This dream often reflects a challenge involving communication in waking life, and suggests a need to consider how the dreamer is engaging with others.

In the dream, the dreamer is usually attempting to call a familiar person, and they either keep connecting with the wrong person, or find themselves unable to key in the correct number on their phone.

This suggests that a logical way of communicating with someone, or a specific personal behaviour used when being with a particular person, is not really working any more. It is also experienced in dreams about computers or calculators where the dreamer keeps pressing the wrong buttons. This reflects that what they are doing in waking life just doesn’t really add up.

Dream Message
The message from the dream is that how you habitually behave with someone else method is no longer allowing you to easily connect with them. It may be time to reflect on what their needs actually are, and to pay close attention to what they are really saying to you.

Dreaming is a vital activity in the healthy growth and development of children. Up until three to four years old, children tend not to distinguish between dreaming and waking life. Between four and six years old, they begin to differentiate between dream episodes and reality, and beyond that they are able to realise that dreams are internal individual phenomena.

Children’s dreams are often filled with anxieties and fears, often in the form of predatory animals and scary monsters. Dreams in which animals play a big part express the child’s unconscious and intuitive side, and usually reflect the pressure to balance instinctive behaviour with social convention.

Dreams of being chased by monsters often mirror how the parents or authority figures are experienced by children. A smack on the wrist during the day with no warning or explanation is often experienced as being bitten on the hand by a monster in a subsequent dream. It is important that any analysis of a child’s dream should be participative, rather than evaluative, to ensure the most benefit and confidence and the least trauma and anxiety.

Ian’s effortless expertise and extensive experience adds another dimension to a dream themed corporate promotion or event. He has performed as the resident dream expert for organisations such as Estee Lauder, IKEA and Premier Travel Inn during product launches and marketing campaigns for companies such as Lexis PR.

His participation can be as a performer, speaker or expert adviser. As a performer Ian usually circulates through the guests at the event and engages with them individually in entertaining and informative dream interpretations. For a speaking engagement he can present on a topic chosen by the client, or can give an insightful and enjoyable overview of dreams with lots of opportunity for participation and questions. For a campaign, he is delighted to liase with media on the client’s behalf to help ensure a successful outcome.

Ian can also give the client valuable feedback and market insight from his experiences during the engagement. As well as working with organisations from a marketing and public relations perspective, Ian also can help them to connect with their purpose and potential using Dreamwork.

Sleep Paralysis is an unsettling experience when a person feels as if they are physically paralysed and unable to perform any voluntary movements. It is usually experienced just as the person is falling asleep or waking up, and can be quite disturbing.

The cause of sleep paralysis is a protective physiological function that has evolved to prevent our body moving around when we are dreaming. Instead of physically acting out a dream, our brain blocks nerve signals to the large anti-gravity muscles in our limbs and torso. This creates the sensation of paralysis, and quite often a constricting feeling, like there is a person or a weight pressing down on our chest.

Due to the nature of this physiological function, sleep paralysis almost invariably occurs during REM episodes when we are dreaming, and so if we waken suddenly from a dream, we can feel paralysed with the dream imagery still lingering in our perception. This can lead to a variety of hallucinations. Sleep paralysis usually occurs when we are stressed and have been deprived of REM sleep, so when we fall asleep we go straight into a REM episode with our bodies being insufficiently relaxed.

For Ian, the true reflection of his talents are the responses reflected by his clients. Here are some typical comments…

“Absolutely perfect!” – Gina McKie, Radio Clyde

“Thank you so much for your help – my daughter is now back to her real self.” - Linda Patterson, Glasgow

“Thank you so much. Absolutely fascinating!” – Michelle McManus, STV

“No one else knew that about me – even I didn’t know it!!!” - David Pearson, London

“Freaky. I hadn’t spent five minutes on the phone to Wallace and he had his fingers so deep in my head he could have used my skull as a bowling ball”.  – John Naish, Health Editor, The Times

“I’ve had that nightmare for over sixty years – and now it’s gone. Thank you so much.” - Tony Ellis, Milton Keynes

“kind, compassionate, and where appropriate, humorous, with your callers” - Charis Dunn, BBC Radio

“World class!” – Bill Brown, New York

“This guy really knows his stuff!” - Jamie Owen, BBC Wales

“You have transformed a horrible nightmare into beautiful poetry.” – Julie Voight, London

“I am amazed at the immediacy and accuracy of your analysis” – Alan Falconer, Edinburgh

“Spot on!” – Julia Carling, Manchester

“The real deal!” – Stuart Davis, Miami

“Astonishingly accurate!” – Chris Evans, BBC Radio