Video: a dream interview
I was interviewed by Blake Gardiner, a self-confessed sceptic when it comes to dreams, and his partner, Erica Mann, a passionate dreamer, back in May. The video podcast has just been released and I think you’ll enjoy the ground we cover. Erica asked questions about dreams and dreaming, while Blake focussed more on questions about my career path. They ask about my background, how I work with clients (I include some techniques), my teaching platforms,
Dream interpretation chart
Interpreting dreams is an immersive affair. If you really want to understand and gain helpful insight from a dream, dabbling in the shallow waters around the edges of the dream isn’t going to take you there. Playing with one symbol from your dream isn’t going to take you there. Meditating upon the dream and emerging with an intuitive understanding isn’t going to take you the whole way there. All of these approaches are important, the
The misinterpretation trap
You wake from a hauntingly beautiful dream of time spent with an ex-lover, and the sheer delight sends you scurrying to make contact, or, at least, to tell yourself that somewhere, out there beyond the trappings of the body and material world, the two of you reconnected, forgave, or shared new understanding. It’s so deliciously tempting to interpret such a dream literally, so easy to turn tail on everything you know about how to interpret
What if you get a dream interpretation wrong?
“What if you interpret a dream for someone and you get it wrong?” he asked, quickly adding, “No offence, just curious.” It’s a great question, one I’ve been asked by journalists over the years, and one I was asked in a social situation this week by someone who wanted to know a little more about my work. Some people ask the question because they think dream interpretation is a prophetic art, a process of reading
Watery dreams
We all have watery dreams from time to time, like facing a looming tsunami, drowning, discovering we can breathe underwater, swimming, floating, or being lashed by a heavy storm. What can these, and other watery dreams, teach us? When we dream, we’re processing our experiences of the last 1-2 days, both our conscious and our unconscious experiences. Our dreaming mind pictures our experiences, our beliefs, and our feelings, in a symbolic but highly individual way.