Shona (October / November 2000)
Dream: This is in black and white and has more sensations that I would usually experience. Anyway, I am kinda in a plasticine tunnel, it is dark and very oppressive and it's my job to smooth out all the walls, 'cause they are all messed up, rough and unnerving the way they are. So I smooth out tunnel after tunnel. It seems to take forever and then finally I come out and from a distance, view the place where I have been, with a sense of satisfaction because I have finally finished...and then before my eyes, the whole thing blows up and I think "gee, I have to go back in and do it all again" so I do, although I am incredibly frustrated about having to do so, so that just makes the job seem more and more oppressive - but I do it anyway, 'cause it seems the only thing I have to or should do. This sequence happens over and over again until I finally wake up .It's just one of those dreams that's stuck with me from childhood.
Quentin's Diagnosis: Dear Shona, Ask your mother if she miscarried before you were born. Or experienced a still-birth. Write back if this isn't the case.You've dreamt of the birth canal and it's like you came out once and returned, then as the same spirit, had the chance to enter this life the second time round. If your mother holds onto a loss like this it may be the reason for your dream.