In your dreams Blog

Have you ever been so angry with someone in a dream that you shout at them at the top of your lungs, squeezing out every last word until you lose your breath? Or have you been so angry that you’ve been violent with the person in your dream, perhaps picking them up and throwing them around with superhuman strength? With all your anger spent, you wake up, horrified at your dream action, but strangely calm.

“I watched the news about Neil the Seal yesterday,” Lily said, squinting in the cold winter sunshine of another blue-skied Hobart morning. “I guess that’s why I had a dream about a giant penguin last night! Kind of easy to interpret that one, wouldn’t you say?” Let’s hit the pause button on my reply for a moment while I fill you in on Neil the Seal. Five-year-old Neil is a one tonne elephant seal who

“I don’t know about dreams being ephemeral,” Jess said, by way of greeting as she shook the rain from her umbrella and settled into the seat opposite me on the cafe terrace. “Mine are sticky. They stick around at least until my first coffee, so – hey –,” she waved to the waiter, “a latte please.” Jess is a friend, not a client, and – strangely – the second person in two days to casually

“Oh yes,” you might say, “I love the way you interpreted my dream. I can totally relate to that!” But what do you do next? What action do you take? Do you share it with friends? “Look, this weird dream turns out to be about my self-doubt. See? The way I’m holding that horse back in my dream is the way I hold my energy back in my life because I doubt myself. See? I

What’s the connection between running and green apples? I was dreaming of both when my morning alarm pierced the action and jolted me awake before my dream came to its natural conclusion. The dream fragment teased and tantalised me. I had no full dream storyline to work with, and very little recall of what happened before the green apples scene, but it demanded my attention. How much insight can a dream fragment deliver? Do you

Someone once told me his favourite conversation starter at a party was, “What did you dream last night?” I imagine that brief, light-hearted responses might prove fruit for frivolity and bonding: “I was ice-skating with a panda,” “I was running for a bus, naked,” “I was icing a birthday cake with dog poo.” Let’s flip this idea. What if your dreams were the conversation starters, inviting you each morning to engage with the questions they

I have just eaten a bowl of the most glisteningly sweet and delicious blackberries, freshly gathered from my neighbour’s garden. ‘Pick your own,’ Gina messaged yesterday, when I was sitting waiting for an idea for today’s blog to drop. Although I only write a new blog about dreams or dream interpretation every six weeks, I sometimes wonder if I have already written everything there is to say on the subject. This is not true, of

After 16 years of creating The Dream Show, we’re … no, we’re not stopping! From January 2026 we’re adding a video podcast format on YouTube. So why, you might wonder, has it taken so long to add this feature? Why did we jump into podcasting so early (2009) yet stay away from the visual format until now? That’s easy to answer. Our guests for the first 15 years were anonymous. The concept was to invite

The first thing I do when I open my eyes in the morning is close them again. I drift and search for memories of my dreams before they fade. Dream fragments float into view like seeds on a light breeze. I catch a seed or two and invite them to tell me more of their story. On a good morning, they do. Vividly detailed whole dreams instantaneously pop into view. I keep my eyes closed

I was PJ Coogan’s guest on The Opinion Line on Cork’s 96FM (Ireland) last week, talking about dreams. PJ’s dream about his mother, who is in her nineties, driving a fire engine at top speed was one of many highlights. I explain a key dream interpretation tip that throws light on the meaning of this dream. Other highlights include (in order they appear): What is a dream? What does a dream of getting on a