Gentle disguise: dreams of the departed
My grandfather died when I was thirteen. I didn’t really know him very well, and most memories I have of him are second hand, borrowed from stories told by others, a person and a life fabricated from tall tales, hearsay, and conjecture. He was well into his 60s when I, his first grandchild, was born. When he died, they found his heart pills tucked one-by-one under the mattress of his sick bed. He must have
Recording dreams in middle of the night
Here’s an easy way to record your dreams in the middle of the night, in the dark. Barbara, who hosted a dream group with me by Skype last week, shared this tip during the session when we were talking about how much more insight you can get into the meaning of a dream when you tell it aloud. We tend to use different words when we talk about a dream compared to when we write
Success is flowing: update from Renee, episode 67
Renee, my podcast guest in episode 67, asked me to share her news since having her dream interpreted on the show: “I want to give you an update on how things have been since you interpreted two of my dreams. I recently published a book called Perfect Feedback (Receiving the Answers From Within)! Yay! After you interpreted my Reggie Bush (episode 67) and my Royal Blue dreams (private reading) I started to look inside more. There
Sunrise clip: sexsomnia & sleepwalking
Sunrise invited me onto the breakfast show this morning to talk about sexsomnia and other forms of sleepwalking. Here’s the clip from the show: (2019: Video clip link no longer live.) What is sexsomnia? Channel 7 are screening a documentary tonight, Sleep Walkers: Secrets of the Night, focussing on sleepwalking in its many forms, including sexsomnia, a distressing condition where a person, usually male, tries to have sex with his partner while he (the sleepwalker)
Dream podcasts – behind the scenes
What’s the story about the snorting pig-dog? Why does veteran podcaster James Williams refer to Michael as the unsung hero of The Dream Show? Why do we, on The Dream Show, go for the raw cut? What happens when you’re in the middle of nowhere and try to record a show by satellite? What happens when you know nothing about podcasting and jump in anyway with an idea for a weekly show? Michael and I
Sleep yourself skinny?
Do you ever wake in fright from nightmares? How often? According to new research reported by Victoria University PhD candidate Fabian Elzo, 16% of Australians (that’s nearly 1 in 6 people) wake in fright from a nightmare once a week. Previous research across the world suggests the figures are closer to 4-10%. So, do Australians suffer more nightmares? Elzo’s study group were all students aged 18-34 years, and perhaps that skews the stats, but either
Why is grass green?
“Why is grass green?” I was three or four years old, and this was probably the hundredth question I had asked my mum that day. I was a curious child in every sense, as curious as a cat with nine lives to spare, and a curious specimen of childhood, a child more interested in why than what. “Oh, I don’t know why,” Mum replied, and I still remember her frustration, the toss of her head,
Celebrate our 1st Birthday today!
Happy Blog Birthday to us! Join me for a slice of chocolate birthday cake to get the inside info on today’s celebrations and gifts. Yes, I’ve been blogging for a year today, ever since Euan urged me to “write a blog Mum!” Why did I need a blog when I had a popular 11 year old, constantly evolving dream website, I asked my friends. “Write a blog Jane Teresa!” they all replied. So I did.
Top blogger reviews coaching with me
Jen, whose successful blog, Semantically Driven, about blogging, parenting and living in Australia is a constant on the Top 100 Aussie women blogger list, blogged yesterday about coaching with me. She goes into detail, including the exercises I set her and the outcomes that resulted from just one session on the phone with me. Jen began, “About a year ago I started looking on the internet for a life coach but couldn’t work my way
Dream interpretation: Radio 2UE, Finding home
Vanessa called Radio 2UE when I was interpreting dreams on Tim Webster’s afternoon show earlier this month, to ask about her recurring dream which she’d been having for six months. She was intrigued because a previous caller had asked about her recurring dream of never being able to find the right train station, or catch the train, and I had said that this was a common dream related to not getting going with goals, or