Dreaming about work

Dreaming about work Jane Teresa Anderson

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 […]

The Sandman

I’ve got this earworm as I write, and it’s all because Michael emailed me a link yesterday to “Find the #1 Song on the Day You Were Born”. It turns out the number one song on 22 December 1954 was Mr Sandman by The Chordettes, with its opening line, “Mr Sandman, Bring me a dream […]

According to your dreams

What does your future have in store for you, according to your dreams? Or, to ask a more proactive question, how can you use your dreams to predict the shape of your future and then, if you wish, change it? Rather than predict actual situations, our dreams can help us to understand our likely attitudes […]

Health and healing through dreams

Can your dreams help alert you to health issues, and can those dreams be used to explore avenues for healing? If you dream that you have cancer, you’re most likely dreaming about something in your life that seems to be growing out of control, or about your fears or feelings that something in your life […]

Dreaming I was at my funeral

“I have a recurring dream that I’ve died, aged thirty, and I’m at my own funeral, watching. No-one else has turned up,” said Nathan, who called HotFM when I was taking calls about dreams recently on Carly and Ben’s breakfast show. Nathan’s call reminded me of Chris, a man in his twenties who consulted me […]

Not just a dream

What’s the best way to comfort a child who wakes up distressed from a nightmare or bad dream? We might be eager to soothe and calm, to say ‘Don’t worry, it was just a dream’, but is there a better approach, one that helps reduce your child’s scary dreams, and strengthen your bond? How do […]

Recent television videos

I’ve had a request to pop some of my recent national television videos up for those of you who haven’t been watching them through social media. So this is a mini between-blogs-blog selection. (Click images to watch.)   Channel Seven, The Morning Show   Channel Seven, Sunrise   Channel Nine, Today Extra These are just […]

Are dreams rehearsals for life?

There’s a widespread theory that our dreams are mental dress rehearsals for life. Might this be true? Do we practice and learn life skills in the safe space of our dreams? Well, yes, and no. The theory is usually put like this: Imagine our ancestors dreaming about being chased by wolves. Imagine them dreaming of […]

Back to basics

Are there days, weeks, months, when you wonder how you can possibly fit everything you need to do into so little available time? There are solutions, but you can never see them when you’re too busy running from one task to the next. Your dreams may help you to discover those solutions, but taking the […]

To dream of death means …

“My mum says that when you dream of death it means there’s going to be a birth in the family,” said Georgie, although she was clearly disturbed about her own dream of a gravestone freshly engraved with an illegible name. I was interpreting dreams on Mix 106.3FM Canberra’s Breakfast Show earlier this week, and Georgie […]