The answer is blowing in the wind

It’s a common dream. You’re trying to walk but you’re held back by a strong wind. Or by air that feels as thick and sticky as honey.

Or perhaps your legs are too heavy to lift, or the surface you’re walking on has turned to glue.

Your first quest, when interpreting a dream, is to relate the feeling in the dream to a situation in your life. Where are you feeling held back? What seems incredibly hard to do? Maybe you’re managing it, but it feels very hard and oh so slow. Does this feel familiar?

Then turn your attention to your inner world. Might you be holding yourself back? Might you be making things harder than they need to be, and if so, why? Might fear be gluing you to the spot, preventing you from making easier progress?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The dream wind, or the sticky dream air, your leaden dream legs, or the gluey dream road.

Everyone and everything in a dream represents something about you and your inner world. So, question the dream wind. What is this part of yourself feeling or trying to do? Here’s how to do it:

After such a dream, close your eyes, and imagine yourself back in the dream, only this time swap places with the wind. Feel yourself moving like the wind. Perhaps even stand up and move about the room as if you are the dream wind. How do you feel? Can you see the person in the dream who looks like you, struggling to move? What do you (as the wind) want to tell her?

Your dream wind might say, “I feel agitated. I can’t relax until she stops pushing herself. I want to tell her to stop and relax.”

Or it might say, “I feel frustrated. She’s been down this path before, and it hasn’t worked out well. I want to prevent her from experiencing more pain. I want to tell her to stop and re-evaluate.”

Or perhaps, “I feel powerful and all-knowing. I want to tell her to turn around and move towards a different goal. A more powerful and all-knowing goal. She knows, but she’s forgotten. She just keeps doing the same old thing. It won’t get her anywhere.”

Or maybe, “I’m shaking with fear, chasing my tail like a tornado. I want to tell her to back off from the path she’s on. She wants the success it will bring, but at what cost?”

Or possibly, “I’m scared for her. She can’t do it. She’s not good enough. Who does she think she is? I want to tell her to stop, stay safe, and listen to her doubts.”

Or “I feel ignored. I’m her intuition, I used to whisper to her, but she stopped listening. Now I’m blowing a gale force to get her attention. I want her to listen to me, to see that new path just off to the left, the path that will bring her fulfilment.”

Or your dream wind might say, “I feel powerful, uplifting, supportive, but I need her to surrender and let me lift her up. Let me be the wind beneath her wings. Doesn’t she realise she has wings? Why is she focussing on her feet? Wings, not feet!”

What might you learn from doing this kind of exercise?

You might learn that although resistance seems to come from the outer world (people who don’t support your ideas, pushback from convention, financial limitations), it may originate within you. Resistance may take the form of a limiting belief (‘I’m not worthy of support’, ‘my approach does not appeal to conventional thinking’, ‘I’m hampered by lack of finance’).

Your dream wind might be your doubt, your hesitation, your fear of failure, your ignored intuition, or a part of yourself that wants to protect you from pain.

Or your dream wind might have a higher vision for you.

Dreams help you to become aware of various parts of yourself that operate from your unconscious mind, and powerfully influence how you go about your life.

Apply your dream interpretation tools and techniques to explore and understand the whole dream and apply dream alchemy to shift any limiting beliefs that have been keeping you stuck.

Or consult me.