INTERPRETATION
This is about how you’re handling a situation. Dreams often use word play, and the focus on your hands, in this dream and the previous one you refer to, suggests the problem – and the solution – is in how you’re handling the situation.
It’s probably a situation you’ve been fretting over (your dream chooses your guitar with its frets – worries – as an appropriate word play symbol). As the dream suggests, the way you normally ‘play’ or handle the situation, isn’t working for you right now.
In the dream, the solution is to flip the guitar over, to change the way you handle and play it. Your dreaming mind has solved the problem using this analogy, so you will find that your waking life situation can also be solved by changing the way you handle it.
Let’s go deeper to get some good practical advice.
Always look for opposites in a dream, or across a number of dreams you have on the same theme. You said your right hand, in a previous dream, was calloused. That’s a play on words again. That previous dream probably reflected on how you felt you were handling a situation in a hard or callous way. In the past, or at the time of that previous dream, did you feel you were being a bit hard-handed with someone or about something? Did you feel you were being callous?
When a dream brings up a feeling – for example, of being callous – it doesn’t mean that you are callous. It means you FEEL you are callous. Other people may or may not perceive you as being callous. It’s all a matter of perception. Have a think about this older dream and the situation you were in then. In what way did you feel callous? How do you feel about this, in hindsight?
In the current dream your right hand was not calloused, it just couldn’t play in the normal way. (Since you titled your previous dream ‘Murder’, perhaps you put an end to feeling or being callous, and now, in this dream, you’re softening the way you’re handling things … and getting there.)
What’s the opposite to callous? Soft handed? Gentle? Caring? Harmonious? When you turned the guitar over, in the dream, what kind of music did you play? Was it harmonious, melodic, empathetic? Was it the opposite to callous? My guess is that the dream music you played was quite the opposite of callous, suggesting that you can ‘handle’ or ‘play’ that fretful situation in your life by taking a softer, empathetic, more harmonious approach.
Your dreaming mind chose your bass guitar as an analogy of how to solve the situation. There may be meaning in that ‘bass’, which we pronounce ‘base’. How can you make harmony, melody and empathy the very basis of your approach?
In your dream, picking with your right hand doesn’t work well. Has being picky not worked as well for you recently as it ‘normally’ does?
When you turned the guitar over, and you were able to play ‘just fine’, you said that your right hand was doing all the work now. In this position, your right hand was handling the frets and this resulted in you playing just fine. This suggests that the key (another dream pun?) is in how you handle your frets or worries, rather than in how you ‘pick at’ or handle the situation you find yourself in.
Have you been picking at someone or something because you have been feeling stressed and worried, instead of doing the work on why you worry and how you handle stress?
Once you do the work in yourself – finding a better way to handle life’s frets and stress – the waking life situation will ease because you will see it in a different way. It’s always best to handle a situation from the inside (within yourself) before handling it from the outside (what you see happening in the world). In most cases, there will be no outside situation to handle once you’ve “done all the work” on the inside.
Now let’s add another layer of interpretation, and you’ll see that this becomes even more interesting.
You titled your dream ‘Left-handed guitar’. The nerves that connect to the right side of your body connect to the left side of your brain, and the reverse is true for the left side of your body. So what your right hand does (motor nerves) and what it feels (sensory nerves) is handled by your left brain, and vice versa. On top of this, the left side of your brain tends to handle outer world issues – doing (action), logic, taking a mechanical approach - and is known as the ‘male side’ or ‘yang’, while the right side of your brain tends to handle inner world issues – being, emotions, taking a holistic approach – and is known as the ‘female side’ or ‘yin’. So, in dreams, the right side can reflect your inner world (or your female side) and the left side can reflect your outer world (or your male side). Adding this to your dream interpretation, we see a further endorsement of the theme:
Play from the right side of your brain (your female side, your yin) because it’s a left-handed situation you’re dealing with. Handle those frets and worries by being soft, feminine, empathetic, harmonious, intuitive, aware of your emotions, and taking an holistic approach to the situation.
DREAM ALCHEMY PRACTICE
Dialogue
Discover more about your frets and how best to handle them by doing a Dream Alchemy dialogue:
You: “How did you feel when I flipped the guitar?”
Guitar frets: “…frets reply in here ”
You: “...you reply here”
Frets: “… continue in this way”
How to do this
Give yourself no longer than 20 minutes. When you do this exercise do NOT think! Don’t plan ahead. Just let whatever happens happen. Let the two entities (you and the frets) speak to each other on paper using whatever words come up. It’s a bit like writing a film script or play – but without the brain being involved.
How does this work?
By not thinking, by keeping the words flowing, you are letting your right brain and unconscious mind do most of the work. They created the original dream so they know what this symbol means for you. They will reveal. You will be surprised.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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