I’m blogging during our state of emergency, personally safe in a high and dry area of Brisbane, while some 40,000 properties in and around the CBD and riverside suburbs are flooding. Thousands of people are evacuating and businesses in the CBD have mostly closed for now. Beyond Brisbane, lives as well as homes have been
Magic happens, and nothing is impossible. One Easter, when I was about six, a bird landed on our backyard washing line. Dad, who was shaving at the kitchen sink, put down his razor and peered through the window, “Is that a budgie perched on our washing line?” We tiptoed into the garden to investigate, hoping
Chocolate or detox tea? Dilemma. We’ve just about emptied our fridge of Christmas indulgences and leftovers, which is probably just as well, but there’s still an enticing dish of nuts on the dining table, and I do love nuts. Tomorrow I’m booked for a kahuna massage, a veritable wave of indulgence and detox combined, and
Here are some things I know about myself: I think at high speed, I generate ideas and solutions quickly, I talk fast, and I read slowly. Michael can read a whole book in the time it takes me to read a couple of chapters. But that’s nothing compared to Geoff, a friend, who reads books
Can you distinguish a dream from reality? Test yourself on this one: John is reading resumes, deciding which candidate to employ for a position. He takes one resume, a sheath of pages attached to a heavy clipboard. “Serious,” he concludes. He takes a second resume, the same number of pages but this time attached to
Are you too busy to explore your dreams? In a leading article on dreams in today’s Brisbane Times, Katherine Feeney writes about “the importance of dreaming in a culture Anderson said was already over-worked, over-tired and disconnected from ‘potential of their dreams’.” Katherine interviewed me last week, and reports all in today’s article. “[Anderson said]
Here’s an easy way to record your dreams in the middle of the night, in the dark. Barbara, who hosted a dream group with me by Skype last week, shared this tip during the session when we were talking about how much more insight you can get into the meaning of a dream when you
Renee, my podcast guest in episode 67, asked me to share her news since having her dream interpreted on the show: “I want to give you an update on how things have been since you interpreted two of my dreams. I recently published a book called Perfect Feedback (Receiving the Answers From Within)! Yay! After you
Sunrise invited me onto the breakfast show this morning to talk about sexsomnia and other forms of sleepwalking. Here’s the clip from the show: (2019: Video clip link no longer live.) What is sexsomnia? Channel 7 are screening a documentary tonight, Sleep Walkers: Secrets of the Night, focussing on sleepwalking in its many forms, including
Last week we celebrated our 80th weekly episode, and Michael and I spent a happy hour reviewing the journey when we were featured guests on Podcasters’ Emporium. Hosts James Williams and Dave Gray teased out the stories, the challenges, the behind-the-scenes dramas and bloopers of we rookie podcasters, and we thought you’d enjoy a listen