Welcome

Hello and welcome! I'm Jane Teresa Anderson, dream analyst, dream therapist, mentor, author of seven books on dreams and dreaming, creator of The Dream Academy online courses (learn in your own time, go at your own pace), host of 'The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson' podcast, and frequent dream expert guest on radio and television.

Originally trained as a scientist, my approach to interpreting and working with dreams is both an art and a science, based on my independent research and deep work with clients for over 31 years.

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Courses

HOW TO INTERPRET YOUR DREAMS:
My step-by-step system you can use to interpret your dreams meaningfully and gain rich insight into yourself and your life.

Start today! Instant access.
Videos, PDF notes, and charts.
Go at your own pace.
Revisit as many times as you wish.

DREAM ALCHEMY:
Learn how to prescribe, create, and use dream alchemy to powerfully enhance your life.

DREAM THERAPY
PROFESSIONAL LEVEL 1: Learn how to work with clients and assist their healing and transformation using dream therapy techniques. Includes one:one mentoring with me by Zoom.

DREAM THERAPY
PROFESSIONAL LEVEL 2: Fieldwork, assignments, and one:one mentoring with me.

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Books

Published by Hachette, Little Brown (Piatkus), Random House, and Harper Collins, I am the author of seven books on dreams and dreaming.

My most recent book is BIRD OF PARADISE.

BIRD OF PARADISE
Part whimsical memoir, part healing balm, and part alchemical guide, Bird of Paradise delivers Jane Teresa’s down-to-earth tools and techniques for decoding dreams and synchronicities and offers up her unique signature alchemy practices that enable you to flow and grow with life’s challenges, paradoxes, and mysteries.

Immerse yourself in that magic now and learn how to see behind the curtain of ordinary consensus reality. In so doing, your world will become infinitely richer and you will become more aligned with your own unique calling on the road of life.

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iProgram, iDream, iRecall

Need a little help recalling your dreams? An app can help you with that. Want to dream the perfect dream? There’s an app designed for that too. One key to good dream recall is to wake gently, keep your eyes closed, and allow dream fragments time to come together before your alarm clock – the

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Episode 124 The Dream Show: Spacecraft

Jason from Seattle dreamed of viewing the magnificence of outer space from a spacecraft, before landing back on Earth. He had been abducted by aliens, and knew they would find him again. Back home there’s maths homework to do, a blood transfusion to endure against his will, and a sense of deep sadness connected with

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A Dangerous Method

Have you seen A Dangerous Method*, the movie about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung’s intense relationship from first meeting, through the birth of psychoanalysis, to their professional and personal falling out? Along the way, Jung (Michael Fassbender), shares some of his dreams with Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and you might enjoy, as I did at the

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Messages from the other side?

When someone who has died appears to you in a dream, are they communicating with you from spirit, or are these dreams symbolic? Dreaming of a loved one after death can be the most precious, comforting, uplifting experience, especially when the dream is full of love, embraces, and tender messages, and when the person looks

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Do blind people see in their dreams?

“I’m quadriplegic,” said the caller to a dream segment I was hosting on radio many years ago, “but in my dreams I can run and dance, and I’m devastated when I wake up and remember that I can’t.” Before his accident, he had enjoyed running and dancing, and he could draw on his sensual and

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Episode 123 The Dream Show: Solar eclipse

Ann is my guest with a vivid dream where she returns to her childhood neighbourhood and witnesses a miraculous solar eclipse. In the dream, she and John, a friend from her church, follow the solar eclipse with a discussion about yoga, maths, english, and an abstract drawing in a notepad. All this during a short

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Is this your life?

How often has your alarm clock saved you from a worrying dream you thought was real? What a relief to wake into your everyday life, where all the quandaries and confusions of the dream evaporate and leave you free to get on with your day! You may have spent all night trying to catch that

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Things that go bump in the night

Ever woken to eerie sounds in the night, or a feeling of your skin being touched when you’re sleeping alone, or been scared out of your wits when you’ve opened your eyes to see ghosts or strange things going on in your bedroom? As utterly convincing and frightening as these sensations are, it’s important to

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Episode 122 The Dream Show: The beholder

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What you see is what you get, depending on how you see it. As your eye changes – as your experiences change – so does what you get. Have you noticed how a favourite story from childhood is different when you reread it as an adult? Or

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The open door

Twenty-one years ago, I dreamed I was trying to get into a building by pushing through one of its solid brick walls. It was hard work that got me nowhere at all. All it did was exhaust me. I stood back, walked around the house, and discovered an open door. I realised that the door

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Blinded by the light

It’s that time of the year here in Australia. It’s midwinter*(see footnote!), the air is clear and dry and the sunlight is blinding. There’s no summer humidity to water down the glare, and the widening hole in the ozone layer down this end doesn’t help. I need a new pair of sunglasses. Which would you

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2012 Wake up call

What’s your recurring dream? If you’ve been following my blog, listening to my podcasts, and reading my books, and you’re still experiencing a recurring dream, today’s post is your wake up call. It’s time to put what you’ve been learning into action if you want to enjoy life changing results in 2012! Let’s review the

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Episode 120 The Dream Show: Always the passenger

Gwynne is my guest with a dream about finding a camera with a shocking picture on the viewfinder. There’s a theme of lost and found, and another of being driven around – always the passenger, never the driver – and sitting so far back in the vehicle that she even falls out of the car.

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The Princess and the Pea

What’s the moral of the story of The Princess and the Pea? I’ve been putting people on the spot with this question, and I’ve received so many different replies. Before reading on, if you remember the story, give yourself a few moments and jot down the moral that you’ve always taken from this tale. Need

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Killer ghosts

“I dreamed ghosts were coming out from the walls and mirrors upstairs, killing people,” said Lynn, who called Radio 2GB this week when I was interpreting dreams on Chris Smith’s afternoon show. “In the dream, I thought I have to get mum to come and clean the house,” she added. What does it mean? Lynn

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Cheating dreams

Video opens in a new window “I dreamed my partner was cheating on me. It felt so real. Should I confront him? Please help.” Every week I receive at least one email asking me about cheating dreams. So, what’s the answer? Is the dream picking up on the partner’s actual cheating behaviour or unfulfilled desires?

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Life lessons

“Are we meant to learn lessons from our dreams?” asked Cheryl, in an email I received this week. It’s a good question, both simple and complex, and one many people ask. So, are we meant to learn lessons from our dreams? I’ve been watching Isobel, my eight month old granddaughter, learning to crawl. You might

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Dream catcher machine

Imagine downloading movie clips of your dreams each morning. “What did you dream last night?” “No idea. Hang on a minute, I’ll have a look.” Research published this month in the journal Current Biology has led to speculation that this may be possible in decades to come. While no-one has yet captured footage of dreams,

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When you wake up crying

Video opens in a new window When you wake up crying real tears, or simply feeling profoundly sad for no apparent reason, it’s because you have finally touched upon some buried grief through a dream. You may have released all the grief, or there may be more to come. Either way, when you wake up

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Episode 116 The Dream Show: Haunted house

Our August show features Emily, from Northern California, with a dream about moving into a new but dusty house. While cleaning, she discovers a dark hallway with a poker table and some lumberjacks from the 1850s. “How exciting, a haunted house!” she tells her husband, in the dream. There’s an animal and some clue-bearing numbers

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Spot the belief

Had a tough day? Ready for a spot of light relief, a bit of fun, a dream interpretation game that’s easy to do yet powerfully insightful? You may never look at your dreams in the same way ever again. It’s called Spot the Belief. This is what to do: For each of the following dreams,

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Love your bad dreams

Here’s a simple formula to apply when you have an unsettling or frightening dream and you want to reduce the chances of having it again. Actually, it’s far more powerful than this. Not only does this formula ease your dreams, it also creates deep and lasting positive change in your waking life by subtly reprogramming

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Episode 115 The Dream Show: Hippocrates, Freud & Jung

Imagine getting Freud, Jung, and Hippocrates (a dream healer from around 2,300 years ago who became immortalized as the Father of Modern Medicine) into a room together to interpret a dream. They’d all have different views. Where would they agree, where would they disagree? In this episode, I meet these dream pioneers and ask them

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Otherwise, other wise

Bath time, when my children were very small, was great fun until the moment came to lift them from the water. They never wanted to get out. Eventually I found the happy solution. “Who’s going to take the plug out, you or me?” I’d ask. “Me! Me! I want to!” would come the unerring reply.

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Watch my lips

What you need to know is right in front of you, and in your dreams, if you know how to look. The tricky bit is that the reason you are seeing a problem instead of a solution, darkness instead of light, is that your vision is blocked by your expectations, especially your unconscious expectations. Your

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Episode 107 The Dream Show: Dream Alchemy & The Philosophers’ Stone

Join me as I dip into my book, The Dream Handbook (originally published as Dream Alchemy), reading you passages exploring dreams, recurring dreams, nightmares, and my unique approach to working with dreams – dream alchemy. Included is a little insight into the medieval alchemists and what their quest to transform base metal into gold was

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The goat and the cobweb

Here’s a puzzle. What’s the connection between a cobweb and a goat? If you’re already searching for an answer, you’re in the right frame of mind for interpreting a dream. I’ll give you some more clues: Sandra phoned Loretta & Moyd’s Afternoon Show on Radio 4BC this afternoon to ask me about her dream featuring

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Episode 106 The Dream Show: Alien analyst

How can an alien help you to understand a dream? What’s the right thing to say to a horse as it angrily rears up above you and threatens to crash down upon you? And what’s the magical formula for finding a solution to a seemingly impossible challenge? Today’s show brings you a mix of dream

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Pregnancy dreams: Jellybeans and leeches

It all started when Sunrise weather presenter Grant Denyer told the SAFM Breakfast crew – Hayley, Craig and Rabbit – that his pregnant wife dreamed she gave birth to a monkey. Then Hayley, who had just announced her pregnancy on the show, shared that she had dreamed she gave birth to leeches. Was this just

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Nipple worms & radio experts

“I dreamed that a two inch worm wriggled out of my nipple,” said Kerry, who called a radio breakfast show where I was interpreting dreams. Parasites seemed to be the order of the day, as I had just helped Brig, one of the presenters, understand her dream of picking lice from a sports star’s hair. Lice

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Navigating changing times

“Global tidal wave of 70,000 job cuts,” announced the online news. “The tsunami of layoffs started in Europe …” Instantly I got the picture. It’s a metaphor that works. It describes a giant ripple effect of job loss caused by a seismic tremor in the global economy. It also describes the emotional impact felt or

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Episode 100 The Dream Show: Balloons & rainbows

Rose is my guest, wondering why her sister, in India, sometimes accurately dreams details of Rose’s dreams or Rose’s waking life in the US. What is happening here, and are these dreams – Rose’s and her sister’s – meaningful when interpreted? We explore and interpret two shared dreams and one of Rose’s sister’s dreams that

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Ep 74 update, Abigail: An unbelievable miracle

“I did feel a major depression lift … I feel good connections, I feel accepted.  It’s an unbelievable miracle!” – Abigail, on the outcome of having her dream interpreted in episode 74. Having a dream interpreted and taking action by doing the prescribed dream alchemy practice creates life changing results. First up are immediate results

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Episode 93 The Dream Show: 100 years

Life is full of opportunity. Even when it doesn’t feel like it. Especially when it doesn’t feel like it. In this episode, I show you how to look at your dreams to discover practical opportunities that you’re just not seeing when you’re awake. Dreams do not tell you what to do. They don’t guide you.

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Episode 92 The Dream Show: Metaphor magic

What do dreams of flying into power lines, feeling the ground shake, going round and round in circles, and meeting an old man close to death have in common? They’re all in this episode, they’re all metaphors for waking life situations, and I use these – and other dreams – to show you how to

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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

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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,

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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

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Dream interpretation: End of the world

  Many people dream of the end of the world and get really scared, assuming they’ve previewed a coming reality, but, of course, dreams are symbolic. Here’s a short one posted to the one-day dream forum last month, followed by my interpretation. “I’ve been having constant dreams about aliens arriving, and/or aliens influencing our lives. I

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The right question

Are you looking to your dreams for answers to important questions? Do you go to bed hoping for a dream that will explain all and show you the best way forward? Are you looking for solutions to personal issues, guidance on career, or a bankable genius eureka to boost your fortune? The dreaming mind offers

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Hot coffee, warm heart?

Can you distinguish a dream from reality? Test yourself on this one: John is reading resumes, deciding which candidate to employ for a position. He takes one resume, a sheath of pages attached to a heavy clipboard. “Serious,” he concludes. He takes a second resume, the same number of pages but this time attached to

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Time to dream?

Are you too busy to explore your dreams? In a leading article on dreams in today’s Brisbane Times, Katherine Feeney writes about “the importance of dreaming in a culture Anderson said was already over-worked, over-tired and disconnected from ‘potential of their dreams’.” Katherine interviewed me last week, and reports all in today’s article. “[Anderson said]

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Episode 83 The Dream Show: Chased by a lion

‘There must be 50 ways to leave a lover,’ according to Paul Simon’s lyrics, but how many ways are there to escape a hungry lion hot on your tail? In this episode we look at how to find creative solutions to waking life problems by applying a simple, fun technique to any dream. Paul Simon’s

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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

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Episode 81 The Dream Show: Rookies & veterans

Last week we celebrated our 80th weekly episode, and Michael and I spent a happy hour reviewing the journey when we were featured guests on Podcasters’ Emporium. Hosts James Williams and Dave Gray teased out the stories, the challenges, the behind-the-scenes dramas and bloopers of we rookie podcasters, and we thought you’d enjoy a listen

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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

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Episode 78 The Dream Show: Dreams of death

My guest, Dewi, dreamed that her son died. Two dreams followed, another one about death, and one about a diagnosis of cancer. Death dreams are common and extremely worrying, especially when they feature family members, and it’s often a death dream that sends people Googling to my site or booking a dream consultation. These dreams

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Science & dreams: Interview on China Radio International

Is there a place for science when researching and analysing dreams? In an interview last week on China Radio International, Beijing based Nigel Ballard, host of ‘People in the Know’, grilled two dream researchers, myself and Professor Marilyn Fowler of John F Kennedy University, on this subject. Listen here (podcast). My background in science –

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Dream interpretation: Recurring dreams

Do you have a recurring dream theme? I asked this question on my Facebook page on Monday, to gather some material for today’s blog and to provide some glimpses into what these dreams mean. So thanks for your contributions, guys, and read on! First up, remember that a dream reflects your conscious and unconscious experiences

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Dream Alchemy – secret spells

I’m about to give you some magical formulae you can use to transform your life. They’re simple, yet powerful. They’re serious, and they work, but for a bit of fun I’ve arranged them as magic spells from an imaginary book of alchemical secrets. Before we delve in, though, let’s look at the theory so you

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Episode 72 The Dream Show: A DSDD workout

My guest, Dail, shares her experience of running one of her dreams through our DIY free interpretation program. (Note, April 2013: After 13 years of use we’ve now retired this program.) You pop your dream in one end, answer some short, simple questions, and emerge at the other end of the process with a clearer

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Dream touchstones

When is a piece of jewellery not a piece of jewellery? (That’s jewelry for those of you who smile at our English-Australian spelling.) Remember Heidi, my guest on episode 68 of The Dream Show? Heidi is a celebrity TV presenter of a cooking show in Shanghai, and also runs Sanctus Stones, a wearable energy business,

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Episode 71 The Dream Show: Glimmers of gold

What’s the link between Inception, the movie, and Dream Alchemy? Inception is about entering into a person’s dream and changing the storyline to create a changed waking life outcome, while Dream Alchemy is about changing the storyline of your own dream, once you’ve woken up, to create a changed waking life outcome. In Inception, the

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Dream interpretation: Landscapes

How many different landscapes have you encountered in your dreams? Have you visited mountains, forests, deserts, foreign cities, unknown suburbs, rolling hills and valleys, lush countryside, steep rock cliffs, or barren wastelands? What do these dream settings mean? The landscape in your dream helps describe the situation you find yourself in, the one your dream

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Bad dreams & dementia?

Recent research has got people all excited about a possible link between people who thrash about in bed while they’re dreaming and the later development of dementia, in particular, Parkinson’s Disease.  Here’s a video clip (2019: Video clip no longer available) of me talking about this on The Morning Show, Channel 7, this morning. So let’s

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Inception: Can you control a dream?

Can you control your dreams? Can you control other people’s dreams? Have you seen the movie Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, released in recent weeks? It’s about a team of people who control other people’s dreams and get them to reveal their secrets. The team is asked to go one stage

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Dream interpretation results: Suzanne’s news, episode 45

Here’s an update from Suzanne, my guest on podcast episode 45, The Dream Show. Suzanne had dreamed of a prickly cactus obstructing her way in her dream. There was mud to one side, rocks to the other, and no shoes to protect her feet. We discussed her dream on the podcast. Suzanne now reports: “At

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Dream interpretation results: Margaret’s news, episode 55

Here’s an update from Margaret who was my guest in episode 55 of The Dream Show. “Where do I start? So, so much has happened. The dream we discussed was a recurring dream theme. It turned out to be about how I’ve needed to manipulate situations so I can do what I want or show

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Episode 65 The Dream Show: A ghostwriter’s nightmare

Meet my husband, ghostwriter Michael Collins, who comes onto today’s episode in several guises (as ghostwriters are wont to do). Michael has been an integral part of these podcasts since the first episode, doing the technical side of the show, and I thought it was time you got to know him a little more. After

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Dream interpretation: Let it flow – slippery secrets revealed

Sometimes it pays not to think too hard when writing about your dream in your journal, recording it in audio, or recounting it to a partner or friend. Let loose a little with your handwriting or typing, speed it up and don’t worry about spelling mistakes, grammar, or typos. When telling someone about your dream,

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Episode 64 The Dream Show: Sleep on it

We catch up with Barbara who was my guest in episode 48, to discover how her life has changed since having her dream interpreted and doing her dream alchemy. The universe – and dream alchemy – work in unexpectedly wonderful ways to deliver the results we desire, as they have for Barbara. One of our

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Episode 63 The Dream Show: Lady Gaga, Kate & Kay

Spot the theme: Lady Gaga has a recurring dream about being asked to cut her wrist, a dream she worries is connected with the Illuminati, while Kate, our guest from episode 57, had dreamed of chopping off her leg so she could look inside. In this episode I interpret Lady Gaga’s dream, and report on

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Do nightmares affect health?

Do frequent bad dreams have a negative impact on your health? Michael Lund, writing for the Courier Mail, reports today that recent studies suggest a link between frequent nightmares and insomnia, fatigue, depression and anxiety. Research in China suggests that 5.1% of people have frequent nightmares, defined as at least one a week, while other

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On solid ground

(Note: I wrote this article ten years ago, during a period of change, before I had found the name ‘dream alchemy’ to describe the approach I was evolving. Yet here it is, and there I am, doing the magic that created the firm foundation upon which the last ten years have been built.) *** In

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Dream interpretation results: Jeremy’s news, episode 50

Here’s an update from Jeremy, my guest in podcast episode 50, The Dream Show. You may remember Jeremy dreamed of being a passenger in a cadillac, feeling unsure about where he was being driven, and there was a question of whether he should take the two painful beauty injections on offer, a long shot and

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Hole in the road

Out driving recently, we slowed down to pass road works. Orange witches’ hats marked off a hole in the centre of the road. Intrepid road workers were jack-hammering their way, waist deep in rubble, ear deep in mind numbing noise. “You know,” Michael began, “whenever we passed road works when we were children, Dad would

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Dream vibrations and the LOA

I am often asked about the Law of Attraction, and whether nightmares and dreams with negative vibes attract negative people and events into our lives. It’s a good question. So, let’s explore: Books about the Law of Attraction have enjoyed waves of popularity since the early 1900s, with a recent resurgence in the early 1990s

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Radio ABC WA: Sickbed dreams

“It was a cool vampire dream that would make a cool vampire novel,” said ABC Radio WA host Glynn Greensmith, of the dream he had while he was sick. Glynn invited me onto his early morning show yesterday to talk about dreams, wondering if there was a link between being sick and having unusually vivid

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Episode 54 The Dream Show: Resurrection & birth

Angela is my guest with a dream she had last week while her mother was receiving chemotherapy. In the dream, her mother became well in a scene akin to a resurrection, and Angela gave birth to a baby but worried that she wasn’t prepared emotionally for motherhood. The measurements of the baby were given: 19.5,

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Episode 52 The Dream Show: Moving forward

This episode is about moving forward, freed by alchemy. When you do alchemy, your dreams reflect the deep changes. Of course, you’ll notice changes in your waking life – some subtle, but hugely powerful, some more dramatic – but it’s always exciting to see confirmation of the changes in your dreams. One of the first

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Dream interpretation results: Jennifer’s news, episode 47

Here’s an update from Jennifer, my guest in podcast episode 47, The Dream Show. Jennifer, a naturopathic physician, dreamed she was a contestant in a TV Top Model reality show, wondering whether she’d be eliminated in the final round. If you’ve listened to episode 47 (listen here), you’ll remember that Jennifer’s degree is in a

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Dream interpretation results: Carla’s news, episode 44

Here’s an update from Carla, my guest on podcast episode 44, The Dream Show. Six weeks ago, Carla shared her Bodice Ripper dream on the show. The dream reflected her tendency to restrain or withhold her more passionate, creative heart-felt work, preferring to be seen as intelligent, valuing head over heart. Her ‘inner Nazi’ regard

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Turning point: small shift, big change

What’s your best success story? It might be a career or business success, meeting your soul mate, a personal breakthrough, a creative or academic  achievement, a lifestyle change, a contribution to your community, healing your body, finding peace. When you look back along the path, what was the turning point, the event, thought or action

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Episode 48 The Dream Show: Yellow ochre

Today’s guest, Barbara, dreamed she was organising paints, particularly yellow ochre, when an old woman with leprosy appeared, on the verge of death. Barbara knew she needed to burn and bury the body. The dream tantalisingly offered a number – five – a clue to interpretation. As you will hear, the dream reveals an unconscious

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Dream symbols: The personality question

Throw out any dream dictionaries lurking on your bookshelves. The symbols in your dream are all about you. So how can you discover their meaning? Here’s an easy, fun, and accurate way. Imagine your dream symbol is a tennis ball, for example. Ask, “What is the personality of a tennis ball?” Answer fast. Don’t allow

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Radio 5AA, Adelaide: Former glory

Words can be very telling, especially the words we use to describe our dreams. They often come direct from our unconscious mind – perfect keys to interpretation. So next time someone is telling you about a dream, listen for those tell-tale words. Alison called Radio 5AA last week when I was interpreting dreams on Amanda

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Radio ABC Victoria: Joy flight

“I dream of flying a single propeller plane,” said David, who called me this afternoon on Kathy Bedford’s Statewide Drive show on Radio ABC Victoria. “I take off and although I don’t know how to drive it, I land it safely.” David feels ecstatic in his recurring dream. I’m sure David said ‘drive’ not ‘fly’,

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Radio 2UE: Rat race or mouse trap?

Stacey phoned Radio 2UE last week when I was interpreting dreams on Andrew Daddo’s show. She’d been dreaming the same dream every other night for 6 months, and wondered why. In each dream, she rescued some mice from danger, then kept forgetting to feed them. She had rescued them from one danger and now they

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Episode 35 The Dream Show: Tsunami dreams and what they mean

Have you ever faced a tsunami or giant tidal wave in a dream? What happened? It’s a very common, recurring dream theme, so what does it mean? Whether or not you’ve had this dream, there’s plenty of insight you can take forward from today’s episode to help soothe troubled waters in troubling times. Listen to

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Driven

What drives you to get out of bed in the morning? Hunger for food, a full bladder, a sense of duty, a need to earn money, a passion for your work, your baby’s cry, fear of being late for work, hunger for success, a sense of adventure? Before reading on, have a think about all

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Episode 34 The Dream Show: How a plane dream changed James’ life

Can a dream interpretation change your life? On today’s podcast show, James, whose dream was interpreted in Episode 11, returns to the show to share the story of what happened next. He’s celebrating big time, as you’ll hear, and he’s also reveling in the amazing synchronicities that have manifested along the way. That’s the power

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Dream catching

Today I was honoured to receive the first ‘dream catcher wristlet’, a signature piece, designed by Wendy Dugan of Sanctus Stones, to enhance dream recall. One of the stones featured in the piece is prehnite, a pale green crystal with darker green streaks suspended below the surface, like seaweed. Nested amongst seed pearls, amethysts and

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Episode 33 The Dream Show: Dreams and the Law of Attraction

I am often asked about the Law of Attraction, and whether nightmares and dreams with negative vibes attract negative people and events into our lives. It’s a good question, and one I explore in today’s podcast, episode 33. The real secret to getting the Law of Attraction to bring you what you consciously want –

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Radio HotFM 95.7 Gravestone dream

I was interpreting dreams on Chippy and Step’s Morning Juice breakfast show on Radio HotFM WA 95.7 this morning. One of the callers was Rebecca, who had dreamed she was driving along their main highway and had reached the point where they’re building a new road. So far, everything in the dream was as it

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Backwards or forwards?

This morning, I sat in the bow end of a small speedboat, my back to the direction of travel, as we idled along a broad river. A perfect cooling breeze, a heavenly way to start the day. An elderly man sat on the riverbank, singing the boat into motion. This was a dream, of course.

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Max’s moustache

Sipping a a double shot espresso with Michael at Albertos this morning, I noticed our waiter’s Movember moustache. “Can’t wait to shave it off,” he confided. “Children look at me like I’m the scary kind of man their Mums have warned them about.” Never heard of Movember? The Movember Movement began in Australia and is

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And the winner is …

“My song has been nominated for an ISSA (Independent Singer Songwriter Association) award, open to public vote!” ran the excited email I received over the weekend from Phyllis A Travis, a Texas-based attorney and insurance adjustor, who has been applying dream alchemy to overcome her fear of going public in several areas of her life.

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Psychedelic sunglasses

“Will dream interpretation involve digging up my past?” asked Adrian. “I want my nightmares to stop, but I don’t want to go opening up any old cans of worms.” It’s a common concern. Many people have invested years into burying and forgetting uncomfortable experiences, preferring to look ahead to a bright future, unhampered by unsettling

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A tale of two snakes

I’ve just had coffee with a beautiful soul who is creating something quite exquisite to celebrate dreams. You’ll hear about it here first, when it’s ready to unveil. “What is that pendant you always wear? Some kind of totem?” she asked, leaning forward to examine the fine detail of the chain that I wear day

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ABC QLD Recurring death dream

“Three nights in a row this week I dreamed I died in a car accident, and I was frantically trying to contact my husband to discuss the funeral arrangements,” said Gail, one of the callers to my dream interpretation segment on Stacey Katter’s afternoon show today on Radio ABC QLD. What does it mean? “It’s

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What goes round comes round

If you want to understand the meaning of life, or see the mysteries of the universe revealed before your eyes, go to your local supermarket. Yesterday’s trip to our local Woolworths to buy some bread and fish – yes, how biblical – reminded me how stunningly the universe is revealed in the apparently mundane. “To

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Are we there yet?

“Are we there yet?” It’s the third time five year old junior in the back seat of your car has asked the same question. You only left home ten minutes ago and with 150k still to go that’s another umpteen times you’re going to field the same question. Try telling him life’s not about the

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TV: The Morning Show, Oct 09

Every month I’m on Seven’s nationally broadcast ‘The Morning Show’, with Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies, interpreting dreams. Here’s October’s segment (2015: Video no longer available). You’ll see the dreamers on video clips, describing their dreams. They include the woman who has dreamed, for 40 years, of being driven over a cliff, and the woman who dreams

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The Dream Show: Episode 25 Dreamvolution

When it comes to dealing with change, are you a dinosaur, a giraffe or a kangaroo? Challenging times can bring our basic instincts to the fore, and these often appear as animals in our dreams. This episode, Dreamvolution, helps you to understand your dreams in times of change, and introduces a dream alchemy practice you

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The Dream Show: Episode 23 The elevator and 9/11

Chelsea dreamed of going up in an elevator all the way to the top where the view was beautiful and the air expansive. Several months later, she dreamed of going down in the elevator, surrounded by chaos. The next day she realised the date was 9/11, and wondered about the coincidence. Were the two dreams

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The Dream Show: Episode 22 Dreams of death, dying and the departed

Dreams of Death, Dying and the Departed. This week’s episode is for our many listeners who have asked for more specific details about death dreams. Instead of talking with a guest dreamer, we discuss dreams of death, dying and the departed – including dreams of haunting and evil presences. These common, scary dreams, once understood,

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The Dream Show: Episode 18 Hospital emergency ward

Julia had the same dream about a hospital emergency ward two nights in a row then again during an afternoon nap the next day, so she knew it was important. In the dream, she was being interviewed for a job at the hospital, near the emergency ward. She was having difficulty convincing the woman interviewing

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