Edie, from Panama in Central America, is my guest with a trio of linked dreams spanning six decades, starting with a dream she had at age six, finishing with one she had at age sixty-eight. Throughout her life from the age of six, Edie has noticed several characters recurring in her dreams. Among them is
Why do we have bad dreams? Should we pay them attention? How can we stop them? Let’s face it, no-one wants to experience bad dreams, whether they’re of the full-on horror variety that leave you terrified to go back to sleep, or whether they’re more of the anxious, stressful variety that disrupt your sleep and
Liz from Queensland, Australia, is my guest today with a dream about running on a dusty path, and all the things she encounters along the way. There’s a prison to pass through, there are old metal car parts being thrown her way, there’s the potential for fire, and there are people suggesting she take a
As we begin to emerge from the emergency of 2020, how can our dreams help us to contribute to building a better world? In this episode we take one of our occasional pauses from having a guest on the show, to focus on delivering tips for exploring your dreams along a specific theme. I have
Here’s an extract from my 2020 book, Bird of Paradise–Taming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams to Fruition. And if this entices you to keep turning the pages, you’ll find more details about this, my seventh book, here. Introduction: Garden of Dreams This book that you have before you is part whimsical memoir, part healing
Erica, from Austin, Texas, is my guest with a dream about joining a line of people at a funeral or wake – she wasn’t sure which. Someone from her graduating class, who had died, was in the line, very much alive and well. Whose funeral was it? One of Erica’s friends was there, and a
Sue from Rye, England, is my guest with a dream about finding keys and valuable jewels in a dried cat’s stomach. Of course, there’s more to the tale! Sue’s dream begins with revisiting a small house she liked, with a view to buying it. It has pluses and minuses, and it has a box that
Jane from Sebastopol, California, is my guest with a dream that begins with a roiling boil of rats and ends with the discovery of a bee colony and a newly seeded geometric garden. Along the way, she meets a black bear, several chaotic, shadowy situations, and spends some time at a college party with a
Rita from Cape Town, South Africa, is my guest asking about her dream of a baby crawling in the middle of a busy highway to retrieve her dummy. There were twins, one on the side of the road, one crawling into head-on traffic before getting run over by a van. Rita was hysterical, but the
Kim from Washington State, USA, is my guest with a dream about a parting of the clouds to reveal a golden sunset and a white sandy beach scattered with sheep. Sheep on the beach? What’s that about? Oh, and by the way, the sheep were Jesus’s sheep. Earlier on in the dream, the dramas and