Posted by Dinah on January 24, 2007, at 20:08:01
In reply to Re: Sudden insane thought, posted by ShortElise on January 24, 2007, at 14:12:34
I really shouldn't be here, but I wanted to answer the burning question.
I told him I didn't know if I thought I may have dreamed about him again, because I woke up with the thought that he was pregnant, or I suppose his wife was, and I had real trouble shaking it. And that you all hadn't dismissed the idea as reassuringly as I would have preferred.
His instant laughter and unfeigned horror was very reassuring. I suspect that this is not something he and his wife have anywhere near in mind, or would try for.
In the ensuing discombobulation on both our parts, it was quite easy to discuss how I'd feel about it, and to brush aside his lack of comprehension about why I'd feel that way with a breezy assurance that many long term clients would react the same way. Since it was clearly not true, or likely to be true, and since he said he had no experience because he'd never had a baby (don't they teach these things?!!!) there was no real discomfort in it.
In fact the whole thing led to an uproariously hilarious rest of the session. I'm not sure how therapeutic it was in a deep or meaningful sense, but it was bonding and fun, and it distracted me from my troubles for a bit. I think he's going to wake up with a really bad case of Chatter's Remorse though.
By the way, what really was bothering him was, in the broadest sense, something such that you could claim that my thought was psychically communicated from him to me. But only in the very broadest sense.
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