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Originally Posted by sunrise
my willingness to trust my unconscious is what has helped so much.
dreamseeker, I am glad you reached this place of trust.  I think working with dreams can help give confidence in the unconscious. I have heard that some Ts will not work with dreams. That seems such a missed opportunity to build client trust in themselves! (BTW, my T never tries to tell me what a dream might mean. He just asks questions as we work through it. If I suggest a meaning, he might say, "yes, that is what I was thinking too," but that is about as far as he goes. I think he believes strongly that I am the one who knows what my dreams mean.) |
Thanks, Sunny! Yes, I do feel like I've reached that place of trust. It sometimes falters, but it's mostly there.
I have a friend who helps me analyze my dreams - she's much better at it than I am, and while I am the only one who really can say, "Yes, that's what my dream was about," she helped me see certain aspects of my dreams. Now, I'm much better at interpreting them myself. My T will offer up interpretations sometimes when I'm drawing a blank, but I am very honest with whether or not they feel right - she did that last week, and I told her no, it's not right. So we talked for a few minutes more, and then the interpretation revealed itself - really amazing.
