Posted by Honore on February 10, 2007, at 19:30:15
In reply to Two short therapy dreams ..., posted by annierose on February 10, 2007, at 18:00:23
It's hard to interpret dreams without having more details about the dreamer, but I'll try.
In the first dream, your T tells you it's dangerous to take the stairs. You take them anyway. This suggests to me that your T might be telling you something about how to protect yourself, but you ignore her, and can't "find" her, and are left trying to protect yourself from the danger she's made you aware of. -- Yet it's not clear what the danger is, or even if there really is any danger, other than taking the route that you took. (It's not clear if she's right about whether the danger still exists--which I guess might be why you took the stairs anyway.) (Do you usually take the stairs or an elevator; are you afraid of or do you dislike the stairs? or prefer them? how high a floor is your T on?)
The second dream is hard to make sense of, without knowing more. How do you feel about men, body piercings & tatoos, and other patients in general.
In the first dream, you IM a friend; in the second dream, there's a stranger competing for or trying to usurp your time. Your T accommodates him at your expense. He's a stranger because not only do you not know him, but he's strange: he has purple spiky hair, etc.
To me, people with purple spiky hair, piercings and tatoos, are not only strange, they're slightly repellent, and/or as you say, scary.
The first dream could be the dream of your T as a friend and protector (ie she could "be" the friend you can IM); the second dream could be your T as either rejecting, abandoning (she gives away your time) or just strange (ie she could be the weird stranger to whom she caters). Or you could see yourself as somehow a stranger to yourself-- ie the other patient is weird and somehow unattractive; so your T might be someone who sees rather odd people, one of whom is you.
You also seem to be in danger in both dreams, and maybe your T is in danger in the second, but she might feel comfortable or even well- disposed to the spiky guy (as a competitor to you, or even "as" you-- in which case, could she be taking some comfort from your "strangeness"--ie you become strange, at your expense, and to her benefit)-- or maybe she is intimidated and placating him. (Or, on the other hand, perhaps she's making room for a strange part of yourself that you yourself would prefer to ignore-- or disavow-- and giving it "your" time. It's not clear.)
Also, in the first dream, you're in danger of losing her because you "forget" her; in the second dream, you're in danger of losing her because it isn't "private" and you're intruded upon and your time is given away (ie she seems to forget you). Or you might be in danger of losing yourself-- ie the usual self that you know.
Don't know. I like the dreams, especially together, since they are so very complementary.
Honore
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