The Dream Upset?

Having upsetting dreams is common, not that it helps, especially when the emotions of the dream impact your waking life. I've been having them myself recently, dreams where I find myself crying, then I wake up in the middle of the night and start crying for real impacted by what's just happened in the dream, but there's good reason for this which I'm about to explain. In life, When we're not dealing with things that need dealing with, the emotions collect internally, usually the solar plexus located in the abdomen near the diaphragm, at some point they need to be released because otherwise they can end up causing health issues making us very ill. Dream-state is a way for the body to release those emotions safely and save them building up, but it's also alerting us to the fact there are things in our waking life that we aren't dealing with and until we do, dumping our emotions in an upsetting dream and then feeling the impact in our waking life will be an ...