DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Today’s Dream from Bella:

The dream was set in a women’s strip club. It was busy. However, everyone was running around being shot at.

We (I don’t know who the other person was) found the fire escape and so I thought everything would be ok, but people continued to be shot.

Suddenly I was outside at the back of the building. The people doing the shooting had left. We were at the back of the building when I noticed two animals on the stairs, a rabbit and a ferret. We went to check them out and I realised the ferret had been killed by a kebab skewer. I woke up at this point.

Dream Interpretation:

The dreamer is feeling publically and emotionally vulnerable, represented by being in a ‘busy’ strip club. She feels threatened and while she temporarily finds a place of safety, she is unable to escape the feelings of being attacked.

Something is coming to an end in her life and she is distressed about it. Symbolising the event at the ‘back of a building’ suggests that her distress is hidden from some, although she is surrounded by others who are also under similar attack.

She is seeking resolution and while the representation of a rabbit and ferret would need further detail from the dreamer to analyse, the actions against these creatures suggests an extreme fear of a final and distressing end to something.

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.