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MissCharlotte said:
Hey Sunny,
What is Gestalt dreamwork?

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It's a method of analyzing dreams. We haven't done it for a while. Each part or character in the dream is a part of yourself. And T always asks me, "where is the energy in the dream?" I think in Gestalt, that question is usually phrased differently, such as something like, "what is most striking about the dream?" or "What part stands out to you?" But my T always asks about the energy of the dream. It helps focus the analysis to the most important part. Sometimes I have one part of the dream with a lot of positive energy and one part with a lot of negative energy. We look at the different parts and people in the dream and what they represent of myself. Sometimes I tell what the various people or objects in the dream are thinking and feeling. I remember once very early in therapy, I had a dream about just me and T, and he asked me, "what was I feeling when I said that to you?" I was too shy to tell him--it felt like I was putting words into his mouth, because he really seemed like him in my dream, rather than something I created. I said "no, I can't do that, you tell me what you were feeling." And he said "I don't know because that wasn't me." It was a confusing interchange! I think there are some other parts to the analysis too, but I've forgotten. Those were the good old days, when we could spend a whole session analyzing a dream....