Dream Interpretation – Messing Up a Public Performance
Another common dream from The Common Dream Book by Gillian Holloway, PhD. In this one, you’re giving a speech and everything goes wrong. At first things may seem good–more people arrived than you expected, they’re really enthusiastic about your topic, they love you . . . and then, things start going wrong. The microphone is broken, people in the audience are talking and you can’t shout loud enough to drown them out, your electronic visual presentation won’t work, people are leaving the room, those who remain begin to fight . . .
She says that some people believe that this is a dream about an upcoming task that the dreamer is nervous about. She believes that the dream is telling the dreamer to get more connected with without it is that he or she is undertaking.
The watchword is “service.” If the dreamer can get the focus off of him or herself and to the needs of the people in the audience, the fears the dreamer feels will begin to leave.
People who work giving presentations in front of the public often have these kind of dreams when a new stress turns up such as if they’ve taken on too much or they come down with a cold.
She has found that people who handle this kind of stress the best are able to keep their performances in perspective, not being overly proud when things go well and not being overly devastated when they do not.
