I dreamt that my t and I were going to do something together, a hike or a bike ride or something. We were getting ready, and sitting at a counter chatting and drinking coffee. It was more like a conversation between friends than a therapist-client conversation because she was offering her own opinion and experience the way a wise good friend does when you run things by them, rather than being therapist-neutral. She was telling me about a couple options she could see, and as I listened I was thinking, well, I've tried the first, so maybe I'll go with the less conventional second option she mentioned.

Then I woke, and I couldn't remember the options she was offering, just the dream.

I fell back to sleep, and she talked to me again about both options, and in the dream I was running over them in my head thinking: This time I won't forget. When I woke again, I'd forgotten the actual advice.

That happens a lot in my dreams when I am getting advice from a dream figure or looking for direction. In the dream it seems so clear, and when I wake I can't remember the actual words. I wonder if that's because I actually receive the advice in the dream and forget? Or whether I'm really just dreaming of the idea of advice, and my dream-sense fills in that space, kind of like a dream Lorem Ipsum?