Sunday, July 14, 2019

Dream Architecture and Dig

I have occasionally dreamed that I was working throughout the years, and my recollections are typically of being in group. Sometimes, however, I have had an emergency situation involving a single dream patient. The most recent rendition was this past week. I had been binge-watching Criminal Minds and so on one of those nights had this dream: I am in a hospital setting that is not institutional in look or feel. Charged with 'doing group', I wind up with several rooms full of attendees. They are seated at tables, but there are simply too many to have in one room. I decide that I can do it anyway in a rather waitress-y style, moving from room to room and tending to everyone. More often in sleep I have issued directives to adolescents in group such as 'put your chair completely on the floor'. This was quite the issue in such groups. The teens like to kick back against the walls, balancing on the 2 back legs of the chair. It was a comfortable position. I knew because I had done it as a youngster myself... in my grandmother's house where it was allowed. There was something about the pitch of it all that felt great.