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#1
Dec 12, 2024, 09:57 AM
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I've been having nightmares for a couple months, but over the past week they've gone from these really out there scenes to more "every day horrors" involving my treatment team and me. Last night's was really messed up
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I told them about the first one I had where one of them killed me (which horrified them even though I thought that one was actually kinda tame). Have you ever had this and did you do anything on your own or discuss it with them or what?
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Dec 12, 2024, 11:51 AM
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Yes - I had nightmares about the woman I hired. I did not bother telling her - talking to her was not useful to me. I would not say it was about that woman specifically. I don't think dreams are about the people who appear. When my mom died and again when my person died - I would dream about them being alive and it would seem so real that I was quite thrown off when it was just a dream. I don't think dreams have direct meaning to awake life - I don't look to them for messages etc.
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Dec 12, 2024, 12:08 PM
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I did quite a bit of dream work with long term ex-T. Anytime I brought in a dream that had her in it, she would always say "that wasn't me, that was a facet of you" or something along those lines. So I finally started saying "dream-you" instead of "you" when telling her the dream.
In retrospect she was a mess and I stayed waaaaay too long but that's another story 
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Dec 12, 2024, 12:30 PM
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If I dream about anyone in my life, it's usually a nightmare and it's usually because that person has threatened my life in some way. I have had dreams/nightmares about my mental health people. Currently, very rarely. When ex-T left, a lot. My stressors with people come out in a lot of ways: them specifically, a replacement person of them, exactly how they hurt me, fear of future hurt, or even acts of violence (both from and to the person). And yes, I have shared my dreams with them.
I've always been told that it's the emotions of the dream that your brain is trying to process. Sometimes the content makes sense, sometimes not. But the emotions are what's important.
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Dec 12, 2024, 01:05 PM
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I've had dreams about my former marriage counselor and current therapist. One that I've had multiple times has involved being in session with them, then other random people are coming in the room and sitting down, and the therapist doesn't seem to care.
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I think in terms of telling them about the dreams, it would maybe depend on how they feel about dreams in general. The fact that they seemed horrified by the one suggests that telling them might not be helpful. Though if you think maybe they represent someone or something else in the dream, that might be helpful to talk about. |
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Dec 12, 2024, 01:07 PM
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I've also heard it's about the emotions. And what someone or something in the dream represents to you (rather than, say, what a dream guide says a symbol represents, like if there was, say, a lion in a dream). |
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Dec 12, 2024, 01:25 PM
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Why would they be horrified? As others have said other people on our dreams isn't really about them.. I would imagine they Judy die interest in what the dream meant to you in all it's chapters... It's not a biggy really
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Dec 12, 2024, 01:31 PM
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Dec 12, 2024, 03:33 PM
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What do you mean by "it's about the emotions"? Like, if I dream I'm terrified, then that means in actual life I'm terrified and whatever the context is is 100% irrelevant?
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Dec 12, 2024, 05:28 PM
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You’re terrified of getting close to people. You’re terrified of opening up and being honest. You’re terrified of being vulnerable. You’re terrified of ________. They say dreams are our subconscious trying to tell us things that we are not conscious or are hiding from ourselves. That’s one perspective.
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Dec 12, 2024, 05:53 PM
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I have had a few nightmares where my T popped up to kind of "stop" it?
I have also had a few dreams where I actually go to therapy. However, those dreams aren't usual for me. I do tend to think of therapy before going to sleep though, like a calming ritual. Ill also add I don't think such a dream should irritate a professional. I have had messed up dreams and imagination while going through some things before, this doesn't sound liike they shouldnt be able to handle it. |
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Dec 15, 2024, 12:39 AM
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I had a dream about mine and I told her and she said "ugh. Unproffesional dream me."
I had a sleep paralysis nightmare about a creepy therapist I had in 2021 where she was standing over my bed.
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#13
Dec 15, 2024, 10:45 PM
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I rarely dream about my therapist. The ome dream that sticks out the most years later was after the death of long term T. I dreamt that she and my mom (also deceased) were standing at the end of my bed. T had her arm around mom and told me everthing was okay. T and I spent A LOT of time doing grief work over the loss of mom.
Current T and I decided T wamted me to know that I need not worry anout her or mom. I habe dreamt about current T but I wake up not remembering what it was about.
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#14
Yesterday, 05:41 PM
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The only mental health person I recall having dreams with is my very problematic ex-T. They seemed to reflect the state of out relationship fairly accurately, or my progress in processing what happened, after termination. In one she was speaking therapeutic nonsense at me, and when I started to losing focus and just finding comfort in her presence, she just kinda wasn't there anymore. In another one she turned into some sort of a monster (or turned out to be a monster) and I attacked her but she started pushing something down my throat, then I "woke" and found that I was gnawing on my own hand and then woke up for real. This was towards the end when the relationship was pretty much ruined. I told her about it but she couldn't really process it at that point. In theory, psychodynamic types are very much into dreams, though, no? Other modalities, not too sure.
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