Do you dream about your therapist?

precaryous · 08:35 PM

I’ve dreamed of PrevT several times. In my dreams her role is either my therapist or teacher. Sometimes I’ve dreamed about her where she is herself, my PrevT.

The only time I’ve dreamed about CurrentT, she was herself in my dream.

Do you dream about your therapist? Are they ‘your therapist’ in your dreams?

nottrustin · Oct 25, 2020 at 08:30 PM

I have dreamed of about long term T a few times. Mostly after her death. She was telling me she and my mom were okay.

If I have dreamed about current T I don't remember them

ScarletPimpernel · Oct 25, 2020 at 08:34 PM

I have never dreamed of T or L. My dreams/nightmares reflect people who have caused me harm. Normally, I relive the trauma or similar in my dreams.

susannahsays · Oct 25, 2020 at 08:48 PM

I have two or three times. She's the therapist but she's not doing therapy with me in the dreams - from what I can remember.

stopdog · Oct 25, 2020 at 09:20 PM

Yes - they were always semi-nightmarish and she was always a therapist but I never saw her face. There were a few where I had appointments and then realized halfway through that the therapist was not the one I hired and they did not know me or me them. Then there were the ones where the therapist was always in shadow turned away or whatever so her face was never seen-just her voice or notes

ElectricManatee · Oct 25, 2020 at 09:39 PM

I dream about my long-term therapist fairly regularly, maybe every month or two. Usually I'm trying to do therapy with her and something is getting in the way, like random people come into the room or she turns away or she won't listen to me. Occasionally in my dreams she is a comforting mother figure, and in those dreams I am sometimes a younger version of myself.

daisydid · Oct 25, 2020 at 09:42 PM

I've had dreams off and on with some of my Ts in them, but not all of them. I've only recently started seeing L! and I've already had dreams about him 2 times. I wonder if it means something.

CharlieStarDust · Oct 25, 2020 at 09:47 PM

Minus the last sentence, exactly what ElectricManatee said. I used to dream about my impending appointments and in my dream either her office was different, or the door was open and people kept distracting us, or she was a different version of herself (usually with bad teeth and hair and not paying attention). I dream of her less frequently now, but she still features more in my dreams than anyone else in my life. hmmmm....

precaryous · Oct 25, 2020 at 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by daisydid

I've had dreams off and on with some of my Ts in them, but not all of them. I've only recently started seeing L! and I've already had dreams about him 2 times. I wonder if it means something.

PrevT told me that clients may dream about their therapists for years.
She said my dreaming about her means:

“It is a sign that you have internalized me and our experience to keep with you at times when you need to access that sense of caring/support/whatever it is that you feel.”

I like that.

Quietmind 2 · Oct 26, 2020 at 12:54 AM

Yeah, dreams where she fires me, refuses to see me, sees the sibling who sexually abused me etc. Used to dream she'd beat me quite literally with the same instruments my parentals and older siblings did.

MissUdy · Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by precaryous

PrevT told me that clients may dream about their therapists for years.
She said my dreaming about her means:

“It is a sign that you have internalized me and our experience to keep with you at times when you need to access that sense of caring/support/whatever it is that you feel.”

I like that.

Yes, this...and also if you are having bad dreams with your T in it then it could point to where your relationship with T could use some work? Or how you view them? I think I read if dream work is something you and T do, then dreams about them are particularly important to bring to the session.

LonesomeTonight · Oct 26, 2020 at 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee

I dream about my long-term therapist fairly regularly, maybe every month or two. Usually I'm trying to do therapy with her and something is getting in the way, like random people come into the room or she turns away or she won't listen to me. Occasionally in my dreams she is a comforting mother figure, and in those dreams I am sometimes a younger version of myself.

I used to have dreams like this with ex-MC, where other people would be in the room, or I knew he was there, but he wasn't coming to retrieve us. I think I had one about Dr. T with various people coming in the room as well, but they were mostly people I knew. With ex-MC, they were strangers.

LonesomeTonight · Oct 26, 2020 at 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by precaryous

I’ve dreamed of PrevT several times. In my dreams her role is either my therapist or teacher. Sometimes I’ve dreamed about her where she is herself, my PrevT.

The only time I’ve dreamed about CurrentT, she was herself in my dream.

Do you dream about your therapist? Are they ‘your therapist’ in your dreams?

Dr. T (my current T) shows up relatively often and tends to be in a role of professor or teacher in my dreams. I think he's been a therapist once or twice. Ex-MC used to be in my dreams fairly frequently and was always himself, a therapist. The couple times ex-T appeared, she was also a therapist.

ChickenNoodleSoup · Oct 26, 2020 at 07:26 AM

I don't remember many of my dreams currently (sometimes it somehow seems to be more and sometimes less), but I have dreamed about my T a few times, probably more than what I remember. In all the dreams I remember he was my therapist, though sometimes a bit different than in real life as it happens in dreams.

Elio · Oct 26, 2020 at 09:06 AM

Yes, I think we might be up to 7 or so over the 5 yrs so not often. I believe she's been my T in all of them. Most of them show a level of mistrust in her or in therapy. The very first one came at about the 5 month mark or so and the transference was just starting to really take off. There were lots of feelings going on around the transference. I live in a city with a river that runs through the middle of it. There are many bridges to get across the river. In that dream, T was picking me up and taking me some place on the other side of the river. I got in the car with T and she took off. I asked her where she was going because it wasn't towards any of the bridges we have. She said she was going to take the tunnel. At first I accepted this answer. Then we were at the beginning of a tunnel and looking at the darkness of a tunnel, my mind went, we don't have a tunnel under our river. I panicked and woke up.

We periodically laugh at this dream.

SlumberKitty · Oct 26, 2020 at 11:29 AM

Not Regular T. Former T a couple of times.

ArtleyWilkins · Oct 26, 2020 at 06:08 PM

I haven't in ages. But I used to have a dream of trying to find my first therapist at his office and always missing him somehow - it was always a sign that I needed to give my therapist a call (even when it was decades later and a different therapist).

Nammu · Oct 26, 2020 at 06:13 PM

I have many wild fantastic dreams but never have I dreamed of a t or pdoc, guess they weren’t that important to me.

Mountaindewed · Oct 27, 2020 at 12:20 AM

I don’t think I’ve had any.

Omers · Oct 27, 2020 at 05:18 AM

I did the other night. It was odd, he was much younger than he is now. He was sitting on the couch like he did pre-pandemic with a pillow at his side. I curled up beside him, he put his arm around me and I slept.
Exciting right??

But it was the best nights sleep I have gotten in months.

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nottrustin Grand Magnate Member Since Jan 2014 Location: n/a Posts: 4,819 10 375 hugs given	Oct 25, 2020 at 08:30 PM #2 I have dreamed of about long term T a few times. Mostly after her death. She was telling me she and my mom were okay. If I have dreamed about current T I don't remember them __________________
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ScarletPimpernel Wise Elder Member Since Nov 2013 Location: US Posts: 8,412 (SuperPoster!) 10 6,427 hugs given	Oct 25, 2020 at 08:34 PM #3 I have never dreamed of T or L. My dreams/nightmares reflect people who have caused me harm. Normally, I relive the trauma or similar in my dreams. __________________ "Odium became your opium..." ~Epica
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susannahsays Grand Magnate Member Since Jun 2018 Location: Somewhere Posts: 3,355 5 1 hugs given	Oct 25, 2020 at 08:48 PM #4 I have two or three times. She's the therapist but she's not doing therapy with me in the dreams - from what I can remember. __________________ Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. -David Gerrold
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ElectricManatee Magnate Member Since May 2017 Location: Earth Posts: 2,515 6 4,704 hugs given	Oct 25, 2020 at 09:39 PM #6 I dream about my long-term therapist fairly regularly, maybe every month or two. Usually I'm trying to do therapy with her and something is getting in the way, like random people come into the room or she turns away or she won't listen to me. Occasionally in my dreams she is a comforting mother figure, and in those dreams I am sometimes a younger version of myself.
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daisydid Member Member Since Oct 2018 Location: the astral plane Posts: 493 5 375 hugs given	Oct 25, 2020 at 09:42 PM #7 I've had dreams off and on with some of my Ts in them, but not all of them. I've only recently started seeing L! and I've already had dreams about him 2 times. I wonder if it means something.
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Quietmind 2 Poohbah Member Since Jan 2020 Location: Somewhere I'm working to leave Posts: 1,243 4 8 hugs given	Oct 26, 2020 at 12:54 AM #10 Yeah, dreams where she fires me, refuses to see me, sees the sibling who sexually abused me etc. Used to dream she'd beat me quite literally with the same instruments my parentals and older siblings did.
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ChickenNoodleSoup Grand Poohbah Member Since Apr 2017 Location: In a land far far away Posts: 1,575 7 1,305 hugs given	Oct 26, 2020 at 07:26 AM #14 I don't remember many of my dreams currently (sometimes it somehow seems to be more and sometimes less), but I have dreamed about my T a few times, probably more than what I remember. In all the dreams I remember he was my therapist, though sometimes a bit different than in real life as it happens in dreams.
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SlumberKitty Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jul 2018 Location: CA Posts: 27,329 (SuperPoster!) 5 117.7k hugs given	Oct 26, 2020 at 11:29 AM #16 Not Regular T. Former T a couple of times. __________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA
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ArtleyWilkins Magnate Member Since Oct 2018 Location: USA Posts: 2,787 5 7 hugs given	Oct 26, 2020 at 06:08 PM #17 I haven't in ages. But I used to have a dream of trying to find my first therapist at his office and always missing him somehow - it was always a sign that I needed to give my therapist a call (even when it was decades later and a different therapist).
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Nammu Crone Member Since May 2010 Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system. Posts: 71,391 (SuperPoster!) 13 53.6k hugs given	Oct 26, 2020 at 06:13 PM #18 I have many wild fantastic dreams but never have I dreamed of a t or pdoc, guess they weren’t that important to me. __________________ *Nammu* …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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Mountaindewed Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jun 2016 Location: Where the sidewalk ends Posts: 36,225 (SuperPoster!) 7 8,779 hugs given	Oct 27, 2020 at 12:20 AM #19 I don’t think I’ve had any. __________________ Ridin' with Biden
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