Podcasts Archives - Dream interpretation and dream analysis with Jane Teresa Anderson

My guest, creative director and children’s author Ryn MacDonald, dreamed she bought a jigsaw puzzle for a rather aloof friend. At the last minute, she decided to put the puzzle together herself and give it to her friend as a finished piece. It went together easily but then morphed and went through several stages until all the puzzle pieces turned into thin slices of beef.

After we explore Ryn’s dream and the gifts it holds for her, we talk about her life and work.

Ryn is a Brisbane-based creative director, children’s auth...

Dreams featuring animals tend to occur at times of change, or when life challenges us to change. Why? Listen to find out! You can’t take a dream dictionary approach, but I share tips to help you discover what the animals in your unique and personal dreams mean. What can you learn from these dream animals, especially during times of change?

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 t...

My guest, TV host and business leader, Heidi Dugan, dreamed of a white carpet strewn with black silk roses.

There was also the question, in her dream, of why she had to pay for other people’s drinks at the pub, and … well, listen in as we explore and interpret Heidi’s dream.

Heidi had fallen asleep asking for a dream with a message. Her dream baffled her, but we uncovered what she needed to know: clarity and purpose about her next steps.

After we explore Heidi’s dream we talk about he...

Today’s Interlude is a story about a dream I had last year, not about a piece of string, but about a seemingly endless toilet roll. How long was it, and why couldn’t I break off just a few sheets? What did it mean?

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 halfway point.

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My guest, Holistic Divorce Attorney and Author Sarah Intelligator, dreamed that her great-great-grandmother—whom she had never met—visited her to deliver a life-changing message.

After we explore Sarah’s dream, we flow into our conversation about her life, work, and her latest book.

Based in Los Angeles, California, Sarah graduated from UCLA cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She received her Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

Practising exclusively family law since 2008, Sarah is the owner and founder of Law Offices of Sarah A. Intell...

Today’s Interlude is about a dream that helped revolutionise the world. It was 1846, and Elias Howe had a problem. He was trying to design a sewing machine to handle mass manufacture. I share the story about the dream he had when he felt completely stuck. The dream delivered the solution! Next, I use Elias’s dream to demonstrate some key dream interpretation tips.

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 dr...

Chief Happiness Officer Georgina Dawkins, from Brisbane, Australia, dreamed she was kidnapped by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and taken to an underground kitchen where she was made to cook hot chips.

At one point she was confronted by zombie kittens. There’s more to this dream as you will discover when you listen!

After we explore Georgina’s dream, we flow into our conversation about her life and work. Plenty to get you inspired here.

Georgina Dawkins, Chief Happiness Officer and keynote speaker, is the founder and principal consultant at Happ...

On radio, we generally invite people to call or text in with their dreams. Gaynor phoned about her recurring dream where she is unable to close doors securely, no matter how hard she tries.

In today’s Interlude, I use Gaynor’s dream to give you dream interpretation tips, and to explore the power of using dream alchemy to stop a frustrating recurring dream and change your life in beneficial ways.

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Four weeks can be a long time to wait between our hour-long episodes featuring guests, so I’ve designed these short...

Darian Slayton Fleming, from Portland, Oregon, USA, is the author of ‘Defying Death: Living an empowered life with multiple disabilities’. She dreamed that her son, who passed away earlier this year, appeared as a column of silver energy.

In her dream, there are times when she’s stuck without her walker, and other times when she walks in step with her shimmering son in a way she has never been able to do in waking life. And there’s a mystery about unopened gift cards.

After we explore Darian’s dream, we flow into our c...

How might dream interpretation clues be revealed by body language?

Today’s Interlude is about how the gestures we make while speaking about a dream can contribute profound revelations about the deeper meaning of the dream.

We unpack a dream about colourful clothes and add more interpretation tips to your collection.

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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 halfway point.

Today’s guest, Confidence and Dating Coach Tzara Attwater, from Brisbane, Australia, shares a dream about masked people milling about in an underground labyrinth cave.

The masks were animalistic, and the people didn’t feel like real people: more half animal, half human. Shafts of light pierced the cave ceiling and … well, you’ll need to listen to the podcast to discover what happened next, how the dream relates to Tzara’s life, and the insights our dream exploration delivers.

Tzara is an acclaimed self-leadership motivational speaker and relationship development coach dedicated to empowering...

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 partner, your logical mind tries to step in.

Here’s help: listen!

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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 Australian corporates, and a life enthusiast who believes that learning in life never stops. Together with her partner Bala, she hosts the podcast Level Up with Sam and Bala, bringing authen...

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!

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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 halfway point.

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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 related dreams), but I’ll leave you to discover the unfolding story as you listen.

We begin by exploring Amber’s dreams, rela...

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!

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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 halfway point.

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Our next episode of The Dream Show, ep 292, will b...

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 dream, relating it to her life, and finding helpful insight, before following the conversational muse and learning more about her life and w...

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!

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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 halfway point.

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Our next episode of The Dream Show, ep 291, will be out in two...

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 Mat and Buddhism for Yogis. Since her yoga journey began in the late 1980s, she has been a teacher, trainer, and mentor to...

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!

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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 halfway point.

So, you’ll have something to listen to every two weeks.

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Our next episode of The Dream Show...

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.

First up, we get to know Carolina through her dream, then we move on to talk about her life and work. As the Rat...

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 the halfway point.

So, you’ll have something to listen to every two weeks.

I’ve searched back through hu...

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 dream, and we begin by exploring it and relating it to her life before she shares some case historie...

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 can also listen to The Dream Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to...

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 vivid dream about a shark attack. This one was for me – not for the dream analysis app. What does it mean, and how does it relate to her life?

We the...

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 Stewart and Joseph Lee. You can read more about the book and some fun activities planned for its launch at dreamwisebook.com

Listen as...

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 radio show, and that got me thinking about the various ‘ologies’ I have studied, as well as my excitement, as a young st...

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, Ninth Life, I share a couple of reviews.

You can also listen to The Dream Show on Apple Podcas...

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 this – her ninth life – just right.”

In the second half of the show, we turn to Kat, o...

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 life, and how it can help her.

There’s a beautiful synchronicity that happens during our conversation. It will make you smile.

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 touch, but it’s difficult to ask another man for a phone numb...

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 unresolved endings, and Lynn is curious. She wonders if the dream is about the ex, or whether...

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 very much under wraps at the moment, but will be published by the middle of this year.

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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.

And why does someone mention Life of Pi and another movie featuring a tiger?

Listen as Kat and I trace the various strands of her dream t...

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 because there’s no toilet up there.

But oh, the stunning Japanese room that she finds next!

Listen a...

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 bring Bird of Paradise home. If you have missed the earlier episodes, here’s the book blurb to entice you to go back to part 1, episod...

“As above, so below.” “As within, so without.”

What do these ancient sayings mean to you?

In today’s episode we venture deeper into the cosmic (although previous episodes have certainly had us journeying this space). We talk about a fairy, the Emerald Tablet, and explore why grass is green. The realm of metaphysics awaits.

After nearly 14 years – and 265 episodes – of The Dream Show, we decided to do something a little different between February and late November 2023 when we will return to our usual format.

Over ten episodes, I’m narrating my m...

When change is in the air, are you a baby steps kind of person or a giant leap of faith kind of person?

In today’s episode, we explore how we navigate change. Along the way, you’ll hear some spooky stories, meet a housefly up close and personal, and listen in on a healing conversation between a bunch of animals. All this and much more.

After nearly 14 years – and 265 episodes – of The Dream Show, we decided to do something a little different between February and late November 2023 when we will return to our usua...

Isn’t it interesting that when we meet something new, we first try to make it fit with what we already know?

In today’s episode we explore this through more stories and dreams: you’ll meet an ancient alchemist, a woman who dreamed she gave birth to a vampire, and much more.

After nearly 14 years – and 265 episodes – of The Dream Show, we decided to do something a little different between February and late November 2023 when we will return to our usual format.

Over ten episodes, I’m narrating my most recent book...

Our challenge is to courageously bring more of our magnificence into the light of day and let it shine.

In today’s episode we explore both the dark and the light that we hide deep in our unconscious, and discover the treasures yielded through mining for both.

After nearly 14 years – and 265 episodes – of The Dream Show, we decided to do something a little different between February and late November 2023 when we will return to our usual format.

Over ten episodes, I’m narrating my most recent book, Bird of Paradise (Taming the Uncon...