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Posted by Daisym on December 17, 2004, at 10:50:05
Wednesday night:
I dreamed I was in a MASH unit at the end of some war. I was with my therapist and we were suppose to evacuate. But he wasn't ready to leave. Everytime a truck or bus came, he would say we weren't ready to go yet. I was getting frantic because I didn't want to leave him, but I knew we needed to get out of there. He just kept telling everyone who stopped to go ahead, that I needed to stay there with him and we would catch up.
There was one tent left up and somehow I knew we had patients to evacuate from that tent. But I didn't want to go in there yet. It was someone else's responsibility. Eventually we walked over to the tent and just as we went inside it blew up and I woke up.
I told him about this dream yesterday. He asked me if we both died and I said I didn't know, I guess it was possible that we could have lived through the explosion. He said, "hmm." But then I sort of got anxious and moved away from the dream so we didn't talk about it anymore.
Any ideas?
Posted by Shortelise on December 18, 2004, at 16:31:39
In reply to My dream, posted by Daisym on December 17, 2004, at 10:50:05
I have no idea.
When I can't figure dreams out, I try the Gestalt thing of being the various people and things in it. For example, be the buses that go by, be the people who stop, be your T, be the tent that blows up.
It's important to do it in the first person, though. For ex: I am the tent, I am sqaure and made of fabric, full of injured people. I feel blah blah. You see what I mean? How does that thing or person feel? Try to really get into what it is like to be those things and people.
It can be very revealing, though it works best for me when the dream is really fresh.
Great dream, btw.
ShortE
Posted by gardenergirl on December 18, 2004, at 21:28:54
In reply to My dream, posted by Daisym on December 17, 2004, at 10:50:05
Wow, Daisy. That's a very powerful dream. Scary, I would imagine, too, at least while in the moment of dreaming it.
As I was reading it, it seemed to be a therapy dream. You have been feeling as if you want a break, and you also worry that you will be too much for him. I think that's represented in your frantic efforts to get out, but because you and he are attached, you of course wanted him to be safe, too. And he is determined to stick it out to help the injured people. So you stay, even though you are frightened that something bad will happen.
Then there is the other tent, which made me wonder if that represented the CSA. It represents injury, the doc wants to help, and you feel it's someone else's responsibility...maybe yours, maybe your father's, maybe even it represents his other patients? And when you do finally approach it, as he has been encouraging you to do, it blows up in your face....kind of what you fear, isn't it?
These are my associations, and may be way off base.
(I loved MASH, btw!)
gg
Posted by daisym on December 19, 2004, at 23:58:28
In reply to Re: My dream » Daisym, posted by gardenergirl on December 18, 2004, at 21:28:54
I think you are right. My therapist wondered if the people to save in the other tent weren't my younger self, or even my siblings. And I feel sort of frantic about being completely flooded with all of this again. Which is why I think we need to evacuate.
I said to him, "I thought I was done with all of this. But you don't look that surprised." He said "I'm not really. But I'm surprised you thought that."
It feels endless.
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