According to a recent survey, the top Google search for dream symbols is ‘dreams about dogs’. Why do we dream about dogs, and what do these dreams mean? Before we go there, according to Google’s February-March 2022 report on my website, there was a big jump in people looking for information on dreams about the […]
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 […]
MaryBeth, from Portland, Oregon, US, is my guest asking about her dream where everyone at a party is naked. MaryBeth dreamed she was at work, and when she opened the storage cupboard door it led to another wing, a mirror image of her current workplace but with larger, better rooms and more equipment. She was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Waiting for a train, I glanced up at the station clock. It was a beautiful, antique, analogue clock, its hands set at 7.30. I glanced away and noticed another clock, a little further away. It was showing a completely different time. I noticed a third, and fourth clock, each indicating various times of the day. […]
Emily from Denver, Colorado, US, asks about her dream of attending a ceremonial banquet with Jonas Hill. As it turned out, Jonas Hill was replaced by an actor from The Office at the last minute, and the focus in this dream was more on the magnificence of the building and a curious word puzzle – […]
Votey, from London, England, dreamed of a white-caped warlock calling a declaration of war in the middle of a shopping mall. All was well on this shopping expedition until a loud alarm or horn sounded, and an ominous vibe filtered through the mall. Votey and her sister dropped to their knees for protection as the […]
Twenty years ago, I read Geraldine Brooks’ book, Year of Wonders, an international bestselling fiction based on the true story of an English village, Eyam, in Derbyshire, that went into voluntary lockdown in 1666, to stop the spread of the bubonic plague to nearby villages. Somehow – perhaps on a bolt of fabric delivered from […]
