Dream

Chris Evans has been having mad dreams again. Here is his latest dream as reported on his BBC blog… … the mad dreams have come back. Last night I dreamt I was playing golf with Tiger Woods and John Daly. We were all square going on to the eighteenth – Tiger hadn’t said a word to either of us whereas John could not have been nicer. The two of them had teed off and now it was my turn – all I had to do was get it on the fairway, something I had been doing for the whole of the rest of the round but every time I stepped up to take my shot – my head fell off. As this kept happening John was finding it harder and harder to hold in the laughter, whereas Tiger was becoming increasingly impatient. I decided to try one more time but once again as I addressed the ball…for no reason at all my head fell off. Even John had had enough by now and called Tiger to play on without me. All I remember is the crowd all walking by my head and my two golfing heroes striding off to complete the round without me. I looked to my body for some support but it just held its hands out as if to ask what the hell was I playing at – then I woke up…

Meaning

In considering the dream, the easiest conclusion to make is that ‘Chris keeps losing his head’. However, there is quite a bit more going on in the dream if we take a closer look.

When we dream of being with two people, it often represents two different sides of our personality and usually there is some sort of tension between these two aspects of our self. This tension is often triggered by some decision we need to make.

In this dream Tiger Woods symbolises the driving, professional, impatient side of Chris and John Daly represents his more casual, happy go lucky, cheerful self.

Chris is probably currently involved in some sort of project or negotiation that is nearing completion as symbolised by being at the the eighteenth hole, apparently with everything is all squared away in the discussions. In the dream, all Chris has to do is get it on to the fairway, and in his negotiations or project, he has also been looking for the fairest way forward for everyone.

However, every time he tries to finalise his negotiations or complete his project, he loses his head. Even though he is trying to behave fairly, he is becoming impatient and angry about something.

Eventually, both the cool professional part of his personality and his fun loving alter ego decide to abandon this volatile hot head. Although this may seem the rational course of action in the circumstances, a lot of his drive and genius is generated by this crazy head, so Chris should look at ways of channelling this brilliant energy without losing his head.

Chris knows that he has a cool, calculating professional side to his personality. He is also intimately familiar with his funny, happy and boyish side. To reconnect his head, he needs to accept that sometimes he gets angry, raging and really annoyed in certain circumstances. As he accepts this anger, it becomes a positive force rather than something that makes him lose his head.