In a dream the night before last, I pulled a very long hair from my nose. It was metres long, seemingly unending, and when I did finally pull it free, the pain woke me up. We’ll get to the dream and what it meant, but I must begin with the story of driving home from […]
Everyone dreams, whether or not they remember dreaming, but perhaps the question should really be, are you dreaming enough? Yes, it does sound a little bit like, Are you getting enough sleep, and that’s part of the issue, but let’s explore. Why do we need to dream, what happens if we don’t pack sufficient dreaming […]
This episode is studded with stories, and in-between the storytelling is an exercise you can do to get a fresh perspective on the meaning of a dream. It’s an exercise in storytelling. You get a prominent symbol from a dream to tell the whole dream story from its perspective. Listen in to find out how […]
How meaningful are dreams, and are some dreams more meaningful than others? If you’re a very dedicated dreamer you might be in the habit of interpreting every single dream you remember, but when you remember several dreams a night this can feel overwhelming. If some dreams are more meaningful than others wouldn’t it be good […]
One of the many functions of dreaming is to come up with creative solutions to problems, to clear the mist that baffles us before sleep, and reveal new perspectives and possibilities, even brilliant ideas. Throughout history we’ve been encouraged to ‘sleep on it’, to stop mulling over a problem, to quit admonishing ourselves for our […]
We’re celebrating our 200th episode with something a little different. My guest, Anthony Metivier, creator of the Magnetic Memory Method and author of a range of books about memory and language learning, shares his tips on how to remember more of your dreams by building a dream memory palace. Intrigued? Tired of having his sleep […]
My book, The Dream Handbook, will be published by Hachette (Australia) on 30 January and by Piatkus (UK) on 22 February, so I’m getting into book launch frame of mind. If you already have my last book, Dream Alchemy, a much-loved classic first published in 2003, you’ll discover that The Dream Handbook is an updated […]
What do death dreams mean? If I were to draw up a list of the top ten questions people ask me about dreams, this would be fairly near the top. Partly that’s because death dreams are very common, partly it’s because we tend to remember scary dreams, and partly it’s because people are more driven […]
My guest, Anna from Norway, asks about her dream of receiving a gift of a small-scale house made entirely of gingerbread, so freshly baked that the glazing was still wet. It wasn’t really something Anna wanted, as she had little room in her home for it, but the gift was a special assignment made for […]
I woke up in the middle of the night remembering a discussion I had with Veronica, a school friend, on a bus trip sometime during my early teens. “Is time a straight line, an endless cycle of circles, or a spiral?” she asked, drawing invisible lines, circles, and spirals in the air with a sweep of […]
