The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson

Suzy dreamed of graduating in a turquoise gown, meeting up with her old High School friends, and wondering whether her graduation cap was on straight. Surely a couple of bobby pins will help keep her hair in place? How does Suzy’s dream relate to her waking life, and what light can it shed in helping her to move forward with her plans? Suzy recently launched a social networking site for drea...

In my early days as a dream expert on ABC radio, I received a letter from a woman who said, “I heard a dream interpreter was coming on, and decided to switch to another station as soon as I finished ironing a shirt, but half an hour and several shirts later, I was still listening. You made so much sense.” ‘You make sense’ is one of recurring comments I’ve heard over t...

Apryl is my guest with a dream about walking carefully on the broken pieces of a 19th century porcelain toilet. What does it mean? She’s accompanied by a smiling cockatiel sporting a red feather mohawk, sitting on her shoulder as she journeys through the French countryside. As we explore the meaning of her dream, Apryl shares details of her work as an artist. * Connect with Jane Teresa: Do J...

What drives you to get out of bed in the morning? What kind of things drive you through your day? Have you ever dreamed of being the passenger in a car, and, if you have, who’s in the driver’s seat? In this podcast we look at what you can learn about yourself and your life by looking at who’s driving you in your dreams. Don’t worry, if you haven’t had this common drea...

My guest, Melinda, dreamed of a magical tree with a basketball hoop fixed high up on its trunk, a boy with Asperger’s syndrome who wouldn’t bend his knees, and escaping a traffic jam by magically finding a bicycle. Can you see any connection between these elements of her dream? If you love the detective work of decoding a dream, this one’s for you. Share the excitement as Melinda...

Margaret is my very entertaining guest, laughing her way through her dream and its interpretation, while deeply connecting with its meaning, experiencing ahas, and ending up all the richer for the experience – oh, and she’s still laughing by the end of the show. In her dream, Margaret looks down on a beautiful, calm, fertile patch of grass studded with grazing cattle, and then pans bac...

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. They show you how you’re experiencing the world, how you’r...

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 design your own dream alchemy practices. The steps – and the show – are...

Wouldn’t it be neat to read across your dreams, instead of deeply exploring them, one by one? If you’re a busy person, or if there never seems to be enough time left in your day to look at every nuance in your dreams, here’s a dream interpretation method for you. Oh, and it provides more than interpretation, it also shows you how to apply dream alchemy across a number of dreams....

My guest is Sue who had the physical sensation of someone getting into bed with her during her dream. She felt the mattress being pushed down, and contemplated turning over to see who it was, but then continued her dream. What actually happened here? All is explained. In her dream, a game of hide and seek led to a surreal cascade of golden figures, symbols and ancient letters connected with Albert...

Linda’s dream begins with a store makeover and ends with a big bang, a bolt of lightning. You’ll hear me have a slip of the tongue moment, saying ‘the light of boltening’ instead of ‘the bolt of lightning’, which actually makes sense in the context of the interpretation. I do love unconscious word play in and out of dreams. Linda’s dream features some numb...

A special New Year’s Eve episode, designed to inspire your personal vision for 2011, so whether you’re listening on New Year’s Eve or whether you’ve stumbled upon this episode well into the year and wish to pause and reset your vision, this is a must-listen. It’s about resolutions, but it’s NOT about making new year resolutions. Now, there’s a puzzle! It&#...

Matt dreamed of hamburgers contaminated by spores falling from the sky, that turned the guys at a block party into cloned nerds complete with black glasses and identical clothes. Matt is in his twenties now, but this dream, which he had when he was thirteen, has remained vivid in his memory, and he wonders what it meant and if it is still relevant to his life today. He was intrigued because it was...

Bob dreamed he was delivering a refugee’s baby, watched by a young girl with a wound above her ear. As the baby crowned, he heard the opening line of a hymn which then played on his mind all day. Bob thought, correctly, that his dream reflected his difficulties in finding right-left brain balance in his relatively left-brained, analytical world. For 25 years he has wanted to develop more rig...

Shane dreams of a dark presence in the doorway of her bedroom, and of being unable to move or shout. Is she dreaming or awake, she wonders. The dark figure connects with an abusive relationship, as you will discover, but not in the way you might imagine. Everyone in a dream represents an aspect of the dreamer, so who is this dark figure, and what might happen if we shine a light on him to see him...

Lee has a recurring dream about trying to escape three sharks. She gets tangled in the seaweed before finally getting to shore, but, oh no – those sharks simply grow legs and keep hunting her. Although Lee had this dream for several years, it stopped when she made an important change in her waking life. In this episode we interpret the dream and explore the question of how Lee’s circum...

‘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 lyrics continue, ‘”The problem is all inside your head”, she said t...

Ann, my guest this episode, had a dream about birds trapped in a room, unable to fly through the window, and a second dream about people doing a live modelling show in a shop window. So, two dreams about windows, and about an element of being trapped inside, as you will hear when you discover more about the models. Listen to the podcast as we relate the dreams to Ann’s current situation, and...

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 in. So this episode includes an extract from our...

Ingrid Arna, body image expert and founder of Bodylove, is my guest with two very short simple dreams that, once interpreted, plunge right to the heart of an issue stemming back to childhood that she is now ready to fully release as she launches a powerful addition to her business. Ingrid dreams of celebrities Tina Fey and David Hasselhoff. She performs street theatre and dance with Tina, and chat...

Dave, who was our guest way back in episode 10, returns to share the events of the past year. Dave’s dream of running through a forest of razor blades had plagued him since he was a child, and he related to the interpretation he received 16 months ago. Dramatic events earlier this year added to Dave’s deep personal transformation, and it’s these events, and the old dream, that we discu...

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 are not what they seem. They are like dark clouds with golden...

Liza, my guest, shares a dream with sexual content, providing an excellent example of how our sexual dreams are deeply symbolic and accurately reflect non-sexual issues in our lives. What can Liza learn from the maverick Japanese doctor and the Siamese cat in her dream? Add a jealous partner, a bunch of slackers at a caravan site, and a bit of dream flying and what have you got? Listen in to hear...

My guest, Helen, dreams of doing some dirty work for the Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, and admiring a blonde woman for what she said to Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman. Is this about politics, or something deep and personal? Add an earthquake and a dash to New York and what have you got? An intriguing dream that reveals what is holding Helen back from her full magnificence, and a f...

Leigh is my guest with three recurring dream themes that have haunted him for many years so intensely that he often wakes up believing the frightening dream is actually happening. He’ll jump from bed, choking, or leap out of bed terrified that spiders are hiding in his sheets. In a short while he calms down and realises the choking or spiders were in his dream, but he wonders why the choking...