Dream Quest

"The scene:

It's dark out, and apparently I live at my parent's home in Langley, BC.

I hear a cat cry, so I open the front door and my orange fluffy cat comes up the driveway, maybe a little hesitantly.

I notice he has some hair missing & war wounds, like he's been in a nasty fight.

I get him inside the door and yell upstairs that he's hurt.

My mother's voice comes back that other animals are being hurt "by those Asian deaf people" (Heather, my mother, in real life, is quite racist) so this kind of shocks me, and I decide to go out into the night with my dog to protect me, and see if there are other hurt animals. As we walk out into the driveway we hear all sorts of moaning and howling, like other animals in distress. We get a few yards down the road and see, in the neighbour's bushes, a whole group of cameras on tripods and I think 2 or 3 cameramen, like media coverage.

It's suddenly daylight. I look over the other side of the road and MORE cameras ! Then 2 really kind of miniature helicopters, one normal one, and one half-tank half-helicopter ( it had tracks on it ) fly in to park just up the street, at the edge of my parent's property. The tank-like one sets down no problem, it maneuvers like a go-cart almost, and the guy has a helmet on in the cockpit. He waits in there as the other one is trying to set down, but suddenly the larger one's rotor hits the road and he bounces over a few feet to the smaller one and they get tangled together, side by side. The chopping rotors make escape impossible for both pilots but especially the smaller one trapped underneath, and I watch, along with all of these cameras, this pilot of the smaller tank-like one get crushed under it all. I think to myself, "Get the cameras off. What are you doing?"

Then I woke up with the horrible lasting visual of this pilots’ last moments."

Can you assist me Heather, in analyzing this dream? Carrie-Anne

Dear Carrie-Anne,

• Cats often have to do with gossip which leave "war wounds."
• The reference to deaf means turning a deaf ear. Like a foreign language. There is a lack of understanding between you and the mother.
• The part about going out into the night is like being in the dark.
• The cameras are an indication to look at things from a different angle or perspective.
• The part where its suddenly daylight or "it dawns on you," and you look to the other side of the road means take a different direction or route.
• The helicopter shows a need to rise above the situation.
• The chopping rotors are a warning about arguing etc., or being twisted.
• The crushing is crushed feelings.

The dream is about reaching a level of understanding about unresolved issues or gossip etc.

Regards, Heather

By Heather Zais