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Episode 139 The Dream Show: Dream interpretation made easy?

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 2 Comments

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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 using plain English (no jargon or academic language), and I like to use humour, metaphors, and simple examples. I like to break down tough stuff into bite-sized tips, so you can nibble away at a dream and digest meaningful insights, but one size does not fit all when it comes to interpreting and understanding dreams. Different kinds of dreams require different approaches.

Episode 139 warms up to this topic before pondering the kind of life lessons you can learn from dreams and offering you some good, down to earth, practical interpretation tips to help you understand your dreams.

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Episode 138 The Dream Show: The facts of life

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 fiction from the facts, updating our individual understandings of life. Your fact might be fiction to me, and what I see as an absolute fact in my life experience might be decidedly fiction according to yours.

And so we dream weave our pictures of life as we individually know it.

Episode 138 explores these themes, and also looks at how you can use dream alchemy with feel-good dreams to help consolidate the positive shifts such dreams reflect. Listen

PS The Dream Show is four years old today!

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

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 still dreaming? How do you know you’re awake (after all, you were fooled in your dream)?

Or have you ever got into bed and felt the covers lift behind you, as if an invisible someone else has slipped in alongside you? Or have you woken in the middle of the night to see ghostly goings-on unfolding before your eyes or ringing in your ears? Are you as awake as you think you are, or are you half dreaming?

In this episode we explore these, and also look at the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, where the characters experience some of these phenomena, and more. And, while we’re there, we interpret the nightmare in the movie as if it were a real dream.

Are other things that go bump in the night connected with the cheese you ate, the alcohol you binged, or the movie you saw just before sleep? We go there too, this episode, before ending with the intriguing – and uplifting – encouragement to change the world through your dreams, and how to do this.

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Episode 136 The Dream Show: Flat tyre

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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My guest on the show today is Patti, who dreamed she was riding her bike with a sense of urgency, on a mission, dressed in bright spandex, when she thought she should pull over and check her tyres. It was difficult finding the best place to pull over, as the concrete at the side of the road was rutted. She was on a highway, and also had to consider the traffic behind her. But she managed it, and, sure enough, one tyre was flat.

This is just the beginning of Patti’s dream. Do you already have a feeling for what it reflects about Patti’s life? How can understanding her dream help Patti gain insight into her current situation?

How do you imagine Patti’s dream continued? What possible dream outcomes might have occurred, and how would you interpret each of these dream outcomes?

Of course, every dream is unique, and the gems are in the details.

Exploring details is one of the many joys of having a guest on the show and a good forty minutes or so to really get into a dream.

Listen as we explore Patti’s dream, discover what it means and how it relates to her life, and apply dream alchemy to align her unconscious mind with her conscious choices.

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Episode 135 The Dream Show: Chocolates and goofballs

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 his eyes in the dream. “Will he be a goofball or will something creative come out of his mouth?” he wonders. “Will it be a monologue or a poem?”

You may recognise Jason’s voice as he was my guest in episode 124 (Spacecraft) back in April 2012.

Join us as we explore and interpret Jason’s dream, relate it to his waking life, and apply dream alchemy.

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Episode 134 The Dream Show: Alchemy for all seasons

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 dreams many years ago, with powerful results. Then we move on to explore how dream alchemy can be used to treat PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) sufferers whose flashbacks occur as literal-replay nightmares.

Finally we look at using alchemy practices beyond the world of dreams. Instead of working with your unique dream symbols to reprogram specific unconscious beliefs, waking life alchemy, carefully created to suit individual needs, helps shift limiting unconscious perspectives. Waking life alchemy is something I’ve developed and offered in The Compass, and use regularly with my mentoring clients. In this episode, I give you a taste of waking life alchemy, a recipe you can take and apply to your situation. Let me know what results you get!

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(Ahem, although you’ll hear me announce this episode as Episode 135, it’s not. It’s 134. We only noticed when it was too late, all packaged and complete for you to enjoy.)

Episode 133 The Dream Show: Dream stories and breakfast radio

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 bantered about thousands of callers’ dreams over many different radio formats. Whether the approach is light-hearted or deep and meaningful, there’s always something to get across to the listeners, a dream interpretation tip, an insight into how to look at their dreams.

Radio is in the moment, so to extend my contribution I sometimes blog about a dream we’ve briefly talked about on radio, fleshing out the interpretation and the story.

In this episode of The Dream Show, episode 133, I bring you some of these radio dreams and stories, so you’ll hear all about worms, snakes, rats, ghosts, and bare bottoms, and what they mean, and much more.

In this episode I also bring you into my world as a radio dream expert, share a little of the whys and wherefores, the fun, and what can and can’t be done within the medium to contribute to the understanding of dreams.

As we approach the end of the year, and as you are hopefully enjoying some time away from work during the festive season, this episode is designed for leisurely but insightful listening. Enjoy and please share.

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Episode 132 The Dream Show: Open your eyes

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 by day, since birth.

Then along come certain events or experiences that just don’t fit – or we can’t find ways to fit them into our commonsense picture of the world. What then?

This month’s episode of The Dream Show looks at our blind spots, gives examples of how to identify these in our dreams, and explores opening our eyes to new ways of seeing the world.

One of the main functions of our dreams is to process our experiences in ways that help us to make sense of our world. We each build our unique picture of the world, of what makes sense to us based on our unique life experiences. So many different world views, mostly overlapping to some degree, gift us so many opportunities to learn from other people’s perspectives – and sometimes our dreaming minds add new brushstrokes to our picture instead of editing to fit the same-old, same-old, same-old rut.

Enjoy this light-hearted but serious dip into the science and mystery of making sense of life.

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Episode 131 The Dream Show: Stray kittens

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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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 night before her dream with a question on her mind, something she hoped her dream would address. It did. We go in deep – very deep – and get to the bottom of the issue.

Conscious understanding is important – and this is what interpretation achieves - but for long-lasting deep change, adjustments need to be made at the unconscious level, so we then apply dream alchemy to achieve this.

You’ll hear Renee relate the interpretation to what is happening in her life. When I was chatting with Renee after we had finished recording, she asked if she could share her website so you can visit. You’ll understand why when you listen to this episode. Here’s Renee’s website.

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Podcast therapy

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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 you’ve been listening to is not there to gauge your responses, ask you how you feel, and answer your questions?

This week I was invited onto a podcast panel to discuss Therapy in Podcasting

You might ask the same question about watching popular psychology television shows, reading self-help books, watching emotive movies, and attending large scale workshops and presentations. But is podcasting (and perhaps music) – where the use of earphones creates a different level of intimacy with the voice – more effective, more healing, more helpful, or potentially more dangerous?

This week I was invited onto a podcast panel to discuss Therapy in Podcasting. Andrew Johnstone, of Podcast Squared, asked the questions and joined in the discussion with Paul R. Gilmartin of The Mental Illness Happy Hour and me.

You can listen here: Episode 121 Therapy in Podcasting Panel

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