Hello, all. After well over two years of posting my dreams I have decided to take a break. Starting next week at this time, I’ll start “Broadway Fred,” a memory column about my experiences as a spectator in Broadway theaters. In the meantime, enjoy two military dreams. And many thanks to Dr. Spiegelvogel, who has helped me over the past few months and has now returned to Vienna.

Dr. Spiegelvogel has interpreted two more of my dreams. As always, I’d be interested in your interpretations.

And here’s the second: 

We continue in our explorations with Dr. Guenther Spiegelvogel of the Performance Therapy Institute in Vienna. First, I read and he interprets one of my dreams:

Then, Spiegelvogel and I discuss:

Hello, all. Once again, I’ll take advantage of Dr. Spiegelvogel and offer a dream interpretation in two parts. First, I read and Spiegelvogel mimes:

Second, we have a brief therapy session:

By the way, I have a show in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival this weekend, September 3, 5, and 6. It’s a memoir/magic show, featuring true stories, magic tricks, and dream interpretations by the good doctor. For more information, go here: http://fred-manofmystery.blogspot.com/

Hi, folks. This video “Fred’s Dreams” is in two parts.  First, a dream is read and interpreted….

…and second, Dr. Spiegelvogel and I have a discussion about it.

We hope you find this enlightening. Some of you will note my making mention of upcoming performances in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. For more information, check out my Fringe blog here: http://fred-manofmystery.blogspot.com/

It is my great pleasure to continue with Dr. Spiegelvogel’s interpretations of selected dreams from my files.

For the time being we will continue with video interpretations by Dr. Spiegelvogel. While last week’s dream was about getting undressed, this week’s is the opposite.

Hello, readers. I have never addressed you directly in this column, but I have some wonderful news. My performance therapist, Dr. Guenther Spiegelvogel, is in the United States for a lengthy visit and he has agreed to let me share some of our work on this blog.

As it is said in the Talmud, “A dream left uninterpreted is like a letter left unopened.” For the next few weeks, Spiegelvogel will help me open my psychic mail in this column. Feel free to reply with your own interpretations.  –Fred

July 5, 2010
I dream I am working at a paramilitary version of a university at which there are many regulations. I have used the mustard wrong, so I am pulled from duty and forced to take a shower. I am given 36 seconds, but I’m told that the time started before I had my clothes off. I am then placed on “line duty.” My job is to herd people through the line of the local dinner theater. I have subordinates who are required to keep people moving through three sets of turnstiles in an orderly manner.

December 13, 2009
I dream I am trying to impress a woman, but when I go to the men’s room my underpants and tee shirt accidentally fall into the toilet. I must conceal this. I can go without underpants but she may wonder where the tee shirt I was wearing had gone. I decide to fess up, even though I can’t quite understand how my underwear got immersed. Then, I head to the Broadway Theater Mall in New York. My parents and I have tickets to a show, but when we go to the line we discover that we have to take a shuttle plane to a nearby island where the play takes place.

August 12, 2006
I dream I am in a bus in NYC, and I spot out of the corner of my eye through a second floor window a very busy shelf with some magic equipment on it. I get out of the bus. On my way over, I meet a man who informs me that I won’t be allowed in there unless I prove to them that I am a real magician. I am not concerned. When I go into the building they let me right in. I climb up onto a desk in a shallow elevator. When I get to the second floor, I see that it’s not only magic stuff, but it’s all weird and rare. A saleswoman shows me a collection of lighting gels with the names of different magicians on them. She also shows me lengths of rope that were used by various magicians and celebrities. I am impressed by the Ethel Merman rope. I get on my phone to call Marc DeSouza, because this is more his sort of thing than mine. When his line picks up people are applauding wildly.

“Fred’s Dreams” appears every Wednesday.

July 9, 2010
I dream there is a gathering at my very mod home, and a friend of my mother’s who sees herself as a nature lover is playing too aggressively with a pet snake. The snake bites her in the mouth and leaves fangs in her tongue. We beg this woman to go to the emergency room, but she just pulls the fangs out of her tongue and goes on with her day. The snake is left without teeth, and it keeps trying to bite the head off of a chicken. The chicken seems to be enjoying having its head in the snake’s mouth and repeatedly pulling it out.

January 2, 2009
I dream Gail and I are on the bus to go to our old high school. We plan on attending classes even though we both graduated decades ago. When we get off the bus the reality of the situation gets to us and we chicken out. Instead, we take a walk through the neighborhood. We see a circus and go there instead.

March 23, 1994
I dream I am going to sleep at an opulent version of Gail’s house. Before I leave my father insists I bring food, so I pack half a chicken. A few minutes later, my father sneaks more chicken into my bag. I feel encumbered by the chicken, so that night after everyone in Gail’s house has gone to bed, I flush the chicken down the toilet. As I flush, the doorbell rings. There are three guys who want to sell me something. By the time I get back to the bathroom, Gail’s mother has rescued the chicken from the toilet and is planning meals. We have a banal conversation about how much we like chicken.

“Fred’s Dreams” appears every Wednesday.