Dream Diary

A witch casting a spell on a sleeping boy

Voyage of the Unconscious: The Night a Dream Purified My Childhood Wounds

It had been over seven weeks since I restarted my abstinence.I overcame the days where I used to repeatedly fail at the two-week markthrough willpower and mindfulness. Because indulging in misguided desiresisn’t taking a break—it’s becoming weak. Everyone has different views,but I didn’t see maintaining abstinence as some intense self-improvement;I thought of it as the normal state.That mindset made the journey much smoother. Even yesterday, when I felt the…

3D rendering image of a young woman making a V-sign on the beach.

Abstinence wasn’t repression—it was real love.

🎮 Her in the game, a strange flutter I was looking at a character in the game,and somehow it felt like she was my girlfriend.With every expression and every gesture, my heart trembled,and my emotions surged. Even though it wasn’t real,it felt like she was looking right at me.But my brain was flooded with dopamine,and I could clearly feel it.That I was being attacked by dopamine. But as I…