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Symbols explained
E
ver dreamt of you’re in blue scrubs, about to perform an
operation you don’t know how to do? Maybe you’ve
dreamed of being in hospital - or having to take strange
medicine? All these medical things and more come with extra
hidden meanings in the world of dreams...THIS
MONTH:DOCTOR,
DOCTOR!
Stuff of
nightmares
T
he Dullahan is a headless,
black rider that careers around
the Irish countryside at night with
his head under his arm, trailing a
funereal cart behind him that’s
decorated with human body parts.
He has a wide, horrible grin from
ear to ear, smells of mouldy
cheese, and uses a
human spine for a
horse whip. When
he stops riding
and stands still,
he will call out
someone’s
name, and
that person
shall die that
very moment...
Let’s hope he
doesn’t ever call
out your name. Or
mine!SEEING A DOCTOR means
you’re in need of some kind of
healing, or should pay more
attention to yourself, physically or
spiritually speaking.BEING A DOCTOR is symbolic of
wanting to off er support to, or be
of help to those around you. You
feel enabled to help, that you
possess the necessary skills,
maybe in a specifi c way.LYING IN A HOSPITAL BED
represents reaching a point of
exhaustion or resignation with
things, that you feel reliant upon
others, or just wish others to take
over, to look after you, or take
care of something important in
your life.TAKING MEDICINE is symbolic
of wanting something to help you
improve an aspect of yourself, or
your life. Perhaps you feel
something is wrong and want toget rid of it from your world,
or at least make things ‘better’
than they are.UNDERGOING SURGERY
depending on which part of
your body it may be, means
you’re especially interested in
closely examining something
related to that area of yourself.
It can also mean you’re feeling
more introspective and self-
analytical than usual.HAVING YOUR ARM PUT IN
A CAST can mean you feel you
lack the necessary abilities or
freedom to do a particular thing,
or make something happen as
you would like.A BROKEN LEG could
symbolise that, as if in a
plaster-cast, you feel
similarly unable to move or
progress forwards in your
own way.T
he artist Nicolas Bruno has
experienced sleep paralysis
nightly since his youth. But he’s
managed to turn his condition into
art, keeping a dream diary and
transforming the nightmarish
scenarios into strange, composite
photographs that star himself in
various ways. Surrealist and
conceptual, his work is striking and
vivid, just like his disturbing
‘waking’ dreams and nightmares,
where he feels so often stuck
between being awake and asleep.THE MAN WHO
PHOTOGRAPHS
HIS NIGHTMARES