Teisha, my guest from South Carolina, went to sleep asking for a dream to clarify her destiny. She dreamed of a father and son who created a board game and cards, and a merchant who generously paid more than the asking price, adding that the extra money was to improve the quality of the game. […]
I live quite lightly, but I do have some archive boxes where I keep special mementoes, and some things that I have treasured for so long that I can’t throw out. One of these ‘can’t throw out’ items is the first edition of a magazine that I made for my school in February 1966. It […]
It’s a question journalists often ask me. “What’s the most amazing dream you’ve ever had?” It’s a great question, but it floors me every time. There are so many astounding dreams to choose from, and they’re each amazing in their own way. Was my most amazing dream the one I had as a child, where […]
Cynthia from St Louis, Missouri, is my guest asking about the meaning of her intense and upsetting dream, and looking for insight into her life. “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” she implores, in the dream, when it turns out that everyone else knew her husband was leaving her. She feels betrayed, angry, hurt. If she […]
“My wife and I both dreamed that our house was violently broken into. Why did we have the same dream, on the same night, at the same time?” I was on a Breakfast radio show in Perth, Western Australia, and the question came from Pete, one of the presenters. Since our discussion was live, I […]
Jann from Western Australia is my guest asking about a scary dream she had thirty years ago. Jann has been recording her dreams since 1983, so you’ll hear her reading her account of the dream as she wrote it down way back then. The tension mounts as the tale is told, a dark fairy tale […]
I was admiring photos of broken pieces of antique pottery, hand blown glass, a clay pipe, and an inkwell, all mudlarking treasures foraged from English river mud by Carys, a friend on Instagram, and it took me back to childhood expeditions to the gardening allotments near my grandmother’s house in Portsmouth, England. Portsmouth was heavily […]
Joshua from New Jersey is my guest asking about his dream of a serrated kitchen knife that, he fears, may be used to stab him. There’s a whiff of threat and conspiracy in the air, and although Joshua is offered help, he declines, until he finally yells, “Call 411, call 411!” No-one responds, because 411 […]
Once upon a dream, standing at an open casement window, resting my elbows on the sill, I noticed a silvery shining in the flowerbed below. My heart leapt, for there it was, something very precious to me, a gleaming silver statue of a goat, studded in turquoise gems, half-hidden in the foliage like a discarded […]
Interpreting dreams is an immersive affair. If you really want to understand and gain helpful insight from a dream, dabbling in the shallow waters around the edges of the dream isn’t going to take you there. Playing with one symbol from your dream isn’t going to take you there. Meditating upon the dream and emerging […]
