The Dream Show with Jane Teresa Anderson

My guest, Anna from Norway, asks about her dream of receiving a gift of a small-scale house made entirely of gingerbread, so freshly baked that the glazing was still wet. It wasn’t really something Anna wanted, as she had little room in her home for it, but the gift was a special assignment made for her by a baker’s apprentice. Anna had met the old baker himself earlier in the dream, when he showe...

My guest, LRH from Sydney, dreamed of meeting a business investor who invited her to take some free corporate gifts, some pencils and erasers. They stood looking at a range of swimming pools, each with a different temperature or feeling, when suddenly, to her complete shock, the investor pushed her in the deep end of one of them. He then offered her an outstanding deal over a prestige property, an...

Alexandra, from England, is my guest with a dream that begins with dressing up in a white spandex suit to go to a vintage disco, and ends with walking an ancient causeway called Pilgrims Way. What was she wearing on Pilgrims Way? Why, red knickers and red bra, of course, as you do. This beautiful, haunting, quite ethereal dream, digs deep beneath the surface layers, though the spandex and red unde...

Constance is my guest this episode with a dream about a phosphorescent green viper breaking out from the earth in her garden. The next morning, she awoke with the first signs of atopic dermatitis, a skin ailment that stayed with her for the next two and a half years. Constance had read that snakes in dreams may be related to health, and she was interested to know if there was a connection between...

Kyle from New Jersey is my guest this episode, with a dream that begins with crashing a school bus while overtaking slower cars, and ends with a mesmerising encounter with a smiling fish at a fish hatchery. No-one turns up to help Kyle when the bus he’s driving crashes into a telephone pole, so he decides to trace his steps back to discover what caused the crash, which is when he happens upon the...

Amanda is my guest this episode with a dream about trimming her father’s eyebrows, then weeding the back of his head. Yes, you read that correctly. There was a large weed growing out of the back of his head. The dream dilemma was over how much she should trim those two seven inch hair wires poking out from his eyebrows, and what exactly her father’s enigmatic dream advice meant. Amanda said she us...

Do you dream about work? Do you work with your dreams? Are you a professional dream worker, or would you like to be? Do you know how to spot work-related health issues in your dreams, and do you know how dream alchemy works to assist healing such issues? If all that sounds like too much work, don’t worry. We play with the theme of dream work this episode, teasing at its many angles, offering you i...

I can mark out my life in dreams, as if turning the pages of a photo album. Most key events and turning points were preceded or accompanied by vivid dreams, and I know the same will be true of the years ahead. It’s not that my dreams predicted my future. Like all dreams, they connected or reconnected me with the deepest parts of my being, and when I learned how to interpret and understand my dream...

Rachel is my guest this episode, with a dream that gently uses symbolism and a safe space to begin to heal traumatic abuse from her childhood. Rachel is the last of our ‘email guests’, so you’ll hear our email conversation about the dream, its interpretation, the dream alchemy, and Rachel’s responses. Through our conversation, Rachel has been able to speak about her trauma and share it publicly wi...

We have two guests this episode, Shauna by phone, and Vic by email, and both guests are transitioning, in different ways, as is The Dream Show. Shauna* is transitioning careers, and is about to fully launch her new business within the month. She brings a dream that begins with a live and kicking three-month-old baby, and ends with a doctor and nurse cradling a dead baby. In the dream, Shauna felt...

Carmen is my guest this episode, as we explore and interpret her dream of being back at university as a student, which is all well and good until she remembers that she’s already completed her study, and she now works here in waking life. Have you had a variation of this dream, finding yourself back at school, college, or university, only to remember that you’ve already been there, done that, got...

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 from lucid dreaming, as well as from our everyday magical, mystical waking...

When you’ve lost the spark, or you’re feeling overwhelmed by the dark or difficult, the gift of life is often in the reframe. See a situation through new eyes, or experience it differently through a shift of heart. In dreams, a courageous and healing approach is to look at everything and everyone in a dream as representing something about the dreamer. This means facing the dark and difficult, the...

How can your dreams help you to manifest your plans, visions, and intentions, particularly those you may have set a few days ago at the start of this year? While our dreams do not tell us what to do, when you know how explore them you can uncover the information and insight you need to clear your way to manifestation. Listen as I share two stories from my life to illustrate this, then spell out ho...

Pat, from the Chicago area of Illinois, is my guest asking about a dream where she shot her daughter-in-law. “Why would I shoot such a kind person?” she asked herself both in the dream and on waking. It’s a short dream, but we get so much out of it, as you’ll hear. We explore the dream location of the shooting, the way they were sitting just before Pat pulled the gun, and how she felt in the dream...

We cross to Seattle, US, for this episode, where Patti is my phone guest asking about her dream, seeking deeper insight into what is happening in her life. Patti, a depth psychologist, regularly explores her dreams by herself, and has been a guest on The Dream Show before. She enjoys the process of working through a dream in this way, looking into different corners, answering different questions t...

My guest on the phone this episode is Tim, calling from Holland, asking about a tsunami dream and a dream conversation with one of The Beatles. Tim contacted me to volunteer to be a guest on the show when an issue arose over her career, and she felt that exploring the dream would reveal her unconscious beliefs and patterns, helping her to understand the situation and make the best decisions going...

Melinda from Kansas is my guest with a frightening dream about an alien invasion. It seems she’s the only person who doesn’t trust the aliens, while everyone else believes they are friendly and here to help. When one of the aliens attacks her with an innocuous looking coat rack that turns into a weapon emitting invisible rays, her energy is quickly drained. There’s a shift to what starts out as a...

Emily from San Francisco is my guest with a dream about cooking beef stroganoff from leftover beef. Exactly how much meat do you need to make this dish, and will there be enough to feed everyone? Emily sets off on a mission to buy more meat. Along the way, she finds herself with three women, each with a petal in place of their head. Doesn’t this dream begin to sound like a fairy tale? What began a...

Laraina, from Canada, is my guest this episode, bringing her epic and vibrant dream for interpretation. Early in her dream she hears an anthem, so harmonious, so peaceful, so full of love, that she thinks she’ll never be able to recreate this moment. What does the anthem represent in Laraina’s life, and how does the rest of her dream help her to see how to bring it more fully into her life? As wel...

Jeremy is my guest today, with two related dreams, one featuring his father, one featuring his son. Jeremy had a feeling the dreams were connected, and he’s right. In the first dream, Jeremy’s father is cooking lamb in an audition round for MasterChef, the television show. It’s delicious but, well, there’s usually a ‘but’ in dreams. Listen as Jeremy recounts his dream and the fate of dad’s tasty l...

Gloria is my guest this episode with a dream about moving into a new apartment with beautiful views, views that shift and change whenever she moves just a little. But there are downsides to the apartment like the long narrow hallway and a bunch of women, strangers, who invade her home. There are other things to contend with in her dream, like the friend who tells her that her dress is transparent,...

Diana from New York joins me as an email guest in this episode, with a dream that she was keen to share publicly because she knew it was the kind of dream that might deeply worry many people. She also knew that dreams are not what they seem, and wanted to get an in-depth interpretation and to discover how it related to her life, why she had it now, and what she can learn from her dream. Sex dreams...

Marjeta is my guest today, as we interpret her dream of escaping from drowning, relate it to her waking life situation, and find new insight to illuminate her journey. In her dream, Marjeta finds herself up to her neck in rising water, trapped below a concrete ceiling, moments away from drowning. She escapes from the water only to be chased by two women, and then, when she momentarily finds hersel...

How can dreams help you to reflect on your path? How can they help you, practically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, to gain perspective on the path that has led you to where you stand today, and the choices that lay ahead of you? How can they help you to decide on your next steps, or to find the courage to take them? How can reflecting on your dreams help you to find your path when you fe...