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The I was five when my father died.

And for some months, I didn't show any major symptoms of trauma.

Yeah. major symptoms of trauma. But then I developed this nightmare,

which was horrible and it was repetitive. In this nightmare, I was completely hopeless.

I couldn't see either mother or father around.

And the whole thing was quite scary, so much so that I told my mother that I didn't want to sleep at all.

And this is when she realized I needed help.

Yay, yay. Yay. Yay. And then she took me to a psychotherapist.

I don't exactly know what he did because I don't have a lot of memories of this process.

What I remember is going to those sessions and playing with toys and talking,

but not directly about the events of my father's death.

But then he, very, very simply, he led me to believe that I could change the course of the dream,

that I could have some degree of autonomy, some degree of consciousness,

and that I could change that dream script.

And after that, the dream changed.

The dream changed. And I was a detective looking for a mad criminal.

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