Elephant Burglar
Hi Ian
I have been having this really weird dream, it’s both scary and funny at the same time. I’m in my house and hear this noise outside in my garden, a big rumbling crashing sound. I start rushing around making sure all the doors and windows are locked and trying to make sure I’m safe in case it’s a burglar. The noise gets louder and louder and I’m horrified to see the front door shaking as something batters it from the outside. The door is starting to buckle under the strain and although I’m terrified, I risk a peek out through the window. I’m amazed to see a huge elephant in the garden. It seems to be smiling and as I look at its huge eye, the door caves in and it plants a huge kiss on my cheek with the end of its trunk. What on earth does this mean?
Thanks, Cath.

When we dream about an elephant, we are usually remembering our ability to be strong and wise. Your house symbolises your self and your dream suggests that there is some new situation in your waking life that you feel is somehow threatening your identity. This feeling of change can often be triggered by workplace disruptions or new relationships.

These changes are making you feel powerless and vulnerable so you are attempting to keep yourself as safe and secure as possible. Even though you are doing your best to prevent the imminent intrusion into your life,  the situation just keeps getting worse. Your front door usually symbolises how you present yourself to the world and how you also guard your privacy and so it seems to you that both your public and private life are under attack.

However, windows often represent how you perceive yourself and you begin to realise that you are unconsciously welcoming this chance for a big change in your life. It is forcing you to look into strengths and skills that you thought you had forgotten and encouraging you to make valuable use of them. Rather than being an intrusion, it is an opportunity to rediscover the power of your innate strength and wisdom.

Forgotten Room
HI
I have had this recurring dream, occasionally, over a number of years.  I am in (what I believe) is my house, but it is not my house and not a house I am familiar with, and it is a different house in every dream.
I am walking along the hall (or a corridor) and I open a door and find a room that I had forgotten we had.  It has been totally untouched  and I suddenly remember that it was there when we bought the house, but I had forgotten all about it!!
As I say different room -  different house -  every time, but not any house that we have lived in.
Any ideas what it means?
Thanks

When we dream about a house, we usually are thinking about our self and considering our sense of identity.  Dreaming about different and unfamiliar houses shows that you are become aware of different areas of yourself that you are not routinely familiar with. The hall or corridor symbolises some new activity that you are involved with in your waking life.

The door in your dream is your sudden realisation as you begin to discover a forgotten skill or personal resourcefulness that this new activity is inspiring you to use. The room represents this talent of yours that had apparently been lost. You know that you have always had this ability but have not had the chance to use it, probably because you felt it was of little or no value to you in everyday life.

This forgotten talent may be something that you were really passionate about earlier in your life but had to set aside or stop. This probably because you felt you could not pursue it further because of your circumstances at the time. When you have this dream, it is telling you that you now have the opportunity and resources to express the passion or ambition that you previously had to abandon.

Plane Crash
Hi
I keep having a dream where I am standing looking up at the sky. A passenger airliner passes flies by. I have a horrible feeling as I watch it and it suddenly stops dead, turns vertical and crashes down.  The feeling is absolutely horrible and i keep getting the same dream.  I panic i am having a premonition.
Please help me – even writing this e-mail has my stomach in knots.  I can picture the scene so vivid.
Kate

When we dream about the sky, we are considering ideas and thoughts from our waking lives. The aeroplane represents some plan or project that you are aware of, but are not directly involved in. There is something about this plan that unsettles you because you feel that is going to collapse in some way and come to a sudden and unexpected end.

However, the fact that you are standing with your feet on the ground indicates that you are in a position to offer impartial advice to others about their project. You may feel that their ideas are just a flight of fancy with no real grounding in any practicality. Although it is usually quite easy to engage in blue sky thinking, it is usually much more difficult to put a plan into practice.

Precognitive dreams that contain actual premonitions and predictions of future events are extremely rare and even harder to verify. Whether they actually remember them or not, every person in Scotland experiences at least five episodes of dreaming each night. That is more than 25 million dreams every night. Although some of this dream content may appear to have contained premonitions when studied  in hindsight, it is mainly just coincidental.