doing it? Because the next night, I had fallen asleep next to him. I don’t remember how long I’d fallen asleep for but I woke up to him scratching me and moving his hand past my shorts but not enough to where he was touching me there. I immediately froze because he thought I was still asleep. That’s the first time he’s ever done that before because when he scratches me, he’s never gone past my shorts like that. So I thought about the night prior, that it could have happened because of what he did the second night. But I still don’t know how the night prior to that started off, what happened. Like why I had my hand down my pants, idk. I just have a lot of questions.


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User Profile: WorkingitThrough2
WorkingitThrough2 July 27th, 2023

@modestBunny3714

Hi, Bunny. I read your post, and I am so sorry you are confused about what happened. I don't think a tag can be put on this situation as of yet until you can get a clearer picture of what really happened. The brain has a funny way of shutting down or blocking out things it cannot understand and puts it away on a shelf until it can find the proper storage compartment for it. Maybe the best way to describe what I am saying is to say it is sort of like Blacking-out or Amnesia. Your brain knows what happened, but it may take time for the real truth to surface.

I am sure this must be causing you some distress not knowing. The mind can also misinterpret things, so don't beat yourself up trying to rationalize this. It is also possible for it to have been in a lucid true state. Try not to force yourself to remember. I think time will help it surface❤️

We are here for you; Meditation might help the brain release that information. Here is a video from youtube that may be helpful to try, https://youtu.be/ADp44r-80Hg

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