How meaningful are dreams, and are some dreams more meaningful than others? If you’re a very dedicated dreamer you might be in the habit of interpreting every single dream you remember, but when you remember several dreams a night this can feel overwhelming. If some dreams are more meaningful than others wouldn’t it be good
We’re celebrating our 200th episode with something a little different. My guest, Anthony Metivier, creator of the Magnetic Memory Method and author of a range of books about memory and language learning, shares his tips on how to remember more of your dreams by building a dream memory palace. Intrigued? Tired of having his sleep
My book, The Dream Handbook, will be published by Hachette (Australia) on 30 January and by Piatkus (UK) on 22 February, so I’m getting into book launch frame of mind. If you already have my last book, Dream Alchemy, a much-loved classic first published in 2003, you’ll discover that The Dream Handbook is an updated
My guest, Anna from Norway, asks about her dream of receiving a gift of a small-scale house made entirely of gingerbread, so freshly baked that the glazing was still wet. It wasn’t really something Anna wanted, as she had little room in her home for it, but the gift was a special assignment made for
I woke up in the middle of the night remembering a discussion I had with Veronica, a school friend, on a bus trip sometime during my early teens. “Is time a straight line, an endless cycle of circles, or a spiral?” she asked, drawing invisible lines, circles, and spirals in the air with a sweep of
My guest, LRH from Sydney, dreamed of meeting a business investor who invited her to take some free corporate gifts, some pencils and erasers. They stood looking at a range of swimming pools, each with a different temperature or feeling, when suddenly, to her complete shock, the investor pushed her in the deep end of
People get quite excited when they hear about it. “Oh, this is amazing,” a radio presenter said to me recently during a breakfast show, “and it makes so much sense!” We were talking about how to combine the art and science of interpreting dreams, and I gave a very simple example of looking at a
Alexandra, from England, is my guest with a dream that begins with dressing up in a white spandex suit to go to a vintage disco, and ends with walking an ancient causeway called Pilgrims Way. What was she wearing on Pilgrims Way? Why, red knickers and red bra, of course, as you do. This beautiful,
Today’s the day the doors open wide for enrolment into the dream therapist professional certificate online courses at The Dream Academy. Yes, we’re launched, and so delighted to welcome the first students whose names have graced the waiting list for the past weeks and months. They’re in, and happily exploring, and now we’re ready for
Constance is my guest this episode with a dream about a phosphorescent green viper breaking out from the earth in her garden. The next morning, she awoke with the first signs of atopic dermatitis, a skin ailment that stayed with her for the next two and a half years. Constance had read that snakes in