Have you had a dream that has helped you? Even if it was scary.

I won’t go into too much detail about my dream, I’ll give you the quick version. There was a man who was keeping me trapped on a boat. He was abusing me and keeping me trapped there by mind control. Occasionally we were close enough to land that I could see people and one time there was a boatful of nuns. All I had to do to get rescued was to yell out and get their attention, but no matter how hard I tried, I could not yell.

I worked through this dream with my therapist. There were 2 major learning points in my dream. One, I do not see myself worthy of rescue. Translated into real life—I don’t take care of myself because I don’t see myself worth taking care of. Two, the abuse was my fault because I could have stopped it by yelling out. Translated into real life—I still blame myself for my childhood abuse.

During my therapy session, my therapist tried to help me come up with an alternate ending to the dream—instead of remaining trapped on the boat, she wanted me to envision being rescued. No matter how hard I tried, I could not think of an alternate ending—I just could not tell her about an ending that was positive—one that I believed. I don’t see myself as worthy of being taken care of and I could have stopped the childhood abuse—I could have told somebody, but I never did…so, it feels like it is somewhat my fault.

Anybody else do a little dream interpretation?