Posted by zinya on July 8, 2003, at 20:30:30
In reply to Re: Effexor XR Dreams........., posted by mercedes on July 6, 2003, at 22:25:24
Hi Mercedes, again...
once more with feeling... I wrote a reply to your dreams post hours ago, hit submit just as the phone was ringing and one thing led to another... I sometimes forget that this system requires a second 'submit' to confirm the post and this isn't the first time i've forgotten and now just lost the of-course *brilliant* post i had written ... aargh. . I'll see what i can drum up as a substitute (unless, as my mom's mom used to tell her, she said, when you forget something you meant to say, it must have been a lie - !?!? a bit of folk wisdom i never quite bought into :)
I guess i started out wondering if you were open to hearing a completely off-the-cuff unsolicited "interpretation" of your dream??
If not, stop reading :) If so, here goes -- just what came to me as i read your dream and knowing your current state of ongoing progress in dealing with anxiety.
It seemed to me that the dream was about anxiety, about worrying about things that might have been done differently in the past, symbolized by your dad's death and whether something could or should have been done differently -- whether about your dad or whether that was representing something more generic (One theory of dreams is that the people in our dreams actually represent parts of ourselves at least as much or more than the people themselves -- and plausibly we choose them in our dreams cuz they echo that part of ourselves the dream is dealing with)
And it occurred to me that perhaps Effexor is getting your dreams to take over some of our anxiety focus and thereby "relieving" you in your waking life to move beyond those anxieties?? (Another theory of dreams being that they are efforts to deal with unresolved bits of our waking lives that have nagged at us etc)
Maybe?? :)) Well, the phone's ringing again - let's hope i remember to confirm submit this time ...
hugs,
zinyap.s. I'm *sure* my original post was much more brilliant :)), but alas lost to the ages, this is my humble substitute :)
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