Dream Interpretation

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I have been seeing my T for 10 months. It started as marriage counseling but is now individual. Towards the end of last summer I went to the beach and noticed an older couple. They were just sitting reading, chatting, sharing lunch, went for a walk. I watched them throughout the day and thought "This will never be me and my husband". That was before he decided to leave a 25 year marriage. I told my T about the couple and I said how much it touched me to see them just being together and that you could just tell by looking at them how deep their love was.

Now to my dream. Me and my T sitting in the very same chairs, same spot on the beach. We just sat there. No conversation, but watching the waves break on the shoreline. It was very peaceful and calming. I really didn't have anything to say, which is hard to believe.

Anyway, anyone have an opinion on what this dream is all about? Do I want to discuss this with my T? I'm not sure I would be able to.

Hey, bluebutterfly, thanks for sharing your dream and welcome to PsychCentral (PC)!

I think that's a great dream to share with your T :-) I once dreamed I had my head in my T's lap and she was stroking it and I managed to share that with her :-)

If this were my dream, I would think it meant I had, or was wishing for, a relationship with my T like I enjoyed watching between the two old folks. You (rightly) predicted you and your husband wouldn't have such a relationship but you're obviously capable of such (which is why you "enjoyed" sitting with your T and found it so relaxing) and your dream seemed so natural.

I would also look to see if my T represented anyone else in my life. In my dreams when my T or my husband were in them it meant there was "difficult" stuff I was "safe" to look at and think about in the dream, everything would be "all right." My T and husband acted as support to my dreaming self just like they were supportive in waking life. I still remember a dream when I was brunching with my T on a weekend morning and a dinosaur reared up out of the river next to the restaurant, I think a brontosaurus (it was chewing river weed :-) Obviously, "old" stuff from my past I had been having trouble or would have trouble facing but which it was time to face.