DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Today’s Dream from Vanessa:

I am on holiday and arrive in a large, undecorated, stone room. We were directed to where we should go. Wood panels separated the rooms for people.

There were no toilets, no water, beds, matresses - nothing. People were trying to settle on holiday but I decided none of us could stay here.

The air would also make us ill and we went around telling people this. We then looked for our families around the panels.

I was shouting for mum. I phoned the authorities before leaving, without success.

Dream Interpretation:

The dreamer is aspiring to something pleasant, but currently finds herself in an unpleasant situation where her basic needs are not being met.

She feels separate from others, or has separated herself and although she is trying to ‘settle’, she remains uncomfortable about these feelings and has made a decision that things can’t remain the way they are.

Within the dream, the dreamer addresses fears that her circumstances are having an impact on her health and may make her ‘ill’. It appears that she has tried to communicate her fears, find support and a solution, but has not resolved the issue at this stage.

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.