“I dream of flying a single propeller plane,” said David, who called me this afternoon on Kathy Bedford’s Statewide Drive show on Radio ABC Victoria. “I take off and although I don’t know how to drive it, I land it safely.”
David feels ecstatic in his recurring dream.
I’m sure David said ‘drive’ not ‘fly’, and if my ears served me well, this is a clue to interpretation, as you will see.
David summarised his dream in a few short sentences, yet he took time to detail the type of plane: a single propeller plane. He was also the single pilot.
The dream plane is a one man plane, and suggests David is beginning to gain confidence in ‘flying solo’ in some area of his life. He may run his own business, or be considering it. He may be newly single, or he may be branching out on his own in some other way.
The beauty of David’s dream is that he doesn’t let not knowing how to ‘drive’ the plane hold him back. And even though he doesn’t know how to drive it, it turns out that he can not only pilot it but enjoy the process and land it safely too. What a buzz!
Because this is a recurring dream, David is probably still exploring his confidence to ‘take off’ and follow his intuition, and the dream probably comes up when he surprises himself with his progress. David could relate to this.
Your unconscious mind expresses itself in your dreams, and when you describe a dream your unconscious mind sometimes gets a look in too. David’s unconscious mind told me that his dream was also about ‘drive’ or motivation.
He may be finding it difficult to drive or motivate himself some days, but his dream shows that taking the first step is all it takes – the rest just happens naturally.
Or he feels he doesn’t know enough about driving his business – marketing, financing, getting customers – and again the dream shows that there is a part of David that intuitively knows what to do.
This is an uplifting dream with a positive, grounded result. To reinforce his confidence in ‘flying solo’ David could do a visualisation while he’s awake (a dream alchemy practice), in which he relives his dream and the sensations of confidence, joy and success. The more he repeats this, the more he will find, in his waking life, that he somehow just automatically knows what to do.
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