DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Todays dream from Kay:

I was out walking my border terrier dog (not Pip, my dog that died, but the border terrier I got after Pip). He went missing, I couldn't find him and I couldn't remember his name to shout for him.

I started to get stressed and started crying, running everywhere but no-one had seen him.

I became very upset but then realised I had another tiny puppy in my bag? I never found the border terrier or remembered its name.

When I woke I realised that I had never had a border terrier after Pip.

Dream Analysis:

The dreamer is active in her life but she has realised that she is missing something significant. This may be an important other person.

She is or has been distressed about this loss. She can’t remember some of the important details about this person and hasn’t been able to make sense of it.

She has unsuccessfully engaged in frantic activity to find answers and now realises that she has replaced what she has lost with something meaningful but less significant, represented symbolically by the tiny puppy.

She has not been able to find the answers and has blocked her feelings or thoughts relating to this loss.

She is possibly anxious about acknowledging the name of the person involved. The dreamer has realised in waking life that she never really had the person that she feels she has lost.

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: 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.