Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

This week's dream from Josephine:

I dreamed that I was in a car crash but I didn't see it. It was my brother John who told me. He also told me that I wasn't allowed to go to the hospital. Obviously I still went as I felt that I was needed. In reality my brother John is dead.

Dream Analysis:

Being involved in a car crash is representative of an unexpected but significant event in the dreamer's life but there was no indication it was coming and so too late to realise what was happening in the build up.

Ignoring signs of conflict may be typical of the way that the dreamer deals with stress in her life.

The 'event' or 'crash', appears to be linked to past emotions connected to her brother John. This has inhibited her attending to the event, represented by John informing her that she was not allowed to go to the hospital.

However, this also evolved a determination to overcome that sense of restriction. The hospital is used as a symbolic healing environment where those feelings can be addressed to bring about a state of balance.

I suggest that the dreamer has a need to be needed and is doing what she feels necessary to achieve it.

The transport used in dreams is an indication of how we move through particular stages of our lives. For example, a dream involving a car indicates how we are managing ourselves on a psychological or emotional level.

If the car is crashing or crashed, it suggests that the dreamer fears she has failed at something in her life and is determined to resolve it. In the case of this dream it is occurring with feelings of self imposed or externally imposed restrictions which she is determined to overcome.

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.