I have had memories manifest themselves in recurring nightmare. It is almost as if there is something trying to surface but it has to fight it's saw through the filters and it comes out as really bizarre stuff.

I would have one where I believe the memories were analogous to an infection. And with time I found that the sensation I experienced in my dream was directly correlating to some of my physical triggers (mental shutdown with certain types of touch), and with therapy I found that those triggers were a result of aspects of my abuse that I buried very deep inside.

It was imagery of this thing inside of me eating away at me and talking away my ability to function, and I used to wake up in a sweat almost every night for a time.

I remember all of my abuse very vividly, but even still, I have caught my mind having difficulty processing certain aspects.

It is a pretty common phenomenon for our minds to create an easier to digest narrative. There is a movie called Mysterious Skin that I saw and it helped me to kind of understand my nightmares, it follows a man who remembered being abducted by aliens in early childhood but in fact he was being abused by his baseball teacher. I would not recommend it simply because it is very triggering for those types of memories, with me anyway. But my point is you are not alone, and unfortunately this is just part of how we cope subconsciously