Do you ever wake up from a bizarre dream and think to yourself, 'Okay, wtf was that?!'" That is definitely what I was thinking when I woke up from this dream I’m about to tell you about…!
If you’ve heard about my Life Coaching, you will know that I love being on either end of a dream analysis! 
Last week, I had a really weird dream!  I was staying in a place that exchanges rent for student teaching.  The place looked like a castle from one of the Brontë sisters’ books on the outside, and the cafeteria from my elementary school on the inside. In a classroom, I was watching a peer student-teaching, when a more authoritarian, male teacher came in the room. The peer said, “see..!” as if to say ‘I was right about such and such,’  (don’t remember what it was…) showing off her “superb” skills for the superior.
Then, we were led to another room to see a demo. The other room was small, like a nurse’s office. In the demo, a man’s head was detached from his body and plugged into a tv screen with a cord a few feet long. The rest of his body was on the other side of the nurse’s office curtain/partition, in a wheelchair. The TV projected an x-ray of the man’s body.  He was talking, but his voice was different than usual- very mechanic, robotic sounding. 
At that point, a girl standing next to me screamed and ran from the room. Her fear was contagious and although I hadn’t been afraid before, at that point I panicked and ran with her. Sometime later, I encountered another student-teacher (peer) who said, “this program has been good for addiction recovery.”
I knew this was going to be an interesting dream to analyze!  The messages we found were -
The castle grounds were cloudy, dreary, but romantic.  Things might look desirable and intimidating on the outside, but they are different on the inside. The building was sturdy, tall, and massive. Norms, establishments, and the way people do things have been around for awhile.  The cafeteria walls were white, tiled and only went part way up to the ceiling. Black curtains enclosed the rest of the classroom walls.  It felt like you couldn't express yourself  because you never knew who might be listening. The message was “You are still being led to similar places, but this is different. It's unpleasant learning the way others want you to.” 
The male teacher had a positive demeanor, but was not genuine. “I like having people like you work for me - but there is not much I can do for you.”
The nurse’s office was small, bright and cramped. The message was, ”You feel confined in the space of what others have to tell you” [about how to be.]
In the demo, a man’s head was detached from his body and plugged into a tv screen with a cord a few feet long. The rest of his body was on the other side of the nurse’s office curtain/partition, in a wheelchair.  The man was handicapped, open, willing, and confused.  His message was “I don’t know what to do next." His head was alive, animated, with things to say, "my head is separated from the wisdom of my body. This isn’t all I have.”  
The TV projected an x-ray of the man’s body.  The display of the x-ray was black and white, illuminated, “you can see what’s inside.”
The girl who screamed was blonde, All-American, and nurse-like. “I am scared of things I haven’t seen before.” Her scream was loud, shrill, high-pitched. She shared that she is afraid of everything she’s seeing. “Disassociated bodies, robotic voices get information from TV, not from themselves.”  Her fear was contagious and although I hadn’t been afraid until then, at that point, I panicked and ran with her.  
The peer who said the program was good for addiction recovery had dark hair, and was grateful, happy.  Her message was, “I learned a lot from the work I have been doing.”  The structure of the program helped her let go of behavioral patterns and moods she no longer needs. 
Each part of this dream represents a part of me.  The man with the head attached to the TV represents how we all sometimes spew out things we’ve heard on TV or Facebook, as if we are megaphones for the masses.  As I remember more from the dream, I see the man was horrified and confused- he didn’t know what he was saying, or how it was coming out of his mouth. Who was saying it?
The tv's “x-ray vision” revealed what was inside the man, but all you could really see was his skeleton. That hardly represented everything inside him.  Nearby, his body was in a wheelchair, decapitated; unable to take action or think for himself.
The peer coach thought the All-American girl could be the middle-of-the road American lost in all the political rhetoric. Sometimes we all get caught up in it. She's afraid of things she hasn’t seen before.  The times we are living in, we’ve heard many times, are unprecedented.
The peer who mentions addiction recovery speaks of our collective  addiction to social media and the news cycle that takes us away from what we really think. Sometimes we all get caught up in it.
Deep down inside, we all know what it all means to us.  But sometimes it gets lost in all the rhetoric and the daily horrors of the new news cycle.