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Mooning the personal trainer

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

I was called onto this morning’s Maz, Dan and Shane breakfast show on Nova 919, to do a bit of dream detective work on the embarrassing dream Maz had just shared with the listeners.

“I woke up when Josh Pyke mooned me and my new personal trainer,” she laughed. She had the dream the night after her introductory PT session, and she was doubtful that she’d be able to keep a straight face during her second session later today.

In the dream, she and her new PT went to a gig at an amphitheatre near her old primary school, to hear Australian singer-songwriter Josh Pyke. When she went up to the stage to introduce Josh Pyke to her PT, he mooned them.

Nova style radio means getting to the – ahem – bottom line pretty swiftly, give or take a bit of banter.

“If you want to succeed with your exercise goals, you’ll need to understand your mooning attitude,” I began, perhaps mysteriously. “Which three words would you use to describe Josh Pyke’s personality?”

“Chilled out, a chiller, friendly,” Maz replied.

“So there’s a chilled out part of you that feels like mooning your PT,” I suggested.

“So there’s a chilled out part of you that feels like mooning your PT,” I suggested. “And because your primary school comes up in the dream, this probably goes back to how you felt about training and discipline back in your primary school days.”

“I was 110% committed at primary school,” Maz observed.

Every aspect has its shadow – or balance – and for committed, disciplined people there’s always a chilled out side hanging in the shadows. Sometimes we’re driven to extremes (like 110% discipline) by a fear of the opposite extreme (totally chilled out).

“I was 110% committed at primary school,” Maz observed.

Things began to click for Maz. In her introductory session, her PT had discussed nutrition, and she said she began to think, “Oh, no! I’ll have to give up booze, foods I love …”. She could relate to the feeling of mooning the whole PT idea in favour of chilling out. But by the time she went to bed, she said she’d decided to “110%” commit to her personal training goals.

Maz’s dream reflects the way her mind processed all of this – as all dreams do.

I pointed out some dream word play: her introductory PT session became, in the dream, an introduction to her PT.

Dreams cleverly convey levels of meaning and visual word play, and I suggested to Maz that the mooning may reflect deeper feelings of being quite happy with her butt the way it is (assuming her training also targeted this area).

I returned to the opening bottom line.

Better to add some balance, to add some chill, to get the right mix to make it fun and achievable.

“If you want to succeed with your exercise goals, you’ll need to understand your mooning attitude. Giving your PT 110% discipline may lead to burn out. Better to add some balance, to add some chill, to get the right mix to make it fun and achievable, and maybe, just maybe, to factor in being happy with your butt the way it is.”

Maz related to this, and I’m sure the memory of the dream mooning incident will bring a chuckle and a chill factor to her workout this afternoon.

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Soul mate dreams

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 4 Comments

Have you met your soul mate in your dreams? Perhaps you have glimpsed your soul mate on the horizon, heard his voice, felt his presence. Or maybe you have been magnetically drawn to look deeply into his eyes, seeing perfect love within. Or felt his unwavering support, his total commitment to you, his ability to help you along your way, knowing exactly what you need. Or felt his embrace, protective, lingering, heart-tripping, a promise or fulfilment of passionately loving sex.

Have you woken up wishing you could capture the details of his face, or with his features firmly etched into your heart? Have you wondered how to find him, where to begin your search to find the man – or woman – of your dreams?

Many a dreamer has spurned other lovers and endlessly searched, for the search is endless

This experience is so warm, real, and uplifting that many a dreamer has spurned other lovers and endlessly searched, for the search is endless. The dream soul mate does not exist – except deep within your own soul.

This dream comes up when it’s time for you to connect with all those wonderful qualities you sensed in your dream soul mate – to find and connect with these qualities within you. They are there! You wouldn’t have felt them in your dream if they were not! It’s time for you to bring these qualities up from where they are hiding or latent in your unconscious, and introduce them to the light of day.

Dreams love to play with words. When you look deeply into your dream lover’s eyes, you are looking – and feeling – deeply into your own ‘I’. You are ‘I to I’ or face to face with yourself. Well, not face to face perhaps, but soul to soul, through your eyes, the windows of the soul.

Meeting your soul mate in a dream is about meeting own magical self

Name the three top qualities you admired or longed for in your dream soul mate, the qualities that warmed and completed you. These are the qualities you need to locate within yourself, and nourish and encourage into your everyday being. Here’s the best secret of all. When you connect with your inner soul mate, your perfect partner usually appears in your life, attracted by … his soul mate, you.

[This blog is an extract from 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, available in paperback, ebook & kindle.]

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I Can Can

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 1 Comment

Picture the Moulin Rouge dancers, arms linked, high-kicking the Can-can – daaa, da-da-da-da-daa-daa. Can you hear the music? Does it make you feel like getting up from your chair and kicking up your heels?

The tune’s been on my mind all day since Belinda, a long time devotee of dream alchemy, posted a blog yesterday about how she solved a nagging problem. The problem – as she saw it – was that she couldn’t continue to run her website business. There just weren’t enough hours left in her week after a change in her circumstances.

She was stuck in her old way of thinking.

She took a day out to reflect on the problem and realized she was stuck in her old way of thinking.

“I couldn’t even see a solution because I was trying to make the impossible happen – I wanted to find a way to run the site like I used to. As I couldn’t see the answer, the site has been pretty much in limbo for a few months,” she wrote on her blog. “I suddenly realised that I could continue to run the site, and all I had to do was simplify some processes.”

Belinda followed through and made the changes. “Don’t look at a problem and think I can’t do it and therefore nothing gets done,” she blogged. “Shift the focus and ask yourself, What part of this can I do? When you look at what you can do, the solution presents itself.”

So where do the dancing girls and dream alchemy come into the story?

Belinda continued, “My wise Dream Teacher once told me that whenever I think, I can’t, say, I Can Can. It was a dream about Can-can dancers that she was helping me analyse.

The other day when I couldn’t see the answer, I heard myself saying over and over, But I just can’t, and for some reason Jane Teresa’s I Can Can dropped into my head, like a gift from heaven.

I changed the mindset and then I could see, Yes, I can do this part, and now the problem is solved.”

I don’t remember Belinda’s dream all these years later, but dreams often use word play and humour, so I’m not surprised her dreaming mind drummed up Can-can dancers to symbolise her beliefs about what she can and can’t do. And I created a dream alchemy affirmation, complete with music and dancing girls, from her personal dream symbol – the Can-can – to shift her thinking from can’t to can.

Years later, the moment Belinda heard herself saying I can’t, the dream alchemy kicked in.

Years later, the moment Belinda heard herself saying I can’t, the dream alchemy kicked in to deliver I can.

So don’t curse that little earworm when the Can-can strikes up in your mind’s ear during the next few days. Instead ask yourself, What part of this can I do?

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Watch my lips

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 1 Comment

What you need to know is right in front of you, and in your dreams, if you know how to look. The tricky bit is that the reason you are seeing a problem instead of a solution, darkness instead of light, is that your vision is blocked by your expectations, especially your unconscious expectations.

Your waking life and dreams are often speaking plainly, loud and clear, but the block distorts the message.

“Watch my lips,” we might say to someone who isn’t hearing the simple statement we are making because it doesn’t match their expectation of the moment.

One of Michael’s friends from way back handed her lotto (lottery) ticket to her newsagent to see if she’d won anything. He ran the ticket through the machine. “You’d better sit down,” he told her, handing her a piece of paper with the result. “Congratulations!”

She sat down, and read the print out. “$3,000, wonderful!” she laughed.

“Take a deep breath, and read it properly,” insisted the newsagent.

“Look again,” said the newsagent.

“Oh, $30,000!” she said, surprised at having misread it the first time, and rather excited at the timing of this much-needed gift.

“Take a deep breath, and read it properly,” insisted the newsagent.

“$300,000! It can’t be,” her heart fluttering, a little panic rising.

This was several years ago, in New Zealand, and she had just gone back into the workforce after having children, needing to make ends meet. In the space of a minute, she had gone from winning a celebratory $3,000 (a holiday, perhaps), to a debt-clearing $30,000, to the prospect of paying off their mortgage and buying a new house with the $300,000 winnings.

But can you guess what happened next?

“Look again,” said the newsagent.

She had won three million dollars. She had been unable to see all the zeroes at first because winning such a sum simply did not fit her expectation, and/or because the thought of having three million dollars raised confusion, worry and negative beliefs about being rich.

I smiled when she told me, a few weeks later, that the only thing she’d bought so far was a new pair of sunglasses (shades). A great way to view the world while accustoming to a new perspective! Which, she did, in the end!

He needed to be rescued from a weird cult, where they taught false creationist theories.

I was reminded of this last week when a client sent me a dream about a ten year old boy who needed to be rescued from a weird cult, where they taught “false creationist theories”. (She was so surprised on learning what it meant that she offered it to me to share in public.) The boy in the dream was ten years old. “I was ten when my father died,” she told me. “My father, who later turned out to be my stepfather.”

Can you see the connection?

To me it was loud, clear, and obvious. Her dream was about the “false creationist theories” she was given, as a child, about her origins. She was falsely informed – or it was implied – that the man she called father was her biological father, responsible, with her mother, for her creation.

The rest of her dream showed how the emotional trauma she had experienced when she discovered the truth (or falsity) of her identity has been blocking her from moving her work into the public arena. She feels vulnerable about public exposure. The block has been her unconscious mind’s way of ‘protecting’ her from further hurt, even though life would be more rewarding for her today if she were freed from this ‘protection’. This was welcome information, and her new awareness combined with applying dream alchemy will break through the block and she will find herself moving forward comfortably.

Although she has known for many years that her father was, in fact, her stepfather …

Although she has known for many years that her father was, in fact, her stepfather, she did not know that she carried an emotional wound that was influencing the way she lives her life today. The wound was the block that blinded her from seeing, even as she described her dream to me, that her ten year old self had learned “false creationist theories”.

I love that dream symbols that can appear so weird at first glance make perfect commonsense when we look again and watch their lips.

Sometimes you can do that looking again and watching of lips yourself. Sometimes your block is too big, your expectations too set. That’s where I can help you, of course.

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Episode 112 The Dream Show: Dream people

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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Who dreams about you? How many dreams have you starred in, or played a cameo role? Think of all the different people who have appeared in your dreams over the years – people you know well, people you vaguely know, people you know of but have never met.

People in our dreams are symbols, but of what?

In this episode I give you The Identity Method – how to interpret the meaning of the people who appear in your dreams. It’s an extract from my book, Dream Alchemy.

Also in today’s show, we take a quick look at how searching for word play in dreams can deliver clues to interpretation, illustrating this with some quirky laugh-out-loud dreams contributed to a recent breakfast radio show by listeners calling in to consult me on air. Enjoy.

Listen here (Episode 112).

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The leashes that bind

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

Dreams, even when they’re scary, can be very playful. Some are laugh out loud funny, like Brig’s dream of taking her dog for a walk only instead of her dog what was on the end of the leash was a bit of lamb’s fry (offal). Deep and meaningful though the dream was, you’ve just got to laugh, and Brig’s co-presenter and anchor on Radio Mix 101.1FM Melbourne certainly made meat of that one on their breakfast show last week. It was an offal dream for Brig, but perfect breakfast fodder for the team, and we managed to get to the bottom of it pretty quickly.

Yvonne phoned the station with a dream of being a passenger in a plane, enjoying her trip until she looked out the window and noticed the plane had no wings. What was keeping it airborne? She looked towards the cockpit – chickens were harnessed to the plane keeping it aloft. That was fine by Yvonne until she remembered, in the dream, that chickens have clipped wings. She painted a playful picture, and look at those plays on words – cockpit and chickens. We’re ‘chicken’ when we’re scared, and Yvonne was pretty scared at the thought of being at the mercy of a band of wingless chickens. A wingless plane, wingless chickens, and yet the plane was safely flying along and getting somewhere.

Yvonne was pretty scared at the thought of being at the mercy of a band of wingless chickens.

Yvonne’s dream suggests she can achieve far more than she thinks and fears. She may fear that her plans and ideas don’t have wings, but they do. There’s so much more to Yvonne’s dream than breakfast radio allows time to say, but simply looking for word play is fun and gives a clue to the interpretation.

Rachel’s dream of dating a dentist who gave her a gift of a dental cup containing dental floss and mouthwash made us all smile, and she related to my brief interpretation about taking a new attitude to how she communicates – clean, clear, fresh, positive words and intent. “Yes,” she said, “that makes sense.” How playful of her dream to go for a dental hygiene theme to encapsulate this.

Andrea’s recurring dream was more frightening. She dreams of being smothered by hair while in bed, and sees a chest at the bottom of the bed with a light that pulls her down. She wakes up struggling for breath.

My quick on air interpretation was that Andrea’s dream comes up when she feels restricted during the day, as if she can’t breathe to claim her space to express herself, and that this ‘pulls her down’, depresses her. It was spot on, she could relate to it. There’s so much more to her dream, but notice again how helpful it is to look for word play. The chest at the bottom of the bed is also Andrea’s chest, the place where her lungs are situated, her breathing centre. Although she feels depressed about finding it difficult to express herself fully, there’s ‘light’ here, like light at the end of the tunnel. When we can get to the bottom of our feelings, we can see the light about our blocks and how to overcome them. I wonder whether Andrea also suffers from having too many ideas (head stuff, like hair), that she doesn’t know how to ground (make happen), so she feels smothered by too many ideas and no action. The chest is at the bottom of the bed, near Andrea’s feet, and the place for feet to be is on the ground. If Andrea can just ‘pull down’ one or two of those ideas and ground them – make them happen – then there’s light at the end of the tunnel!

Strange creatures, dogs and humans …

And what about Brig’s dream of the dog that wasn’t, the dog that was, in fact, a bit of lamb’s fry? I won’t spill those beans in this blog (you can get to know Brig and her dreams by tuning into the show next time I’m on), but it does remind me of the time Michael and I took a dog we were looking after for a walk. The dog had been a bit porky, and he trimmed up in our care and was looking pretty good. He had a bit of arthritis in his paws, so he was a plodder to walk. On that particular day we took a slightly longer walk than usual, and we had to slow our pace to match his drag towards the end. Suddenly, home in sight, the leash slackened, and Michael said, “He’s picked up his pace, got a bit of energy now he can see home.” I looked back and there was the dog, still plodding along slowly and faithfully, a long way back down the road, while the empty leash trailed behind Michael. The next day we tossed his old fat dog collar and bought him a nice slim one, though I think the sight of us dragging a leash is all it takes to keep him plodding along. Strange creatures – dogs and humans – conditioned to believe in limitations long since gone.

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Dream interpretation: UFOs and aliens

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 26 Comments

Some experiences seem so strange or difficult to understand that they might as well have happened on other planets.

Have you ever seen a UFO or an alien in your dreams? Have you communicated with extraterrestrials, or visited other planets? Or do you have a vague feeling, perhaps even a memory, of having been abducted by aliens, or of travelling in a spaceship before being returned to wake in your own bed at home? Do you believe you can communicate, telepathically, with beings from other worlds while you sleep, waking up a little wiser or, alternatively, feeling a bit disconnected as if something is missing from your life? In summary, how do you feel about your alien encounters – are they real, or dreams?

They’re dreams, symbolic dreams. They’re about what feels alien or foreign to you. They’re about experiences you have had that were so strange or difficult to understand that they might as well have happened on other planets. These dreams can also be about experiences where you were so hurt, emotionally or physically, that you despatched your pain far, far away, beyond your senses, beyond your everyday memory, beyond planet-you, only to return in dreams in vague, non-human form. Children brought up in very strict religions often push natural beliefs and feelings they have been taught to believe are evil far, far away, disowning them.

These dreams use symbols that play on words. They introduce you to parts of your self or your life experiences that you have alienated, or they remind you that however far you banish certain experiences and feelings, however much you refuse to identify with them, they still hover, as UFOs – unidentified flying objects.

Take back on board and ground a part of yourself that has been hurt and missing, and nurse it back to health.

The experiences you have alienated may have been huge and awful, or they may have been small misunderstandings that you felt uncomfortable keeping on board.

Welcome these dreams, and set about interpreting them using the other tips in this blog, because they offer you the chance to have another look at what you have rejected, to understand and heal, and, finally, to take back on board and then ground a part of yourself that has been hurt and missing, and nurse it back to health.

[Extract from 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, Jane Teresa Anderson]

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Look for clichés

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 1 Comment

When you interpret a dream, think like a painter.

Sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. How many of these do you sense in your dreams? The more practised you become at recalling your dreams, the more you’ll notice a whole range of senses, but one thing that most people agree on is sight. Dreams are highly visual. You don’t fall asleep to listen to a story. You don’t go into the dream state to smell your way through the night. You settle down to a visual feast.

Has the cat got your tongue?

When you interpret a dream, think like a painter. Ask how a painter might communicate without sound, touch, smell, and taste.

One method dreams employ is to express issues and feelings in your life as visual clichés.

For example, if you’ve had a couple of days where you’ve been ‘chasing your tail’, going round in circles, getting nowhere, your dream might present an animal chasing its tail.

Or if you’re experiencing a difficulty communicating with someone, your dream might show a cat with a human tongue hanging from its jaws if you’re familiar with the cliché, ‘The cat’s got my tongue’.

You’ll pinch yourself at what a clever-clogs you are when you identify a cliche in a dream.

Or perhaps your dream has you in a car being ‘driven round the bend by someone’, or maybe your dream shows you revengefully setting an angry dog onto someone and then that dog ‘comes back to bite you’ indicating karma, that you get back what you put out.

Some of the weirdest dream symbols are visual clichés. Keep your eyes open for them. They give you a great belly laugh, and you’ll pinch yourself at what a clever-clogs you are to come up with these instant messengers in your dreams.
[Extract from 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, Jane Teresa Anderson]

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Dream symbols: Spot the theme

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

Hunt a dream for words that play on a theme.

One way of working out the meaning of a weird dream symbol is to hunt the rest of the dream for individual words that play on a theme. It’s simple to do and hard to explain, so the easiest way to understand this is to follow the example.

Weird dream symbol: Red shark

Marc’s dream

“A red shark is swimming in a pool. A child is who is wearing a ‘Save the Whales’ t-shirt has taken an interest in the creature. He seems to think the shark is a whale. He wades out into the pool until he is up to his neck in water. I am terrified the shark will hurt him. A man in a vest offers the boy a loan of his fishing net to catch the shark. He throws it to him from his rowing boat, but doesn’t take account of the currents and loses his balance.”

Did you spot the theme?

Did you spot the theme? It’s finances. Let’s start with the obvious finance words. These are save, interest, offers, loan, net, account, and balance. Once you’ve seen the obvious words, look for less obvious ones. In this example these are shark (loan shark), pool (pool your money or resources), ‘up to his neck’ (like ‘up to his neck in debt’), in a vest (invest), currents (currency, current account), loses his balance.

You’ve worked out that the shark symbolises a loan shark, so why is it red? Red is the colour of debt – ‘in the red’. So the red shark dream symbol emerges as a loan shark that will get you into debt, or a threat of debt. Marc’s dream is about his feelings about his financial situation.

When you see an example like this, it looks ridiculous, but when you look at the dreams you’ve recorded in your journal, you will be amazed at how many are crowded with words playing on the same theme. Why is this?

In the example, many of the words are visual symbols from the dream (such as shark, save, net), but most are words Marc has unconsciously chosen to use to describe his dream when writing it out (such as interest, loan, currents, and balance). Marc might just as well have written, “is attracted to” instead of “has taken an interest in”, or he might have put, “loses his footing” or “topples over” instead of “loses his balance”.

When you write out a dream, your unconscious mind often scatters clues into your write-up, so wake up to taking a second look at the words you use to express a dream. It’s a profitable exercise.

[Extract from 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, Jane Teresa Anderson]

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Driven

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 3 Comments

What drives you to get out of bed in the morning?

What drives you to get out of bed in the morning? Hunger for food, a full bladder, a sense of duty, a need to earn money, a passion for your work, your baby’s cry, fear of being late for work, hunger for success, a sense of adventure?

Before reading on, have a think about all the things that get you moving during a typical day. As well as some of the above, perhaps you are driven by love, sex, exercise, chocolate, alcohol, drugs, helping others, a need for order, curiosity, a wish to learn, friendship, self-improvement, high drama, a need to impress, to be right, to feel valued, to set a score, to atone, to hide, to be seen.

Take a moment to list the top ten things that drive you through a typical day. Write them down.

It’s easy to see how your drives affect how you act each day. Hunger drives you to find and eat food. Thirst drives you to reprioritise all other plans while you find and drink fluid of some kind. A caffeine addiction drives you to plan your morning around the required number of coffee, tea or coke hits. A need to be right drives you to argue the point instead of negotiating a win-win situation or learning something new. If you’re driven to help others, you may avoid asking for help. If you’re driven by a sense of adventure, you’ll take risks, and if you’re driven by a need for high drama to keep life interesting you’ll stir it up good.

All of this is easy to understand. Our drives ultimately dictate our actions, and our actions dictate the outcomes of our lives.

STOP RIGHT THERE!

It’s all well and good to acknowledge what drives you and to see how it affects the way you go about your life, but what about those drives you DON’T know about? Your unconscious drives – those deeply embedded beyond your awareness – have a strong grip of the wheel. In any battle between the drives you know about (your conscious drives) and your unconscious drives, the unconscious wins.

Imagine, for example, feeling driven to succeed in your career – making all the right moves, getting excited about the prospects, heading for the right goals – yet having a conflicting unconscious drive to avoid commitments of all kinds, including commitment to career. In this scenario you’re likely to wonder why things never quite succeed in the way you imagined, why unforeseen circumstance seems to conspire against you at the last moment, why ‘bad luck’ seems to dog you, and why, if you listen very carefully, you hear a whisper of relief at the back of your mind as you think, ‘Ah well, at least I’m free to ….’

This is where dreams come in.

And in a simple, easy to interpret way too.

The driver represents a driving force in your life

Have you ever dreamed of being in a car, in the passenger or back seat, with someone else driving? It’s a common dream. The person driving the car – the person driving you somewhere – represents a driving force in your life at the time of the dream.

It’s usually a car. We ‘drive’ cars, and, as dreams often use word play, cars can symbolise your drive or motivation. The person behind the wheel symbolises the prime driving force. However your driving force might be driving any vehicle in your dream, or driving an animal – either riding it or shepherding it.

If you dream of being driven by someone you know, your father perhaps, then ask yourself if you’re driven by your father’s expectations, or by the kinds of beliefs your father subscribed to. And remember, we’re talking unconscious drives here, so you may think you’re very different from your father, but if your father’s driving you in your dreams, then there’s an aspect of your father driving you deep in your unconscious. Once you think about this possibility and examine your life for evidence of its effect, you’ll see it. That’s the way you catch an unconscious drive – getting the clue from a dream and then collecting the evidence from your waking life. You can then decide whether this drive is working for you or against you, and disable it if you wish.

As soon as you’re aware of an unconscious drive, it’s no longer unconscious, so it loses its power. From that point forward you can observe the way you respond in life and question the driving force behind your response. For enduring results you can apply dream alchemy practices.

When interpreting a driving dream, write down three words to describe the personality or approach of the person driving your dream vehicle. For example, if Jack (an acquaintance of yours) is driving your car, you might write ‘proud, dutiful, reliable’. Ask yourself if, at the time of your dream, your actions may have been driven by pride, duty or reliability. (It’s likely to be at least one of the three on your list.) Look for evidence in your life, especially in the day or two before your dream. What actions did you take that could be explained by pride, duty or reliability?

What if your dream car is driven by someone you don’t know in waking life? Your dream driver’s character will have been evident in the dream by the actions taken, the way you were treated, or the gut feel you got from the person. For example, if your dream driver seemed really helpful – perhaps even over-the-top helpful – then it’s likely that you were driven by an unconscious need to help at the time of your dream. In this example, if the dream worked out well, then all is good, but if the dream did not work out well, or remained unresolved, then ask yourself why you’re driven to help others and why this might not be ‘getting you anywhere’.

If your driver isn’t getting you anywhere in your dream, then that drive isn’t getting you anywhere in your life.

Your dream driver might take you back to your past …

Your dream driver might take you back to the past – perhaps your school days, somewhere you used to work or live. This often indicates the origin of the drive.

We think of drive as a positive thing. It’s good to have drive, to be motivated. But we can be driven by negative as well as positive factors. We can be driven by greed, by a need to dominate, by a need to avoid a feeling or issue. We can be driven to prove ourselves to someone, to sabotage our plans to avoid the things we think success will bring, to appease, to suffer the pain we think we deserve.

There’s a difference between driving and being driven, but is there a difference between having drive and being driven? Maybe, maybe not, but I can guarantee that if you take this question and contemplate it today, you’ll be wiser by the bedtime and set up to dream of drives yet to be revealed.

[Copyright Jane Teresa Anderson, March 2008. First published as a Dream Sight article.]

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