Today’s Dream from Celia:

Allun and I were at a holiday camp. I met a woman who was staying there. When we were leaving I offered her a lift. Allun was driving when we went to pick her up.

We drove to a grassy area and pulled in at a chalet but I realised it wasn’t hers. I went to the one next door where she was sitting on the bed waiting. She was young with short brown hair in a style I had as a kid.

She said she was ready. I said the chalet was quite basic “but you get what you pay for”.

We left together and walked towards a field with long grass. I said I didn’t want to walk through the long grass. She said she did so I went to a field next to it that had short grass.  She said she would go through the long grass.

Allun was in the car waiting for us on the road at the other side of these fields. I got to the car, got in and we drove away.

After a while I realised we had left her behind and I was upset and a bit shocked. I told Allun we had forgotten her. I woke up at this point.

Dream Interpretation:

The dreamer feels relaxed and supported initially, but then feels herself pulled mistakenly into a place where she should not be, represented by having ‘pulled in at a chalet, but realised it wasn’t hers’. This could be an emotional or physical place and it feels ‘wrong’.

She has now moved into a ‘place’ which feels better and may have some regressive elements reminding her of childhood memories or similar feelings when she was a child. She is waiting for something to happen.

The dreamer has been ready to move forward towards a goal and had two choices to reach it. She has taken the easiest of two options which have presented themselves, symbolised by the choice to walk through the short rather than the long grass.

This dream suggests that the dreamer is moving towards a goal in her life, waiting for the right time and is ready to leave the past behind. She feels mildly anxious about this.

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.