Dreams & the Subconscious

Lesson 4: Common Dream Scenarios

Common Dream Situations II

Can’t Communicate Dreams: You are terrified and cannot scream. You pick up the phone to call 911 and the phone doesn’t work, or you get the wrong person on the other end, or someone answers but speaks in a foreign language. All these are dreams in which you cannot communicate and they are always frightening dreams. Look at what is going on in your outer life after having a dream like this. Are you in a relationship with someone who undermines your beliefs or talents or denigrates your ideas?

Even more importantly, are you allowing it to happen? Do you refrain from speaking your truth for fear of being ridiculed? In your work, are you stopped from saying what you know to be true? And do you believe that if you just restrain yourself in some way on the outside, everything will be okay? Disaster dreams tell you otherwise. If you are having disaster dreams, work on your validity. As Jean Houston says, “Show up for yourself.” Have positive self-talk sessions in which you reinforce that you are extremely important in your own life. Insist that what you think and what you have to say is significant, that you must have a voice and must have power in your own environment. If a job, relationship, religion, or a way of thinking violates your feelings of self-worth, that must change or the disaster foreseen by the dream will come to pass.

Naked in Public Dreams: Usually in a “naked” dream, you look down and see that you are either naked or are wearing something totally inappropriate to the environment. In dreams, clothing represents the “Persona”, the mask we show to the world. One woman had a dream in which she was looking up at three characters who were sitting on the roof of a house and who were badly sunburned. The dream ego, her ego self in the dream, asked the person standing next to her, “What happened to them?” The person replied, “They didn’t have enough clothes on.” So the dream is saying that since the woman did not have a strong enough persona in a certain situation, these inner psychic figures were burned.

A salesman or a doctor, for example, needs a persona in their work which is only one of many masks they may wear but an important one. So dreams like that are telling you that you need a stronger or more fitting persona in the situation. However, there are other kinds of “naked” dreams. Recall that it is usually the dream ego, the point of view of ego, that sees that he or she is exposed. Often the person will feel terribly embarrassed and ashamed. But often the other figures in the dream either don’t notice or don’t care. So, it is only the ego that is threatened. In this kind of “naked” dream, we are revealed in our natural beauty and are ashamed. So the dream is challenging the dreamer toward full self-acceptance. It is a call to stand in your natural, authentic self and not to care what anyone else has to say about it. It is a call to have courage to be.

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