DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Today’s Dream from Jill:

I’m sitting in the back of a car which isn’t normal for me, I usually sit in the front seat. It was an old car with a push button to lock the door, it wasn’t an automatic lock.

I reached over to press the button down and two men jumped in the car before I had a chance to lock it. They physically attacked me.

They grabbed me and I couldn’t get them off. I was screaming. I woke up with a racing heart, sweating and felt very scared.

I’ve had bad dreams previously but I’ve never felt like that when I’ve woken up.

Dream Interpretation:

The dreamer is at a point in her life where she feels trapped and unable to move forward.

The symbols suggest a passive current state, loss of control and inability to self protect, represented by the challenge to lock the car before suddenly being attacked. At this time, she is like a passenger rather than an active participant in control of her life.

In her dream, she is in the back of a car with no control. This is not her ‘normal’ state.

The dreamer is trying to protect herself but is unable to prevent a real sense of threat and attack. She is unable to escape this feeling and feels trapped, symbolised by two men grabbing her, she ‘couldn’t get them off’.

She gradually feels overwhelmed and frantic. The dream is an emotionally charged expression of her fears about being unable to deal with the situation.

The dreamer’s anxiety is currently escalating and she is now experiencing significant physical stress related symptoms in waking life. The dream is a warning for her to take action to address the situation.

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.