Jane Teresa Anderson
Hello! I’m Jane Teresa Anderson BSc Hons, dream analyst, dream therapist, writer, and mentor, living in Hobart, Australia, consulting, training, and mentoring worldwide.
Published by Hachette, Little Brown (Piatkus), Random House, and Harper Collins, I am the author of eight books. My most recent book is Ninth Life (May 2024), my debut fiction following seven books on dreams and dreaming. I am a frequent guest in the media, and an accomplished radio dream talk-back expert, interpreting callers’ dreams for more than 1,500 shows across commercial and ABC stations.
I host a podcast series, The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson, where I interpret guests’ dreams and share dream interpretation tips and insights. The Dream Show began in 2009, and celebrated 15 years (and 279 episodes) in May 2024. It continues to grow at the rate of one episode a month.
In early 2017 I established The Dream Academy as a platform to deliver my training courses online so students can learn at their own pace in their own time. The platform continues, every year, to educate and train students from all over the world.
With an Honours degree in Zoology specialising in developmental neurobiology from the University of Glasgow, (graduating as Jane Teresa Newton), I have been researching dreams since 1992, and developing and teaching dream alchemy practices (exercises) that shift perspective and reprogram unconscious limiting beliefs.
My approach to dream analysis, dream therapy, and dream alchemy is based on my independent research and on deep work with clients since 1992. For more about my approach and methodology – as well as an outline of the nature of dreams and dreaming – see the About Dreams page.
For the earlier years, how it all began, scroll to end.
Photo credits:
Profile images: Michael Collins, 2023
Books
Ninth Life How far would you go to make your last life count?
May 2024 (Fiction)
About Ninth Life
Bird of ParadiseTaming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams to Fruition
May 2020
About Bird of Paradise
The Dream Handbook
2018, Hachette Australia
2018, Little Brown (Piatkus) UK
About The Dream Handbook
Dream Alchemy
2nd edition, 2007, Hachette Australia
1st edition, 2003, Lothian Books Australia
The Shape of Things to Come
1998, Random House Australia
About The Shape of Things to Come
Dream It: Do It!
1995, Harper Collins (Angus & Robertson) Australia
Sleep On It
1994, Harper Collins (Angus & Robertson) Australia
101 Dream Interpretation Tips
2007
The Compass
2008
Media appearances on television, radio, and podcast include:
Television
ABC Weekend Breakfast, (nationwide);
Sunrise, Channel Seven (nationwide);
The Morning Show, Channel Seven (nationwide)
– Monthly Guest 2 years;
The House of Wellness, Channel Seven (nationwide);
The Today Show, Channel Nine (nationwide);
Today Extra, Channel Nine (nationwide)
– Frequent Guest;
Mornings, Channel Nine (nationwide);
Studio 10, Channel Ten (nationwide);
The Daily Edition, Channel Seven (nationwide);
Bert Newton’s Good Morning Australia, Channel Ten (nationwide)
– Monthly Guest 2 years;
Brisbane Extra, Channel Nine.
The Today Show (Channel Nine), 25 September 2024
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ABC Weekend Breakfast
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Channel Nine, Today Extra
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Channel Nine, The Today Show
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Channel Nine, Today Extra
The House of Wellness, Channel Seven
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Radio
This is a list of some of the radio stations where I have appeared on various shows over the years (mostly multiple times). In most cases my role is to interpret callers’ dreams and generally interact with live audiences. I always enjoy the spontaneity and immediacy of radio.
LBC London Breakfast (UK)
LBC Radio (UK)
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BBC Radio Five Live (UK)
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The 96FM Opinion Line with PJ Coogan (Cork, Ireland)
Classic Hits 4FM (Dublin, Ireland)
Radio 1 UAE (UAE)
Q104-7fm, Ventura, (California USA)
The Hits Drive with Matty and PJ (New Zealand)
RadioLIVE (New Zealand)
Today FM (New Zealand)
More FM 92.2 (New Zealand)
ZM Radio (New Zealand)
Australia:
ABC RN (Radio National)
ABC Digital Radio
ABC 612 Brisbane
– including regular guest with Paul Lineham, 3 years;
– Chris Welsh, 1 year;
– Carolyn Tucker, 1 year;
– Spencer Howson, 2 years
ABC 702 Sydney
– including regular guest with Lisa Forrest, 1 year
ABC 3LO Melbourne
– including regular guest, 1 year
ABC 936 Hobart
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– including regular guest with Peter Hughes, season
– including regular guest with Paul McIntyre
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ABC 2CN Canberra
– including regular guest, 3 years
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ABC Adelaide
ABC 720 Perth
ABC 105.7 Darwin
– including regular guest with Annie Gastin, 3 years
ABC South Australia
ABC Victoria
ABC North West
ABC North QLD
ABC Kimberley
ABC Queensland
– including regular guest with Ingrid Just, season
ABC NSW Statewide
ABC 1233 Newcastle
ABC Central West
ABC Sunshine Coast
ABC Tropical North
ABC triple j
4BC Brisbane
– including regular guest with Greg Carey, 2 years
3AK Melbourne
– including regular guest with Leigh Drew, 2 years;
– YvonneAdele and Annette Allison, season
3AW Melbourne
– including regular guest with Sally Cockburn, Dr Feelgood Show – syndicated – , season
2UE Sydney
2GB Sydney
2SM Sydney
2HD Newcastle
6PR Perth
2CC Canberra
FIVEaa Adelaide
– including regular guest with Daniel Norton, 2 years
4GR Toowoomba
3BO Bendigo
2BS Bathurst
8HA Alice Springs
The Night Show syndicate
– regular guest with Christo, season
92.9 Perth
92.7 MixFM Sunshine Coast
96.5 Wave FM
B105 Brisbane
BayFM Geelong
Gold 104.3 Melbourne
Hit Network National Weekend Breakfast
Hit 107 Adelaide
Hit WA
KIIS 106.5FM The Thinkergirls
KOFM Newcastle
Mix 101.1FM Melbourne
– including frequent guest with Brig and Lehmo, 1 year
Mix106.3 Canberra
Mix 106.5 Sydney
Nova 919 Adelaide
NXFM Newcastle
PowerFM South Australia
– including frequent guest with Powerpack Breakfast, 1 year
River 94.9FM Ipswich
SAFM 107.1 Adelaide
SEAFM 91.9
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SEAFM 101.3
SEAFM 99.5 Cairns
Star FM Griffith
Star FM Gippsland
Star 106.3FM Townsville
Talking Lifestyle Radio (syndicated Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane)
Triple M Melbourne
Triple M Sydney
Triple M Adelaide
Triple M Mackay and The Whitsundays
Triple M Hobart
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Podcasts
I have been a guest on many podcast shows, including:
The Holderness Family (series 7, ep 23)
It’s All True (series 4, ep 8)
Print and digital media
I am regularly interviewed for magazine and newspaper print and digital articles in Australia, USA, UK, and online. Articles have appeared in many of the popular glossy magazines and print papers, including Stella Magazine (Telegraph UK magazine), QWeekend (Courier Mail magazine), Courier Mail, Herald Sun, The Express UK, Muse Magazine, Sainsbury’s Magazine, Cleo, Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day, New Idea, That’s Life, Dolly. Digital articles include The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Stylist UK, The Cut New York, Metro News UK, Glamour, Express.co.uk, The Glow, Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Women’s Weekly, DailyMail, The Sun UK, The Daily Telegraph, iNews UK, Startsat60, Mumsgrapevine, Vice, Good Health Magazine, Women’s Fitness Magazine, Cosmopolitan, News.com.au, Mamamia, 9Honey, VeryWellMind.com.
How it all began
The early years
Born in England, I graduated (as Jane Teresa Newton) from the University of Glasgow with an Honours degree in Zoology, specialising in developmental neurobiology. After a brief post graduate affair with neurophysiological research at London’s National Institute for Medical Research, I abandoned my PhD studies, along with several one-eyed experimental goldfish, and returned to Scotland. I wanted to work in a more personally meaningful way to communicate complex scientific ideas to the broader community.
I began with two years at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Museum as a Writer & Producer of travelling exhibitions. I learned writing and media skills on the job and had a free hand in deciding on the subject material I wanted to put on the road. One exhibition, titled ‘Mermaids, Myths and Monsters’, was a creative adventure in setting science alongside mythology to illustrate alternative perceptions of the same world.
The dream research work began
In 1992, living in Australia and inspired by an ongoing curiosity about my dreams, an increasing realisation that I had skills to offer in this field, and a combination of synchronistic events, I decided to research dreams, an exercise in faith and frugal living that has been meaningfully fruitful and personally rewarding.
My first book was published
My first book, Sleep On It, was published by HarperCollins in 1994, by which time I was already established as a regular ABC radio guest interpreting callers’ dreams. My passions for writing and dream work are equal, and often dance hand in hand.
1998: Launch of my website
In 1998, just before my third book, The Shape of Things to Come, was published by Random House, I thought it might be a good idea to have a website – a rather edgy concept in those early internet days. I imagined a website as an extended brochure about my books and my work, and a way for people to stay in contact and hear about my future books. Beyond that, I didn’t really know much about websites, their function, or how to create one. I had an email address, but did not use the internet, which was more or less the case with most people back then. I decided to plunge right in, regardless of my lack of knowledge. My publishers said they’d be happy to include my web address on the back cover of my book, and that they’d need that information within a couple of weeks. I had about seven weeks to get help in creating a website. By the time the book came out I had a six page website. Little did I know how much that would grow and where it would lead. And so a new millennium began.
Jane Teresa