[anna342]

I've not had it for a while, but quite often counsellors or therapist type figures from the past and present are in my dreams.

Never in an inappropriate way or anything, normally what happens is I go crazy for some reason and they are trying to help me, or on the other hand they are trying to get me locked away. Sometimes I get so involved in the dream that I wake up reaching for my phone to call them so I can sort out something they have misunderstood or ask for their help. On some occasions I've got very close to phoning an old counsellor of mine because she seemed so helpful in the dream, shame she wasn't IRL.

Just wondered if anyone else had this?

[phoenix7]

When I was very low recently and in a lot of emotionl and physical pain - I dreamt I was in my old T's office - I was crying my eyes out and he was sitting next to me holding me while I cried - telling me I was safe - geez I needed that dream!

Its funny cos I cant cry - Touch is not allowed in OZ and if he had reached out to me I would have run a mile!!! But the dream made me feel better

I dreamt about T quite a few times during the first year of therapy. I always told him about them, and we always kind of picked them apart a bit to see what it meant. They were always really enlightening and said a lot about how I was feeling about T and my relationship with him...

[Luce]

I often dream about my Ts, both my current and past one. Recently I had a dream that 'shifted' how I feel about my current T. It was really helpful!

I dreamed a 'supervisor T' took me to another T room and told me that I wasn't being honest with my current therapist, and I needed to be if I wanted her to help me. In the room were a group of child parts, and I was angry because I had not given permission for them to be out. The supervisor T told me it was necessary for me to tell current T about them. I didn't want to, but I knew he was right.
So in the dream I walked back to my current T's office. My current T asked what I had to tell her, and I was so terrified I ran. I was flying (you know how it is in dreams) and T was flying after me. I went as far as I could, then came to the 'end' where I could go no further. A very young, very hurt child part was there, and I was 'sandwiched' between her and my T. I knew that these were my two options: find the courage to talk to T, or be stuck with these parts hidden in the corners of my mind for the rest of my life. I looked from her to T and back again, and was overcome by this young part's grief.
I had to make the choice.

There really was only one right choice to make, and I made it. It felt *really* good to commit to a course of action. It is still scary, but I know where I want to be and I know what I have to do in order to get there.

I LOVE helpful dreams like that one!

[mightaswelllive]

Quite often T helps me get through my bad dreams. It's weird when she shows up, huh?

[rainbow8]

I've had a few dreams about my T, off and on. I had one recently, but I can't remember it!

[sunrise]

I dream about my T every so often. Sometimes I discuss these dreams with him. That can be really helpful in understanding where we're at with each other. One time I dreamt that my T was driving a bus and ran into me with it. We talked about that dream and I searched for what it might mean by thinking if there was anything T had said or done that made me feel like I'd been hit by a bus. And there was one thing that he had said a couple of months earlier and it had really disturbed me but I hadn't let myself recognize that and had suppressed those feelings. So it came out later in a dream. (I love the unconscious.) We were able to discuss what had made me feel that way and work through my feelings about what he had told me. I remember it being a really great session.

[anna342]

Well it certainly sounds like a very positive thing for many of you, that's great!

[3velniai]

I had 2 dreams about my T and both were nightmares. She hurt me in both of them. I wish I could have a good dream about my T...

[sittingatwatersedge]

this is an amazing thread, thanks Anna for asking the question.

I've dreamed about T three times that I know of

** once as a cop who pulled me over, I thought for having a headlight out, but in fact to give me a breathalyzer test (!)

** once as an unseen person showing me a list of salaries in six figures and telling me I needed to pick one of them - I understood these as ways of being, ways of living my life, that were far more rewarding than what I have now - and I said, you gotta be kidding, I could never do any of those...

** and last week, I dreamed I was standing outside looking up at the night sky with a lot of moving clouds, and was quite terrified to realize that there were five full moons up there. Someone standing with me (surely it was T), showed me that if I looked carefully at four of them, they'd dissolve and there would be a star behind each one.

I'm going to tell her about this one, and see what she says