Posted by Tamar on December 7, 2005, at 18:46:46
In reply to Re: I've missed all of you! » Tamar, posted by fairywings on December 7, 2005, at 9:23:21
> Thanks Tamar! I've been thinking about you too! ; ) How are you doing? I've tried to go back through the posts, but something (usually my 2 yo) interupts me, or needs me, so I didn't get very far.
I know that feeling! My two year-old is pretty clingy at the moment. She’s lovely but she needs a lot of attention…
> > I find dreams fascinating. I had a very detailed dream last night that someone kidnapped my children so that I would sign away the intellectual property rights to my next movie to the kidnappers. The dream itself was ‘shot’ like a film, with clever camera and lighting techniques and occasional animations. I swear it ended with rolling credits (once I’d got the kids back, and punched the bad guys).
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> Ooo, that is really cool! Have you figured it out yet? Mine all seem so boring compared to that! Rolling credits? Now that's good, you must be really creative.Y’know, I think it was because I forgot to take off my nicotine patch. Normally my dreams are pretty average. But somehow the nicotine patches give them a depth and clarity that surpass normal dreams!
> If you get a chance, I'd like to hear about your Amimus dreams, and what you make of them. I find this stuff fascinating.
Yeah, I find it fascinating too. At the moment my Animus seems to have my ex-therapist’s face. So when I dream of a man, particularly if he looks like my ex-therapist, I tend to think it’s an Animus dream. Apparently, the Animus can be a guide to the subconscious, but to get to the Animus you have to be able to face your shadow. Or something like that. One dream I had: I was passing a hospital and a woman was being carried in from an ambulance. My therapist was there and I said to him, “Acute case of transference?” He became very angry; he grabbed my arm, hauled me into a room in the hospital, threw me up against a wall and shouted at me. He said, “How dare you speak like that? It’s totally out of order.” I read it as a dream about my unconscious negative transference; my experience of transference had been all kinds of things but never negative. The dream suggested to me that there was some unexpressed anger going on. I didn’t think I was angry, but I guess that’s where facing my shadow comes in.
> I hadn't been remembering my dreams until I started to take an interest. When I was younger they were very vivid, and I"d remember them. Lately I've had some that were kind of interesting, some seem pretty obvious, and others it's like what the heck?! One that seemed pretty obvious to me was that I was driving on a highway. The highway was very twisty and winding, and was mostly uphill. There were lots of exits, and I was trying to find the right one, but I couldn't read the signs till just after I'd passed the exit. So I thought if I could get to this certain part of town, I could find my way, but as I tried to get there, all the exits led to the bad part of town. I was really afraid, but eventually didn't have a choice, and had to get off on an exit. As I was drving on the exit I was really afraid because I knew it led to the bad part of town, and I didn't want to go there.
> That was the end of that dream, BUT I've been to that bad part of town many times in other dreams, and I have no idea what that's all about, or why I keep going there. I hate those dreams, so I'll have to work on the significance of the bad part of town, what's in it, and the people who chase me and surround me when I'm there - all men.Being chased, particularly in a dangerous place, seems to be a fairly common theme. I get that a lot too. In my case it’s partly about my issues with authority. I can never figure out whether groups of men in my dreams are really men or whether my mind just equates men with people. Interestingly, though, I haven’t had my being-chased-by-men dream since I did therapy and talked about the bad stuff…
> It is, and sometimes I feel really guilty if I'm not playing with him, or doing house work, but gotta have some balance! ; )
Yeah! Balance is important. And even two year-olds can sometimes play by themselves a little…
Take care!
Tamar
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