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
Unconscious wealth
I woke up this morning shortly after meeting a man, in my dreams, who told me about his website: ‘Unconsciouswealth.com.blog’. Actually, all he told me was the name of the site, and he was quite specific about the ‘dot com dot blog’ part. It was an isolated dream, just the brief meeting, the mention of the website, and then I was awake, grinning from ear to ear. I had gone to sleep knowing I needed
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
A better world
Two weeks ago, I was sitting here at my desk writing when I noticed billowing smoke outside my window. Seconds later, flames burst from the abandoned house two doors down. A neighbour was already outside, calling emergency services, and within minutes three fire engines had arrived. No-one was hurt, but the already dilapidated house was a goner. The view from my window had changed in a single afternoon. Although the house had been left to
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
Dreaming about your ex
Does dreaming about your ex mean you should get in contact, or get back together? No! So, what do these confusing dreams mean? If you’re dreaming about an ex in the very early days of the breakup, your dreams are likely to be processing your feelings about it all. Take the feelings you experienced in your dream – anger, regret, betrayal, shame, loss, grief, missing out, taunted, dismissed, not good enough, relief, hope, freedom, whatever
Colour in dreams and in spelling
I recently asked my newsletter subscribers for topics they would like me to address in future blogs. Rebecca, from Minnesota, USA, suggested colour in dreams. Being American, Rebecca didn’t ask about ‘colour’ though, she asked about ‘color’. I’m delighted to bring you my offering about colour in dreams, interwoven, as it turns out, with a story about spelling. Last night, I dreamed … I was getting ready to go for a run. I was all
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
Sleep paralysis and scary awakenings
“When you wake up feeling a dead weight pressing on your chest and you can’t breathe and there’s a haunted feeling in the room, is there a ghost around?” I was asked this question on a radio show this morning, and I realised, in what’s been a run of media interviews about dreams during Covid-19, that variations of this question keep coming up. There are no ghosts in the room, no spirits to lay to
Dreams during the coronavirus epidemic
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. It covered the kinds of issues people are dreaming about, the value of using dreams to discover insight and potential solutions to issues and problems (think job loss, relationships, and so on), tips on how to quell middle-of-the-night anxiety, and more. You might like to read it as