As we begin to emerge from the emergency of 2020, how can our dreams help us to contribute to building a better world? In this episode we take one of our occasional pauses from having a guest on the show, to focus on delivering tips for exploring your dreams along a specific theme. I have […]
Here’s an extract from my 2020 book, Bird of Paradise–Taming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams to Fruition. And if this entices you to keep turning the pages, you’ll find more details about this, my seventh book, here. Introduction: Garden of Dreams This book that you have before you is part whimsical memoir, part healing […]
What is dream therapy, and what does a dream therapist do? If you are skilled in understanding and working with dreams, you might consider offering your services as a dream interpreter, a dream analyst, a dream alchemist, or a dream therapist. Or you might choose to facilitate a dream group, or to introduce dream exploration […]
Erica, from Austin, Texas, is my guest with a dream about joining a line of people at a funeral or wake – she wasn’t sure which. Someone from her graduating class, who had died, was in the line, very much alive and well. Whose funeral was it? One of Erica’s friends was there, and a […]
“I dreamed about you last night, and I think you should know …” Can our dreams help other people? Yes, and no, and perhaps not in the way that you think! Let’s explore: Let’s look at the opening example first. If you dream of a friend having an accident, have you tuned in to a […]
Sue from Rye, England, is my guest with a dream about finding keys and valuable jewels in a dried cat’s stomach. Of course, there’s more to the tale! Sue’s dream begins with revisiting a small house she liked, with a view to buying it. It has pluses and minuses, and it has a box that […]
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 […]
“Where do you feel or fear this in your life?” It’s a simple question you can use when interpreting a dream, and one that can yield deeply rewarding insight, but at first glance it looks a bit odd. After all, isn’t fear a feeling? Let’s start with an example. If you dreamed of driving a […]
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 […]
