DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Claudia’s Dream:

My partner and I were in an airport on our way home and were travelling up an escalator. The environment was quite dark.

We realised that I had forgotten something. I told my partner to go on and I would go back and get it which he did and I went down another escalator. However, there were now more people getting in my way.

As I pushed my way backup asking to get past, someone dropped two cushion seats on to the escalator and I was panicking, fearful that I would definitely not make it.

Dream Interpretation:

This dream is about being blocked from achieving a goal or destination, which may be tangible or emotional.

At times our own inhibitions and experiences are difficult to face unless they are given a form such as in this dream.

In this dream the dreamer is on a journey and attempts to return to the past alone to resolve a specific issue. However, she finds it too problematic which is represented by the difficulties and blockages confronting her, symbolised in part by the cushions dropped onto the escalator.

She struggles to reach her goal and it becomes harder to keep trying represented by ‘pushing’ her way up the escalator with ‘more’ people getting in her way.

By the end of the dream the issues presented remain unresolved.

As this dream has no conclusion, if the situation does not change the dreamer may experience a return of this type of dream in the future.

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.