Posted by Daisym on February 28, 2011, at 14:19:10
I logged on to share a dream and saw Peg's above. Must be the moon and stars causing therapy dreams this week....
In my dream, I was in my therapist's waiting room, which was familiar and not. I felt like a "new" client and when he came to get me, I had no idea what to do. I followed him into his office and asked him, "OK, how does this work? Do you ask questions? Do we set an agenda? Do I just talk?" My therapist looked at me like I was nuts (true enough) and asked me why I was having trouble getting started. I grew more and more afraid because I truly did not know what to do or what to expect. Everything I could think to say seemed trivial and stupid. And he kept looking at me and waiting...and waiting. The silence grew and grew and then then he said, "time's up!" and I left. When I left his office, it was an underground maze and my map was blank. And the doors had all disappeared, so I had to go forward, I couldn't go back into his office. I wondered around lost.
I woke up sweating. There are obvious associations to make but the thing that bothers me most about the dream is that in it, my therapist was convinced that I knew what to do and did not seem to grasp how lost I was. I keep reflecting on that, trying to figure out if I really feel that way.
Or, if all parts of the dream are me, as Jung would say, which part of me is lost and which part is convinced that I know the way?
So what do you think?
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