“The recurring dream from my childhood was the Wicked Witch Of The West walking up my road, bending each lamp post over and blowing out each lamp one by one as she got closer and closer, and when she blew out the last lamp I woke up... like, wailing.”

Dr. Bulkeley Says: “I don’t know anything about the dreamer’s personal life, but his nightmares reveal a painful truth: death is coming to get us. The reference to the Wicked Witch Of The West from The Wizard Of Oz indicates an early turn to movies as a refuge from this fear. Movies offer the fantasy of immortality — if death is cast as the Wicked Witch, perhaps the dreamer can be like Dorothy and escape her clutches.”

Kelly Bulkeley PhD is author of Dreaming In The World’s Religions: A Comparative History and An Introduction To The Psychology Of Dreaming. www kellybulkeley.com