DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Today’s Dream from Cerys:

My partner and I were going to Sonia and Martin’s for a dinner party with Lucy and Bob. We arrived and sat down at the table.

I realised that I was wearing a white slip with a long cardigan over it instead of a dress and my partner, Anthony, was wearing his dressing gown.

I was surprised and went to tell Sonia in the kitchen that I needed to go home to change. She reassured me that I looked great and didn’t need to change because no-one would know/notice.

I went back to my seat at the table. There were lots more people at the party than we had expected and I didn’t know them. Anthony was sitting at the table chatting and people were just talking, standing and sitting happily as you do at a party – mingling.

When I got to my place at the table, a man was sitting there. He was an older, fat man who was talking loudly. I felt he was overbearing. I was annoyed that he was in my place but I didn’t say anything. When he got up, I sat down in my chair where he had been sitting.

I went outside to go home to change. I walked along Sonia’s road to the car and then realised that it was parked outside her house. So I went back and got into it to go home. At home I looked in the wardrobe and wondered what to wear. I picked a dress and felt relieved. I woke up.

Dream Interpretation:

The dream starts with the dreamer engaging in something active and initially comfortable. However, she realises that there is something incongruous about her position, within a situation in her life, which she feels is not right, but also knows that it is not just about her.

This is represented by the dreamer wearing a white slip and cardigan to the party and her partner wearing a dressing gown.

She is surprised by this feeling and has attempted to communicate it. The dreamer has accepted some reassurance and tried to return to normal everyday activity, which increased for a while. This is symbolised by the greater numbers of people at the party.

However, the issue continued to intrude into her life and became ‘overbearing’. It triggered negative feelings but the dreamer continued to avoid addressing it until she subsequently reclaimed something that she felt belonged to her. This may have been a feeling of control or something more tangible.

There is a realisation that there is something significant about the situation, that the dreamer has missed. This is symbolised by her realising that she had walked past the car.

This realisation ultimately helps her to move forward to make changes, after which she feels relief. The use of her home within the dream symbolises a place of security which she has used to represent an internal state of safety within which she has resolved the conflict.

The dream probably represents the recent resolution of a longer standing issue which has caused her irritation.

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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.