Posted by shortelise on July 30, 2004, at 20:25:21
In reply to Re: Dreams and your Therapist, posted by Dinah on July 30, 2004, at 18:50:20
To watch someone kill him/herself in my dream would mean chnage - I see death of various parts of myself. It does not mean loss of life, it does not mean I desire the end of my life, though at other times I have.
As I change, as I evolve, I lose and gain. When I gain the ability to work, I lose that helplessness I felt whe I was afraid to work. I lose the fear. The fear dies.
So if I watch someone die, if I am also that person, I am the watcher too, so if these things are parts of me, they are not the totality, therefor I am not witnessing my own death nor desiring it but seeing a part of me die.
Loss is death, we often mourn it as such.
I think dreams can be interpreted on lots of different levels.
Last night I dreamt that my parents put me into a psychiatric hospital. I tried to call my T on the telephone over and over again but I could not dial the phone, I could not make the number. I knew he would help me, he would get me out, but I couldn't reach him.
It occurs to me that looking at my dreams could be a very helpful way of getting through tapering off therapy.
Any thoughts on that?
Shorte
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