I love the tang of seaweed on the air, although, as a young child, I was scared of slip-sliding across the beached slimy tangles to reach the waves. Once in the water I was happy enough, but on murky green sea days, eels lurked below the surface, wrapping themselves around my legs, or so I […]
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 […]
How often do you dream about work, what are the most common work dreams, and what do they mean? Yesterday I was on Today Extra to talk about work dreams. You can watch the video at the end of this blog, but I thought I would write this article to extend the topic. The Today […]
My new book, Bird of Paradise, was destined, it seems, to be published during lockdown, perfect timing perhaps for a book about finding your way during times of uncertainty. In this episode I share a couple of stories related to these times and my book, then read an extract from ‘Bird of Paradise Taming the […]
Why do we sometimes dream of people we don’t know, complete strangers? While many of your dreams probably feature people you know, or have known, or people you know about (celebrities) or fictional people you feel you know (characters from movies and books), your more dramatic or vivid dreams may often feature strangers. Those strangers […]
Rita from Cape Town, South Africa, is my guest asking about her dream of a baby crawling in the middle of a busy highway to retrieve her dummy. There were twins, one on the side of the road, one crawling into head-on traffic before getting run over by a van. Rita was hysterical, but the […]
Once upon a dream, everything changed. I’d had a recurring dream theme for many years. The dream stories were always different, but, at some point, I would need to catch a bus. I was always in a faintly familiar city, but a little lost. The streets had changed, or the bus stops had moved, or […]
Kim from Washington State, USA, is my guest with a dream about a parting of the clouds to reveal a golden sunset and a white sandy beach scattered with sheep. Sheep on the beach? What’s that about? Oh, and by the way, the sheep were Jesus’s sheep. Earlier on in the dream, the dramas and […]
A few weeks ago, I was listening to a podcast to get to know the host a little before being a guest on her show. I clicked on her most recent episode, listened to some of it while doing some exercise at home, then settled into a window seat to hear the rest of the […]
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 […]
