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Posted by vwoolf on November 19, 2008, at 11:01:00
Not sure why but this dream is bothering me. I feel really scared to show it to my T, that she will say that it means we should terminate thrapy.
I know not everyone is into dreamwork, but I'd appreciate any thoughts or interpretations:
I am in my T's consulting room. I am trying to tell her about a journey I have just made in which the aircraft crashed. The door of the room opens and her daughter comes in to talk to her She stays for a few minutes then leaves, not closing the door behind her. Other people wander in and out until there is a group of us in the room. I pull out some biscuits and pass them round. By the time the packet gets back to me it is empty. I look at my watch and see that it is the end of the session. I want to tell my T that I think I should go, but she has gone to the bathroom. She has been gone a long time and it crosses my mind that she is defecating. I decide to leave. I tell the other people in the room that I think she should pay me for the session.
As I go I look back. Through the window I can see my T with her next client. It is a little boy and he is lying on the couch. She has draped a soft white towel over her arms and is kneeling beside him on the floor. I know she is going to catch him in her arms when he falls. I feel a great sense of yearning and loss.
I walk up the hill towards home. There is an old beggar man dressed in a greasy black suit who starts to follow me, muttering to himself. It is growing dark and I am overwhelmed with dread. I tell the man that he must leave me alone, but he mumbles incoherently and claws blindly at me. I realize I cant communicate anything to him. I am very afraid.
Posted by B2chica on November 19, 2008, at 11:25:15
In reply to A Dream I am afraid to show my T, posted by vwoolf on November 19, 2008, at 11:01:00
ok, i always love to interpret dreams...but i'm not doing this cuz i have a degree in it, or any real knowledge..only opinion ok?
and sometimes i believe dreams are just dreams, may not always MEAN anything.
but i will say yours is interesting and may mean something.
-many times we dream what we lack in our real lives.so like your first paragraph it sounds like you are doing your best to open yourself up to (your T) and sharing what you need too, but maybe aren't getting in return what you feel you should.
- maybe feeling a little raw or open from what you have been discussing.the next paragraph, you have described this SO clearly i too felt your sense of yearning and loss. but i wonder if you are thinking that her other clients are more important than you? (also got this from your first paragraph-your realization of having to share your T, that you are not the only one she helps)
and the last paragraph sounds like
1)that although your (issues) are still near behind, you have infact gained a voice, that you are able to tell (your issues) to leave you alone, that you are learning to deal with them. and 2)but that you still feel a bit alone in this battle. maybe even feeling like you don't quite have the support you need to get through this. maybe even abandonment concerns? especially the fact that you can't communicate anything to the dark man. you feel like you talk but that no one listens.
has something happened with your T lately, has your trust been broken with your T? or do you feel your T can't help you or isn't helping you?***********************
ok, again. this is just personal observations and my immediate reaction to the dream.
some others are MUCH better at this than i.
Posted by Dinah on November 19, 2008, at 23:07:50
In reply to A Dream I am afraid to show my T, posted by vwoolf on November 19, 2008, at 11:01:00
I'm no good at dreams. The only things that occur to me is that the first two parts seem to show interruptions from other people and care shown to other people. And your response of anger and yearning for something she's showing to others but not to you.
The bad man didn't try to overtake you until you'd left her and headed off on your own towards home. I don't *think* she'd read it as a sign that therapy needs to end.
Do you feel that she doesn't attend to your needs or give you her undivided attention? What could the evil be that confronts you as you leave her and head for home?
Or I could be way off. I tend to be very literal in my dreams, because I think literally enough when I'm awake.
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