INTERPRETATION
This dream is about how you have kept certain values and talents hidden for fear of being seen or recognised for your experience. This approach has recently resulted in a crisis that has caused you to face your resistance and work through this to open a way forward.
A bank is a place where money and other valuables are stored. The money that is stored in a bank is usually invested to increase returns. The bank in your dream most likely represents you – your store of values and talents. (A talent is a valuable asset, something you can invest in to secure increased returns. Talents are assets we can put to work to increase the value of our services for ourselves and for others.)
At the start of the dream you knew you were connected to a bank robbery, meaning you realized, at some level, that you had robbed yourself of expressing certain values or talents. You say you were “connected in some way” although you “could not see” the robbery taking place. This shows that you were just getting in touch with, or connecting with, the feeling or knowledge that you had robbed yourself in some way, but you could not quite see how this had happened. It’s like realizing you’re responsible for the role you played in this self-robbery but you’ve yet to ‘see’ how this came about, or why.
In the next part of your dream you say “It was my job …” Again this shows you accepting responsibility. It may also hint that your dream is about a job or career that “was your job” but which you are reluctant to continue with or admit to. So, you’ve robbed yourself and you’re reluctant to reinvest those values or talents in a different situation. Westpac is an Australian bank, and you saw US money in the bag. Are you from the US, or have you worked in the US and are currently residing in Australia? If so, in moving to Australia, did you ‘rob’ yourself of certain values, perhaps American values, perhaps values associated with your career, perhaps your valuable talents, and have you been reluctant to ‘reinvest’ these or even own up to your valuable American credentials and skills in Australia?
In the dream you thought they might wonder where all the money came from. You saw the US money and this was something you didn’t want to draw attention to in the dream. Why have you chosen to hide “all that money”, all those values and talents from your American experience, during your time in Australia?
In the dream you do think about putting the money in the bank at first. You know the goal (Westpac) but you spend time looking for it rather than finding it. Have you been looking for a job or a way to invest your values /talents or reinstate your values here in Australia, but been unable to find this?
Of course, spending time “looking for” instead of finding can be a delay tactic, and as soon as you did envisage handing over the money (finding the job or situation) you backed off for fear of “all this money” being questioned. Were you fearful that if someone discovered just how talented or valuable you are, they would demand more from you than you wanted to give? Or were you fearful that they would wonder where all these American values and experiences came from and how they would fit with Australian expectations? One way or another, your dream shows you’ve robbed yourself of expressing your values or talents and, although you accept responsibility for this, you’re not keen to reinvest or have these values or talents seen or recognised in Australia.
You may be thinking, No, I want a job! Consciously, yes, but dreams reveal your unconscious thoughts, feelings and beliefs when there is a conflict. If you haven’t found that job you’re seeking, or if you haven’t found a way to express your values, then your unconscious mind is successfully acting against your conscious wishes. Interpreting your dream helps you to identify why your unconscious mind has a different agenda. Your unconscious mind’s agenda is to ‘protect’ you from expressing your values/talents in Australia for fear of what might otherwise be revealed about where ‘all this’ comes from. Are you wary that your US qualifications or experiences don’t match Australian expectations?
Next in the dream you are driving the car, with your bag of money you don’t want anyone to see, and you see an accident. The accident represents a crisis you either anticipate or have just met. You know this ‘road’ you are taking is not really getting you anywhere other than into crisis, but you’re still insistent that no-one witnesses your values/talents. What to do? Perhaps this is the crisis really – the question of how to resolve this conflict.
By this stage of your dream you’ve experienced a breakthrough. It’s in your words, “I could see…” You’ve moved from knowing there’s a connection but not seeing it, to seeing your situation more clearly. The situation you see is that yes, you have put yourself in a difficult situation because not wanting anyone to see your values /talents has only ended in a crash/crisis. Or maybe that’s a cash crisis (lol). How are you going to get ahead?
You resolve this, in your dream, by taking a road that felt very different. This shows your unconscious mind taking a very different approach. What a win! First it was hard work as you had to drive yourself against a resistance but then the road opened up and you found yourself at a sporting place – isn’t that where you win?
In other words, you release your drive and motivation and apply yourself to overcome your inner resistance to moving ahead and this opens everything up for you. Now you can reach that conscious goal (sport) because your unconscious mind is no longer working against you.
There may be more symbolism in that sporting place. Perhaps you can see the positives in team spirit, bringing your US ‘team’ experiences to play with Australian ‘team’ experiences. Perhaps you can be more open to playing the ‘game’, perhaps not worrying about winning and losing, just about being there and playing your part. As the last part of your dream is vague, “something to do with sport”, the interpretation is less precise, but you can ‘play’ with the idea of sport and what it means to you to help you see this attainable goal more clearly.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Visualisation:
Visualise the dream from the moment you broke through the last of the resistance. Feel that release into easy and joyous driving, perhaps even feeling that you are flying, uplifted, towards that sports place. Feel the openness of the road, the open, flowing feelings you have within you. See and feel your talents flowing from you, being expressed confidently. Visualise yourself arriving at that sports place and feel a warm welcome – everything is good, everyone has been waiting for you to turn up with your talents and play the game, and here you are. It feels so good.
How often to do this:
Do this visualisation 20 times a day for a week, ten times a day for the second week and twice a day for the next month.
How does this work?
This practice ensures that change occurs for you in the best possible way – a positive healing transformation. Your dream expressed your waking life situation using dream language – the language of your unconscious mind. By reliving and intensifying the positive ending of your dream you are using vision and feeling to consolidate the positive resolution of your dream so that this flows on into your waking life.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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