Failed lucid dreamer
I’ve programmed myself to notice when cell phones appear in my dreams and then to try to dial Michael, my husband, by tapping the numbers on the dial pad. In dreams this can be really difficult to do. The dial pad morphs, the numbers get jumbled, or extra hashes or asterisk combinations are required. This complication is supposed to alert me to the fact that I’m dreaming, at which point lucid dreaming begins. In lucid
The sense of a meaning
Last Tuesday started out with a routine trip to the dentist for a check up, so I was rather shocked to exit the surgery minus two teeth, a wisdom tooth and the one next to it. “Bone loss,” the dentist had explained, “better to take them out.” Later in the week I was telling my daughter about my unexpected loss. “Tuesday?” she asked, “Really?” It turned out that she had taken Isobel, my five-year-old granddaughter,
Human and humane
Everyone and everything in a dream represents something about the dreamer, and when you think about your more worrying dreams, that may feel scary. You might be happy to acknowledge the things that flatter you: the wise old woman you met in a dream as your wisdom, the exciting new rooms you discover in a dream house as the exciting new ways in which you’re growing in the world, the soaring eagle as your ability
Dream analyst
It’s a conversation stopper, momentarily. “I’m a dream analyst,” I say, when asked what I do, and I see eyes widen, minds ticking over. “Did she say dream analyst? Or was it team analyst, some kind of HR job or competitive sports role? Or cream analyst, maybe she works for a dairy company.” Or, as a recent news article about the meaning of common dream themes said, “We spoke to Brisbane dream analyst (yes, that’s
Back to basics
Are there days, weeks, months, when you wonder how you can possibly fit everything you need to do into so little available time? There are solutions, but you can never see them when you’re too busy running from one task to the next. Your dreams may help you to discover those solutions, but taking the time to write your dreams down and analyse them can feel like just another task, and one way down the
A question of reframe
To reframe or not to reframe, that is the question. How does reframing a situation help you deal with a sea of trouble? Are there times when it’s more important to delve into that sea with eyes wide open, to feel it, to know it, to resolve and heal it, rather than to pretty it up? Or might you delve into that troubled sea with eyes tight shut in sleep, perchance to dream a clearer
Intention Medicine
So how are those New Year intentions working out for you, and what have your dreams had to say about your new approach to life? The thing about stepping out in a whole new way, or even taking micro-steps as you tentatively test new ground, is that you can trust your dreams to give you the inside information on the tricky bits. Like why you want to do something with all your heart but you’re
What’s your calling?
What’s your calling? When did you first realise it? Or are you still listening, or waiting for all your stars to align and open the way? Earlier this month I dreamed I was standing on a hilltop, looking down at a stunningly beautiful peninsula, all golden and glowing. Furthest away, at the tip, was the beginning of time, and the whole evolution of life played out between there and where I stood in present day.
As above so below
As above, so below. As within, so without. What do these ancient sayings mean to you? Legend has it that Hermes Trismegistus inscribed these words, in Phoenician, on The Emerald Tablet, somewhere between 1,200 and 38,000 years ago. Yes, you did read those dates correctly. No, no-one knows where the tablet is now, or whether Hermes Trismegistus was a real person, a God, or a group of scholars, but The Emerald Tablet has been variously
Tell me about your dream
“We welcome dream reader, Jane Teresa, onto the breakfast show,” a radio presenter announced earlier this morning, and I had to smile to myself: there it was again, call it synchronicity, a prod from the universe, or meaningful coincidence, those two words, dream reader, gave me the thumbs up for the blog idea I had scribbled on my notepad late last night. What qualifications do you need to be a dream analyst? Or to work