[granite1]

so I very rarely dream at all so not only is it strange that I dreamed but that I dreamed about my T . that has never happened that I can remember . but just thought it strange and wanted to share .

so I was in my session but there were two other people there I guess and my T. it was kind of like a group session . I was sitting on a chair and my T was sitting to my right a bit away in a chair . I was facing a couch that seemed to be in her office . her office was the same office but she doesn't have a couch. any way the other two clients were sitting on the couch. then all of a sudden my T is sitting on the edge of the couch next to one of the clients who is very upset and the client is covered in a blanket and my T has her hand on the clients shoulder trying to comfort her . the other person on the couch is watching me . im looking at the client who is so upset and the interaction between her and my T . the client seemed to be ME also and so was the other client . I was watching all this from my chair and not moving .I had no feelings what so ever about any of it .I seem to be completely numb to what I was watching . as soon as I was trying to react or to have some response I woke up. it was a very strange dream . I am not big on touch at all in T . in fact just about a month ago my T touched me for the first time in 4 years and it was brief. I wonder if this dream was some way of my brain processing the fact that she touched me . but in the dream I was completely numb to all of it

[Soccer mom]

Sounds like deep down you want to be touched and comforted. Interesting that you (on the couch) were watching yourself and your reactions. Maybe you're worried about how you'll react. I would definitely tell her about it. My T. says we are the best dream interpreters about our own dreams. Every once in awhile she'll tell me something I hadn't thought of.

[unaluna]

I got nothing.

Eta - it sounds like something that would interest a t tho. With you split all over the place. Watching and being and being beside yourself. Like really classic.

[stopdog]

I always find it quite distressing when I dream about them too.

interesting dream. ive only dreamed about mine maybe 3 times.

[Middlemarcher]

I have occasionally had these kinds of dreams, where I dream about my T and there is more than one "version" of me going around. We often talk about it in terms of fragmented self states- like, one part of me feels like this or wants this, and another is different. So if this was me and my T, we'd probably think that perhaps one part of me wants to be comforted, one part feels completely numb and disconnected, and one is wary and distrustful (the one watching). Or that I'm watching what I say and how I act in therapy very closely- so that I don't "make a mistake," or reveal anything that I don't trust her to hear, or whatever..,