In my dream I KNEW I was dreaming. (I’ve never had that happen to me before). In front of me there were some steps leading downwards. I looked down the steps and there was a empty tube-train waiting at the platform with its lights on. It was going to Wolverhampton and then I realised that the layout of the subway was in alphabetical order of place-names. I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do. I got straight on the train to Tokyo. The dream changed. I knew I was in Tokyo and that I was going to see a future image of myself. Sure enough I saw my future self who was on her way to a film premiere party. I looked fantastic in a deep red coloured sleeveless dress and I wore my hair up in a wonderful style. I looked like a star. Someone asked my future self a question - my future self said “I never dreamed I would be so successful, I wish I had taken up acting years ago.” My future self then walked into the party where my engagement to the man of my dreams was going to be announced too, and my future self was also considering announcing the fact that I had just fallen pregnant too. My future self was really tremendously happy.

The dream changed again. Now I was in Basildon town centre. There was a dead severed hand clinging on to my left foot, but I felt comfortable with it, even kind of attached to it. My foot was itching as the dead hand was making my foot infected. I considered pickling it in a jar to preserve it, but decided that it was best to shake it off and leave it there.

-Anonymous, Age 28, Basildon, ENGLAND

Hi Anonymous -

I think the dead, severed hand may be a relationship in your life right now that you need to liberate yourself from in order to arrive at the future self you so vividly experienced in your dream. The relationship is clinging to you, and you feel comfortable and even sentimentally attached to it, but beware that it also is beginning to infect you. You decide in your dream that it’s best to shake it off and leave it behind. Good Luck!

REPLY:

Dear Dream Doctor,

Thanks very much for your interpretation of my dream.

Yes, you are right here. I think because the “ dead hand” part of the dream was in my town centre where I live, it could have been telling me that my life here is over. I’ve had a wish to make a new life in Tokyo for sometime now, and have been looking for ways to make it possible. I am certainly aware that there is nothing here for me, except my relationship with my brother. Also I had thought in real life that the man in my dreams (who is based in Tokyo) was out of my league, but if I bluffed or “acted the part” I could give myself a chance with him. In reality I am afraid of what will happen when I do go there and how things will turn out.