Ep 289 The Dream Show: Live Dream Interpretation. Rat Race Recovery Coach Carolina Bakker dreamed about a magical portal

My guest today is Carolina Bakker, the Rat Race Recovery Coach, who dreamed of passing through a portal, a point of no return. Carolina joins me from Porto, Portugal (yes, the portal does fit in there, doesn’t it?) There’s plenty of surreal dream action before she reaches the portal, and as we explore her dream, […]
Interlude 1 The Dream Show: When the guy next to me on the plane was dreaming …

Sleeping with Strangers: about the guy who slept next to me on a long haul flight and … well, you’ll need to listen to find out! This is our first INTERLUDE podcast for The Dream Show. Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these […]
Ep 288 The Dream Show: Live Dream Interpretation. Therapist Gemma Louise dreamed she was drugged and driving.

Gemma dreamed she was drugged and driving on the wrong side of the road. Or was it the right side? She wasn’t sure, but she was scared to stop. Gemma Louise joins me from her home in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where she works as a spiritual coach and person-centred therapist helping people worldwide to create […]
Spoken clues

What is the difference between a thief and a robber? A client dreamed there was an intruder in his house. He couldn’t see him, but he could sense him. “What can you sense about him?” I asked. He closed his eyes, searched for the feeling. “He’s a robber.” At the time, the word ‘robber’ struck […]
Ep 287 The Dream Show: Personal news, changes, and dream stories

It’s 2025, a new year – our sixteenth year podcasting The Dream Show – and it’s time to introduce a change. Don’t worry, there’s more of what you love, but I’m adding something a little different into the show: you’ll hear all about it before I share some dream stories to give you more insight […]
Big fish

“I don’t remember my dreams,” Bella said, “except a snippet last night about some fish being too big for a fish tank.” “Well, that’s a start,” I said. “Those few words alone raise some interesting questions, like what are you trying to squeeze into your life and why doesn’t it fit comfortably? And where do […]
Ep 286 The Dream Show: Live Dream Interpretation. Psychologist Annabel Rolley dreamed of a shark attack. How can her dream help her?

My guest today is Annabel Rolley, psychologist, professional golfer, and the founder of Interpretr AI, a dream analysis and conversation app. Annabel’s passion for psychology and her fascination with the human mind have been major motivations throughout her career, most recently leading to the development of her app based on Freud and Jung’s philosophies. We […]
Ep 285 The Dream Show: Author and Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano dreamed of a journey

My guest today is Lisa Marchiano, Jungian analyst, podcaster (This Jungian Life), and author. Lisa shares a dream about needing to find a transfer to complete her journey to Boston: yet although it was Boston, there were echoes of London’s Kings Cross station. I invited Lisa onto the show to talk about her new book, […]
Ep 284 The Dream Show: Animals in dreams, in dream research, and in fiction

What do dreams about animals mean? We start by looking at why we sometimes dream of animals, and what we can learn about ourselves and our lives from our animal dreams. Sticking with the animal theme, we then look at what experiments with cats, back in the 1950s, taught us about the science of dreaming. […]
A sense of balance

An eternity ago, when I was in my late teens, I had a recurring dream where I struggled to walk through the university campus. It wasn’t one of those glue feet dreams, the ones where your feet are heavy or stuck to the road, or you feel like you’re walking through treacle. I had that […]