Tsunami dreams and dream alchemy
I was presenting a Dream Alchemy workshop earlier this week, and when someone asked about tsunami dreams and what they mean, I remembered this little Dream Wave Story. Just click on the image below and watch the slideshow. Do take it slowly, allowing time for the images to morph and the phrases to flow into each picture. (2025: Sorry, the slideshow is no longer available.) Every dream is unique, but I wrote the Dream Wave
Asking God about thunder
Emma dreamed that she could ask God one question about the world. She considered, deeply, and then decided. “Where does thunder come from?” By this time in her dream, God had become a more earthly Australian actor, Chris Hemsworth. He indicated the sky, teeming with rhinos. What have rhinos got to do with cause of thunder, and, more importantly, what does Emma’s dream mean? This was one of several dreams Mitch Garling, host of Snitch
How to use recurring dreams to resolve practical life issues
What kind of practical results can you expect to see in your life when you understand a dream and apply dream alchemy? Last month I was a guest on Ruby and Dave’s breakfast show on Radio 94.9, chatting about dreams and taking calls from listeners. One of the callers, Ian, asked about a recurring dream he’s been experiencing for many years. Being radio, where we need to keep things short and sweet, he summarised his
Podcast Squared Interview
Do hippos dream? Where did you dispose of the body? How does getting people to talk through a dream help them to better understand the real world? Andrew Johnstone, host of Podcast Squared (2019: website no longer live), dreamed up a bundle of questions from quirky to scientific, when he interviewed me for episode 102, Only in Dreams. Andrew’s show presents podcast reviews and interviews with podcast hosts, so he was interested to know why
Ideas from dreams
What have Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen King, and Stephanie Myer got in common? They’re world famous authors, they’ve written dark novels (horror or vampires), and they share similar names. But that’s not all. They’ve each based at least one of their books on a dream. Stephanie Myer had written a chapter here and there over the years, but had never completed a book. Then one night she dreamed of an intense conversation between an “average
Cheese, alcohol, movies and dreams
Does the movie you watched last night, the cheese you ate after dinner, or the whisky you knocked back all evening affect your dreams? Might a hot night, a thunderstorm, a full bladder, a rattling window, a screeching mosquito, or a headache explain away a weird dream? Yes, and then again, no! Let’s start with the movie. If a movie really affects you, your dreaming mind will often process the parts that resonated with your
Mooning the personal trainer
I was called onto this morning’s Maz, Dan and Shane breakfast show on Nova 919, to do a bit of dream detective work on the embarrassing dream Maz had just shared with the listeners. “I woke up when Josh Pyke mooned me and my new personal trainer,” she laughed. She had the dream the night after her introductory PT session, and she was doubtful that she’d be able to keep a straight face during her
Dreaming of people you know: A Checklist
People are such perfect dream symbols for your various beliefs, issues, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, memories, and experiences, but sometimes you need a little extra help in narrowing the field when interpreting the meaning of a certain person in a particular dream. Here’s that little extra help. Use this checklist (an extract from my book, Dream Alchemy, now retitled [2018] and available as The Dream Handbook published by Hachette and by Little Brown). Answer the
iProgram, iDream, iRecall
Need a little help recalling your dreams? An app can help you with that. Want to dream the perfect dream? There’s an app designed for that too. One key to good dream recall is to wake gently, keep your eyes closed, and allow dream fragments time to come together before your alarm clock – the one that means get out of bed now or you’ll be late – jolts you fully awake. You can help
TV: Dreams on The Morning Show
Here’s the video of my dream interpretation segment on Channel 7, The Morning Show, (national television Australia), this morning: (2019: video no longer available.)