SPEECH

If you spoke angrily or wearily, this may show how you are feeling about something or someone.

If you are nervous before your speech, there is something you need to say or some information you need to impart but feel apprehensive about doing so. Pay attention also to the way in which your speech was received.

If you were cheered and clapped, you feel confident and upbeat, but if you were booed and jeered, you feel uncertain and lacking in confidence.

If close friends or family were in the audience applauding, you are feeling supported or appreciated by them.

If you listen to a speech by someone else, were they saying anything that might be relevant to you in waking life? If the speaker was famous, this might be wish-fulfillment but also might reflect concern with an issue or feeling that they represent to you.

See also Speaking entry in SOUNDS.

If someone is talking to you: you are getting on people’s nerves. Giving a speech: you are too ambitious. Listening to someone else’s speech: a warning not to let other people talk you into things.

See Speaking.

Depth Psychology: Are you trying to make others understand you better? Have you decided finally to speak your mind, express your opinion? Do you feel misunderstood or ignored right now? For a person who normally is not talkative, the dream is a challenge to be more courageous and assertive.

For more outgoing people, it is a warning about being too ambitious, too talkative, and too pushy. You know which of the above applies to you!

The person making the speech is a part of your consciousness that has the main idea. Those listening represent other thought patterns that are being exposed to the singular idea. What are you trying to convince yourself of? On the other hand, since many people have strong feelings about public speaking, a dream about a speech could indicate that you are preparing to face something in a public way that frightens you.