i often have quite vivid, detailed and powerful dreams and i'm a big believer that many of my dreams are both representative and reflective of the many feelings and thoughts about my present life and also my earlier life. i often brought my most vivid dreams to therapy to share with my T because he sometimes could provide a different perspective or help me reach my own conclusion to the interpretation of what the dreams meant to me. post therapy now, i continue to pay close attention my most vivid dreams. after ending therapy with my T, many of these dreams were beneficial to helping me find closure and come to peace with where i was at in life.

when i was regularly doing neurofeedback therapy, i did a protocol called Alpha-theta. it's purpose is to help the client get into a 'meditative' or pre-sleep state that is where there is a delicate balance between both the waking conscious and unconscious sleeping mind state. it's similar to having dreamlike thoughts as you are drifting off during a 'catnap'. going into this Alpha-theta state was incredibly beneficial to helping me process much of what was going on in my psychodynamic therapy at the time and it was also beneficial for helping me unite many of my fragmented/dissociated parts of myself. since i've moved forward in my healing, i don't do Alpha-theta training as often anymore, but love to occasionally do it because it's quite relaxing and a good way to help process any new stresses that i may be encountering in my everyday life.