This is the story of a very simple dream that had a profound effect on my life. The powerful factor was not the dream itself. It was what I did with the dream – I applied the very simple magic of dream alchemy. You can do this too. Here’s the story – and the formula.
“I was cooking for everyone, serving them, clearing away piles of dirty dishes, and even, at the end of the dream, picking up some faeces after someone crapped in a cupboard. I was walking around carrying this faeces – this sh*t – with nowhere to put it,” said David, a client who found his dream
How weird is weird when it comes to dream symbols? Everyday things like a picture frame, a purse, or a paperclip may not be weird in themselves, but weird in the context in which they appear in a dream. A picture frame would be a weird symbol to meet in the middle of a desert,
Yesterday I invited people on FaceBook to pick a number between 1 and 365 to get a reading from my book The Compass. (There are 365 readings in the book.) Barbara was first to respond, picking number 88, ‘Be intimate’. Here’s the full reading: 88: BE INTIMATE WHY? Sharing personal insight and feelings
During February, we spent a few weeks out on a rural property. Business is pretty transportable, what with laptops, skype, podcasting equipment that fits in a handbag – well, almost – and the ease of doing live radio over a home phone. Or so we thought. It wasn’t that easy. Old, crackly phone lines, fickle
When was the last time you stepped out of a comfort zone? What did you do? How did it feel? How did the experience enrich your life? We create and inhabit comfort zones to protect ourselves from facing our fears. We erect boundaries beyond which we prefer not to step. Often, though, the greatest danger
Throw out any dream dictionaries lurking on your bookshelves. The symbols in your dream are all about you. So how can you discover their meaning? Here’s an easy, fun, and accurate way. Imagine your dream symbol is a tennis ball, for example. Ask, “What is the personality of a tennis ball?” Answer fast. Don’t allow
John phoned me on Alex Bernard’s show on Radio 4BC last week to ask me about his decapitation dream. “A pane of glass hit me across the back of the neck and chopped my head off. I saw my head fall, so I was still alive, but I couldn’t breathe or cry.” Sounds gruesome, doesn’t
Words can be very telling, especially the words we use to describe our dreams. They often come direct from our unconscious mind – perfect keys to interpretation. So next time someone is telling you about a dream, listen for those tell-tale words. Alison called Radio 5AA last week when I was interpreting dreams on Amanda
The That’s Life Magazine (Australia) team have just launched a new quarterly mag, That’s Love, and asked me to interpret some sex dreams for their first issue. With their permission, here’s an extract from my article: “Dream sex is symbolic. Just as your body responds to a scary dream by releasing the fear hormone adrenalin