DREAMCATCHER: Alex Hossack and Catherine Aubrey interpret your dreams

Carole’s Dream:

I'm on a quayside where there is a huge ship and a man who may have been my Norwegian ex-husband.

I'm excited because I'm going to ScandInavia, which I could see across the water to my left. I could also see little (Norwegian type) houses on the hillside although I obviously shouldn't have been able to see Norway.

The captain saida "are you going to get on?". I said: "How can I get up that far?" He said you can just climb up the side of the ship, he was wanting to go.

I climbed up the side of ship without any ropes or help to do this. When I eventually got up, the ship was rocking backwards and forwards from bow to aft.

When I got to the top, Scandanavia had gone and so had the Norwegian guy.

Dream interpretation:

The dreamer appears to be aspiring to achieve a significant change in her life. The thought is exciting. She has made some movement but the goal she is striving for remains out of reach and the route to achieving it is not straightforward.

She is questioning her own ability to meet the challenge but is currently considering ways to get to where she wants to be with or without the support of others.

The dreamer’s uncertainty persists however and she is trying to work out whether to go ‘backwards or forwards’ at this stage. This suggests she is making life decisions about coming to terms with her life as it is or changing it. She hasn’t convinced herself yet that her aspiration to move into a new ‘place’ in her life is achievable.

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.