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Hi Guys,

My T an I occasionally do dream work. He is very happy to talk about them with me anytime I bring one in. Sometimes i find it easier to talk about my dreams then other stuff and although the work is just as rewarding and maybe even more helpful.

So i had this dream, I am looking for ideas about what one specific part means.

I am at a community event, (like a church gathering) and there is a baby being passed around. Someone gives the baby to me and I am holding it. But I know I shouldn't be because it is my therapists Baby. I go to give it back to him and his partner and this partner says that is ok, sometimes it is nice not to be responsible, and i keep the baby. The baby's name was Amelia, which is what i want to name my baby.

What i want to know about is what you think it means that i am holding my therapists baby. But before that i should give you some back ground. My therapist does have a baby i saw them together last summer and that baby was born in late May so it is just under a year old. I desperately want a baby, I am working on becoming a single mom by choice and hope to start the insemination in June. I have been working on this for 18 months now. My therapist and I talk about reproductive stuff all the time as he is gay so they faced some of the shit i face in terms of having babies. In the dream my therapists partner is not his real life partner but instead my known sperm donor.

So ideas about meanings

- I want to have my therapist's baby
- I couldn't hold the baby because of boundary issues, although I was willing to take it but not keep it.
- My therapist and I have become one in my mind, because my baby is his baby
- I want to be more part of my T's life as I want to hold his baby.


Any input is welcome and if people have other ideas about the meaning, please share.
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HI DF,

We started to workon this dream last week, but we ran out of time. I basically told him the dream and wee talk for two mins then session ended. He was really encouraging me to bring this back so we can work on it again, he doesn't often do that.

His interpretation of the baby thing was that in my mind we have become one person. I am not so sure about that. For me the things that struck me that the whole this is a boundary issue/thing, I am not allowed to have this.

CNC
I mean that i am not allowed to have this, Like i shouldn't be holding my therapists baby cause our relationship is in that room and no where else. I am envading his space. I do psycho-dynamic therapy and my therapist is an expert at being blank. I think he holds his boundaries my tight.

i would not say i have enmashed relationships.

CNC

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