[Tangerine87]

Do you email your therapist about your dreams? I have a lot of vivid dreams, more often than not disturbing dreams or nightmares. Do you tell your t about them? I don't know what he would think. If he thinks it's stupid...

[brokenwarrior]

I've only told my T that I have had a few dreams where I killed myself. She did not think it was stupid and it felt good to tell someone about them. That was awhile ago when I first started with her. Now I've been having strange and disturbed dreams and I've recently had a dream with her in it and I don't know how to bring it up. I think it's theraputic to talk about them specially if they are disturbing to you.

[doyoutrustme]

Dreamwork is my favorite. You can learn a lot from them. Depends what kind of therapy your t is in.

[tealBumblebee]

Originally Posted by Tangerine87

Do you email your therapist about your dreams? I have a lot of vivid dreams, more often than not disturbing dreams or nightmares. Do you tell your t about them? I don't know what he would think. If he thinks it's stupid...

My T doesn't do dreamwork but she is always fascinated by and willing to discuss my dreams. Oftentimes, she observes things that I didn't. There came a point that I was having vivid dreams nightly. I emailed them to her and they made for great sessions. I doubt your T would find them stupid as they give a lot of insight to your subconscious! Go for it.

[BonnieJean]

We do dream work. I generally email them to t and then we discuss in session. Usually a couple a month... T always seems real interested.

[SubliminalThoughts]

I talked about them with her a couple of times, mostly nightmares. I didn't know dreams actually meant something until she asked me about them and told me about what they meant. You should tell your T about yours.

Yes, in person. Just once, but it was important because she was in it. She responded very well. I was glad I shared it.

Dream work has been a huge component of my therapy, I keep a dream journal by my bed and write down every scrap of dream I remember. When I still saw t in person, I typed my dreams up and brought them to sessions, gave her the copy and I read from my journal. Sometimes she would read my dreams, sometimes I would, and then we would discuss them. I email them to her now that we do phone sessions, we still take turns reading them. We've worked with every dream I've remembered for over 3 years now, and I've gotten some really good insights from them!! She also taught me about Active Imagination, where you 'go back into' your dream and interact with it while you're awake. I've done some really good work that way. I think dream work is awesome; I always knew that my dreams MUST be trying to tell me something all my life, I've had such vivid, colorful dreams but until I met t I didn't know how right I was! She often comments on my dream-maker (my psyche, whatever) that it has quite a sense of humor, or it's very profound, stuff like that. I love how our dreams speak the knowledge that we have deep within us - just in a different language. It's fun learning how to understand that language, isn't it?

[stopdog]

I would not email about a dream as I would not find it email worthy for me. I don't really talk about them much except to tell the therapist I have a lot of nightmares and sometimes get caught in cycle of the same nightmare for weeks on end and I hate to sleep knowing they will happen.

[junkDNA]

some of my dreams are too disturbing for me to talk about but i tell T i had a disturbing dream.

sometimes i have dreams of babies. in the beginning of therapy i had dreams that i would drop a baby or neglect it and then it would turn into a huge monster baby and chase me. T related that to my inner child and how i relate to her. a few months ago i had a dream that i was with a baby and i was hugging and kissing its cheek. T was really excited abt that