Episode 289 The Dream Show: The portal

My guest today is Carolina Bakker, the Rat Race Recovery Coach, who dreamed of passing through a portal, a point of no return. Carolina joins me from Porto, Portugal (yes, the portal does fit in there, doesn’t it?) There’s plenty of surreal dream action before she reaches the portal, and as we explore her dream, […]

Episode 257 The Dream Show: The ice bucket

Kendra, from Coles Bay, Tasmania, Australia, is my guest asking about her dream where her friend died then came back to life. Kendra was visiting her dying friend – who is fit and healthy in waking life – in hospital. Another friend fled, “I can’t stay for this!” she said. After the friend died, her […]

Episode 224 The Dream Show: Shot through the third eye

Nicole, from Melbourne, Australia, is my guest with a dream about being robbed and mugged by a masked man, who held her at gun point before shooting her through her third eye. As soon as the bullet penetrated her brain, and she realised she was dying, her mind expanded into a gold mandala. It seemed, […]

Episode 223 The Dream Show: The manky cat and the abyss

Tania, from the south coast of England, brings a short dream that has been baffling her, a dream about a manky cat. For those of you who are wondering what ‘manky’ means, it’s British slang for dirty, or dirty and old. It’s a word that’s long been in my go-to vocabulary, but I suspect those […]

Episode 188 The Dream Show: Questioning reality

We begin with our new theme music*, a change after almost eight years and 187 episodes with our original theme, and we end with announcing a new format that we’ll be introducing into the show, asking for your thoughts and inviting your participation. In between, we question reality, exploring what we can learn about reality […]

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 […]

Episode 166 The Dream Show: A dream education

Do you remember your childhood dreams? What’s the earliest dream you can recall? How old were you? Was it a nightmare, or was it pleasant? Did you tell your parents about your dream? What did they say or do? Do you remember any of your teenage dreams? At the time, what did you think they […]

Episode 160 The Dream Show: I dreamed I had died

My guest, Alexandra, dreamed she had died. She stood on the path outside the church, and calmly watched the priests emerge from the funeral service into the courtyard, dressed in celebration regalia emblazoned with a glowing fleur-de-lys pattern. They walked in her direction, carrying trays of silver containers, as if bringing her – in her […]

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 […]

Teaching school students how to understand their dreams

What did you learn about dreams and nightmares when you were at school? Nothing, I’ll bet. Can you remember some of the dreams that puzzled, worried, or frightened you as a young child and as a young adult? Did you talk about them? Was anyone able to help ease your mind, and give you practical […]