What if the worst memories of your childhood hold the same power as a nightmare?
They feel real.
They shake your body.
They leave a mark.

But once they’re over, they cannot touch you—unless you keep reliving them.

In Bad Memories & Bad Dreams, author Keith Thorn offers a remarkable new way to understand the past:
your mind stores emotional pain the same way it stores dreams—vivid, convincing, intense… yet no longer real.
Through personal story, emotional insight, Ki-Aikido principles, and compassionate reflection, this book guides you through:
• Why childhood pain repeats itself in adulthood
• Why memories feel like present-day danger
• How the nervous system confuses “then” with “now”
• How to stop replaying the stories that shaped you
• How to wake up from emotional nightmares
• How to reclaim a life no longer defined by what happened

This is not a clinical book.
It’s a deeply human one—written by someone who has lived through trauma, reclaimed his breath, rebuilt identity, and learned to separate memory from reality.

You cannot change the story that happened.
But you can stop living like it’s still happening.
Your bad memories are not real anymore.
Your bad dreams are not real anymore.

You are allowed to wake up.