The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson

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, to Nicole in her dream, as if something extraordinary and ever expansive was beginning. She was pe...

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 of you who are not familiar with British English may be, well, as baffled by that word as Tania was about he...

Teisha, my guest from South Carolina, went to sleep asking for a dream to clarify her destiny. She dreamed of a father and son who created a board game and cards, and a merchant who generously paid more than the asking price, adding that the extra money was to improve the quality of the game. He showed them a book, their names were already written on the page. Was the dream addressing Teisha’s que...

Cynthia from St Louis, Missouri, is my guest asking about the meaning of her intense and upsetting dream, and looking for insight into her life. “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” she implores, in the dream, when it turns out that everyone else knew her husband was leaving her. She feels betrayed, angry, hurt. If she had known, she could have been better prepared. She hopes he hasn’t taken her desk. In...

Jann from Western Australia is my guest asking about a scary dream she had thirty years ago. Jann has been recording her dreams since 1983, so you’ll hear her reading her account of the dream as she wrote it down way back then. The tension mounts as the tale is told, a dark fairy tale of a dream. There’s a small tin hut in a clearing in a forest, a scary man with a wolf-like dog that smells like d...

Joshua from New Jersey is my guest asking about his dream of a serrated kitchen knife that, he fears, may be used to stab him. There’s a whiff of threat and conspiracy in the air, and although Joshua is offered help, he declines, until he finally yells, “Call 411, call 411!” No-one responds, because 411 is the number to call for information on a business. He had meant to yell the emergency service...

How many dream dictionaries have you got on your bookshelf? It’s so very tempting to look up a dream symbol, or to look up several symbols from the dream you had last night and try to link them together, but how helpful is this approach really? In this episode we look at why you might want to re-evaluate your collection of dream dictionaries, or, perhaps, toss them altogether. Can looking up dream...

How many possible messages can you spot in a dream, and how do you know which is the right one? You might wake from a dream and feel that its message was obvious, but is it right? How easy is it to misinterpret a dream, or to settle for the message that jumps out at you instead of delving deeper for one that offers you more appropriate clarity, wisdom, direction, and potential for powerful positiv...

Patti from Seattle is my guest for our tenth anniversary show, asking about her dream of parachuting over the oceans to Italy to meet a widowed man who invites her to his bed. What is the secret of Corsini Island, does Patti have enough battery power to fly home, and will she cover her betrayal by lying to her husband? In this slightly extended episode, we begin with audio clips sent in by listene...

As we approach the tenth anniversary of The Dream Show, we look back at how it all began before sweeping into a theme of how past, present, and future intertwine in our dreams and in waking life. You’ll meet a shaman and a boy-beast from my dreams, and discover how I worked out what they represented and what I could learn from their presence. We’ll explore why we sometimes dream of people and face...

We begin around 2,500 years ago, looking at how the Ancient Greeks worked with their dreams to diagnose physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual issues, and to effect cures through processes evocative of our present-day dream therapy and dream alchemy practices. We then take a side road to explore the symbolism of snakes before drawing up a list of the most important types of dreams to interpret...

Juliana from Atlanta, Georgia, is my guest this episode with a dream about a dreadful secret she does not want to hear. In this very powerful episode, you’ll hear Juliana experience a deeply healing shift of perspective that opens the way for her to move forward. The dream features her grandmother, the Grim Reaper, a short red demon, and an irritating little girl of 3-4 years in age who persistent...

Fiona from Melbourne, Australia, is my guest this episode, with a dream about needing to escape. It all started with a sports event where a swimmer almost got sucked up into a giant purple-violet flower. Fiona organised her rescue, but things escalated from there. Something just didn’t feel right. Was there a body behind a wall? Listen in to find out what happened next, and how Fiona managed to es...

Are your dreams fleeting, difficult to recall, hazy in detail? Or are they deeply sensual, richly textured, minutely detailed, and thoroughly engaging? Have you ever had a dream where you felt touched by the divine, or were transformed in ways that you struggle to find words to express? This episode explores how to encourage more detail into your dream recall, as well as how to remember more dream...

Cynthia, from St Louis, Missouri, is my guest with a dream about finding herself in the back seat of a car, traveling downhill fast, with no driver. Summoning pure will, she got the car to slow down, turn in the required direction, and stop. She got out, settled herself into the driving seat, and noticed that her three year old daughter was in the car, only she was now eight or nine years old. Lis...

Alexandra, from England, is my guest with a dream about a half dead cat and two dead mice in a dark, dusty cellar she hasn’t visited in twenty years. Alexandra hasn’t seen David, her dream brother, for all these twenty years, and when she knocks on his door and enters his rubble-filled, cobwebby room in the cellar, she is drawn more to the cat and what she can do to rescue it, than she is to David...

My guest this episode is Gillian, from the south coast of Australia. Gillian has had a recurring dream theme about forgetting to look after a baby, or neglecting a baby in some way, so when she had a dream about a baby with a positive ending, she was excited to discover what it meant. In her dream, Gillian is enjoying a holiday at a Guest House, dining at a long table, when it’s announced that kan...

We begin with a dream about a plane journey, or, to be more accurate, a dream about a plummeting plane. What does the dream mean, and what can we learn from journeying into our dreams? Next up, a dreamer takes a more fantastical journey into a television set, ending up inside a video game. How can his dream help him with the practical and emotional issues he meets in his life? Aside from dreams ab...

Have you ever thought of joining a dream group, or founding one? We begin this episode exploring the practicalities of running a dream group, and perhaps, by the time you’ve finished listening, you’ll be inspired to get going and set up a group of your own. You’ll be on the move. I’m on the move, or, at least, I will be in a few months time when we move interstate and to a very different environme...

Join hypnotherapist and Women’s Business and Transformation Coach, Caty Pasternak, and I in this episode for a conversation about what our dreams represent and how we can use them to live a more expansive life. And oh, yes, along the way Caty asks about her recurring dream of getting back with an ex and things still not working out between them, which leads us to explore her dream and then move on...

We blend the science of dreaming with the mysteries of synchronicity to distil clarity and meaningfulness from a dream I had earlier this year. There’s nothing like synchronicity to jolt you into new levels of awareness, or to drive you deeper into an appreciation of life’s mysteries, and when that synchronicity relates to a surreal dream, its power to awaken and enlighten is multiplied. I think y...

My guest is lucid dreaming expert Stefan Z, from the UK, sharing his top tips on how to have lucid dreams, and explaining the benefits of lucid dreaming including nightmare control, questioning your dream characters and dream symbols to discover their meaning, and a raft of other exciting opportunities that lucid dreaming can bring you. We also discuss the importance of balancing lucid dreaming wi...

“Pick me, pick me!” wrote Jann from Western Australia, eager to be a guest on The Dream Show after a dream from five years ago mysteriously fell from an old file while she was sorting out her office. It was as if the old dream itself was calling, ‘Pick me, pick me!” urging Jann to revisit what was a very moving dream, but one that she didn’t explore at the time. When she noticed that the dream was...

This episode is studded with stories, and in-between the storytelling is an exercise you can do to get a fresh perspective on the meaning of a dream. It’s an exercise in storytelling. You get a prominent symbol from a dream to tell the whole dream story from its perspective. Listen in to find out how to do this. It’s easy, fun to do, and very enlightening! There’s the story of my return to m...

We’re celebrating our 200 th episode with something a little different. My guest, Anthony Metivier , creator of the Magnetic Memory Method and author of a range of books about memory and language learning, shares his tips on how to remember more of your dreams by building a dream memory palace. Intrigued? Tired of having his sleep disrupted by waking up several times each night to write out his dr...