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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?
Posted by pegasus on February 28, 2011, at 14:56:46
In reply to I had a dream too!, posted by Daisym on February 28, 2011, at 14:19:10
I'm really no good with dreams, but one thing struck me that I thought I'd mention. In this dream you are a sort-of-new client, who is also sort-of-not-new. Is that right? It reminds me of how you have just come through a big rupture with your T, and things seem so different for you now in therapy. To some extent, you are in new, uncharted territory, right? While, in some ways, of course you've been doing therapy with him for a long time, and in that sense, you "should know what to do". But things are different now.
Also, the whole rupture was about him not fully appreciating how lost you were/are, how different things feel, and why. Is that showing up again in this dream? He doesn't get it, and isn't helping you in the dream. He didn't get it, and couldn't figure out how to help you in real life, at least for a while. Are you afraid that that is still the case with him going forward?
I don't know if this helps, but it is what struck me.
- p
Posted by Daisym on February 28, 2011, at 15:20:38
In reply to Re: I had a dream too!, posted by pegasus on February 28, 2011, at 14:56:46
I think I'm afraid to admit I still feel lost and afraid he won't help me or can't. So much mother transference going on here!
I see it, but can't help it. Ug.
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