The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson

What does it mean when you dream of your partner or someone in your family? Is your dream giving insight into the person and your relationship with them, or is there a deeper meaning to such dreams? I always encourage you to look at everyone and everything in a dream as representing something about yourself. It’s easy to do that for weird surreal symbols, but when it comes to dreaming of your part...

Today’s guest, podcast host Sam Ramachander, from Melbourne, Australia, shares a dream of riding her bike through a sea of thousands of snakes. More recently, she dreamed of driving a convertible while taking aim at – and killing – snakes floating in the air around her. Sam also asks about a tsunami dream. Sam Ramachander is a chartered accountant with experience in finance within Aust...

Does perimenopause cause more vivid dreams? As if night sweats, broken sleep, middle-of-the-night anxiety, or insomnia aren’t enough to cope with during perimenopause, many women report having more worrying vivid dreams throughout these tumultuous years. What’s the cause? Listen! * Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these short I...

Today’s guest, Amber Needham, known to many as the blind girl who sees, dreamed of a funnel cloud, the precursor to a tornado. She feels more curious than threatened. She feels the same way about the giant Transformers marching along – boom, boom, boom – with bits of their legs falling apart, and the mudslide rising in her garden. There’s a lot more happening in these dreams (there are three relat...

Is my work as a dream analyst and dream therapist under threat from AI? What can AI offer you – the dreamer? I share a dream I had when I was pondering these questions: it’s a playful, meaningful, insightful dream. Listen! * Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these short INTERLUDES to bring you inspiration, information, and tips...

Today’s guest, multi-award-winning theatre director turned enterprise mentor, Simone de Haas, has a recurring dream of finding herself on stage in the wrong musical. The cast is dressed for a different performance. The orchestra is not playing her tune. There’s more to Simone’s dream, and she wonders if it’s an anxiety dream or if it has a deeper meaning. It does. We begin by exploring Simone’s dr...

What’s your recurring dream theme? Has your recurring dream theme evolved over the years, or has it stayed the same? How can it help you? I share one of mine. Plenty of dream interpretation tips here! * Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these short INTERLUDES to bring you inspiration, information, and tips about dreams and dream...

My guest today is Barbara Courtille, author of Buddhism for Yogis , who dreamed of an ex-boyfriend who broke into her house and rearranged her clocks. Barbara joins me from Cammeraygal land in Sydney, Australia. We get to know Barbara and her work through exploring her dream and discovering how it relates to her life. Barbara is a Yoga Educator, Writer, and Artist, the author of Philosophy on the...

Can dreams sometimes be straightforward, literal? Is there a case for some dreams being literal, or are all dreams more deeply meaningful on a symbolic level? Listen to find out! * Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these short INTERLUDES to bring you inspiration, information, and tips about dreams and dream interpretation at the...

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, we discover what lies beyond the portal – and Portugal – in her life and work. F...

Sleeping with Strangers: about the guy who slept next to me on a long haul flight and … well, you’ll need to listen to find out! This is our first INTERLUDE podcast for The Dream Show. Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these short INTERLUDES to bring you inspiration, information, and tips about dreams and dream interpretation at...

Gemma dreamed she was drugged and driving on the wrong side of the road. Or was it the right side? She wasn’t sure, but she was scared to stop. Gemma Louise joins me from her home in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where she works as a spiritual coach and person-centred therapist helping people worldwide to create fulfilling lives in alignment with their values and soul’s purpose. There’s more to Gemma’s dre...

It’s 2025, a new year – our sixteenth year podcasting The Dream Show – and it’s time to introduce a change. Don’t worry, there’s more of what you love, but I’m adding something a little different into the show: you’ll hear all about it before I share some dream stories to give you more insight into how to understand and work with your dreams. I also share some personal news in today’s podcast. You...

My guest today is Annabel Rolley, psychologist, professional golfer, and the founder of Interpretr AI, a dream analysis and conversation app. Annabel’s passion for psychology and her fascination with the human mind have been major motivations throughout her career, most recently leading to the development of her app based on Freud and Jung’s philosophies. We begin this episode exploring Annabel’s...

My guest today is Lisa Marchiano, Jungian analyst, podcaster (This Jungian Life), and author. Lisa shares a dream about needing to find a transfer to complete her journey to Boston: yet although it was Boston, there were echoes of London’s Kings Cross station. I invited Lisa onto the show to talk about her new book, Dream Wise Unlocking the meaning of your dreams , jointly authored with Deborah St...

What do dreams about animals mean? We start by looking at why we sometimes dream of animals, and what we can learn about ourselves and our lives from our animal dreams. Sticking with the animal theme, we then look at what experiments with cats, back in the 1950s, taught us about the science of dreaming. I had been asked, last year, to chat about oneirology – the scientific study of dreams – on a r...

Today’s show touches upon how dreams handle buried grief, the power of tears released as we wake, and a dream alchemy practice to help heal past wounds. We also reflect on the gifts of perspective, and reverence for life’s challenges and what they can teach us. I tell you about a new service I’m offering – for a short while, at least – and, because I’m still officially promoting my fiction book, N...

Cat and Kat share the spotlight in today’s episode. First up, I introduce you to Cat, the protagonist in my debut fiction, Ninth Life . Cat – yes, she is a cat – needs to make her last life count. But how far will she go to do that? “A charming, beguiling story full of quirky (human) characters who keep Cat on her paws as she uncovers the secret of her first life and why she is so driven to get th...

Cansu, from Turkey, is my guest with a dream about a building filled with exquisite artwork. She is deeply curious about the art displayed throughout the rooms, and she wants to discover more. A mature, handsome man appears and generously tells her about the background to each piece. She is mesmerised. Listen as Cansu relates the whole dream, and as we explore its meaning, how it relates to her li...

Ania, from Krakow, Poland, is my guest with a dream about a cruise to a French Caribbean Island. She’d like to go for a swim, but she’s wearing an outfit that’s too small for her, and not well tailored. Why didn’t she come prepared? Later, on the island, she meets a man who can give her directions to a printery or place that makes posters. She wants to ask for his phone number so she can stay in t...

Lynn, from Japan, is my guest with a dream about her ex for us to explore and interpret. Lynn has been dreaming of a long-ago ex since she moved to Japan twelve years ago. The relationship had not been healthy, and she certainly does not want the ex in her life now, so why does she plead with him to get back together in this dream? The ex has featured in various recurring dreams, all with unresolv...

We’re back after a three-month break, our first podcasting break in almost fifteen years of creating The Dream Show! Why? Listen to find out. In today’s episode you’ll discover more about the power of dreams – more specifically, the power of understanding and working with your dreams – through three little stories. Talking of stories, I also chat about my forthcoming fiction book. Well, it’s still...

Kat, from British Columbia, Canada, is my guest as we explore her dream about a risky, ground-breaking science experiment that seems to have gone drastically wrong. Helpless and confused in the face of possibly dangerous levels of radioactivity, Kat encounters a visual artist who asks her to hold her exquisitely designed purse. Later she meets a conspiracy theorist, and a bunch of Pokémon trainers...

Tanya from Adelaide, South Australia, is my guest as we interpret her dream of an exquisite Japanese room and a search for a toilet. The only toilet she finds is too exposed, but on the upside, in another room, she discovers the clear deep turquoise waters of a rock pool with a rock hovering – yes hovering – above the surface. How lovely it would be to climb up onto that rock, but Tanya can’t beca...

Even mountains flow. What does this mean to you? If you thought we got pretty cosmic in part 9, be prepared for some mind-bending metaphysics in this episode! After exploring how mountains flow, you’ll hear some stories I rarely share because although they may seem implausible, they shed more light on how to navigate life’s extraordinary mysteries. This is the last episode in the series: today we...