Posted by Susan47 on January 20, 2006, at 18:19:39
In reply to Re: Help, nightmares » Susan47, posted by James K on January 20, 2006, at 15:43:22
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> This is a huge assumption to compare to you, so don't please don't take offense. The phone call part of your therapist situation could be like an addicts relation to the ritual of the addiction. So your dream could be compared to a use dream which is something that most recovering addicts are instantly familiar with.
What I'm understanding is that in a use dream the (recovering?) addict feels the intoxication of the drug/alcohol, but does (s)he also feel the negative effects? I mean, not physical but emotional. Does a recovering addict sometimes dream the effects go either way? I mean, not just intoxication, but other times a feeling of personal doom, of self-injury, a message that somehow you're horrible and bad? Because the phone dream and the crumbling house dream make me feel that way. And there's other dreams, other nights, when I dream good things related to the ex-T, the man himself. But the two things are very confusing. I can't merge them, mesh it so it works, and leaves me in peace.
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