By Hal Brown, MSW, retired after 40 years of practicing psychotherapy. Formerly director of a mental health center and in psychoanalytically oriented private practice. Currently internationally known expert on the inner workings of the mind of Donald Trump (click here).
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Thus I noticed this in my email:
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What would be newsworthy about Donald Trump would be that something never reported was discovered.
Indulge me here. After all there are people around the world from Russia and Latvia to Sweden and China who may consider me to be an expert on the workings of the mind of Donald Trump.
First it was his predawn tweeting and currently what he puts online he likes to call "truths" since these posts are on his Truth Social platform in the wee hours of the morning. They constituted what I thought of as an indisputable fact about this man who has thrown our understanding, mine as a mental health expert and non-therapists alike, of what the human mind can manifest.
While articles were being published by other mental health practitioners proposing various diagnoses to explain Trump's behavior in 2020 I wrote Add a section to the DSM-5. It doesn't come close to having a category for Trump.
People can walk on hot coals, undergo surgery under hypnosis, lift cars to save their children, remember every name and number in the Manhattan phone directory, and... this is what led me to write this... sleep walk and do complex tasks while they are sleeping.
Consider:
Someone who is sleepwalking may:
- Get out of bed and walk around
- Sit up in bed and open his or her eyes
- Have a glazed, glassy-eyed expression
- Not respond or communicate with others
- Be difficult to wake up during an episode
- Be disoriented or confused for a short time after being awakened
- Not remember the episode in the morning
- Have problems functioning during the day because of disturbed sleep
- Have sleep terrors in addition to sleepwalking
Sometimes, a person who is sleepwalking will:
- Do routine activities, such as getting dressed, talking or eating
- Leave the house
- Drive a car
- Engage in unusual behavior, such as urinating in a closet
- Engage in sexual activity without awareness
- Get injured, for example, by falling down the stairs or jumping out a window
- Become violent during the period of brief confusion immediately after waking or, occasionally, during sleepwalking (Reference)
As if I have to spell it out, here's the what if.
What if Donald Trump isn't really awake when he makes these 3:00 AM posts?
I written recently that there is one thing that Trump can't control during this period where he's under more stress that he's most likely ever been in his life due to his legal situation. This is his dreams. He may be having nightmares. He may wake from terrifying dreams and briefly remember being pursued by black monsters with sharp fangs who want to rip him apart.
Many people don't remember remembering their dreams, whether they are frightening or not. Therefore it's possible Trump doesn't even think he has dreams.
Likewise, people who engage in simple or complex behaviors while asleep don't remember what they did.
Using the old term for posting online because it sounds better, Donald Trump may be sleep tweeting.
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