Last month we spent a couple of weeks in Cambodia, visiting my son and his wife, exploring ancient temples, boating through floating villages, immersing in the local culture, and not doing any work at all. No dream consultations, no writing, no media interviews, no podcasting. Much as I love my work – at heart I
Putting cats, dogs, horses, neighbourhood birds, and other everyday animals to one side, which of the wilder or more exotic animals have appeared in your dreams? Over many years my dream menagerie has included jaguars, tigers, lion, snakes, various mysterious birds, whales, dolphins, colourful tropical fish, oh, and a tortoise. I’m sure that many of
Sometimes we get so bogged down in the small details of a problem that we miss seeing the whole situation. We can’t see the forest for the trees. Or, if you’re British, like me, we can’t see the wood for the trees. Either way, we’re too close to the situation (too close to the trees
I’ve finally done it. I’ve written my first fiction novel. If you had asked me yesterday whether I’m going to write a sequel, I would have shrugged my shoulders, but I note that my typing fingers have a different opinion. My body knows what my head doesn’t: if this is my first novel, there will
“We’re doing a series on the ologies,” the radio producer said, “and we’d like you to talk about oneirology, the scientific study of dreams.” Ah, the ologies, I thought, looking back to my university student days, and the exciting ologies on offer back in the very early 1970s. I had been channelled along the serious
When I was a young adult, I had a recurring dream where my car windscreen would mist up and I couldn’t see the road ahead. The complication was that I was the driver, and the mist would often descend when I was driving along a highway or through a complex series of narrow winding pot-holed
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks sleeping with a Garmin watch strapped to my wrist to monitor my sleep patterns and the amount of time I spend dreaming. What have I learned? I successfully resisted playing with sleep technology until now, but curiosity got the better of me. I thought about getting an Oura
“A dead relative came to me in a dream and gave me the date of my death, please help!” Several times a year, people reach out to ask me this exact question. More often, people tell me about dreams where they’ve previewed their death date, or the age at which they will die, or the
“I have what I call my Inadequacy Dreams,” a neighbour told me recently, “a whole bunch of dreams that seem to fit that title, where I feel inadequate to complete a task, or something is not enough.” If you’ve studied with me, you’ll know that I encourage you to give a gut-feel title to every
What if our night-time dreams offered the potential to create real, positive change in the world? Well, they do. Imagine that! Asleep, in bed, being gifted everything you need to make a difference in the world, dream by dream, night by night! I could argue that simply having a good eight-hour sleep each night, along
