INTERPRETATION
Everyone in a dream represents something about yourself, because dreams are always about you and the way you experience the world.
You note that you are a big fan of this star and that you’re going to see him in concert next month, so, for a start, we know that you like his music and perhaps the message of his music. Another person might not appreciate this style of music and may not agree with his lyrics.
When it comes to evaluating someone’s personality, we differ in our opinions. This is especially true when we’re evaluating the personality of someone we don’t know personally, who we have only seen in performance, or read about or seen in the media. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is personality.
Which three words would you choose to describe this country star’s personality? For example, you might say ‘talented, devoted, passionate’. At least one of the words you have chosen usually represents the issue your dream is processing. (For more on working out what a person represents in a dream, see this checklist .)
As an example, let’s say you recognised ‘passionate’ and ‘devoted’ as issues in your life at the time of your dream. The dream country star had died in an accident and you couldn’t find him. This translates, in this example, as ‘my passion and devotion crashed and died, and I can’t find them’.
In the dream you were “directly involved” in finding him. This translates as it is up to you, and no-one else, to find your passion and devotion. No-one else can do this for you.
Now, your three words describing this star’s personality – as you see it – might have been less positive. One of the three words you chose might have been ‘persecuted’, and you might have related to feeling persecuted at some time in your life. How would the interpretation go from here? The same way – you’d say ‘my feeling of being persecuted crashed and died, and I can’t find it’.
Why would you want to find this feeling? Wouldn’t it be a good thing to lose? These are questions you might want to ask yourself. Of course it’s good to lose a sense of being persecuted! However, it’s important, when you let go of a negative trait or habitual negative attitude, to replace it with something positive. There’s a ‘hole’ left in the psyche when a habit disappears, and unless that hole is replaced by a positive habit, you can be left with an empty feeling – a feeling of something missing – and you may then fill the hole with a substitute negative attitude. This is one of the many values of dream interpretation. It helps you to understand how your mind works, to ‘find’ and identify what you have lost and decide how to direct your life from now on.
In your note you say you recently dreamed of another star being involved in an accident, so it may simply be stardom, celebrity or being in the public eye that is the issue you’re struggling with. If you were able to remember who the other star was, you’d have a significant clue if you listed a similar personality trait for both stars. When two or more people share the same role in a dream, or in similar dreams, it’s what they have in common that provides the clue to interpretation.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
I have offered two suggested dream alchemy practices - one for if you've identified a positive trait you wish to bring back to life (a visualisation) and one for if you have identified a trait you would rather replace with something positive (a writing practice).
Visualisation:
If you have identified a positive trait that has died within you, and you wish to bring it back to life, visualise yourself back in the dream suddenly seeing a concert hall you hadn’t noticed before. Visualise yourself opening the door and walking in to see your country star sitting on the stage taking a relaxing break from rehearsal. Visualise him welcoming you up onto the stage to sit beside him. Hear him telling you he admires your passion (or whatever it is that had died within you), and as he says this, feel your passion bubbling back. Feel it all coming back to life as you sit with him. Make sure you really feel it.
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.
Writing practice:
If, on the other hand, you have identified a trait that has died within you and that you would rather replace with something positive, imagine you are reading a letter your country star wrote, in his old age, many, many years into the future, to his grandson. Imagine the last part of the letter, where he begins to describe how much better his life became when he let that feeling of persecution (or whatever you identified) ‘rest in peace’ and replaced the ‘hole’ with something positive. Now, YOU write that last paragraph as if you were him, telling his story and giving uplifting, positive advice to his grandson.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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