“I dreamed about you last night, and I think you should know …” Can our dreams help other people? Yes, and no, and perhaps not in the way that you think! Let’s explore: Let’s look at the opening example first. If you dream of a friend having an accident, have you tuned in to a
I love the tang of seaweed on the air, although, as a young child, I was scared of slip-sliding across the beached slimy tangles to reach the waves. Once in the water I was happy enough, but on murky green sea days, eels lurked below the surface, wrapping themselves around my legs, or so I
How often do you dream about work, what are the most common work dreams, and what do they mean? Yesterday I was on Today Extra to talk about work dreams. You can watch the video at the end of this blog, but I thought I would write this article to extend the topic. The Today
Why do we sometimes dream of people we don’t know, complete strangers? While many of your dreams probably feature people you know, or have known, or people you know about (celebrities) or fictional people you feel you know (characters from movies and books), your more dramatic or vivid dreams may often feature strangers. Those strangers
Once upon a dream, everything changed. I’d had a recurring dream theme for many years. The dream stories were always different, but, at some point, I would need to catch a bus. I was always in a faintly familiar city, but a little lost. The streets had changed, or the bus stops had moved, or
A few weeks ago, I was listening to a podcast to get to know the host a little before being a guest on her show. I clicked on her most recent episode, listened to some of it while doing some exercise at home, then settled into a window seat to hear the rest of the
Have your dreams become more vivid, crazy, momentous, and scary during the coronavirus crisis? Last week I wrote a blog about Dreams in the time of Covid-19 for my online learning platform, The Dream Academy. It covered the kinds of issues people are dreaming about, the value of using dreams to discover insight and potential
This little blackbird flew into our house on January 15 this year, and settled next to my nest of Orkney eggs, heralding both a synchronicity and a decision. Birds flying into our house are not a common occurrence. Thinking back over a lifetime I can only recall one other blackbird flying in, one dove walking
Imagine this: as you fall asleep and dream, a musician sits at his piano and reaches into the music sphere, opening to the dream world, composing music to gift you upon awakening. Then imagine this: You, the dreamer, fall asleep listening to that very same composition, reaching into the dream sphere, opening to the music,
If you’ve been following my work, you’ll know that I encourage you to do dream alchemy visualisations to assist your unconscious mind in transforming blocks, but is there a place for doing ‘normal’ visualisations as well? One of our newsletter subscribers, Liziwe, recently asked if I would cover this topic in a blog, so this