Choosing one's own couch becomes a necessity as soon as one is part of the psychoanalytic training process. Whether one is a young analyst, an experienced analyst or an analyst in training, everyone has their own first couch, and remembering our original couch inevitably plunges us into a reverie concerning this inaugural moment of becoming an analyst. How does one choose one's couch ? This account follows the peregrinations of an analyst in training in the choice of her very first couch.