If your dream is set in a time before you were born, does it give you insight into a past life? Sometimes people dream of being themselves, as they appear today, only in historic dress to suit the period, and sometimes people dream they look quite different, or are of the opposite sex, clearly […]
Bob dreamed he was delivering a refugee’s baby, watched by a young girl with a wound above her ear. As the baby crowned, he heard the opening line of a hymn which then played on his mind all day. Bob thought, correctly, that his dream reflected his difficulties in finding right-left brain balance in his relatively left-brained, […]
Many people dream of the end of the world and get really scared, assuming they’ve previewed a coming reality, but, of course, dreams are symbolic. Here’s a short one posted to the one-day dream forum last month, followed by my interpretation. “I’ve been having constant dreams about aliens arriving, and/or aliens influencing our lives. I […]
Are you looking to your dreams for answers to important questions? Do you go to bed hoping for a dream that will explain all and show you the best way forward? Are you looking for solutions to personal issues, guidance on career, or a bankable genius eureka to boost your fortune? The dreaming mind offers […]
Shane dreams of a dark presence in the doorway of her bedroom, and of being unable to move or shout. Is she dreaming or awake, she wonders. The dark figure connects with an abusive relationship, as you will discover, but not in the way you might imagine. Everyone in a dream represents an aspect of […]
Pete dreamed of hundreds of black ants streaming out from a hole in his foot. What do you think it means? He posted his dream to last week’s one day dream forum, run by Brisbane Times. I thought you’d enjoy this one: Pete’s dream: I was sitting on a log and then out of the […]
Lee has a recurring dream about trying to escape three sharks. She gets tangled in the seaweed before finally getting to shore, but, oh no – those sharks simply grow legs and keep hunting her. Although Lee had this dream for several years, it stopped when she made an important change in her waking life. […]
Can you distinguish a dream from reality? Test yourself on this one: John is reading resumes, deciding which candidate to employ for a position. He takes one resume, a sheath of pages attached to a heavy clipboard. “Serious,” he concludes. He takes a second resume, the same number of pages but this time attached to […]
Are you too busy to explore your dreams? In a leading article on dreams in today’s Brisbane Times, Katherine Feeney writes about “the importance of dreaming in a culture Anderson said was already over-worked, over-tired and disconnected from ‘potential of their dreams’.” Katherine interviewed me last week, and reports all in today’s article. “[Anderson said] […]
‘There must be 50 ways to leave a lover,’ according to Paul Simon’s lyrics, but how many ways are there to escape a hungry lion hot on your tail? In this episode we look at how to find creative solutions to waking life problems by applying a simple, fun technique to any dream. Paul Simon’s […]
