Dreams

I'm not sure if this should stay here or go to the therapy section so feel free to move it if need be.

Anyway the last couple of nights I've had dreams that I have been at my therapists office. Monday night I dreamnt that I was taking a nap in his office while naked and wrapped up in a blanket. He wasn't there he was in a meeting and didn't know I was there. Someone had come along found his office open just a bit and found me in there. They told me I had to leave because he was coming back and needed his office. I can remember in the dream walking through the waiting room talking to the support staff and everything wrapped up in this blanket. I left, went home, changed and came back. He still didn't know I had been there and I didn't tell him and we had therapy like normal.

Last night I dreamt that I rode my bike to therapy and somehow had to ride through a sewage pipe and ended up falling into the sewage and my T was at the end of the pipe and came running in, dove in and saved me from drowning in the raw sewage.

I think I know what the dreams mean. I think the first one is that I feel naked when I'm in his office because everything gets laid on the line and I have to deal with stuff I dont' like dealing with. I think the blanket is that even though I feel naked I feel safe because he's there to help me through the journey. The support staff and I have a good repore and I know that I feel the same way when dealing with them because I know they are there to keep me safe. I think the first one is that I have been dealing with some heavy stuff and that is represented by the raw sewage and falling into it is me reliving everything. Him saving me is him supporting me IRL and not letting anything happen to me.

So the question is now that I have come to deep psychological means behind my dreams how do I get them to stop. I woke up last night in a sweat because of it. I don't want to think I'm to dependent on Steve. I don't like the fact I need him and tell him that often that I hope to someday not have to need him. My goal in life is to get off my meds and get rid of Steve. When I tell him this he laughs and says that's my goal too.

Jbug

I had a psychologist once who wanted to know about my dreams...the problem was, I never remember my dreams! So, he told me to sit at the side of my bed before I went to sleep each night, and tell myself to remember my dreams. Well, within a night or two, I began to do just that!

So, you could try that...tell yourself each night you don't want to dream about that anymore. Don't make a big deal about it, just say it once or twice. Or, maybe say that you don't want to remember that dream, I don't know. Worth a try?

Get some sleep and Smile!
DJ

Funny you should post this now... I just started dream therapy. As I understand it, your dreams will stop once you have worked through that particular issue. The whole dream therapy thing is still a bit sketchy to me and I haven't completely bought it yet, but if the dreams continue it means that whatever is bothering you is still stuck in your subconscious. Sleeping in your t's office can also mean that that is the one place you feel safe enough to close your eyes because we are most vulnerable when we sleep. Have you discussed this with your T yet?

Your dreams are your subconcious still filtering out what either the concious filters or represses. The dreams will stop once the issues in the concious are resolved. Yes, the ultimate goal is to no longer need therapy. I look at it as you are making great headway here. The anxiousness you feel about these quirky dreams are normal. They are not nightmares, or terrors, just odd whacky stuff that is alarming to you cause they seem out of place. But, if you take them for what they are residual stuff from your waking hours they aren't that bad after a while. I wouldn't try to surpress them, this is the process right now, and I look at it as actual good thing you seem to be making some good strides forward here.

Hang in there. Expect you will have these, so that when you do awake from them, you can tell yourself-hmmm, whacky dreams again...I'm doing ok!!! Reassurance!!! hugs Lisa

I love dreaming about my therapist as it means whatever the "subject" is, it's safe to work on/think about because she (or my husband) are in the dream. I always considered it a bonus to have them in the dream "protecting" me.

Therapy is a relationship, not a dependency. You're not "dependent" on Steve, he and you are coworkers.

I don't seem to have any dreams, or if I do have them, I never remember what happened in my dream when I wake up......

Is this normal????