I think I remember things that never happened...

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I'm very bitter about an incident relating to my father.
The thing is, this incident never happened...
I know it never happened. It might have happened in a dream maybe, but the thing is I remember being beaten and sexually harassed by my father as if it were yesterday.
The thing is, I know for a fact that's not the kind of thing he do, but somewhere deep in my consciousness, buried alongside my memories from early childhood, I see it, hear it, feel it, and I despise the man as a result.
I need advice on how to deal with this?
I'm confused and unsure about what really happened or didn't happen (in fact I don't think it did but I still *remember* it), and it affects me nonetheless.

I get like that, too.

Tim

How do you KNOW the incident didnt happen?? has anyone collaborated it for you??

Either way it IS worth seeing a psycologist as the incident, real or not, is having a negative effect on your perceptions of your dad and potentially it may effect you in other ways. If it is having a big impact on your relationship then its worth seeking help.

Perhaps it's a piece of a previous life, manifesting in you unconscious mind? Maybe your mind replaces the actual participants in the event (that being your past self and one of his/her superiors) with your current self and an immediate superior, that being your father.

This is just a random theory, as I tend to believe in instances of reincarnation and ancestral memory/previous lives. Don't take it as too serious, though it is definitely worth considering...