“When you wake up feeling a dead weight pressing on your chest and you can’t breathe and there’s a haunted feeling in the room, is there a ghost around?” I was asked this question on a radio show this morning, and I realised, in what’s been a run of media interviews about dreams during Covid-19, […]
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 […]
Have your dreams become more vivid, crazy, momentous, and scary during the coronavirus crisis? Last week I wrote a blog about Dreams in the time of Covid-19. It covered the kinds of issues people are dreaming about, the value of using dreams to discover insight and potential solutions to issues and problems (think job loss, […]
It’s during times of uncertainty, when we perhaps struggle with how to respond when the ground continuously shifts and shakes beneath our feet, when our survival feels threatened, that working with our dreams offers us opportunities to see our best way forward. Provided we can sleep! I write this blog at a time when most […]
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 […]
This little blackbird flew into our house on January 15 this year, and settled next to my nest of Orkney eggs, heralding both a synchronicity and a decision. Birds flying into our house are not a common occurrence. Thinking back over a lifetime I can only recall one other blackbird flying in, one dove walking […]
Are dreams always symbolic, or are some dreams straightforward and obvious in their meaning? It’s easy to acknowledge that our weird and surreal dreams are symbolic, but what about those dreams that seem very much like our day to day life, give or take a few differences? If you dream about going to work and […]
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 […]
Imagine this: as you fall asleep and dream, a musician sits at his piano and reaches into the music sphere, opening to the dream world, composing music to gift you upon awakening. Then imagine this: You, the dreamer, fall asleep listening to that very same composition, reaching into the dream sphere, opening to the music, […]
This is an excerpt from my book, The Dream Handbook, (published by Hachette Australia and Little Brown UK), pages 17-20. Originally, I called it ‘A night at the Dream Oscars’ but the publishers felt it was safer, for legal reasons, to call it ‘A night at the Dream Awards’. I understand that, but here, in […]
