DREAMCATCHER : Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Today’s Dream from Beth:

I was at a festival which was very busy and people were dancing. Some of us were dancing in a separate area, I didn’t want to dance but felt pressured to do so.

Mum and my step dad Adam were also there. Adam was in a wheel chair near a barn. I actually saw Adam but only sensed that mum was there.

Suddenly something came out of a barn. It startled and scared everyone. It looked like a monster tractor. Adam’s wheel chair tipped over. A few people tried to help. I held his hand but it was cold, he was dying.

I ran off to find mum for help. When I came back his hand was warm and he was going to be ok.

Dream Analysis and Basis for Interpretation:

The dreamer’s life is busy and active. She is joining the activity reluctantly but distances herself from the main hub of it. She uses her parents to represent the stability and instabilities in her life. Her fears are greater than her feelings of security at this time.

The dreamer is facing an unexpected and frightening situation which has currently destabilised her. This is symbolised by the sudden emergence of the tractor from the barn and the wheelchair tipping over.

In spite of feeling that she has assistance to deal with the situation, she requires and seeks more support, fearing the loss of her own stability, symbolised by the fear that Adam was dying and running to ‘find mum for help’.

At the conclusion of the dream, she is symbolically reassuring herself that the situation will be fine in the end and she will cope. This is represented by Adam surviving.

If the dreamer would like to provide feedback about the interpretation, please send it to ACDreamcatchers@mail.com.

Interestingly, we have found it is not always possible to interpret your own dream, probably because it often represents the sublimation of feelings or thoughts that we are trying to avoid in our waking lives. However, with a little assistance from the dream interpreter, the symbols and themes can start to make sense and help us to move forward.

If you are interested in having a particular dream analysed, please send us an account of your dream to the following email address: ACDreamcatchers@mail.com We only have space to interpret one dream a week which will be selected from those received. Please refer to the guidance provided to describe your dream as this will enable us to provide a full interpretation.

Guidance for the Dreamer:

• Record your dream in writing as soon as you wake up with as much detail as possible.

• First of all ask yourself who is in the dream.

• Where are you, what is happening to you and what is happening around you?

• Record how you are feeling about what you and/or others are doing.

• Are there particular symbols or objects in the dream that are unusual?

• Are there any sounds and is the dream in colour or black and white?

• Are you watching yourself in the dream or are you experiencing it first-hand ie: through your own eyes.

Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey are Public Service professionals with years of experience as practitioners and managers in the Criminal Justice System.