What kind of results are you getting from doing dream alchemy? Doing, is the important word. You can read about it (my book, The Dream Handbook), understand how it works, design one for yourself, but it’s only when you actually commit to doing a dream alchemy practice that magic – healing magic – happens. Helen
I love hearing stories like this one. Renee Price, a keen listener of our podcast show, flew interstate last week to visit a relative in a hospice. She took my book, Dream Alchemy, (2019: Retitled The Dream Handbook) with her, and was moved to email me her experience. (I asked Renee for permission to share
When is a piece of jewellery not a piece of jewellery? (That’s jewelry for those of you who smile at our English-Australian spelling.) Remember Heidi, my guest on episode 68 of The Dream Show? Heidi is a celebrity TV presenter of a cooking show in Shanghai, and also runs Sanctus Stones, a wearable energy business,
Buying a dream dictionary from a bookshop is not really going to be very helpful to you because most dream symbols are personal to the dreamer. An elephant in Joe’s dream might mean something completely different to an elephant in Matt’s dream, for example. Joe might be a cartoonist who learned his first cartooning skills
Have you ever dreamed of trying to walk or run somewhere only your feet feel glued to the ground, or the air around you seems viscous and sticky, making what should be an easy pace into an intense gym workout? You have? It’s a very common dream theme. So what does it mean, and why
How many different landscapes have you encountered in your dreams? Have you visited mountains, forests, deserts, foreign cities, unknown suburbs, rolling hills and valleys, lush countryside, steep rock cliffs, or barren wastelands? What do these dream settings mean? The landscape in your dream helps describe the situation you find yourself in, the one your dream
“Twenty times a day for two weeks!” is the startled response I usually hear when I describe the procedure for a dream alchemy visualisation to a first-time client. “Yes, then twice a day for another four weeks,” I add, “just first thing in the morning and last thing at night.” (Dream alchemy practices are simple
Recent research has got people all excited about a possible link between people who thrash about in bed while they’re dreaming and the later development of dementia, in particular, Parkinson’s Disease. Here’s a video clip (2019: Video clip no longer available) of me talking about this on The Morning Show, Channel 7, this morning. So let’s
Can you control your dreams? Can you control other people’s dreams? Have you seen the movie Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, released in recent weeks? It’s about a team of people who control other people’s dreams and get them to reveal their secrets. The team is asked to go one stage
Here’s the video clip of my appearance on Sunrise, Channel 7, this morning. We’re talking about the movie Inception, which raises the question of whether we can control our dreams and whether we can control other people’s dreams. (2019: Video clip no longer live.) (Here’s the information-packed blog on lucid dreaming I wrote the next day.)