Posted by shortelise on September 10, 2004, at 10:55:18
In reply to Dream Analyst, posted by saw on September 10, 2004, at 1:35:34
Sabrina, I love dream analysis!
The only experience I have is from doing my own dreams, first with a Gestalt analyst, then with a psychiatrist. I'm not in any (other) way qualified to analyse your dreams.
That said, I think we all have our own symbols.
If I were dreaming of being attacked, it would mean that in some part of my life, I felt attacked, assaulted.
I had dreams for a long time in therapy that I was being atttacked. Those dreams seemed to be expressing my sense of fighting with parts of myself, trying to eliminate or change those parts. It was about me attacking me.
Does that fit you at all?
And yes, at times I have felt attacked by my psychiatrist, he is, after all, helping me discover the things in me that are keeping me from leading a life of fair to middling contentment.
I have a recurrent symbol in my dreams - a black animal. I call it my "bete noire" (meaning in French, black beast, defined by Webster's "a person or thing strongly detested or avoided"). It has gone from being a huge beast to a mouse, passing though many incarnations of varying sizes. This amuses me greatly, it really does.
ShortE
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