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Probably not, if I remember right repressing memories is very very rare. Considering the way in which dreaming works it's just as random as any other dream unless otherwise developed from recent thought patterns. If anyone has any other sources for the occurrence of memory repression it would be most helpful

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According to Elizabeth Loftus, a well respected name in memory research she finds there to be no tangible evidence for memory repression and cites cases where the theory doesn't hold up. She wrote a book about it called The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse

Please be very careful with this whole "repressed memories" business. First, there's a long sordid history of therapists "helping" patients "remember" things that never actually happened. And second, it's not at all clear that dredging up repressed memories is beneficial.

I would strongly suggest that you see a different therapist, one with a healthy skepticism of repressed memory retrieval, and discuss whether you may have been led into believing you're remembering things.

Also, it might be helpful to read a book or two on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Myth-Repressed-Memory-Allegations/dp/0312141238/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

http://www.amazon.com/Try-Remember-Psychiatrys-Meaning-Memory/dp/1932594396/ref=pd_cp_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Monsters-Richard-Ofshe/dp/0684196980/ref=pd_cp_b_3

We went through the whole saga of false allegations destroying lives and families in the 80s and 90s, and we appear to be going through it again.

A lot of it back then was fueled by ideological psychological counselors inventing and imbellishing memories in the vulnerable patients they earned their living off of.

Some good books came out of the fiasco the last time around: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Repressed-Memory-Memories-Allegations/dp/0312141238/

https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Illusion-Remembering-Forgetting-Science/dp/1847947611/

There's a lot of research on this, especially by Elizabeth Loftus.

Here are some papers:

http://faculty.wwu.edu/hyman/HHB1995.pdf

This next one will talk about suggestibility down the page.

http://cogprints.org/600/1/199802010.html

Or if you're into heavier reading...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Myth-Repressed-Memory-Allegations/dp/0312141238/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370493172&sr=8-1&keywords=elizabeth+loftus

>Unconscious repressions

Actually, the theory of repressed memories has pretty much been proved wrong. See: The Myth of Repressed Memory

But it would still be foolish to deny the mind/brain's capacity to perceive pain without external stimulus.