Dreaming Lens: Are you singing or is someone else? Is there a group of people singing or just one voice? Are you witnessing the singing? Is it recorded or live? Is anyone else listening?
Personal Focus: Singing is an ancient, primal expression of passion. When words are not enough, singing becomes the next heightened form of communication. The ability to sing is so revered that we elevate superior voices to high status in our media and culture.
Technically, singing is merely a sustained extension of speaking—the basic principle here is the power and passion of the expression. If someone is singing in your dream, the message that is being communicated is very important. So important, that the spoken word was not enough to carry the force of the weight of that message. Therefore, it is important to consider what is being sung and incorporate the message into your interpretation.
Losing one’s voice in a dream might correspond to a feeling of lack of passion in your waking life or a loss of expression due to some challenging circumstance. If you can sing in your waking life, your personal relationship to your singing is crucial to consider. If you are critical, you may be connecting to being judgmental of your passion, or lack of it. If you cannot sing as well as you wish you could, you might be longing for more passionate encounters by dreaming of being able to sing in your sleep state. Singing before an audience may connect to a need to rally inner resources behind some common desired aim or goal. If someone else is singing in your dream, use the Character Aspect technique to determine what part of you is expressing a passionate need to get your attention.