This is very interesting. I have never brought a dream object into your conscious state before and I struggled a bit when I was reading your post because it took me awhile to understand what that symbolized for you. I think I understand now-- because an object in your dream can represent comfort or fear or whatever-- bringing that object into your conscious state can offer your either the same comfort or the opportunity to face the fear.

I have never thought about doing this before. I would like to try though.

Do you share any of your dreams with T?

A sidenote as to why I say "conscious state" or "waking state" instead of "reality"-- I normally don't say reality when talking about a non-dreaming state-- I used to say 'reality' or 'in real life' and then T said to me, "What do you mean real life? Isn't dreaming your real life?" And I said-- ohhhhh yeah--- dreaming is real life-- just in a different mind state.