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I'm not sure if it is connected, but our mind often sorts stuff out on weird ways. The way I work with my Ts we don't really make connections at all... We use it as a jumping off point though. So... If you brought this to therapy you could ask the same question as here and while it may be arbitrary, or literal, or metaphoric... The conversation can go to the feelings that brought it up, why you think it might parallel, etc. I think it's just as good as using current events to figure out our feelings and discovering meaning in out experiences. There are some people who use some dreams as literal with parts, or figurative as a direct 1:1 with a different idea and stuff but my Ts do not work that way... We work very "don't force a connection" focused and it opens a lot of doors! Its also frustrating.
I think just what you've written here is good therapy! I have "bad" dreams a lot, they are many times my processing therapy content and lately my T is constantly in them so we discuss the feelings and maybe where it can relate, if at all. If you have lots of nightmares/terrors, they prescribe something to PTSD veterans and now PTSD in general that helps. I have crazy vivid dreams now but I don't wake up screaming!
I think just what you've written here is good therapy! I have "bad" dreams a lot, they are many times my processing therapy content and lately my T is constantly in them so we discuss the feelings and maybe where it can relate, if at all. If you have lots of nightmares/terrors, they prescribe something to PTSD veterans and now PTSD in general that helps. I have crazy vivid dreams now but I don't wake up screaming!
(((MC))) I'm not sure how you discovered the things that are the roots of your problems now, but I can imagine not really knowing is scary. Being paranoid makes sense. I'm not sure what it is like exactly but I do know there are a number of people who have come to things much later. Hopefully someone else can chime in on then dream stuff and connections. I get triggered with recovered memory stuff and my own personal stuff puts me in a cautious position. There is a lot more room for fluidity and/or making connections!
I hope I didn't come off as dismissive or something. I really do think the 'meat' of processing dreams is the connections we presume they make. So... It's just my experience!
Sorry I can't help more but of course a good place to start is with T when you can
Please update when you can talk to your T.
I hope I didn't come off as dismissive or something. I really do think the 'meat' of processing dreams is the connections we presume they make. So... It's just my experience!
Sorry I can't help more but of course a good place to start is with T when you can Please update when you can talk to your T.