Dreaming Lens: Were you with a celebrity intimately, or was it a celebrity sighting? Did you know each other? What was the connection between you? Were there other people around? Did you have sex? Were you comfortable with the connection that you had? Did you want more? Did you want less?
Personal Focus: Celebrities are the gods and goddesses of modern life and represent archetypal human qualities with which we all identify. The essence of a particular celebrity’s image can be distilled into a Character Aspect, based on our perceptions. Millions of people hold the same projected image of celebrities. The power of all that magnified perception endows them with superhuman status and removes any sense of who these people are underneath their personas.
Celebrities show up in our dreams when the stakes are a little higher in terms of what we’re dreaming about. By providing a more powerful image, the unconscious is telling you to pay more attention. Approach the interpretation of a celebrity the same way you would anyone else who is in your dreams. When considering the qualities of the person you are dreaming about, remember to look at everything about him or her. Take into account how you perceive the person, including if you are a fan or not, or whether he or she is currently in or out of public favor. When interpreting a celebrity from a dream, first consider what this person embodies on the universal level. Then, and only then, add your personal feelings about the person. When you have done this, you will be clear about what Character Aspect of yourself you are dreaming of.
In the way that people in our dreams represent Character Aspects of ourselves, celebrities represent Character Aspects of the global consciousness as reflected by the idea of archetypes. Celebrities are our modern-day gods and goddesses. Dreaming about one of these elite individuals represents a need for you to explore their qualities as a Character Aspect that is embodied by you, but in a much more powerful way. In a process identical to working with a Character Aspect of someone at the pedestrian level, a celebrity’s fame elevates the significance of the meaning you assign to them. Your unconscious is using the notoriety associated with their public visibility to get your attention. It is, in effect, providing you with an image that has a chance of making the dream memorable upon waking so that you might more readily take notice of the guidance available to you in the dream.
Sexual dreams with celebrities are common. Most dreamers assume this is so because of how attractive most of them are. Additionally, what they do puts them in a position to carry the sexual fantasies of their fans. However, in dream work, sexual dreams with celebrities are common because the drive to integrate archetypal energy is integral to the evolution of our souls. When the unconscious is encouraging you to own the more powerful parts of your psychic makeup, there is no better way for it to get your attention than through highly charged, sexual imagery.
It is natural for us to need larger-than-life representations of the human experience to motivate us through the various challenges we face while managing the stressors and disappointments that are a part of life’s journey. Our culture’s fascination with the life of celebrities provides us with hope that our own lives have the potential for excitement and glamour, even if this is just a fantasy. In fact, such fantasies can function as survival mechanisms for many people.
Discovering what a dream that involves a celebrity might be telling you is the same as with any Character Aspect. Since we are in the realm of archetypal energy when dealing with celebrities, the quality that your dream is inviting you to explore may be very obvious. A sports figure may be asking you to examine your willingness to play the game of life with more confidence whereas a pop singer may be suggesting that more self-expression is crying out for release. If you get stuck on how to interpret the meaning of a celebrity’s presence, the technique of using three adjectives to describe them works just as well with the famous as with the ordinary.