FAIRGROUND

If your dreaming mind conjured up an image of a fairground, it may have been commenting on your response to waking life. For example, if you dreamed of taking a rollercoaster ride, are you feeling apprehensive or sick of the dramatic ups and downs in your life recently? If you were spinning on a carousel, do you feel as if you are going round and round in circles and making no progress in waking life? Or does your carousel dream feature sexual symbolism, with images of horses and flying and a desire to return to the sexual innocence of childhood? If you dreamed of swaying gently in a carriage on a Ferris wheel looking down at the world below, your dreaming mind may be encouraging you to take an overview of the bigger picture of your life.

If you were interested in or involved with a puppet show in your dream, this may be a warning that somebody is trying to manipulate you in waking life and pull your strings. Swings are an image of childhood freedom and may have a similar interpretation to dreams of flying.

If you are using the Freudian interpretation of swings as images of sexual intercourse, the person or thing who is pushing the swing in your dream will be significant. Dreams of playing on a seesaw have the same sexual associations.

1- To dream of being in a fairground may represent a recon- nection with the light-hearted childlike side of ourselves. We can afford to be less inhibited in public.

To be attending a carnival or fiesta means we can drop whatever constraints or restraints we may impose on ourselves or others.

2- The fairground has a dreamlike quality of its own.

It is a sort of enclosed world, and to dream of one indicates we arc becoming aware of the more hedonistic side of our nature. We are more wrapped up in our own pleasures.

3- Life’s merry-go-round and its spiritual ‘ups and downs’.

A dream about being on a fairground often draws on the feelings we had when at fairs as a child. These could be happy, fun feelings, or unpleasant feelings. Otherwise, the dream indicates something about one’s life in the public arena, or social connections.