ABSTRACT
I am in my consulting room with Ms X. It is 20 minutes into a 50-minute session, and Ms X has been describing various incidents in her week and relating them to her past life and she is now recounting a dream. There is a sudden loud rap on the door. We both jump; shocked out of our shared reverie. I do not answer the door, but, nonetheless, the spell is broken. Without realizing it, we had both become immersed in a depth experience ± we were together in a room but, in our imaginations we had travelled to a realm where past combines with present, then with now. It is often thus in analysis; for 50 minutes we occupy a different sense of time and space. Our bodies are present in a room but our imagination has taken us to another location.
