[peaches100]

I had a weird dream last night that i want to share here. My t and I talked yesterday about dissociated or disowned parts of me. . .and I am wondering if the images in the dream could be symbolic of these parts of me.

I go outside and see a small bird. It wants badly to get inside the house, and to crawl on me. It manages to attach to my shirt, and i have a hard time trying to gently dislodge it. When I set it down, I realize it is hungry but i don't have any food to give it. After this, i wander around the yard, where i see big spiders and a lizard. I avoid them because they scare me. I go back into the house.

Once inside the house, I find that the door will not stay shut. It keeps opening. Then, an egg appears on the floor. It is out of its shell (just the yolk and white). It begins following me around the room. I'm startled and rather afraid, and I try to avoid it. But it keeps following me, slithering around on the floor after me wherever i go. Eventually, i give up and let the egg come to rest near me. The next thing i know, the egg is gone, and there is a little boy sitting next to me instead. He has a tear-stained face and seems "out of it." He tells me about something bad that 2 other boys did to him, and he is very distressed. I feel sorry for him and reassure him that what happened to him is not his fault. He feels a little bit better, though still feeling that he was to blame.

Does it sound like the images could be representing disowned parts of self?

[pegasus]

((((((( peaches )))))))

Yup! We do much of our processing when we are dreaming, it's all part of healing and proves you are doing good stuff in therapy!

Although I detect a lot of fears in your dream, the really great thing about it is that the little boy was able to speak to you and YOU were able to comfort him! Good work!

one of the others was in my dream once (that in the past I have communicated with). not even really symbolized as something else, but just there... she never really spoke though until the end of the dream, I think I made a post about the dream somewhere

EDIT: I found the post: http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=105121

[Fox]

My T feels that dreams are our way of coping with things and if you pay attention you'll know what areas of your lives you're struggling through. I dunno how to explain it the way she did. She's very interested in my dreams and is trying to find a theme besides me being killed in nearly each one lol. So I'd imagine that you're communicating with yourself when you dream in a way that you can't seem to do consciously. I dunno I live in a dream world so it's hard for me to say this with conviction.

[Miracle1986]

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[Elysium]

(((((Peaches)))))

I think it's very possible that your dreams symbolize your parts.

The day that you posted this, I had awoken from a dream about two of my parts. This is only the second time this has happened to me. They weren't symbols in my dream, but I could see them and I knew it was them.

My T believes that dreams are important. I believe that some can be random, but that they are also a way for our minds to heal and process things while we are sleeping. It makes sense to me that our parts would attempt internal communication through our dreams.

I think it's just another window into our lives that lies just below our sub-conscious...we access it while we are in a very relaxed state.

Hope this helped.