Lead Production in A School Play

Hi, I'm 19 years old and am not even at school anymore. This dream is based mostly in my primary school and partly in high school. I have aspirations to become a great actor on stage and on television. I'm wondering whether anyone could help interpret my dream accurately. Let me know underneath if you think I need to explain a bit more about the feelings in my dream.

I dreamt this dream four days ago:

Recently I dreamt that I was given a leading role in a big production in my primary school. It started off with me being taught in my high school classroom and then I went to see my form tutor who looked nothing like my form tutor did in my high school years. In my dream she had white blonde hair, pale skin, glasses and had :Da slim figure. She was very polite to me told me that I got the lead role as a landlord in a school production. What really confused me is that I was allocated the role before the script was even written. The script hadn’t been finished yet.

After this scene, I ended up back in my primary school assembly room where we were rehearsing for the production in which there was no script or characters known. One minute I was rehearsing, the next minute I was forced to move to stage production and audience entertainment (which was random). I remember feeling incredibly bored by preparing the stage. Whilst preparing the stage and helping the teachers, I moved to my primary school year 6 classroom where it was hometime after a hard day’s work. My uncle, nan and a random woman picked me up and were waiting outside. They all gave me a hug (even the lady I didn’t know) and walked up the school playground pathway with me. We were attached to each other for a few seconds whilst we were walking then two of them randomly disappeared. I was left with my uncle, who in real-life has a diagnosis of epilepsy. He didn’t seem very well and was pale in the face. In my dream I was so worried he was going to have a seizure that I got really emotional and asked him if he was alright! My dream uncle really wasn’t ok and before he had a seizure it cut to me entering my school assembly room. My uncle was gone by this time

In the assembly room, the audience was half-packed and people were saying that they didn’t know what the production would be. Next, I cut to sitting in the audience with my nan and an overweight lady that I didn’t know. She was virtually breathing on my neck and staring aggressively me. She had brown hair, a pony tail and was wearing aviator sunglasses. We were sitting watching the empty stage and the audience started applausing for no reason. I then cut to where I was before (walking into the assembly room). I then went up to my form tutor who by now looked much different to earlier. I told her that I would be walking back home to tell whoever I lived with that I had to be there later in the evening to play role. (in real life I live in residential supported housing with 24hr care provided)

Before I had the chance to leave the assembly room, the dream cut to me walking on the street. I was on my way home until my road became gate locked. I needed special permission to have access to my road. The man who forbid me to go through to the gate was African, wore a builder’s hat and was sporting sunglasses. I was in a really bad mood because they wouldn’t let me through. I then looked back from where I was standing and saw two random ladies who I assume were the landlock managers. They nodded their head at the African man, who then let me through to my road. The road that I entered turned from being a town road to a country road in a space of a few seconds. I then walked over the fence and entered my house which looked nothing like the house I live in for real. Even the people were different apart from one support worker.

When I told my support worker (description: African, overweight) that I had to be back by the night time to act in the play, he initially told me that I shan’t go. A few seconds later he changed his mind and said the he was going to get in trouble for letting me go but instead gave me permission. I then left the house in a very bad mood for no apparent reason. In real life I would’ve been really happy if I was given permission to go. Finally, It turns out that a script had been written for the school play and the production was The Wizard of Oz. Earlier on I said that I was given the role of a landlord. It had now been changed to a narrating monkey.

The last scene was cut to me being airlifted down onto the stage in an embarrassing monkey costume whilst narrating the story of The Wizard of Oz. I remember distinctly putting on a deep voice whilst in-character (a voice similar to Leslie Phillips- the Briish actor). The reception of the production was really good and there was so much support and cheer from the audience. Before I had the chance to finish the show, the dream ended and I woke up.

Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events just before the dream), some ideas can be tried out to see if they might fit your personal situation in some way.

Just to start off by saying that dreams are the broad equivalent to those processes which keep our physical bodies in an equilibrium.

For example, automatic adjustments are continually made to keep one’s temperature, blood sugar level, water levels etc. etc. at appropriate levels.

Similarly, dreams try to maintain an overall psychological balance which will allow for the gradual all-round self-development of the dreamer.

Of course, the problem is that dreams require a certain level of knowledge and experience in order to interpret them accurately and access to reliable guidance in this area isn’t really usually available to most of us to build up such a foundation.

On the other hand, by keeping a close eye on our dreams, we can often get at least a broad feeling of how things are going on overall in our lives.

The language of dreams consists of metaphor and analogy which can be very complex, but some motifs in dreams are fairly consistent although the dreamer’s own spontaneous feelings, memories and thoughts about a given image can easily override any kind of fixed explanation, especially those found in “dream dictionaries” for example.

So some of the motifs in your dream include school, plays, scripts, actors, people in authority, audiences and performances.

A couple of these also appear in the four dreams you mentioned in another post.

Generally speaking, schools in dreams often are hinting that the dreamer needs to learn something about a current situation.

Also, a primary school might also symbolize the need to learn about some early experience(s) which might still be affecting the dreamer unconsciously too often.

In addition, certain remnants of attitudes and ways of acting etc. could possibly be too active in an age-inappropriate way.

Your dream begins in high school where the form tutor tells you that you’ve been given the lead role in a big production in your primary school.

One method of looking at dreams which might seem a little too obvious (but which can be very helpful) is to imagine what it would be like if a given dream event happened in outer life.

So for example, it wouldn’t really make any sense for you, a high schooler, to be given a leading role in a primary school production. Similarly, no script has even been written.

Since you have a strong desire to become a great actor, it’s possible that the dream, because of all of the references to acting etc. which it contains, is symbolically showing your current situation in relation with this goal.

If so, it looks like the dream could possibly be advising you to reconsider how you might have to approach this objective.

For example, the images of females in the dreams of a guy usually are related to his emotions and values. In addition, they touch on certain other areas he may not be very attuned to such as maybe handling practical realities very well or in listening to intuitions in a reliable way.

In your dream, the female form tutor is “pale”, “blonde” and “thin”, perhaps suggesting an as yet weak connection with handling emotions which could possibly become a handicap in how you look to others at times (e.g. your uncle in the dream is also pale and you’re afraid he could have a seizure).

The tutor also changes in appearance, maybe further hinting how your emotional and relationship side might tend to “come and go” in various circumstances.

Similarly, your Nan and another woman “disappear”, leaving you with your uncle who looks ill.

Later, an aggressive woman who breathes down your neck is linked to a performance that apparently never takes place even though the audience is applauding. This could possibly point to some kind of semi-obsessive feeling-desire to become an actor “no matter what” which might not work very well in practical terms (e.g. earlier, you didn’t like having to do the “grunt work” of stage production and audience entertainment).

Maybe the idea of wanting to become a great actor “no matter what” comes up in the image of the African man who stops you getting into the street which leads to your home.

For example, maybe you’re having a bit of a hard time right now and so are living in the residential supported housing where 24 hr care is provided.

If so, the dream apparently shows this as being a kind of “safe haven” at this time (e.g. two ladies quietly overrule the African man who then lets you in; the road becomes a pleasant country lane type of thing).

In this way of looking at your dream, the African man would represent a sort of wrong-headed feeling that somehow is urging a too-high-a-goal all-at-once approach instead of gradually working towards it step by step.

Similarly, it’s a fat African support worker (maybe his obesity symbolizing an “unhealthy” way of acting) who gives in and lets you go to the play.

And the final scene isn’t really a triumph because you have to wear an embarrassing monkey costume while being lowered down to the stage.

Also, while charming and fun, the Wizard of Oz isn’t really meant to reflect “reality as it is”, maybe suggesting that if you stay “too high up” in your current ambition while sort of symbolically “aping” a posh accent (like Leslie Phillips does), the “show” unfortunately might not end like you think it will (the audience applauds but you wake up before the show is actually over).

Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.

Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your dream.