You’ve heard a lot from me about the healing power of dream alchemy, but can alchemy techniques be used for healing or personal development outside the realm of symbolic dreams? To set the scene and remind you what dream alchemy is, there’s the story of a dream alchemy visualisation I did for one of my
I saw the movie Samsara yesterday, and awoke this morning with a New Year alchemy idea for you to do. I’ve called it Samsara Alchemy, and as I type those words something deep within jumps to attention and formulates a concept for a book by that title, so I take a note to self. In
I’m delighted to announce that Hachette have just published my book, Dream Alchemy, in digital format, available as an instant download from: Amazon as a Kindle Book, iTunes as an iBook, and at GoogleBooks. Also available in paperback here. Enjoy and do please share! Thank you. PS 2018: Dream Alchemy was updated and retitled
Dreams of worms, snakes, rats, ghosts, and bare bottoms, and what they mean, have all been topics on breakfast radio or drive radio when I’ve been on air as the dream expert, taking calls from listeners or interpreting presenters’ dreams. I enjoy radio work, and over the last couple of decades have discussed, interpreted, or
Have you ever met and deeply related with a celebrity or well-known public figure in a dream? How did you feel when you woke up and recalled the dream? Did you feel as if you really made contact, as if it were more than a dream? Did you feel inspired, or energised in some way?
Isn’t it interesting that when we see something new, we first try to fit it with what we already know? Our tendency is to categorise this with that, to file today’s experiences to fit in with yesterday’s, to make sense of our world by making it connect with the picture we have been building, day
Are dreams always symbolic? What about recurring nightmares in which the dreamer relives an actual traumatic experience, over and over again, sometimes several times a week, often for decades? This can be the case for people with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder, a type of anxiety disorder following a traumatic experience). How can these replay
Renee from Ohio is my guest with a dream about stray kittens and a cat litter box with packed-down, concrete-like layers of kitten poo and urine. In the dream she’s aggravated that it’s got to this point, and ready to clean up and choose one of the stray kittens. Renee had gone to sleep the
“Why do we dream in black and white?” It’s a question I’m often asked, and it always makes me smile. “We don’t,” I reply. “You don’t remember noticing colours in your dreams, so you assume you dream in black and white. And shades of grey. But now you know you can dream in colour, you
Is therapy by podcast helpful and effective? Are there risks involved in popping on your earphones, putting your feet up, laying back on the couch, closing your eyes, and listening to a therapist, psychologist, or passionate podcast host speaking – seemingly – just to you? What happens when the podcast is over and the person