The science of dream interpretation
“You’re an interesting contradiction, a scientist who interprets dreams,” said Ian Kath, host of the podcast chat show Your Story – How others play the game of life. “I’d love to interview you and throw you some curly questions.” Of course I agreed, and Ian released our interview this week as episode 59, Jane Teresa. Science and Dream Interpretation. Ian set the scene: “She comes to dream interpretation, not from the esoteric fields of connecting with
Dream alchemy art
Not everyone is a gifted artist, but a surprising number of my clients are either professional artists (painters, writers, musicians) or discover artistic skills during the course of their work with me. Many times I’ve experienced the joy of being shown a piece of dream alchemy artwork (over a skype cam during a consultation or emailed to me as an image), or seeing my clients’ works appear in print or in blog form in the
Dream interpretation: Theme alchemy
No, it’s not a drunken, lisped take on ‘dream alchemy’. It’s a way of reading across your dreams, instead of considering each dream individually. It helps you to find light when you need it most. Here’s an example from my life. It’s the story of three waves. Once upon a time, I had three dreams about tsunamis. Each dream was on a different night, spaced over one week, and each dream was different from the
Rose alchemy – update from Ann, ep 82
“Our relationship has blossomed into something better than it was before,” says Ann, sharing her progress since having her dream interpreted in episode 82 of The Dream Show three months ago. Ann had dreamed of birds trapped in her home after getting in through broken blinds, unable to find their way out again. When we looked deeply at the dream, Ann saw that the birds represented her feelings of vulnerability over a family issue and
Video dream interpretation: Kitten curry
Ingrid Arna asks me about her dream of eating kitten curry in this new short video. I hadn’t heard the dream before, so you can watch the process as we go – Ingrid describing her delectable 3-kitten gourmet dish, me asking key questions and interpreting, Ingrid responding with how the interpretation relates to her waking life, and some dream alchemy. When I have a guest on my weekly podcast, The Dream Show, you get to
Your tune
If you were a song, what would it be? Which lyrics spring to mind to express the essence of your being, or even just the way you feel today? I’m taking you through a tune up, or maybe a change of tune, and all this is courtesy of a recent mentoring client* who dreamed of telling a singer he was putting emphasis on the wrong syllables – darling instead of darling – and losing the
New video: sex dreams
Here’s a new video, released today, on sex dreams and what they really mean. Do you remember Ingrid, my guest on episode 80, The Dream Show? In that episode she asked me about her dream of meeting two celebrities. The interpretation shed light on an issue stemming back to childhood that Ingrid was ready to fully release. In this new video, Ingrid asks me about a sex dream she had. Ingrid, an holistic health counsellor,
The Day Brightener
One of the joys of my work as a dream alchemist is to witness and celebrate the intense, skillful creativity that often accompanies personal transformation. It’s as if the deep change the person experiences carries a healing energy that demands a more public expression and draws on latent talents to achieve this. Awakened meaningful purpose finds its channel. Here’s an alchemical gem from Belinda, a recent life coaching client, who has just launched a new
What if?
A man dreamed he was crawling over a mosaic floor, checking for missing tiles. The job seemed endless. What if … he climbed the stairs and looked down on the mosaic floor instead of crawling over it? Would the missing tiles be easier to spot? We’ll come back to Mosaic Man and his dream later, but to get the most from this article, first play some more What If with me. A woman dreamed she
Times and tides
I’m blogging during our state of emergency, personally safe in a high and dry area of Brisbane, while some 40,000 properties in and around the CBD and riverside suburbs are flooding. Thousands of people are evacuating and businesses in the CBD have mostly closed for now. Beyond Brisbane, lives as well as homes have been lost, and large swathes of towns have been devastated. Twelve people have died in the floodwaters, and dozens are missing.