Strange dreams, Vee Van Dam, Carl Jung and dream analysis

In my dream I was in a radio station studio with a panel of dials and buttons, faders and knobs, screens and strange devices and I was accompanied by my good friend Steve Johnson. Steve is a radio presenter and DJ of many years experience and has worked on many local radio stations in South Wales where I used to live.

Steve was also a singer and rock musician at one point in his career and he has kept up his interest in what is happening on the music scene in South Wales and the Valleys. I have been on his shows on Red Dragon FM, of Radio Wales, on Valleys Radio and on Bridge Radio, both as a quest for a spot of chat and as a live musician. At one point in the late '90s Steve was also my lecturer at college when I was studying for a BTEC Diploma in Media Studies.

So, yes, I know Steve Johnson very well and I know he thinks I am well-suited to working on the radio as a presenter myself because he wrote me a great reference saying so. Now, all this fits together because I have for the past few years been trying hard to get taken on by any of the radio stations here on Tenerife. So far with no luck.

In my dream Steve leaves me to put a show together and goes out of the studio. I look at all the knobs and dials and slots and players and am lost. I realise I don't understand how to use any of it and am panicking. I am thinking here is my big chance to be a radio presenter and I am unable to do anything and I cannot even ask my friend because he has gone. I start looking at the controls on the dashboard and panels and it all looks like something from another world. It looks like technology I have never seen in this life so I am thinking how can I use controls when I don't even know what they do. Then I wake up.

Thinking about this dream later I have worked out it was presenting a friend I trust who could help, but he can only help so far and this is why he leaves. It was showing me a situation that reflected my so far failed quest to be a Tenerife radio presenter, and it was highlighting a problem that I have - I am very technophobic and useless with mechanical stuff and electrical devices. In the dream this was represented by the studio panels I couldn't recognise or use. I woke up because I was unable to get any further with any of it and it was too upsetting to be in the situation.