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Episode 277 The Dream Show: Risky

Kat, from British Columbia, Canada, is my guest as we explore her dream about a risky, ground-breaking science experiment that seems to have gone drastically wrong. Helpless and confused in the face of possibly dangerous levels of radioactivity, Kat encounters a visual artist who asks her to hold her exquisitely designed purse. Later she meets

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Episode 275 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 10

Even mountains flow. What does this mean to you? If you thought we got pretty cosmic in part 9, be prepared for some mind-bending metaphysics in this episode! After exploring how mountains flow, you’ll hear some stories I rarely share because although they may seem implausible, they shed more light on how to navigate life’s

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Episode 274 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 9

“As above, so below.” “As within, so without.” What do these ancient sayings mean to you? In today’s episode we venture deeper into the cosmic (although previous episodes have certainly had us journeying this space). We talk about a fairy, the Emerald Tablet, and explore why grass is green. The realm of metaphysics awaits. After

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Episode 272 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 7

Isn’t it interesting that when we meet something new, we first try to make it fit with what we already know? In today’s episode we explore this through more stories and dreams: you’ll meet an ancient alchemist, a woman who dreamed she gave birth to a vampire, and much more. After nearly 14 years –

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Episode 271 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 6

Our challenge is to courageously bring more of our magnificence into the light of day and let it shine. In today’s episode we explore both the dark and the light that we hide deep in our unconscious, and discover the treasures yielded through mining for both. After nearly 14 years – and 265 episodes –

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Episode 269 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 4

My grandfather appeared in a dream, a couple of nights after he died, when I was thirteen. “Is there anything you’d like to know before I go back into the night?” he asked. This is one of many stories I share in today’s episode, as we continue to explore how dreams, synchronicities, and mysteries help

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Episode 268 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 3

“I dreamed that a two-inch worm wriggled out of my nipple. What does it mean?” I was on a breakfast radio show interpreting dreams when a caller by the name of Kerry relayed the above dream. In today’s episode, I take you through some of my yesterdays, todays, and projected tomorrows, bringing you stories of

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Episode 267 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 2

What’s your calling? When did you first realise it? Or are you still listening and waiting for all your stars to align and open the way? Do missed opportunities call again, and again, if it’s in your karma? In today’s episode, we explore these questions, and more, through stories, synchronicities, dreams, and mysteries. After nearly

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Episode 266 The Dream Show: Bird of Paradise part 1

After nearly 14 years – and 265 episodes – of The Dream Show, we decided to do something a little different between now and late November 2023 when we will return to our usual format. Over the next ten episodes, I’m narrating my most recent book, Bird of Paradise (Taming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams

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Episode 262 The Dream Show: Walruses and sea lions

Molly from New York, USA, is our guest exploring her dream about mountain-sized walruses and sea lions that crashed to earth. In her dream, she enjoyed an exhilarating flight with her friend before crash landing, followed shortly by the enormous, plummeting walruses and sea lions. Why did Molly, when she tried to explain her friend

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Change the world one dream at a time

What if our night-time dreams offered the potential to create real, positive change in the world? Well, they do. Imagine that! Asleep, in bed, being gifted everything you need to make a difference in the world, dream by dream, night by night! I could argue that simply having a good eight-hour sleep each night, along

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Episode 260 The Dream Show: The crane dancer

Rebecca, from Minnesota, USA, is my guest exploring her dream about a raven-haired crane dancer, a singer, and a somersault artiste. This arresting dream is visually and aurally striking, mystical and mysterious. It begins at a camp where Rebecca invites three women to share their talents. The first one sings an “achingly beautiful” song, which

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Episode 258 The Dream Show: Magical to practical

I talk about the ‘art and science’ of interpreting dreams: there are methods, techniques, and approaches to follow, but is there more to this work than meets the eye? Part of me sees dream interpretation as straightforward and methodical, while another part of me is constantly astonished by the seemingly magical way in which a

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Episode 256 The Dream Show: Dream incubation

We pause our guest-format to celebrate 13 years of podcasting The Dream Show and to explore the immense treasures and opportunities offered by our dreams. This episode brings you tips on how to incubate a dream about a specific topic, and shares some of my earlier research on the surprising things that happened when I

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Episode 253 The Dream Show: Trapped birds and snakes

Tas, from Melbourne, Australia, is my guest asking about her dream of discovering wildlife trapped in her house. Tas is about to move interstate, back into her old house in Sydney, which she has rented out for many years while travelling with her career. In her dream, she and her sister arrive at the Sydney

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The Power of the Dog

Director Jane Campion, who wrote the screenplay for the 2021 film, The Power of the Dog, based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, and Benedict Cumberbatch who starred in the film as a 1920s cowboy oozing a toxic masculinity designed to protect his deepest sensibilities, each drew from their dreams to enhance

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Episode 251 The Dream Show: Coughed-up black spider

Lucía from Cuernavaca, Mexico, is my guest asking about her dream of a disgusting coughed-up black spider. She dreamed she was at a monastery where a monk was questioning her desire to be the bellringer for the meditations. She wanted to sit beside the huge singing bowl and embody its beautiful vibrations. Later in the

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Episode 250 The Dream Show: Monolith and glitter

Ashe, from Wodonga on Dhudhuroa Country, Victoria, Australia, is my guest with a dream about a sculpture that he knocked over and smashed. The sculpture was a large concrete monolith, built by a close friend and mentor, and all it took was one little push to topple it, accidentally-on-purpose. Ashe tried to cry tears of

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Episode 240 The Dream Show: The awkward conversation

Anna from North Carolina is my guest with a dream about a place where dead people roam the streets. Very much alive herself, she wanders along, occasionally veering off the path. There’s a bit of a groundhog theme, as she meets the same creepy guy, walking with his bicycle, three times. Each time they have

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Episode 239 The Dream Show: Unconscious wealth

Your unconscious mind is a reservoir of untold wealth–untold until the moment you decide to interpret and listen to your dreams. Consider this episode a dip into Dreams101 for 2021, as this is our first episode of the new year. We explore the brilliant treasure trove your dreams offer, the ways in which your dreams

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Can our dreams help other people?

“I dreamed about you last night, and I think you should know …” Can our dreams help other people? Yes, and no, and perhaps not in the way that you think! Let’s explore: Let’s look at the opening example first. If you dream of a friend having an accident, have you tuned in to a

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Episode 229 The Dream Show: The bunker and the Antichrist

Celena from Clarkesville, Georgia, is my guest asking about a series of increasingly catastrophic dreams. The dreams took place over six weeks. In the first dream Celena is building a safe place, a bunker, because of an imminent weather-related event. By the second dream the danger is war, and by the third dream it’s the

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Episode 228 The Dream Show: Zombie attack

Benjamin from Germany is my guest with a dream about a zombie attack on a fantasy mediaeval city. There’s a Game of Thrones feeling, a foul-smelling mass, house to house fights, and riddles to solve. It’s a multi-level adventure of a dream that, once interpreted, throws light on Benjamin’s waking life situation in a way

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Episode 227 The Dream Show: Money and guns

Jay from the US is my guest today asking about her dream involving her extended family, money, and guns. A cousin expresses shocking anger, another cousin steals a wallet, there’s a deformed dog that bites Jay painfully on the hand. There’s a couple of white Bentleys, a potential store robbery, and a scene where another

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Episode 226 The Dream Show: Navigating the path

Welcome to my world, as I explore one of my synchronicity stories and two of my dreams, imparting interpretation tips while sharing stories from my life, past, present, and future. How can you use your dreams and spine-tingling synchronicities to help navigate your path? And here’s a hot-off-the-press addition to the synchronicity related in this

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Visualisation versus dream alchemy

If you’ve been following my work, you’ll know that I encourage you to do dream alchemy visualisations to assist your unconscious mind in transforming blocks, but is there a place for doing ‘normal’ visualisations as well? One of our newsletter subscribers, Liziwe, recently asked if I would cover this topic in a blog, so this

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Foraging for treasure

I was admiring photos of broken pieces of antique pottery, hand blown glass, a clay pipe, and an inkwell, all mudlarking treasures foraged from English river mud by Carys, a friend on Instagram, and it took me back to childhood expeditions to the gardening allotments near my grandmother’s house in Portsmouth, England. Portsmouth was heavily

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Episode 218 The Dream Show: Dream dictionary temptations

How many dream dictionaries have you got on your bookshelf? It’s so very tempting to look up a dream symbol, or to look up several symbols from the dream you had last night and try to link them together, but how helpful is this approach really? In this episode we look at why you might

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Episode 215 The Dream Show: The shaman, the beast, and the nature of time

As we approach the tenth anniversary of The Dream Show, we look back at how it all began before sweeping into a theme of how past, present, and future intertwine in our dreams and in waking life. You’ll meet a shaman and a boy-beast from my dreams, and discover how I worked out what they

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Episode 214 The Dream Show: Ancient history to modern mystery

We begin around 2,500 years ago, looking at how the Ancient Greeks worked with their dreams to diagnose physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual issues, and to effect cures through processes evocative of our present-day dream therapy and dream alchemy practices. We then take a side road to explore the symbolism of snakes before drawing up

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Episode 213 The Dream Show: The dreadful secret

Juliana from Atlanta, Georgia, is my guest this episode with a dream about a dreadful secret she does not want to hear. In this very powerful episode, you’ll hear Juliana experience a deeply healing shift of perspective that opens the way for her to move forward. The dream features her grandmother, the Grim Reaper, a

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Episode 210 The Dream Show: Driving from the back seat

Cynthia, from St Louis, Missouri, is my guest with a dream about finding herself in the back seat of a car, traveling downhill fast, with no driver. Summoning pure will, she got the car to slow down, turn in the required direction, and stop. She got out, settled herself into the driving seat, and noticed

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Battle Zen

“I’ve had a recurring dream for 20-25 years,” said Josh, calling into a breakfast radio show last week, “and I’ve always wondered what it means.” I was talking about dreams and chatting with callers on Sarah Howell’s breakfast show on ABC Sunshine Coast. I always enjoy engaging with listeners about their dreams on radio, even

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Episode 205 The Dream Show: Dreaming about an ex

Join hypnotherapist and Women’s Business and Transformation Coach, Caty Pasternak, and I in this episode for a conversation about what our dreams represent and how we can use them to live a more expansive life. And oh, yes, along the way Caty asks about her recurring dream of getting back with an ex and things

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Episode 204 The Dream Show: Science, Mystery, and Meaning

We blend the science of dreaming with the mysteries of synchronicity to distil clarity and meaningfulness from a dream I had earlier this year. There’s nothing like synchronicity to jolt you into new levels of awareness, or to drive you deeper into an appreciation of life’s mysteries, and when that synchronicity relates to a surreal

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Episode 203 The Dream Show: How to have lucid dreams

My guest is lucid dreaming expert Stefan Z, from the UK, sharing his top tips on how to have lucid dreams, and explaining the benefits of lucid dreaming including nightmare control, questioning your dream characters and dream symbols to discover their meaning, and a raft of other exciting opportunities that lucid dreaming can bring you.

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Episode 201 The Dream Show: Dream stories

This episode is studded with stories, and in-between the storytelling is an exercise you can do to get a fresh perspective on the meaning of a dream. It’s an exercise in storytelling. You get a prominent symbol from a dream to tell the whole dream story from its perspective. Listen in to find out how

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Episode 200 The Dream Show: Build your dream memory palace

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

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The best job in the world

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

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Dream medicine

Close your eyes, it’s late in the evening, and time for your dream medicine. Here we go, counting down now, ten, nine, eight, relaxing, floating deeply down, let the healing begin. No drugs required, but the prescription is clear: dream. Sometimes the medicine is sweet and tasty, a deliciously sensual dream gifting grace and restoration,

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Episode 191 The Dream Show: Dark to light

Rachel is my guest this episode, with a dream that gently uses symbolism and a safe space to begin to heal traumatic abuse from her childhood. Rachel is the last of our ‘email guests’, so you’ll hear our email conversation about the dream, its interpretation, the dream alchemy, and Rachel’s responses. Through our conversation, Rachel

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Episode 188 The Dream Show: Questioning reality

We begin with our new theme music*, a change after almost eight years and 187 episodes with our original theme, and we end with announcing a new format that we’ll be introducing into the show, asking for your thoughts and inviting your participation. In between, we question reality, exploring what we can learn about reality

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Lens flare or divine light?

“It’s lens flare,” says the scientist. “It’s synchronicity,” says the mystic. “It’s divine,” says the shaman. “It’s alchemy,” says the alchemist. “It belongs in the fifth chapter,” says the author. “Let’s see what my dreams make of this,” says the dream analyst. That’s me: scientist, mystic, shaman, alchemist, author, and dream analyst, though probably not

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Episode 182 The Dream Show: The alien and the cupcake

Melinda from Kansas is my guest with a frightening dream about an alien invasion. It seems she’s the only person who doesn’t trust the aliens, while everyone else believes they are friendly and here to help. When one of the aliens attacks her with an innocuous looking coat rack that turns into a weapon emitting

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Are dreams rehearsals for life?

There’s a widespread theory that our dreams are mental dress rehearsals for life. Might this be true? Do we practice and learn life skills in the safe space of our dreams? Well, yes, and no. The theory is usually put like this: Imagine our ancestors dreaming about being chased by wolves. Imagine them dreaming of

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Episode 180 The Dream Show: The anthem

Laraina, from Canada, is my guest this episode, bringing her epic and vibrant dream for interpretation. Early in her dream she hears an anthem, so harmonious, so peaceful, so full of love, that she thinks she’ll never be able to recreate this moment. What does the anthem represent in Laraina’s life, and how does the

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Episode 173 The Dream Show: Dipping into dream alchemy

Why is it that we can experience things in our dreams that we haven’t experienced in our waking life? Like piloting a plane, levitating and flying without a plane, breathing underwater, feeling snakes slithering over our arms, or living as the opposite sex a few centuries back in time? How do these dreams relate to

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Episode 172 The Dream Show: Trying to stay in control of my car

Karen is my guest with a scary dream about trying to stay in control of her car. She notices the fuel is low, but how low exactly? Has she got enough petrol to get home or is she close to running on empty? Her body is in the driver’s seat but suddenly her mind is

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As above so below

As above, so below. As within, so without. What do these ancient sayings mean to you? Legend has it that Hermes Trismegistus inscribed these words, in Phoenician, on The Emerald Tablet, somewhere between 1,200 and 38,000 years ago. Yes, you did read those dates correctly. No, no-one knows where the tablet is now, or whether

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Episode 171 The Dream Show: Synchronicity

In this episode we dance with synchronicity, in both a light-hearted and deeply exploring way. Oh, and we relate it to dreams on many levels. When was the last time you experienced synchronicity? What happened? How did it make you feel? A synchronicity is a coincidence or series of coincidences that are not really coincidences

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Tell me about your dream

“We welcome dream reader, Jane Teresa, onto the breakfast show,” a radio presenter announced earlier this morning, and I had to smile to myself: there it was again, call it synchronicity, a prod from the universe, or meaningful coincidence, those two words, dream reader, gave me the thumbs up for the blog idea I had

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Episode 170 The Dream Show: Moving in a whole new way

How do you respond when the winds of change sweep your way? Do you hold back in fear, look for an escape route, try to put off the inevitable, fight to stand your ground, defend and strengthen the status quo, take a giant leap of faith and let the winds of change carry you, or

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Sting’s Dream of the Blue Turtles

How creative is your dreaming mind at weaving what’s happening around you while you sleep into a dream? Someone knocking on your door, an alarm clock that fails to wake you, a snoring partner, a cooking smell, a cold blast of air, can all find their ways into a dream, but usually in a surreal

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Episode 169 The Dream Show: Three scorpions

“You don’t have enough nightmares on The Dream Show,” said Abigail, my guest in this episode, “so I’m bringing mine, a nightmare about three scorpions.” The dream is scary enough, as Abigail notices three scorpions in her bedroom, and zooms in, in the nightmare, to their shiny black stinging tails. One has her cornered. Should

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Should we be scared?

“Should we be scared? What’s going to happen? Do you know?” asked a woman sitting close to me, last week, as we waited for the show to begin. The performance space, decked out with memorabilia of unexplained phenomena (a yeti glared down at me from a framed poster), was suitably dimmed, as we sat shoulder

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Episode 168 The Dream Show: Grandmother’s bones

Gay is my guest with a dream about going into a dark cave to look for her grandmother’s bones, discovering, to her delight, American Indian cave drawings, following these deeper into the darkness, only to be led to a terrifying demon. At this point Gay tried to wake up from her dream, but she was

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How to see your blocks

Sometimes it’s just too hard to see your own blocks. You might feel their presence, an invisible, unnameable something that stands between you and where you want to be. In less enlightened times you might have decided you were cursed, darkly and subtly manipulated by the power of another. Today you might be curious about

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Episode 167 The Dream Show: Where dreams are made

Where do dreams and nightmares come from? The brain, the body, the mind, the soul, the universe, God, or the dream movie production unit at work, nightly, in the depths of our unconscious? Last week I saw the Pixar movie, Inside Out, (I give it five stars), which included a peek into the dream production

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Dream consultation by email and a tale of two feathers

I get the message. Or should I say, I got the message, through a series of emails I received from various people, and through the tale of two feathers, which I am about to share. What was the message? Well, you probably noticed part of it, emblazoned in the title of this short blog, but

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Understanding children’s dreams

“I have a three year old patient who is having vivid nightmares of things he has never seen or experienced, like children trapped in a large hole, or something very violent like killing. He has never seen anything violent or scary, or had experiences of these.” I received this enquiry last week. The practitioner asked

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Episode 166 The Dream Show: A dream education

Do you remember your childhood dreams? What’s the earliest dream you can recall? How old were you? Was it a nightmare, or was it pleasant? Did you tell your parents about your dream? What did they say or do? Do you remember any of your teenage dreams? At the time, what did you think they

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Ikea meets Apple meets Hanuman

When change is in the air, are you a baby steps kind of person or a giant leap of faith kind of person? Or do you dig deeper into the comfort of familiar territory and resist change? I’m going to share three stories. One is about yoga and a Hindu God, one is about a

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Silent voices

“You’ll live to regret it if you don’t try,” “It’s too risky,” “Change is good,” “You’ll lose everything you’ve worked for,” “It’s everything you’ve ever worked for,” “Better to be safe than sorry,” “You’ll get hurt again,” “You’ll be happy,” “Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime,” “It looks too good to be true,”

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Bodywork and dreams

When was the last time you had a good, deep, foot, neck, shoulder, or back massage? If you closed your eyes and surrendered to the process, what feelings came up for you? Were you able to name those feelings – relief, grief, foreboding, panic, bliss, vulnerability? Or did you notice tears flowing but find yourself

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Episode 163 The Dream Show: Pan and the pagan ritual

  “It’s a really gross dream,” said Vashti, my guest in this episode, “and I was shocked by it. I’m curious, because how I was in the dream is not like me in waking life.” Some of the elements include a baby that someone keeps putting into a toilet on a nest of toilet paper

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I-Sight

I have just emailed Issue 200 of our monthly Dream Sight News out to our subscribers, and shared the article I wrote for our first issue, back on 11.11.1998. The story is old, but still true. I guess it’s the story behind my dream sight, my in-sight. I called the article I-Sight, and thought I’d

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The world is

Finish this statement using just one word: “The world is …” Maybe your word was big, or round, or polluted, or over-crowded, or dying, or abundant, or hopeful, or breathing, or alive, or beautiful, or exciting, or changing. You would probably choose a different word on a different day, or at a different hour, depending

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All the world’s a stage

The moment has come to step out on stage and perform in front of an audience but you haven’t prepared. Worse than this, you know zilch. It’s a common dream theme, and you’ve probably had a variation of it at some point in your life. What did you make of it? How did you relate

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Sliding doors and spooky tales

This little cupboard has moved from house to house within our family for years, and we have always forgiven it for its one fault, doors that open whenever you walk past. The bolt that is designed to keep the doors closed is too short for the task, losing its grip and slipping out at the

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Episode 160 The Dream Show: I dreamed I had died

My guest, Alexandra, dreamed she had died. She stood on the path outside the church, and calmly watched the priests emerge from the funeral service into the courtyard, dressed in celebration regalia emblazoned with a glowing fleur-de-lys pattern. They walked in her direction, carrying trays of silver containers, as if bringing her – in her

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Episode 159 The Dream Show: The old and the new

Patti, my guest, was keen talk about her dream because she’s at a pivotal point in her life. She’s taking time out, making major decisions, and wanting to gather as much insight as she can to assist her in creating the shape of her future. Patti has worked with me before on a dream and

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The secret of life

When I was about six or seven, an aunt gave me an autograph book for my birthday. I can still picture it (Post script, June 2015: while moving house I found it, that’s it in the header image!), a padded matt white vinyl cover with an illustration of a modish 1960s lady, pen poised in

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Episode 158 The Dream Show: A house with potential

Meet Lisa, my guest, who dreamed of a derelict house with a mix of funky and antique furniture, and great views from the steeply sloping garden. Should they buy the house? There were pros and cons, and because this was a dream, some of the cons were pretty outrageous: beds floating in an elevator shaft,

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Episode 157 The Dream Show: Lucid dreaming soul mate

My guest, Scott, taught himself how to lucid dream when he was a young boy, and has been experimenting in his lucid dreams for the past three decades. Scott shares his experiences, including his lucid dreams of meeting friends who have died. We talk about the pros and cons of controlling dreams, and we look

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Even mountains flow

Even mountains flow. What does this mean to you? How do mountains flow in the physical world? Count the ways before reading on. We might think of mountains as solid, reliably static defining features of our landscape. We might chip away at them, quarrying rock, building roads, blasting tunnels, but still think of the mountain itself as

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Episode 156 The Dream Show: A spiritual vibe

My guest, Liza, dreamed she was violated by a plumber at her grandmother’s house, and yet, as the dream progressed, the positive energy lifted. There was the welcoming of an Aboriginal ghost couple into her current home, and someone commented that there was a beautiful vine growing outside her house and a lovely spiritual vibe

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To dream of death means …

“My mum says that when you dream of death it means there’s going to be a birth in the family,” said Georgie, although she was clearly disturbed about her own dream of a gravestone freshly engraved with an illegible name. I was interpreting dreams on Mix 106.3FM Canberra’s Breakfast Show earlier this week, and Georgie

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What’s your problem?

Is there a problem you’re trying to solve in your life right now? Or maybe you prefer a more positive spin: Is there a challenge you’re encountering, ripe with opportunity and blessings that you’ve yet to see? Looking back, what was the last problem you solved, and how did you do it? What was the

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Episode 154 The Dream Show: How to do dream alchemy

I’ve prepared this mix of the light-hearted, the deeply fascinating, and the ‘how to’ practicalities for you this episode, all on the theme of dream alchemy. Dream alchemy is a way of communicating with your unconscious mind to transform beliefs that are not serving you well. It works by speaking the same language as your

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Episode 153 The Dream Show: Unbearable waiting

Tim, my guest, dreamed of setting off on a journey, feeling sad at leaving behind animals that she had rescued, including a long-tailed monkey. She journeyed to the French mountains where she met a waiter who was mixing two fluids to create the perfect cola. There’s a lot of waiting in this dream from this

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Spellbound

“I bet you get this all the time,” said the sales assistant helping me choose a new skirt yesterday, “but what do those dreams mean where you are trying to walk but your feet are heavy and it’s all so slow? I keep having that dream.” “You probably have the dream when you feel you’re

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Dream interpretation: choosing a dream

“How do I know which dream to start with?” emailed Tim, eager to begin applying some of my techniques. Tim remembers four or five dreams a night, and realises that working in depth with one dream a day would be too much. “I was hoping you might answer my question in a blog,” she said.

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Episode 151 The Dream Show: A cruel punishment

Carmen, my guest this episode, dreamed of a white carthorse decorated in rainbow paint, dragging a cart without wheels, and carrying the heavy wheel axle in its mouth as a cruel punishment. But punishment for what? Meanwhile there’s a jeep that needs to be fixed, but the chances are that the guy who owns it

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When affirmations and visualisations fail

How many times have you set an intention and created an affirmation or visualisation to guide its manifestation, only to fail or even magnify the problem? Here’s a simple example. You decide it’s time to get serious about losing some weight. You decide to do this by changing to a healthier diet. It’s all quite

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Teaching school students how to understand their dreams

What did you learn about dreams and nightmares when you were at school? Nothing, I’ll bet. Can you remember some of the dreams that puzzled, worried, or frightened you as a young child and as a young adult? Did you talk about them? Was anyone able to help ease your mind, and give you practical

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Episode 149 The Dream Show: The hidden library

My guest, Karen, had a dream about discovering a hidden library filled with eclectic books and antiquities downstairs in her house. As she wondered who created it and why it wasn’t being used, she became lucid to her dream and lamented that the library – like all the extra rooms she has discovered over the

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Perfect but for one little thing

Three ideas for today’s blog jostled in my head, but which to choose? It was one of those perfect mornings, just back from yoga, sipping coffee in a garden still wet from overnight rain, a balmy breeze, birds chirping happily as they flitted through the trees feasting on the array of delicacies rain brings, just

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Episode 148 The Dream Show: Intense emotions in dreams

We begin with the light-hearted, a bit of fun and a laugh to illustrate just how far the unconscious can go to try to save us from feeling pain, yet how that same unconscious can speak loud and clear in waking life once you know how to look and listen. It speaks even more clearly

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Dreamvolution – help with facing change

When life presents you with change, how do you usually respond? Do you resist, hanging on to the way you have always done things, sticking to the routines and habits that have always worked for you? Or do you jump right in, eager for something new, tossing the old way aside without so much as

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Episode 147 The Dream Show: Pursued by love

Renee is my guest having her dream interpreted on The Dream Show.  What do you do when a rich foreigner opens his heart, shines his love, and literally offers you the world? In Renee’s dream, you run! “She’s too stupid to see he’s trying to help her,” shout some people in a bowling alley as

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Episode 146 The Dream Show: It will come to you

What comes to you in your life, and how do you feel about it? What would you like to come to you – to attract into your life? What do you do to try to make this happen? Are you succeeding, or are you just experiencing same-old? How can working with your dreams and dream

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Rewiring the brain with Dream Alchemy

Imagine you have a dream about climbing an endless staircase, one that doubles back on itself just when the last step is in sight, or one that twists like a mobius strip, or tricks the eye like an Escher print. It’s quite a common dream, and, like all unresolved dreams, it reflects an unresolved situation

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Episode 144 The Dream Show: Relationship Breakup Dreams

Katie is my guest asking about a dream she had the night after breaking up with her boyfriend. In the dream, her boyfriend carries on with another girl at a party as if Katie’s invisible. She’s so angry that she violently throws another girl onto her back, again and again, while the girl just laughs

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Episode 143 A platter of dreams

Welcome to the first episode recorded in my new studio! I wonder if you can hear any difference. It’s a bigger space, so I can stand at the microphone and wave my arms and hands around as I talk to you. Even though you can’t see me, it feels good to get my whole body

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A year of dreams

Every morning for a year, Seattle conceptual performance artist Amy-Ellen Flatchestedmama Trefsger recorded her dreams to video. Bleary eyed, yawning, and honouring her commitment for arts sake not to look in the mirror before recording, she notched up over 170 dreams across 52 weekly videos. She titled her project, Sharing My Subconscious, and asked me

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Beyond cure and prevention

What drives you to consult a doctor, therapist, or counsellor? Do you book an appointment when you’re sick, suffering, stressed, blocked, or faced with a conflict or problem you can’t solve? Do you book seeking a cure for your ills, physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual? Do you also consult when you are feeling well, seeking

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Episode 141 The Psychic and Chancellor Angela Merkel

My guest, Susan, brings her richly entertaining dream to the show for interpretation and insight. The action all takes place on campus at an ivy-covered science building, where a psychic is on stage, sharing knowing glances with Susan. There’s breaking news, drums beating out a protest, and pandemonium when Susan is accused of being an

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What does dreaming of losing teeth mean?

“My recurring dream is gross. I lose all my teeth,” said Chloe, calling into the dream segment on the PowerPack Breakfast show. “How common is this type of dream, and what does it mean?” I’ve been doing this segment long enough now for the show’s presenters, Steve and Abbey, to kick off with good questions.

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Episode 140 The Dream Show: Roll out the lime green carpet

Julie is my guest having her dream interpreted in this episode of The Dream Show. She dreamed her sister-in-law visited her and laid some new carpet using a new gas vacuuming process. “Hmm, everything changes,” thought Julie in the dream, and she quite liked the result at first – crimson, turquoise, deep blue – but

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Does my dream mean bad luck?

“I dreamed I was jousting on horseback, and my opponent stabbed me in the chest with his lance,” said Mike, who called the PowerPack Breakfast show last week to ask me about his dream. “I fell out of bed with the impact,” he laughed. “What does it mean? Am I going to have bad luck?

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Episode 139 The Dream Show: Dream interpretation made easy?

Where to begin when learning the art of dream interpretation? Is there a formula that can be applied to all dreams? One of the challenges I face in my public work – writing books, writing blogs, creating podcasts, doing radio, giving workshops – is how to make this complex subject easier to understand. I like

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Dream Alchemy in Phnom Penh

I was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last month, giving a workshop on Dream Therapy to creative arts therapists, which attracted Phoenix Jay of Phnom Penh’s The Advisor to interview me for their cover story. It’s a broad ranging yet deep interview, which includes a discussion of trauma, Jung, Freud, and an interpretation of Phoenix’s recurring

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Episode 138 The Dream Show: The facts of life

What a fluid world we live in, a world where yesterday’s fiction frequently becomes today’s fact (think sci-fi and technology), and yesterday’s fact can easily crumble into fiction (think scientific research disproving previous findings). What a job our dreaming minds have, every night, processing our waking life experiences, sorting the facts from the fiction, the

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Episode 137 The Dream Show: Things that go bump in the night

Have you ever woken from a dream only to find yourself in another dream? At first you think you are awake, but it slowly dawns on you that you’re still dreaming. And then it happens again, and again, until you might be excused, on finally waking up, to question your reality. Are you awake or

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Dream drummer

“Three times this week I dreamed I was the new drummer for American band Blink 182,” said Brad, calling PowerFM’s PowerPack Breakfast show where I was interpreting dreams. The drums were bike powered, and the faster Brad peddled, the better the drums sounded. Although he can’t play the drums in waking life, he was a

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

“What does the nightmare in A Nightmare on Elm Street mean?” asked Steve and Abbey, presenters of the PowerPack breakfast show where I interpret callers’ dreams. I’m a movie lover, but horror is not my genre, and it took a few arm twists before I agreed to download it so I could answer the question.

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Episode 135 The Dream Show: Chocolates and goofballs

Jason dreamed that he took a nap up on a shelf of chocolates and sweets. It was a comfortable, cosy spot, but he was supposed to be having an interview down the hall. Several dream scenarios later, his little brother grabs a microphone as people gather to hear what he has to say. Jason rolls

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Camouflage and the facts of life

I was looking through the window, settling into blog-writing mode while watching the play of sunlight and shade move across a particularly beautiful rock, when I realised that part of the rock wasn’t rock at all. It was a large, sunbathing, frilled lizard. I tried shifting my gaze in an effort to blend him back

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Episode 134 The Dream Show: Alchemy for all seasons

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

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Dream Alchemy ebook published by Hachette today!

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

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Episode 133 The Dream Show: Dream stories and breakfast radio

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

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Singing with Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant

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?

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Episode 132 The Dream Show: Open your eyes

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

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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) nightmares: a cure?

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

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Rainbow shades of grey

“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

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Episode 129 The Dream Show: A bigger life

How can your dreams help you to live a bigger life, and what might that bigger life look like? What kind of practical results can you expect to see when you understand a dream and apply dream alchemy? How might your relationship, work, finances, and communication – just for starters – change for the better,

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Bring it on!

  When a dream shows you a wonderful, uplifting, positive symbol, you can use it to spin a little dream alchemy to accelerate the manifestation of excellent outcomes into your life. There are many tips throughout this blog describing how to transform a negative aspect of a dream into a positive one by visualising the

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Episode 128 The Dream Show: When redundancy threatens and nightmares begin

Around 20,000 public servants with permanent or long term contracts in Brisbane are expected to lose their jobs over the coming weeks. Some already know their fate, while others turn up to work each day not knowing whether their job will be axed or retained. What kind of dreams are they experiencing as they go

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Asking God about thunder

Emma dreamed that she could ask God one question about the world. She considered, deeply, and then decided. “Where does thunder come from?” By this time in her dream, God had become a more earthly Australian actor, Chris Hemsworth. He indicated the sky, teeming with rhinos. What have rhinos got to do with cause of

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How to use recurring dreams to resolve practical life issues

What kind of practical results can you expect to see in your life when you understand a dream and apply dream alchemy? Last month I was a guest on Ruby and Dave’s breakfast show on Radio 94.9, chatting about dreams and taking calls from listeners. One of the callers, Ian, asked about a recurring dream

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Podcast Squared Interview

Do hippos dream? Where did you dispose of the body? How does getting people to talk through a dream help them to better understand the real world? Andrew Johnstone, host of Podcast Squared (2019: website no longer live), dreamed up a bundle of questions from quirky to scientific, when he interviewed me for episode 102,

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Ideas from dreams

What have Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen King, and Stephanie Myer got in common? They’re world famous authors, they’ve written dark novels (horror or vampires), and they share similar names. But that’s not all. They’ve each based at least one of their books on a dream. Stephanie Myer had written a chapter here and there over

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Episode 126 The Dream Show: Predator

Renee is my guest with a dream that gifts her with multiple insights about her life once it is interpreted. Renee’s dream is dramatic, laugh out loud funny at some points, magnificently cinematic at others, and compelling throughout for dream detectives fascinated by the way our dreams express key aspects of our waking lives. You’ll

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Episode 125 The Dream Show: Mystery prize

Alicia, my guest from Atlanta, Georgia, dreamed of winning a prize that led her on a mystery journey. Listen as we piece together the elements she encountered along the way: the red tinted photographs, the light under the garage door, the significant numbers and directions, the distinguished faces, Carmen the neighbour, Debra the team mate.

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iProgram, iDream, iRecall

Need a little help recalling your dreams? An app can help you with that. Want to dream the perfect dream? There’s an app designed for that too. One key to good dream recall is to wake gently, keep your eyes closed, and allow dream fragments time to come together before your alarm clock – the

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Episode 124 The Dream Show: Spacecraft

Jason from Seattle dreamed of viewing the magnificence of outer space from a spacecraft, before landing back on Earth. He had been abducted by aliens, and knew they would find him again. Back home there’s maths homework to do, a blood transfusion to endure against his will, and a sense of deep sadness connected with

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A Dangerous Method

Have you seen A Dangerous Method*, the movie about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung’s intense relationship from first meeting, through the birth of psychoanalysis, to their professional and personal falling out? Along the way, Jung (Michael Fassbender), shares some of his dreams with Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and you might enjoy, as I did at the

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