Abandoned Baby

January 28, 2010 By 1 Comment

Hi Dr Wallace, I wake up sometimes thinking I’ve left a baby I was looking after in the park by mistake or even worse sometimes I seem to remember a baby I’ve left by mistake in an attic days/weeks even years before….it is terrifying till I realise its not real.
I have a grown up family who are all away and I don’t look after anyone’s babies, never have, except my own and I was very careful and would never have left them anywhere!!
What on earth does it mean? ….Thank you…Babs  :o )

Dream Meaning
When we dream about a baby, we are often dreaming about something that is very close to us. The baby symbolises a precious part of yourself and represents a unique passion or talent that you possess. The attic symbolises some of your most valuable ideas for expressing this talent. However, you have been ignoring them and now these thoughts are trying to get your waking attention.

The abandoned baby in your dream represents something unique that you wanted to create through a process of love and labour. Due to circumstances at the time, you had to abandon this love but now you have the opportunity to rediscover and explore these ambitions from the past. This can seem terrifying to you because you realise that you that you have abandoned a part of yourself that was very close to your heart and an expression of your true identity.

It is never too late to explore your forgotten potential by rediscovering this love or passion from the past. When you laid these passions aside, for whatever reasons,  you did it in the hope that you would one day return to them and use them to fully express your talents and individuality.  That time is now.

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Afternoon Dreams

March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Have you been dreaming that there is an elephant sleeping in your garden? Or that you are trying to construct a satellite tracking dish from a banana? Or perhaps that you keep meeting Madonna at the dentist or in a car park? No matter how crazy or scary your dreams might seem to be, they are full of information that can help you to make more sense of your waking life.

On Friday 26th March, I will be analysing your dreams with the wonderful Steve Wright on Steve Wright in the Afternoon. If you have a dream that you would like to have analysed, please send it in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/steve-wright-in-the-afternoon/dream-analysis/

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Alan Carr Dream Analysis

February 8, 2010 By 1 Comment

Alan Carr is fascinated by dreams and dreaming. On Saturday’s show he invited listeners to contact him with their dreams. However, he needs to throw away that dream dictionary! These are the actual meanings of his listener’s dreams. They are not taken from any dictionary but are drawn from my own experience in analysing over 100,000 dreams as a professional dream pyschologist.

Dream Being at Simon Cowell’s house with your parents
Meaning You are beginning to really appreciate and identify with your own unique talent. You often judge yourself far too harshly because sometimes you feel that your performances are not as good as you would like them to be. However, you are now recognising yourself  as a true entertainer with a rich and varied career ahead of you.

Dream Any Simon Cowell dream
Meaning Recognising your own unique talents.

Dream Teeth falling out, jaw and driftwood
Meaning Our teeth symbolise our confidence – if they are falling or crumbling, then so is our confidence. Dan doesn’t move his jaw because he doesn’t have the confidence to really say what is on his mind. Driftwood represents old habits that are causing him to drift in life, so instead of saying what he really feels, he is drifting back into old habits.

Dream Posh lady, mouse and jungle
Meaning The angry posh lady is the part of Lizzy that wants to express her anger at something, probably about someone else being selfish. However, when she tries to make her point, she gets nervous and tries to cover up the incident with a whole lot of light and frothy behaviour. She then retreats into mouse like behaviour and goes back to acting timidly. Canoeing down the jungle river shows that she is trying to navigate scary and unknown personal emotions.

Dream Flying pig, fairy wand and clouds
Meaning Dawn has a fantastic idea or plan in mind, but her friends think it is impossible. She wishes that she could just magically bring this plan to life and the camera shows that she is trying to capture the essence of the idea so she can share it with other people. The clouds are her own doubts that she will be able to accomplish her great idea.

Dream Paul McCartney, inhaler, Yesterday
Meaning Our noses symbolise our intuition and curiosity, so Si is trying to clear up his curiosity about how to have his talent recognised in the future.

Dream Sawing off dead grandad’s feet
Meaning Simon is faced with a moral dilemma in his waking life and his grandad represents wisdom and the right choice. Feet symbolise our values and what we stand for, so Simon is thinking about his values and morals so he can make the right choice and improve his situation.

Dream Ostrich in the Grand National
Meaning The dreamer is trying to get ahead in life but she keeps ignoring and avoiding obstacles. She needs to confront these obstacles head on or she will end up feeling quite flattened.

Dream One legged Marilyn Monroe
Meaning The dreamer has a need to have his talents recognised. He has the right approach and knows how to get where he wants to be but he is unsure of the support that he might get from a partner.

Dream Large house that isn’t mine
Meaning The house always represents the self, so this dream reflects a major possibility for personal growth and self fulfillment.

Dream Naked on the Toilet at Work
Meaning Kay needs to express her needs but feels very uncomfortable doing that in public. She needs to set personal boundaries in her workplace and make sure that ther own needs are fulfilled, as she spends all her time looking after the needs of other people.

Dream Pies on lap, Robert Redford,  Alan Sugar
Meaning Kate is using all her experience and talent to feel creatively fulfilled. However, she feels that her talent may not be what is really required.

Dream Roast chicken birth
Meaning Lesley is fulfilling a wish that she has held for a long time. She wants everything to be perfect for her new child.

Dream Snake ate my slippers
Meaning The dreamer is going through a personal transformation that threatens his cosy domesticity.

Dream Dentist, Spaniel, shoelaces
Meaning The dreamer is trying to be loyal and helpful but doesn’t have much confidence in the outcome as she senses that there is something wrong. Tying her shoelaces show that she wants to feel secure in her own actions.

Dream Sheep on house roof
Meaning Paul feels under pressure to conform and be part of a group so that he can feel secure but he now has the opportunity to show his individual character and really be himself.

Dream In a box
Meaning The dreamer feels trapped because she is trying to live up to the expectations of others and this feels very limiting to her. She needs to decide what she really wants and break free from these external expectations.

Dream Bicycle, bread and baker
Meaning Claire has an idea or project that she is trying to make money from and so she can achieve a personal sense of fulfillment. However, her plan is a bit wobbly and she is considering her next move.

Dream Alien voices, spaceships and stampeding elephants
Meaning Cynthia is excited by novel experiences and learning new information. As she absorbs this new knowledge, it brings memories back to her and gives her strength and wisdom.

Dream Aliens and ray guns
Meaning Ian sometimes feels overwhelmed by the unfamiliar and by having to conform to foreign customs and ways.

Dream Field, lorry and lake
Meaning The field represents the possibilities that Hannah sees stretching out in front of her as she gets ready to go to university. Her boyfriend is symbolised by Mark from Emmerdale. The road is the direction that she chooses to take, but the result of this decision is like being hit by a truck as she splits with her boyfriend. Jumping into the lake shows that she has become immersed in her feelings and emotions but everything works out perfectly in the end.

Dream Field and buzzard
Meaning Alison is also considering new possibilities in her life, but she is trying to move on from old habits and ways of thinking. She feels paralysed by those old ways of thinking and is scared to let them go as it might be quite hurtful.

Dream Giraffe’s neck and Rolf Harris
Meaning Julia is shy about her talents – she needs to start sticking her neck out a bit more and show off what she can really do.

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Andie MacDowell’s Dream

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Andie MacDowell recently shared a dream with Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show on CBS. In her dream, she is carrying a baby and has a wall on one side of her, with a parallel wall on the other side with railroad tracks beyond them.

As Andie observes, the walls represent boundaries for her. A further exploration of the dream reveals that the railroad tracks symbolise career paths that others expect her to follow. However, she is currently working on a labour of love that is very precious to her and she is ensuring that this is not being adversely influenced by the expectations of others. Andie knows that protecting her creative spark will reward her with an achievement that will open up a new career opportunity.

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Angry Parents

January 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dream
Hi Ian,
Both my parents died when they were relatively young (47 & 56).I was 14 when my father died and am now 55.  I had an excellent relationship with both of them but whenever I have dreamt about them they are angry with me which is very upsetting.  Also in the dreams they are always suffering from their final illnesses.
Thanks
Mary

Meaning
When we dream that other people are angry with us, we are usually feeling angry with our own behaviour but  are finding it difficult or inappropriate to express this anger in waking life.  The frustrated feelings of anger that you are experiencing are probably a result of the sad loss of your parents at a relatively young age. Even though your parents could not help it, you still feel annoyed that they left you on your own.

The anger in your dream is a direct and honest expression of how you feel as you attempt to come to terms with your feelings of abandonment and the premature loss of their parental love and guidance.  Losing your parents at a young age means that you had to grow up quickly and some of your anger is caused by the loss of your own teenage years.

Dreaming of their final illnesses shows that even after all this time, you are still ill at ease with your own feelings of being abandoned. Although you had an excellent relationship with both your parents, you still need to acknowledge your own angry feelings so that you can finally begin to accept your loss and move on.

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Avatar Blues

January 6, 2010 By

A number of my clients have been reporting a feeling of melancholy and loss after experiencing the dream like cinematic splendour of James Cameron’s brilliant Avatar. Although they feel uplifted and inspired by the film, it can seem a bit dpressing to step back into the normal world on planet Earth. Anyone who experiences Avatar will be immersed in an intensely beautiful world where they are utterly absorbed in a profound story but as they leave the cinema, they find themselves inhabiting a world that appears dull, grey and normal.

The world of Pandora actually came to Cameron in a dream and the whole movie is very dream like. The hero of Avatar, Jake Scully steps into the world of Pandora by entering a bed like incubation chamber termed the Link. After he fall asleep he wakens up as his dream character of the Avatar. When he wakes as a human, his dream character on Pandora loses consciousness and collapses. In the same way, we all enter an amazing world when we dream and that fades away as we we wake in the light of a new morning.

The remedy for the Avatar Blues is to realise that we all have the ability to lie down in our own personal Links every time we sleep. We don’t need cinema tickets or a multi-millian dollar production budget; all we need to do is dream. The more we explore our own dream worlds, the more vivid and profound our waking realities become.

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Babes ‘n’ Arms

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When we dream about babies, we are reflecting on our ability to create and develop a labour of love that is very close to our hearts…dreaming about arms and hands shows our opportunities to take decisive actions in waking life…

 
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Basements and Attics

August 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dream
Hi Ian
I have a recurring dream where I hear a noise in the basement. I decide to go and investigate but instead of making my way down to the basement, I go looking for the source of the noise in the attic. I tell myself that I do this because the basement is dark and wet and the attic is light and airy, but every time I find myself in the attic I get really annoyed and keep wondering how I end up there. What is going on?
Thanks, Chris

Meaning
When you dream about a noise, it usually indicates that something is changing in your waking life and that you are being presented with the chance to make the most of this change. The basement often represents your emotional life and how you relate to your feelings and experiences. The attic tends to symbolise your thoughts and ideas and how you logically try to work things out.

The noise in the basement is an opportunity to explore some feelings about past experiences that you have been keeping locked away. These feelings have started to affect your waking life and you are looking for ways to come to terms with them and move on. Your usual approach to these feelings is to treat them lightly and airily, rather than investigating them in a bit more depth.

However, trying to work through your deeper feelings from an intellectual perspective is never  effective and so you just end up feeling annoyed and frustrated. Instead of constantly theorising about your past experiences, the best way to resolve your feelings is to discuss them with someone who you trust. As you open up to them, you will also open yourself up to valuable new opportunities.

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Bedrooms and Bathrooms

March 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dream
Hello Ian
I was desperate to use the bathroom whilst wandering around an office block full of multi-bed rooms and large ablution facilities i.e. rows of sinks toilets showers etc. I am constantly meeting people and therefore never get to use the bathroom.
Thanks, Jim

Meaning
Dreaming about different rooms usually indicates that you are thinking different aspects of your own character. Bathrooms are where you go to get rid of what is no longer healthy or sustaining for you and to clean up any situations that might be getting a bit messy. A bedroom is often where you are most relaxed and aware of who you really are and what you really need.

Wandering around the office block shows that you are desperate to express your own needs in your workplace but you are wondering how to do it. All the beds and the bathrooms suggest that you often have the opportunity to tell others what you need but you never actually manage to do this. This is because you are constantly meeting the needs of other people rather than looking after your own needs.

Although you hope that your own needs will be met if you look after the needs of your colleagues, they usually just end up dumping their problems on you. The best way to resolve this tension is to establish some personal boundaries by making sure that you put your own needs before the needs of others now and again.

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Bellamy's People

February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Episode 6 of the fabulous Bellamy’s People has a brilliant spoof of a dream interpreter, played by the wonderful Lucy Montgomery. You can catch the show on the BBC iPlayer and the dream interpretation starts at about 3 minutes and 20 seconds. It made me weep with laughter because it is such an accurate potrayal of how most self acclaimed dream analysts/doctors/experts work.

However, the dream that Gary shared sounds exactly like the sort of dream that Paul Whitehouse might have. According to Johnny Depp, Paul is the best character actor in the world and I imagine that the boundaries can become very blurred between his real self and the characters that he so skilfully plays. Here is the dream…

‘I was in my bed and the wardrobe fell on me and completely covered me with all its contents.’

…and that suggests that the dreamer habitually hides his true self behind an array of assumed identities. The dreamer does this to please others and be accepted socially but he can find it quite overwhelming. Sometimes it can be a great release to shrug off old habits and just be his real self.

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