I think you can be in touch with pain in your dreams but not sure that you can release it that way. Just two maybe three times in my whole life I have had dreams in which I was overwhelmed with the most acute sorrow, and I sobbed my heart out - but only those few times, and the memories the next morning didn't make me feel any better. I felt tired I guess.. Mostly I felt as if I had seen something abnormal and scary; as if an *enormous* fish had risen to the surface of a lake, and then had sunk back down out of sight.

As I have only found this pain in dreams, I figure it must be there at the core, but T and I have not reached it (should I say, reached it yet? but frankly, the idea of reaching it in daylight hours, alone or with her, scares the socks off me).