To the regressors and dreamers who:
✨ Experience harmful, obsessive, hateful, sexual, religious or any sort of intrusive thoughts
✨ Have bursts of sadness, anger or self destructive tendencies
✨ Relive the most traumatic moments of their lives while in their headspace
✨ Are struggling to come to terms with their coping mechanism
✨ Have a negative relationship with their regression or dreaming
✨ Feel selfish for wanting to be cared for while regressed or dreaming
✨ Aren’t sure whether they regress, dream, or both or neither
✨ Have an aversion to touch
✨ Grieve the loss of their childhood or lack thereof
✨ Are afraid of having a caregiver/babysitter/etc due to trauma
✨ Prefer to be alone and/or offline when slipping into your headspace
✨ Have ‘unconventional’ or mature interests in your regressed/dreaming mindset
✨ Berate themselves for being ‘childish’
✨ Struggle to connect with or relate to other regressors and dreamers
✨ Rarely regress or dream
✨ Can’t regress or dream unless they are under very specific conditions
✨ Have religious, medical, sexual or any kind of trauma
✨ Frequently vent regress or vent dream
✨ Don’t enjoy what’s commonly associated with regression/dreaming either due to preference or personal reasons
✨ Experience mental health issues or have mental disorders of any kind
✨ Feel forced to regress or dream a certain way and often feel invalidated by others
✨ Worry about being seen as ‘impure’ for regressing or dreaming for mental health reasons
✨ Don’t want to be babied or called cutesy nicknames
✨ Tend to regress or dream when high or intoxicated
✨ Refrain from sharing your coping mechanism online in fear of being harassed or sexualized
✨ Don’t have a safe space to indulge in your regression or dreaming
✨ Feel ‘too old’ to regress or dream and excluded from the community because of their age
You are deserving of the same love, care, kindness and respect as any other regressor or dreamer receives. Your experience is equally as valid as anyone else’s and don’t need any approval except your own. We’re all just trying to heal our inner selves, have fun and do what makes us happiest. Please be kind to yourselves and others and I wish you the very best on your road to recovery.