Dreams, Secrets & Lost Voices (Live TikTok)
In this live‑recorded episode, Roula and Rosie dive into the strange world of dreams, subconscious fears and secret‑keeping. Roula wakes up from a terrifying nightmare where she is screaming so loudly that her voice disappears, triggering a discussion about how we use our voices and what it means when we can’t. The pair explore why some people struggle to remember dreams and share a second surreal story about Roula’s cats pulling up the floorboards to reveal mice before laying the floor back perfectly. This leads to a candid conversation about keeping secrets: Roula confesses she’s held onto someone else’s request for years, wonders if it’s time to reveal it, and reflects on the stress of being an “accomplice” to something that isn’t hers to share. Rosie suggests that the dreams may be her subconscious processing the burden.
Listeners will enjoy the candid honesty of this TikTok live episode, where nothing is off‑limits—from nightmares and voice loss to the pressures of secrecy and the therapeutic value of talking it out. Tune in for laughter, introspection and the relatable feeling of waking up from a dream that just won’t let go.
Episode Highlights
- 00:35 – Voice‑losing nightmare: Roula describes a dream where she screams so hard she loses her voice and wakes up terrified. Rosie relates, noting that nightmares often make it hard to scream.
- 01:10 – The importance of our voice: The hosts discuss how vital our voice is for communication and self‑expression, especially when it fails in a dream.
- 02:30 – Cat & floorboard dream: Roula recalls a bizarre dream in which her cats remove floorboards, reveal mice and then neatly replace the floor. Rosie jokingly asks if she has any secrets hidden under the floor.
- 06:20 – Keeping secrets: Roula admits she’s kept someone else’s secret for years and wonders whether to reveal it. She reflects on feeling like an accomplice and the stress of holding it in. Rosie suggests her dreams may reflect this internal conflict.
Have you ever lost your voice in a dream or struggled with keeping someone else’s secret? Share your experiences in the comments or leave us a voice note—your stories might appear in a future episode! Don’t forget to subscribe and rate The Rosie & Roula Show wherever you listen and follow us on TikTok and Instagram for more behind‑the‑scenes content.
Topics covered:
- Nightmares that feel real
- Losing your voice in a dream
- Cats, secrets, and subconscious symbolism
- The fine line between keeping a secret and carrying a burden
- Why stress often shows up in dreams before it shows up in real life
What do you think your dreams are trying to tell you?
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TRANSCRIPT
Roula (00:00)
Hello listeners, a quick little message to let you know that the next four episodes were recorded live on TikTok. So they might sound a little bit different to our usual episodes. I hope you enjoy them and there'll be more to come. So give us your feedback. Do you like this live format? Do you not like it?
And we'll go from there. Enjoy.
Roula (00:35)
So you know what, I woke up from a dream and this dream I was screaming so loud, I was upset and screaming very loud that my voice disappeared. And I woke up feeling that my voice was gone. And of course, if you're awake at six in the morning, who are you going to talk to?
with your husband sleeping, who is thinking of going crazy, trying to test my voice. Is my voice there? Is my voice You would have woken up like really stressed then. ⁓ I woke up very stressed. Like, what the fuck just happened? What was this dream? Why did it happen? You know what happens to me? Like, I'll be like in a nightmare and I need to like scream out for help. And my voice just, it won't do it.
It's I'm trying to shout at a
It feels so real, you're in desperate situation and your dream and your voice is... How important is our voice? True, yeah. Yeah, it's how we communicate. Well, those of us who And I also another dream. So this night I remembered both of my dreams. Usually I don't remember any of my dreams. One of my dreams was... Well, okay, the dream where I was screaming is so private I cannot...
tell what it was. These are my life trauma. The other dream that I had tonight was that I went downstairs and my cats, they figured a way to pull out part of the floor and then all kinds of mice and rats were there and my cats were like eating them. And then
I went downstairs again in my dream and the floor was perfect and I was thinking, my God, my cats, they know exactly how to put the floor back again. That's why I'm impressed by my cats in my dream. Should we try to interpret these dreams?
Yes. Yes. You've been having a lot of dreams lately and you've been remembering them. Yeah. Very unusual. It is unusual. What's going on? What's going on? I don't know if it's that I'm sleeping light or that my dreams are so traumatizing. They're making me wake up.
Hmm. I think both of those sound great. Yeah. Do you remember your dreams? Do you have technique to remember your dream when you wake up? ⁓ yeah. I'm not good at remembering my dreams. I don't dream every night either. that I didn't know. You wouldn't know. Whatever. Fucking no.
Rosie, if you don't remember your dream, how do you know if you dreamt or not? no, no. Okay, no. I wake up and I know I've dreamt and I'm trying to remember the dream and I can't. So I know I've dreamt, but I don't remember the dream necessarily, or I'll remember a random bit of it. ⁓ I know that my husband, the first thing he does when he opened his eyes is to write down his dreams and he's been doing this for
10 plus years. He trained himself to remember his dream in the morning. He has a note on his telephone where he write down his dreams every morning. Does he read back over them? Well, sometimes he tells me what his dream was and he's an owie and I'm like, am I supposed to feel something, be impressed? It sounds very
insignificant dream?
Wow. are so personal. years of like dream logs. Yeah, that's true. And they're really strange. Your dreams last night was strange. Especially the one that I was screaming my logs out. Wow. That's horrible. You know, you said let's try to to interpret, to explain the dreams. Yeah. I mean, I'm not.
like fully seriously into that but like you know cats ripping up the floorboards like have you buried a dead body under there are you worried about someone discovering your big dirty dark secret or have you got like a stash of illegal drugs under there
No, that's not the place. I mean, it would be really hard for me to grab them whenever I need them.
I have better place for that. Well, that interpretation failed. Are you stressed about something personal coming to light? Something you haven't shared?
Come on. It's like you read my mind. I have been for a few days feeling that there is something I know about. Okay, let me put it in more interesting story because people will be like, can you give us a clue? What the fuck are you talking about? Long time ago, someone asked me for to do something.
to help them with something and asked me to keep it for myself. And this is years ago. And I still kept it for myself. But after all these years, I'm now wondering, is it time for this to come to light? Shall I talk to this person about the secret? Ask them, are you now ready to make the secret known? Because I feel an accomplice in something.
And then I had to evaluate, you know, our episodes about secrets. I don't know which number it is, but we have an episode about that it's sometimes good to keep a secret because sometimes we protect our loved ones or the people around us. ⁓ It could be something very private for us that we want to keep it for ourselves. It's so nice to be selfish sometimes. And I realized that this secret that I'm keeping actually
It's better kept silent, like zip it, don't talk about it. But it's stressing you. It's coming out in your subconscious. You know, I should, I should charge to interpret dreams, Roula I got it just on my second try. That's a pretty good hit rate. ⁓ gosh. Yeah. Wow. I preferred your dream about when, when I was in
that was a better one. Although that sounded stressful too because I was an imposter. Yeah, you were an imposter. These three dreams that I remember. Yeah. Okay. So that was some sharing over dreams. I have something else also to talk about, Rosie. Do you want to know what it is? Of course I do. Okay. Are we, are we like nipping these in as episodes in case we want to use them? I feel like maybe we should.
it could be, ⁓ I haven't thought this through. It doesn't matter. Well, we can just leave them now where we're really enjoying this TikTok and we take these topics to make them episodes later. ⁓ my God. Okay. Which we'll have it. But then we rehashing it. We rehashing it then. Cause this is recorded. TikTok saves it. We can use it. Okay. What is rehashing?
What does that mean? Just talking over it again. Same, same. It's not as genuine.
