Where synchronicity leads
In a dream the night before last, I pulled a very long hair from my nose. It was metres long, seemingly unending, and when I did finally pull it free, the pain woke me up. We’ll get to the dream and what it meant, but I must begin with the story of driving home from yoga yesterday evening. During the class, I mentioned that an operation I had some twenty years ago to remove a
Does everyone dream every night?
Everyone dreams, whether or not they remember dreaming, but perhaps the question should really be, are you dreaming enough? Yes, it does sound a little bit like, Are you getting enough sleep, and that’s part of the issue, but let’s explore. Why do we need to dream, what happens if we don’t pack sufficient dreaming time into our sleep, and are there circumstances that can disturb or stop our dreams from time to time? Dreams
Are all dreams meaningful?
How meaningful are dreams, and are some dreams more meaningful than others? If you’re a very dedicated dreamer you might be in the habit of interpreting every single dream you remember, but when you remember several dreams a night this can feel overwhelming. If some dreams are more meaningful than others wouldn’t it be good to know which ones they are, and to focus your attention on these? Let’s start with the question of whether
Solving problems in your dreams
One of the many functions of dreaming is to come up with creative solutions to problems, to clear the mist that baffles us before sleep, and reveal new perspectives and possibilities, even brilliant ideas. Throughout history we’ve been encouraged to ‘sleep on it’, to stop mulling over a problem, to quit admonishing ourselves for our inability to see the answer, to turn out the light, and drift into healing sleep and problem-solving dreams. Sometimes it
The Dream Handbook
My book, The Dream Handbook, will be published by Hachette (Australia) on 30 January and by Piatkus (UK) on 22 February, so I’m getting into book launch frame of mind. If you already have my last book, Dream Alchemy, a much-loved classic first published in 2003, you’ll discover that The Dream Handbook is an updated version with a new title. My Australian publisher had a vision of bringing the look and feel of the book
What do death dreams mean?
What do death dreams mean? If I were to draw up a list of the top ten questions people ask me about dreams, this would be fairly near the top. Partly that’s because death dreams are very common, partly it’s because we tend to remember scary dreams, and partly it’s because people are more driven to seek me out and consult me when they fear that the death they have previewed in a dream is
Full circle
I woke up in the middle of the night remembering a discussion I had with Veronica, a school friend, on a bus trip sometime during my early teens. “Is time a straight line, an endless cycle of circles, or a spiral?” she asked, drawing invisible lines, circles, and spirals in the air with a sweep of her hand. It seems an appropriate memory to resurface at this time of year, when we’re all trying to finish
Time to dream
Time to dream. What do those words conjure up for you? Time to daydream, to luxuriate, to take time out, to visualise your future? Time you simply don’t have? How much sleep do you get each night, on average? Do you wake up refreshed or do you get by on what you judge as just enough sleep? Do you wake up too early, wired high on constant stress? Do you drag yourself out of deep
Your dream alchemy prescription
People get quite excited when they hear about it. “Oh, this is amazing,” a radio presenter said to me recently during a breakfast show, “and it makes so much sense!” We were talking about how to combine the art and science of interpreting dreams, and I gave a very simple example of looking at a dream as an analogy: Imagine you dreamed you couldn’t get your car started. You wake up the next day and
The best job in the world
Today’s the day the doors open wide for enrolment into the dream therapist professional certificate online courses at The Dream Academy. Yes, we’re launched, and so delighted to welcome the first students whose names have graced the waiting list for the past weeks and months. They’re in, and happily exploring, and now we’re ready for – well, maybe for you. I’ve been training students in the art and science of dream therapy for two decades,