Dreams and synchronicity
What does it mean if a symbol from your dream appears as a synchronicity the next day, or as multiple synchronicities in the days to follow? Let’s start with an imaginary example: Cass buys houses to renovate and sell for profit, but recently she had a run of bad luck. She lost money on a couple of houses then invested in another one and worked long hours doing all the renovating herself to save labour
Create a dream practice
Maybe you have a regular yoga, meditation, writing, music, journaling, or exercise practice, but do you have a dream practice? What do you do with your dreams when you wake up in the morning? Do you catch a wisp of a dream, ponder for a moment, and then jump out of bed and get on with your day? Do you vaguely consult a dream book, or the internet, and then give up because the proffered
How can I stop bad dreams and nightmares?
Why do we have bad dreams? Should we pay them attention? How can we stop them? Let’s face it, no-one wants to experience bad dreams, whether they’re of the full-on horror variety that leave you terrified to go back to sleep, or whether they’re more of the anxious, stressful variety that disrupt your sleep and leave you feeling a lingering sense of unease. There are ways to stop bad dreams and nightmares from recurring (for
Garden of Dreams
Here’s an extract from my 2020 book, Bird of Paradise–Taming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams to Fruition. And if this entices you to keep turning the pages, you’ll find more details about this, my seventh book, here. Introduction: Garden of Dreams This book that you have before you is part whimsical memoir, part healing balm, and part alchemical guide to navigating your human journey by observing some of the deeper mysteries of the human
Can our dreams help other people?
“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 future event, and should you warn them about the details and advise them to take care? Or, if you dream
Dream tide
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 imagined. On clearer blue sea days, I could see they were nothing other than harmless fragments of drifting seaweed. Earlier
Dreaming about work
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 Extra team had found the results of a survey of the most common workplace dreams. I’m not sure who did
Dream strangers
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 may have uniquely detailed faces, leaving you in awe of your dreaming mind’s creativity, or wondering whether these are people
The bus stop
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 when I caught a bus at a familiar stop it took me in a different direction to my intended destination
Synchronicity or just another red Toyota?
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 interview. I’ve forgotten what it was about, but I think they were comparing notes on business styles while wandering off