Thanks, Cyran0. I love your image of the new age lady's head imploding; I did that to my T in the beginning when she asked me to "free associate"; within 3 statements we were both in the weeds and totally lost :-) We worked on keeping me to the point from then on, getting me to finish sentences, the "usual". My husband still has to occasionally declaim, "I don't hear any nouns!"

The only dreams nowadays that truly bother me are the "dreary" ones. Sometimes I dream I'm living a nothing life where nothing happens or can happen; kind of 1930s small town existance. There's absolutely no hope or anything to look forward to and all the furniture and surroundings are "shoddy". They're "gray" dreams or sepia with lots of "dust" in the roadways. Real hot, dog day afternoons in a small town with nothing else on the horizon, the little black fan does nothing, the town dogs are all "curs", etc. But there will be that trickle of fear in "me" that there's no getting out, that I'm trapped in the dream "world."