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Default Oct 19, 2018 at 07:22 AM
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The dreams about the therapist were usually some form of nightmare ranging from mild to very bad. I have had dreams about my mother and my person after their deaths and they are so real it is extremely jarring to wake up and remember they are not here.

I've had dreams about my grandmother, who passed away a few years ago, and it almost feels like she was visiting me in my dreams. There was one rather lovely one where we were in the ocean, and there were these dolphins swimming right near us, and she was telling me I should feed them (she was giving them some sort of food). I've also had some more depressing ones where she was close to death in the dreams. H's friend who passed away a few years ago shows up at times, too. And ex-MC's wife also appeared in a couple (despite my having never met her).

It's weird, I tend to have multiple dreams in a week involving people who've passed on, then none for weeks. I'm not sure what I believe about the afterlife, and this is going to sound pretty woowoo, but it's almost like, I don't know, I'm in a certain place those weeks where they can visit me in my dreams.
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Default Dec 03, 2018 at 03:17 AM
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I've had 4 dreams about T this week including 3 last night.

1) I had this one a few nights ago. I was googling him and I couldn't find anything new, so I emailed him and asked if there was anything I hadn't found. He sent me a link to a video of him in the 90s in which he had a moustache (to my knowledge there was no such facial hair phase irl). I found another video from that and somehow I jumped into the video. I was on a bus with 10-15 other Ts including my T. We went to a warehouse where there was supposed to be some conference.
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3) I was late to my appointment. I was trying to get a taxi from the nearest city to his village but nothing I flagged down would stop. In my dream my appointment was supposed to be 1pm but I got there at 1.25pm. I didn't go in, instead I sent him a detailed email telling him what was going wrong for me and asking for an appt that evening, and I thought I sent it, but it turned out I had accidentally sent it to some kind of tradesman who in my dream worked nearby. I later realised and phoned him and rearranged for 7pm. That appointment took place sat outside on the street, and the main thing I remember is spontaneously hugging him while he was sat opposite me.

4) I think this might have been connected to 3. Possibly the same evening I mentioned to my H that my T had told me he was throwing a party that night. For some reason my H decided to phone him up and try to get an invite which I found embarrassing. H rang him up and said to him "You can pretend you know each other through work". T seemed to not want to invite us but not be able to see a way out of it. When we got there he gave us a picture he had painted but it had been made out to someone else and he stuck a sticker over it with our names on. It was clear he didn't want us there so I decided to leave. Later I had the picture he gave me and someone said "wow that's an amazing painting" and I turned round to see T was in earshot and I was annoyed because I was mad at him for giving us this picture that was clearly meant for someone else and I didn't want him to receive any praise. I looked at the picture and thought "This picture will always remind me of this feeling".
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Default Dec 15, 2018 at 02:12 AM
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Last night I dreamt about my therapist.

I went into a little shop, filled with tiny little art pieces. I was browsing and looking at all of the lovely things that had been created, and one of my friends was shopping with me, making a purchase. I realized that the shop belonged to my t.

I went through an open door at the back of the shop into a little workshop space. I could see that it was the space where many of the little art pieces for the shop were created, but all of the supplies were put away, and my t was sitting there with a man. It looked like she was teaching him something, but my sense was that he was learning what she did and made there because she was consulting with him about her shop. It just occurred to me as I type this that this could very well be related to what came up at my last session.

There was another open doorway to the outdoors, and I went and stood in the doorway and looked out. It was like a farmyard. There were chickens and horses in a fenced corral, and it was tidy and the air was fresh, but it was muddy like a winter farmyard usually is. I didn't go out into that space, just stood and looked then turned and walked back into the shop. That was the end of the dream.

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Default Dec 15, 2018 at 04:34 AM
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so interesting this popped up again given the dream I had last night. I don't think I can write it down yet. it was so intense that I had to wake myself up once I realized it was a dream

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Default Dec 16, 2018 at 06:57 PM
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I dreamed about main T telling me about his third house ( he doesn't really have three houses ) That one was about care versus money , which I've just been on the receiving end of. Finding out something is about money not care was tough

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Default Dec 24, 2018 at 04:06 AM
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He was in my dream last night. We were having an extra session even though it was so close to Christmas. It was taking place in an apartment (presumably his, even though he doesn't have one irl). He didn't really have time and I had to bring my daughter because I had no sitter.

He said he had to go lock up another flat but if we waited I could have a session in the afternoon. We left my daughter in the therapy room and went to the kitchen to talk. I asked him for a hug and we hugged.

I realised that my daughter was in the other room looking through all his client notes. I told her to stop and put the book down but she didn't immediately stop. I apologised to my T and took the book from her.

I think the last part relates to the conversation I had with T last week about not wanting to intrude but also wanting to intrude. And his countertransference response of both fearing intrusion and on some level wanting it too. I guess it was my daughter in the dream because the part of me that wants to intrude is likely to be a young part.
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Default Dec 24, 2018 at 04:14 AM
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Right after I started seeing my current psych, I had a dream that we were on a backpacking trip with 4 other people that I don't know. The location was one of my favorite places to go backpacking. I don't recall anyone saying anything, but there was lots of smiling and the energy was good. It felt nice. I just took it as a sign of good things to come.
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Default Mar 19, 2019 at 04:19 AM
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Last night I dreamt I was in a car with T going back to his house for a session and a man saw him and said "I need a supervisor, can we have dinner together to discuss it?" T looked at him bewildered and said "you can book a session, but we can't have dinner together". Then T and I went back to his house and had dinner together, chatting and laughing together all the while. And we were washing the dishes together, talking about how bad that guy's boundaries had been.
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Default Mar 19, 2019 at 08:19 PM
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I had a dream that she told me she was bipolar. I was cool with that. I don't think she really is, but I wonder why I would dream something like that.
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Default Mar 20, 2019 at 09:25 PM
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I had a dream about a week ago that I was with my mom and sister, and we walked through this lovely flower garden into a huge old house, and sat in comfy armchairs in a seating area library-ish sort of room. Then my t called me back to her office in a bedroom in the house. It had apparently been temporarily repurposed to make an office for her, because the bed was still in there, and on the other side of the room near the window was her desk.

There was a chair and a rotating inversion table like you'd see at the chiropractor or physical therapist, and I sort of hesitated when I saw that, then decided that clearly the inversion apparatus wasn't for me, so I sat in the chair. I wondered whether she'd rotate and hang upside-down while we were talking, and kind of imagined what that might be like, but I never found out because I woke before she got into it.

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Default Mar 21, 2019 at 03:06 PM
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been having the dreams about t hating me and ignoring me again

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Default Mar 22, 2019 at 04:24 AM
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I had a dream about another poster's T who is a bit older.

He was in my living room and had collapsed. He had diabetes and his blood sugar levels were x5 higher than normal. I was going on about the units too and that we should call an ambulance.

The day before that R had called me and we were okay again.

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I keep waiting for a dream about t (ex-t? i don't know) to help me figure out if i should go back to therapy or not. i woke up the past 2 mornings knowing i'd just been in a dream but unable to recall them. Probably about this very thing and I don't want to know the answer so I blocked them out. Heh.
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I dreamt that I had to go see him at 5am but I was late and when I got there he said he could see me at 7, so I went back to bed and I was still late for the 7am appointment. I remember telling him I had dreamt about seeing T1 at 5am and he looked concerned I had been dreaming about T1.
Then I remember I had written something to him, and after I left he approached me and gave me a piece of paper with a quote on it that he had written. I think it was something generic about growth or something but at the end it said "[T's name], Sunday People 2016" (Sunday People is a really low quality British tabloid). And I thought, well I obviously missed the letter he wrote to the Sunday People because I never read it.
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Well this is a weird one. I'm gonna put it in tw

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I dreamt that R emailed me, and said that he would be there for me tomorrow...

I always have email dreams!

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dreamt a disturbing dream of sexual nature about t the night before my birthday

it was so disturbing I knew I could not go be near him and not be triggered

so I cancelled my appointment for my bday

t did not acknowledge my cancellation or even that it was my birthday at all... I was feeling a bit crushed

I emailed an explanation as to why I had to cancel -to protect myself and my mind state

t wrote back 30 min later with a sweet birthday message for me

his bday message made me feel better but I do wish these dreams would stop

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I've had many dreams of this nature about my therapist. except it is him laying on me. and I know within the dream it is inappropriate. and I feel it is inappropriate mostly because there is always other people around while t is lying his head on me and cuddling me. but within The dream I let it continue to happen because I like it
..even tho I know it is wrong. in the dream I am as equally horrified as I am pleased about it

I've recently told t the description of these dreams as before I was being quite vague about it

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I've had many dreams of this nature about my therapist. except it is him laying on me. and I know within the dream it is inappropriate. and I feel it is inappropriate mostly because there is always other people around while t is lying his head on me and cuddling me. but within The dream I let it continue to happen because I like it
..even tho I know it is wrong. in the dream I am as equally horrified as I am pleased about it

I've recently told t the description of these dreams as before I was being quite vague about it
Yeah my feelings about it were really similar in the dream- I was both enjoying it and also upset that therapy was ruined.
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I dreamt that my t and I were going to do something together, a hike or a bike ride or something. We were getting ready, and sitting at a counter chatting and drinking coffee. It was more like a conversation between friends than a therapist-client conversation because she was offering her own opinion and experience the way a wise good friend does when you run things by them, rather than being therapist-neutral. She was telling me about a couple options she could see, and as I listened I was thinking, well, I've tried the first, so maybe I'll go with the less conventional second option she mentioned.

Then I woke, and I couldn't remember the options she was offering, just the dream.

I fell back to sleep, and she talked to me again about both options, and in the dream I was running over them in my head thinking: This time I won't forget. When I woke again, I'd forgotten the actual advice.

That happens a lot in my dreams when I am getting advice from a dream figure or looking for direction. In the dream it seems so clear, and when I wake I can't remember the actual words. I wonder if that's because I actually receive the advice in the dream and forget? Or whether I'm really just dreaming of the idea of advice, and my dream-sense fills in that space, kind of like a dream Lorem Ipsum?

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