Posted by shortelise on February 25, 2004, at 13:12:36
In reply to I asked for A Do-Over, posted by Karen_kay on February 25, 2004, at 7:30:25
Has your Dad become a symbol? Could it be that you are feeling hurt by your T and so dream about your "Dad", the deepest hurt? Forgive me if I over-explain, but what I'm trying to say is that we develop our own symbols based on our lives. I may dream about schools, goverment offices, hospitals a lot because I was in a psych hospital for a year 25 years ago - and institutions have come to sybolize that I feel out of control of my life. You may dream about your Dad when you feel the feelings - to a greater or lesser degree - that you felt/feel about him. Maybe if you looked at what you felt in that dream and asked yourself how those feelings relate to what is going on in your life right now, you might find that it's less about then and more about now.
This is a hard part: sometimes (often!! - ok, very often...)the people in our dreams are parts of ourselves. This is where projection onto the therpist gets really interesting. So many of the feelings that we can't handle, we get our therapist to feel for us (in our own minds, right?) and these come out in our dreams ... I think. At least, for me they do...
Does this make sense? I've done a lot of dream work, find it very interesting what dreams can reveal.
Keep in mind that I am stumbling through all of this myself and do not pretend to thoroughly understand anything except how to properly cook salmon.
ShortE
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