The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson

Abigail is my guest with a dream about wanting to make love with a man who is not her husband, a theme that recurs from time to time in her dreams. She wonders whether this cheating theme is wish fulfillment, coming up when she’s angry with her husband. Dreams are never what they seem though, as you will hear. In the same dream, Abigail is faced with an endless and difficult task, another co...

Melanie is my guest, with a healing dream, though you might wonder why a disturbing dream involving death can possibly be a healing dream. It all goes to show that dreams are not what they seem, and the most distressing dreams can sometimes be the most healing. Melanie dreamed that she administered an injection to a man who was having an allergic reaction, but there was an air bubble in the syring...

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 idea of what your dream means and how it relates to your life. Dail’s drea...

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 dreamer’s changed waking life outcome is...

Kylie is my guest with a dream about two pregnant men, one, a professor, is giving birth and she is assisting. The other, her partner, is pregnant but … who is the mother? He’s cheated on her, and it could have been with any number of women. She’s angry – very angry – until she realises that this baby will belong to both of them. They will be a family, and that’...

Trish is my guest with a dream about directing a movie. In the dream she moves through a house, viewing the rooms through her camera lens, and becomes mesmerised by the old fashioned wallpaper. On closer examination she finds a hole in the wall: where does it lead? Trish’s dream is short but packed with clues: a capital E, a capital W, an old key, and that intriguing fleur-de-lis pattern on...

Heidi, celebrity TV presenter of a cooking show in Shanghai, is my guest, with a dream about climbing a mountain and discovering a mountain of stones on top. What looked, at first, like ordinary stones, hid a layer of amethysts below, and when they dug deeper they found emeralds. Heidi wasn’t so sure about those emeralds though. They were connected with someone doing something illegal. Now,...

My guest is Renee with an entertaining dream involving her dream husband, famous football player Reggie Bush, her deceased grandmother, a misty grim reaper, golden skywriting and – best of all – the curious case of a hot dog cart in her lounge room. But why is Reggie only a rookie? And what did Renee’s deceased grandfather find so funny in the dream that she woke up still laughin...

My guest this episode is Ifiyenia with a very short dream about her husband becoming the President of the United States. The dream featured the number 9. The length of a dream is no guide to the depth of the interpretation! We go in deep for this one, and Ifiyenia’s ahas and insights come in fast and plentiful. Together we pinpoint an exciting new development in Ifiyenia’s life and loo...

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 all, he has a story or two to tell about what it’s like to live with a dream...

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 listeners, Campbell, says, “I ask for guidance, inspiration and answers, and wake...

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 Kate’s progress since her appearance on the show. Kate’s been doing her dream alch...

Carolyn is my guest with a short fearful dream featuring a caravan (mobile home) she wants to stop from entering her garden, and two dark, shadowy men who grab her hands and threaten rape. Our darkest dreams can be our most enlightening, though fear can hold us back from shining light into the shadows. Listen as Carolyn firstly finds difficulty relating to her shadows and then, step by step, makes...

What’s the connection between a flagon of gin and seeing the world upside down? Here’s a clue: it’s got nothing to do with getting drunk. Here’s another clue: it’s got everything to do with how the brain hears what it wants to hear and sees what it wants to see. In short, the brain has a mind of its own. Now – that’s got you thinking, hasn’t it? Your...

My guest is Jules, who received a shock medical diagnosis last week. That night she had a vivid dream involving a healer and the search for Fergie, a corgi she once owned, who was lost in the dream. Jules was faced with a choice in her dream, a choice between a piece of gold and a piece of murky brown stuff. How can this dream choice assist her as she moves forward with her life, post-diagnosis? I...

My guest is Margaret, who is studying with me to become a master dream analyst and alchemist. Now halfway through her course, Margaret asked to come onto the show to share her experiences of working with her clients, interpreting their dreams, creating alchemy for them, and witnessing their life-changing results. What’s it like to be thrown into the deep end – sent out to work with cli...

Which area of your life would you like to improve? Today’s show focuses on helping you to achieve this. Along the way, we have an update from Jeremy, my guest in episode 50, reporting on the changes in his life since doing the dream alchemy visualisation I gave him during the show. We also look at interpreting waking life – our situation, the people we meet, our health, our challenges...

My guest, Kate, dreamed she chopped off her leg so she could look inside the calf muscle. She sort of managed to put it back together but, well, you know, the leg bone’s connected to the ankle bone and that ankle bone, she realised, would need microsurgery to get it working again. Along the way she got angry with her healer and glimpsed a scorpion, momentarily, like a flashcard across her dr...

Andrea is my guest with a dream about mutant beings – half human, half demon – who want her to become one of them. The process involves a head shave and a toxic shampoo. Does Andrea go along with their plan? What special talent does she discover along the way? And what’s the story with the dork in the bookshop? Andrea had this dream three years ago, and she’s able to look b...

Margaret is my guest with a recurring dream about being back at her old workplace, faced with a wild, angry dog. She’s had the dream for ten years but this week, it changed! Her new dream had a happy ending. Why the sudden change in this long term recurring dream? What happened in Margaret’s life, ten years ago, to trigger this recurring dream, and what happened last week to finally de...

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, 11 and 4. Does Angela’s dream throw light on her mother’s health, or is...

Is there a right interpretation to every dream? If you’re interpreting your own dreams, might you sometimes interpret according to what you want to believe about yourself and your life? Are you a stickler for seeing things the same way, doing things the same way, and is this seeing and doing taking you where you want to be? Where do you want to be? How tough does life have to get before you...

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 changes you’ll observe is that at least one recurrin...

My guest today, Tasha, dreamed of a road trip taking in a tour of a Jehovah Witness school and a Scientology centre.  At the school she witnessed (ahem) the sudden integration of black and white children who had been segregated in the classroom.  At the Scientology centre she was offered the gift of a stuffed dog if she signed up as a member. (Can you see any connections?) Tasha imagined shocking...

Jeremy is my guest today with a dream he had on the eve of his 30th birthday. He was eager for an interpretation because he was anxious, in the dream, about being in the passenger seat of a Cadillac, unsure of where the driver was taking him. He felt the dream reflected his anxiety about where life was taking him. During the podcast you’ll hear Jeremy get really clear on where he wants to go...