My Support Forums - View Single Post - Y'all ever have dreams/nightmares of your mental health people?

LonesomeTonight · Dec 12, 2024, 01:05 PM

I've had dreams about my former marriage counselor and current therapist. One that I've had multiple times has involved being in session with them, then other random people are coming in the room and sitting down, and the therapist doesn't seem to care.

Possible trigger:

I've also had some sexual ones, generally consensual. Though I've had a few with my current T wanting to be sexually intimate, but I've turned him down (and he accepted that). I saw those as my taking back some power in the relationship. I've told him about a couple of those, but he doesn't put much stock in dreams and was clearly uncomfortable when I was talking about what happened in the dreams when it was something sexual, so I generally don't tell him about them anymore. One in which we *were* intimate was kinda funny because he was really bad in bed, like stuff that would happen in a sitcom. I did *not* tell him about that one. I also had one a few years ago about ex-MC where he kissed me, and he was just a terrible kisser, and I was thinking, "yuck"--I took that as a sign that maybe I'd moved past my attachment to him.

I think in terms of telling them about the dreams, it would maybe depend on how they feel about dreams in general. The fact that they seemed horrified by the one suggests that telling them might not be helpful. Though if you think maybe they represent someone or something else in the dream, that might be helpful to talk about.