They are reliving the past story and consciously modelling their travels after the settings and thoughts of the philosophers of the past.
Chapters 6, 7 and 8 are most probably irrelevant to current victims of stalking and will only serve to relive their trauma.
The person may act or feel as though the traumatic event were recurring, that the sensory experiences were being relived.
During the imaginal exposure, patients relive the traumatic experience stepwise in the here-and-now, following a brief period of relaxation.
The accompanying chorus enthusiastically relives the experience, responding like the orchestra to the game retold as it had to the game itself.
These intense sensory experiences contribute to a sense that the trauma is being relived rather than recalled.
But the moral question still remains, pedagogically: how can we be truly and meaningfully positive without having to relive the pain?
Intuitively, reliving the emotional shocks over and over again in dreams would not seem to be exactly what traumatized people are psychologically in need of.
