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The Dream Show is a free podcast series in which I analyse my guests’ dreams and share dream interpretation tips & insights.

A new episode is published every four weeks.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 162 The Dream Show: The hidden key

My guest, Domonique, asks about a dream that begins with a trip in a car that looks like a spaceship and ends with her firm refusal to be a witness for the Court Marshalls against her friend, Jules. “I’m older than I look,” she states, richly, and melodiously, standing her ground. There are two hidden

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Episode 161 The Dream Show: How to move past stuck

Is there one area in your life where you feel stuck, or one problem that you can’t fix no matter how many different solutions you try? In this episode, we go back to basics to see how your dreams can help you to move the apparently immoveable, to solve the apparently unsolvable. Enjoy this mix

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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 150 The Dream Show: Radiant light being

My guest, Caroline, dreamed she was given a cheque made out to ‘Radiant Light Being’, or, on looking at it again, did it say ‘Radiant Glowing Jellyfish’? Either way, she felt she shouldn’t be paid because she had only been helping a secretary clean up a professor’s office. “Must be because I’m angelic,” she quipped

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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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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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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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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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Episode 142 Pythons in the backyard

Nicole is my guest with a dream about pythons writing in her backyard, and if that’s not dramatic enough for a scary dream, how about that sabre tooth tiger that emerges from the bushland? Oh, and did I mention unicorns? People often ask “what does it mean to dream of snakes?” There is no universal

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 123 The Dream Show: Solar eclipse

Ann is my guest with a vivid dream where she returns to her childhood neighbourhood and witnesses a miraculous solar eclipse. In the dream, she and John, a friend from her church, follow the solar eclipse with a discussion about yoga, maths, english, and an abstract drawing in a notepad. All this during a short

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Episode 122 The Dream Show: The beholder

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What you see is what you get, depending on how you see it. As your eye changes – as your experiences change – so does what you get. Have you noticed how a favourite story from childhood is different when you reread it as an adult? Or

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Episode 120 The Dream Show: Always the passenger

Gwynne is my guest with a dream about finding a camera with a shocking picture on the viewfinder. There’s a theme of lost and found, and another of being driven around – always the passenger, never the driver – and sitting so far back in the vehicle that she even falls out of the car.

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Episode 116 The Dream Show: Haunted house

Our August show features Emily, from Northern California, with a dream about moving into a new but dusty house. While cleaning, she discovers a dark hallway with a poker table and some lumberjacks from the 1850s. “How exciting, a haunted house!” she tells her husband, in the dream. There’s an animal and some clue-bearing numbers

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Episode 115 The Dream Show: Hippocrates, Freud & Jung

Imagine getting Freud, Jung, and Hippocrates (a dream healer from around 2,300 years ago who became immortalized as the Father of Modern Medicine) into a room together to interpret a dream. They’d all have different views. Where would they agree, where would they disagree? In this episode, I meet these dream pioneers and ask them

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Episode 107 The Dream Show: Dream Alchemy & The Philosophers’ Stone

Join me as I dip into my book, The Dream Handbook (originally published as Dream Alchemy), reading you passages exploring dreams, recurring dreams, nightmares, and my unique approach to working with dreams – dream alchemy. Included is a little insight into the medieval alchemists and what their quest to transform base metal into gold was

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Episode 106 The Dream Show: Alien analyst

How can an alien help you to understand a dream? What’s the right thing to say to a horse as it angrily rears up above you and threatens to crash down upon you? And what’s the magical formula for finding a solution to a seemingly impossible challenge? Today’s show brings you a mix of dream

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Episode 100 The Dream Show: Balloons & rainbows

Rose is my guest, wondering why her sister, in India, sometimes accurately dreams details of Rose’s dreams or Rose’s waking life in the US. What is happening here, and are these dreams – Rose’s and her sister’s – meaningful when interpreted? We explore and interpret two shared dreams and one of Rose’s sister’s dreams that

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Episode 93 The Dream Show: 100 years

Life is full of opportunity. Even when it doesn’t feel like it. Especially when it doesn’t feel like it. In this episode, I show you how to look at your dreams to discover practical opportunities that you’re just not seeing when you’re awake. Dreams do not tell you what to do. They don’t guide you.

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Episode 92 The Dream Show: Metaphor magic

What do dreams of flying into power lines, feeling the ground shake, going round and round in circles, and meeting an old man close to death have in common? They’re all in this episode, they’re all metaphors for waking life situations, and I use these – and other dreams – to show you how to

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Episode 83 The Dream Show: Chased by a lion

‘There must be 50 ways to leave a lover,’ according to Paul Simon’s lyrics, but how many ways are there to escape a hungry lion hot on your tail? In this episode we look at how to find creative solutions to waking life problems by applying a simple, fun technique to any dream. Paul Simon’s

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Episode 81 The Dream Show: Rookies & veterans

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

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Episode 78 The Dream Show: Dreams of death

My guest, Dewi, dreamed that her son died. Two dreams followed, another one about death, and one about a diagnosis of cancer. Death dreams are common and extremely worrying, especially when they feature family members, and it’s often a death dream that sends people Googling to my site or booking a dream consultation. These dreams

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Episode 72 The Dream Show: A DSDD workout

My guest, Dail, shares her experience of running one of her dreams through our DIY free interpretation program. (Note, April 2013: After 13 years of use we’ve now retired this program.) You pop your dream in one end, answer some short, simple questions, and emerge at the other end of the process with a clearer

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Episode 71 The Dream Show: Glimmers of gold

What’s the link between Inception, the movie, and Dream Alchemy? Inception is about entering into a person’s dream and changing the storyline to create a changed waking life outcome, while Dream Alchemy is about changing the storyline of your own dream, once you’ve woken up, to create a changed waking life outcome. In Inception, the

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Episode 65 The Dream Show: A ghostwriter’s nightmare

Meet my husband, ghostwriter Michael Collins, who comes onto today’s episode in several guises (as ghostwriters are wont to do). Michael has been an integral part of these podcasts since the first episode, doing the technical side of the show, and I thought it was time you got to know him a little more. After

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Episode 64 The Dream Show: Sleep on it

We catch up with Barbara who was my guest in episode 48, to discover how her life has changed since having her dream interpreted and doing her dream alchemy. The universe – and dream alchemy – work in unexpectedly wonderful ways to deliver the results we desire, as they have for Barbara. One of our

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Episode 63 The Dream Show: Lady Gaga, Kate & Kay

Spot the theme: Lady Gaga has a recurring dream about being asked to cut her wrist, a dream she worries is connected with the Illuminati, while Kate, our guest from episode 57, had dreamed of chopping off her leg so she could look inside. In this episode I interpret Lady Gaga’s dream, and report on

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Episode 54 The Dream Show: Resurrection & birth

Angela is my guest with a dream she had last week while her mother was receiving chemotherapy. In the dream, her mother became well in a scene akin to a resurrection, and Angela gave birth to a baby but worried that she wasn’t prepared emotionally for motherhood. The measurements of the baby were given: 19.5,

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Episode 52 The Dream Show: Moving forward

This episode is about moving forward, freed by alchemy. When you do alchemy, your dreams reflect the deep changes. Of course, you’ll notice changes in your waking life – some subtle, but hugely powerful, some more dramatic – but it’s always exciting to see confirmation of the changes in your dreams. One of the first

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Episode 48 The Dream Show: Yellow ochre

Today’s guest, Barbara, dreamed she was organising paints, particularly yellow ochre, when an old woman with leprosy appeared, on the verge of death. Barbara knew she needed to burn and bury the body. The dream tantalisingly offered a number – five – a clue to interpretation. As you will hear, the dream reveals an unconscious

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Episode 35 The Dream Show: Tsunami dreams and what they mean

Have you ever faced a tsunami or giant tidal wave in a dream? What happened? It’s a very common, recurring dream theme, so what does it mean? Whether or not you’ve had this dream, there’s plenty of insight you can take forward from today’s episode to help soothe troubled waters in troubling times. Listen to

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Episode 34 The Dream Show: How a plane dream changed James’ life

Can a dream interpretation change your life? On today’s podcast show, James, whose dream was interpreted in Episode 11, returns to the show to share the story of what happened next. He’s celebrating big time, as you’ll hear, and he’s also reveling in the amazing synchronicities that have manifested along the way. That’s the power

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Episode 33 The Dream Show: Dreams and the Law of Attraction

I am often asked about the Law of Attraction, and whether nightmares and dreams with negative vibes attract negative people and events into our lives. It’s a good question, and one I explore in today’s podcast, episode 33. The real secret to getting the Law of Attraction to bring you what you consciously want –

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The Dream Show: Episode 25 Dreamvolution

When it comes to dealing with change, are you a dinosaur, a giraffe or a kangaroo? Challenging times can bring our basic instincts to the fore, and these often appear as animals in our dreams. This episode, Dreamvolution, helps you to understand your dreams in times of change, and introduces a dream alchemy practice you

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The Dream Show: Episode 23 The elevator and 9/11

Chelsea dreamed of going up in an elevator all the way to the top where the view was beautiful and the air expansive. Several months later, she dreamed of going down in the elevator, surrounded by chaos. The next day she realised the date was 9/11, and wondered about the coincidence. Were the two dreams

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The Dream Show: Episode 22 Dreams of death, dying and the departed

Dreams of Death, Dying and the Departed. This week’s episode is for our many listeners who have asked for more specific details about death dreams. Instead of talking with a guest dreamer, we discuss dreams of death, dying and the departed – including dreams of haunting and evil presences. These common, scary dreams, once understood,

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The Dream Show: Episode 18 Hospital emergency ward

Julia had the same dream about a hospital emergency ward two nights in a row then again during an afternoon nap the next day, so she knew it was important. In the dream, she was being interviewed for a job at the hospital, near the emergency ward. She was having difficulty convincing the woman interviewing

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The Dream Show: Episode 17 Chinese past life?

Belinda dreamed she was a Chinese woman living in ancient China, distributing food to people in need. It felt life a past life; was it? A commemorative gold medallion featured in the dream as well as several coins. Listen in to discover some ancient wisdom buried in this dream, wisdom applicable to Belinda’s life today.

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The Dream Show: Episode 12 Guts

Daphne dreamed she spat out a mouthful of guts, strangled a little dog, and ended up helping a princess. What’s the moral of this dream tale? How did Daphne relate to the interpretation? (This episode of The Dream Show was released in July 2009.) Listen. About The Dream Show   You might also enjoy http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/lpnmediaserver.com/dreamshow/audio012.mp3Podcast:

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The Dream Show: Episode 11 The plane that changes

James, from Lifestyle PodNetwork, (and podcast host of 2 Schooners, Podcasters’ Emporium, and Lifestyle Chill), dreamed of a plane that lost its tail, mid-flight, before metamorphosing into a complex, futuristic vehicle. Have a listen to our discussion to discover what it means, and how it related to James’ life. (This episode of The Dream Show

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The Dream Show: Episode 8 Fairground ride

Jen’s dream centred on fairground rides, tempting lunches, and being lost in a shopping mall. What’s safe, what’s at risk, and why is it sometimes difficult to make a choice? How does interpretation help Jen? Listen in. (This episode of The Dream Show was released in June 2009.) Listen. About The Dream Show   You

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