Stop cringing :-) I think the respondents-need-not-respond remark was that you were telling him these fantasies of yours, what you'd "like"/fear but since they were not "real" he didn't need/you didn't want him to respond to them as if they were?

I had a dream after a gazillion years of therapy where I had my head in my therapist's lap and she was stroking my hair and I was able to tell her about it. It's kind of like that I think. "I" am not my dreams but they do tell me about my feelings, desires, fears, etc. and the more I know about me the better able I am to "accept" me, warts and all and know that I can deal with whatever I come up with, that I'm not "weird" or "special" or a descendent of some race left here by aliens long long ago :-) My T did a good job "accepting" what I "produced" LOL but that was just a template for me to learn to accept it also. That you told him your fantasies was "enough" and the whole point. So, a "response" was not necessary.