DREAMCATCHER: A phone call where it was not possible to communicate

Today’s Dream from Andrew:

I woke in the morning and decided to get my hair cut. I phoned Nichola the hairdresser. When she answered the sound was muffled but I realised that she could hear me.

However, I could not hear her clearly but could hear two people speaking on the other side of the line.

I kept on trying to establish clear contact but to no avail. I kept on asking if it was Nichola that I was speaking to.

It certainly sounded like her and part of me knew it was her but the sound kept on being indistinguishable. I gave up in the end.

Dream Interpretation:

This dream is about an active attempt to make a positive change, but difficulties in starting a communication with someone who can support that change.

The telephone call to a particular individual may symbolically suggest that the communication issue relates to one relationship and there is a barrier to direct face to face resolution.

Communication remains unclear, ‘muffled’. The dreamer keeps trying to ‘establish clear contact’, but keeps failing. He is not able to make contact with the other person because there is interference and confusion which prevents clear communication.

These may be practical barriers or emotional ones. The dreamer does not persevere, he ‘gives up in the end’.

This dream is highlighting the dreamer's need for change and support but his inability to achieve clear communication and persevere to achieve his aim.

In dreams a hairdresser can represent a part of our ego. The dreamer may need to change his approach to resolving his own emotional confusions. At the current time he may be lacking insight or self awareness.

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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.

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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.