Published by Hachette, Little Brown (Piatkus), Random House, and Harper Collins, I am the author of eight books. My most recent book is Ninth Life (May 2024), my debut fiction following seven books on dreams and dreaming. I am a frequent guest in the media, and an accomplished radio dream talk-back expert, interpreting callers’ dreams for more than 1,500 shows across commercial and ABC stations.
Television appearances: list and video clips
Radio and podcast appearances: list and audio clips
Print and digital media interviews: list
I host a podcast series, The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson, where I interpret guests’ dreams and share dream interpretation tips and insights. The Dream Show began in 2009, and celebrated 16 years (and 290 episodes) in May 2025. It continues to grow at the rate of one episode every four weeks, plus an Interlude ep between episodes.
In early 2017 I established The Dream Academy as a platform to deliver my training courses online so students can learn about dream interpretation, dream analysis, dream alchemy, and dream therapy at their own pace in their own time. The platform continues, every year, to educate and train students from all over the world.
With an Honours degree in Zoology specialising in developmental neurobiology from the University of Glasgow, (graduating as Jane Teresa Newton), I have been researching dreams since 1992, and developing and teaching dream alchemy practices (exercises) that shift perspective and reprogram unconscious limiting beliefs.
My approach to dream analysis, dream therapy, and dream alchemy is based on my independent research and on deep work with clients since 1992. For more about my approach and methodology – as well as an outline of the nature of dreams and dreaming – see the About Dreams page.
Born in England, I graduated (as Jane Teresa Newton) from the University of Glasgow with an Honours degree in Zoology, specialising in developmental neurobiology. After a brief post graduate affair with neurophysiological research at London’s National Institute for Medical Research, I abandoned my PhD studies, along with several one-eyed experimental goldfish, and returned to Scotland. I wanted to work in a more personally meaningful way to communicate complex scientific ideas to the broader community.
I began with two years at Glasgow University’s Hunterian Museum as a Writer & Producer of travelling exhibitions. I learned writing and media skills on the job and had a free hand in deciding on the subject material I wanted to put on the road. One exhibition, titled ‘Mermaids, Myths and Monsters’, was a creative adventure in setting science alongside mythology to illustrate alternative perceptions of the same world.
In 1992, living in Australia and inspired by an ongoing curiosity about my dreams, an increasing realisation that I had skills to offer in this field, and a combination of synchronistic events, I decided to research dreams, an exercise in faith and frugal living that has been meaningfully fruitful and personally rewarding.
My first book, Sleep On It, was published by HarperCollins in 1994, by which time I was already established as a regular ABC radio guest interpreting callers’ dreams. My passions for writing and dream work are equal, and often dance hand in hand.
In 1998, just before my third book, The Shape of Things to Come, was published by Random House, I thought it might be a good idea to have a website – a rather edgy concept in those early internet days. I imagined a website as an extended brochure about my books and my work, and a way for people to stay in contact and hear about my future books. Beyond that, I didn’t really know much about websites, their function, or how to create one. I had an email address, but did not use the internet, which was more or less the case with most people back then. I decided to plunge right in, regardless of my lack of knowledge. My publishers said they’d be happy to include my web address on the back cover of my book, and that they’d need that information within a couple of weeks. I had about seven weeks to get help in creating a website. By the time the book came out I had a six page website. Little did I know how much that would grow and where it would lead. And so a new millennium began.
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