Dreams featuring animals tend to occur at times of change, or when life challenges us to change. Why? Listen to find out! You can’t take a dream dictionary approach, but I share tips to help you discover what the animals in your unique and personal dreams mean. What can you learn from these dream animals, […]
What do dreams about animals mean? We start by looking at why we sometimes dream of animals, and what we can learn about ourselves and our lives from our animal dreams. Sticking with the animal theme, we then look at what experiments with cats, back in the 1950s, taught us about the science of dreaming. […]
Putting cats, dogs, horses, neighbourhood birds, and other everyday animals to one side, which of the wilder or more exotic animals have appeared in your dreams? Over many years my dream menagerie has included jaguars, tigers, lion, snakes, various mysterious birds, whales, dolphins, colourful tropical fish, oh, and a tortoise. I’m sure that many of […]
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 […]
Jane from Sebastopol, California, is my guest with a dream that begins with a roiling boil of rats and ends with the discovery of a bee colony and a newly seeded geometric garden. Along the way, she meets a black bear, several chaotic, shadowy situations, and spends some time at a college party with a […]
“I was scared of the lion in my dream last night,” said seven-year-old Jade, “I don’t want to have that dream again.” Usually buoyant, and blessed with a loud exuberant voice, she whispered the ‘lion’ word, afraid, at some level, that mentioning the lion might conjure him up in waking life. I asked Jade about […]
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 […]
Everyone and everything in a dream represents something about the dreamer, and when you think about your more worrying dreams, that may feel scary. You might be happy to acknowledge the things that flatter you: the wise old woman you met in a dream as your wisdom, the exciting new rooms you discover in a […]
What does it mean to dream of rotting fish, or a rat jumping onto your shoulder, or a cougar breaking through the ice on a frozen pond? What does it mean to dream of a field of snakes, a talking dog, Wally from Where’s Wally?, or the panic of a dam about to burst and […]
Half boy, half beast, he sat on the edge of a swimming pool in a dream I had once upon a time. His body seemed stunted, his face albino white, a long wide nose, no eyes. I was very wary of him. Not sure how he’d respond to me. If I were to write a […]
