Is it normal to have dreams like this so long after an incident?
When I was little, between the ages of 4 and 8, my father consistently abused me and my brother - verbal abuse, and the more common forms of physical abuse. But with me there was also sexual abuse involved. All of this occurred when my mother would be at work or gone for long periods of time. Until one day she saw a mark on my brother and asked what was going on and we told her everything.
Is it normal that after all this (I'm 21 now) I still have nightmares about what he did to me in such detail that i wake in the morning afraid that he may be lurking outside the door? or that i have dreams about the day that my mother threw him out of the house that are so vivid that i could tell you exactly what everyone was wearing (down to the red band-aid on my brothers arm)?