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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41243
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41243
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> Is it unrealistic for her to be **unable** to connect the dots and remember her actions?

I think you should look at this in a slightly different way. It's not that she's unable to connect the dots; it's that she's _unwilling_ to. I notice you specified in the linked question that:

> even when she is alone she is unable to acknowledge the truth of her actions

So she might notice the dots, but she would deliberately avoid connecting them because she doesn't like the pattern they make. She may notice that the power with which she felled that tree is similar to the power from her nightmares, but she would immediately shrug it off as a coincidence, or perhaps even deny that the felling was her doing at all. The alternative - that the woman in the dream is _her_, that _she_ killed her family - is just too horrifying for her to contemplate.

It would still be obvious to your readers what the truth is. But instead of them potentially thinking Eris is an idiot for not putting the pieces together, they would instead (hopefully) realise that she's deeply in denial and simply doesn't _want_ to.

Original score: 19