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Originally Posted by waterlogged
I am also in psychoanalysis. My dream life has definitely changed and developed since I started. I do (somewhat reluctantly) talk about my dreams with my analyst and it’s surprisingly helpful. Like maybe it helps bridge and contain the dream feelings and their real life connections?
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My analyst is actually very good with dreams. I'm not sure he is particularly good with interpretation or reflecting me because I've got this feeling that most of the times he has very difficult times understanding me at all and thus his reflections feel foreign to me and more about how he views the world and people in it than about me. That's normal - I haven't met a person in my life who has understood me, so I am foreigner in this respect.
But there have been few occasions (already years ago) where I shared a dream not expecting much but he responded in a way that clearly touched me, so that I immediately felt it in my body. However, the locus of our work is elsewhere right now and I don't feel like pursuing his talent in relating to dreams at this point when we have such large difficulties connecting on the general level.
Btw, my dream feelings are perfectly contained. I have total mastery over my feelings in dreams. They make sense to me, I can fully grasp them. It's just weird to wake up, still remember it but experience it all being gone within a moment.