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How do you respond when the winds of change sweep your way? Do you hold back in fear, look for an escape route, try to put off the inevitable, fight to stand your ground, defend and strengthen the status quo, take a giant leap of faith and let the winds of change carry you, or take baby steps as you sniff the wind and move instinctively moment by moment? Do you go with the general flow, seek guidance, boldly grab the leading edge of change and shape it to your vision, check your progress by watching your dreams?

In this episode I bring you a couple of my own dreams and stories around these themes, as well as an alchemy practice everyone can do to nurture more easefully and gracefully moving into change in a whole new way. Enjoy.

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“You don’t have enough nightmares on The Dream Show,” said Abigail, my guest in this episode, “so I’m bringing mine, a nightmare about three scorpions.”

The dream is scary enough, as Abigail notices three scorpions in her bedroom, and zooms in, in the nightmare, to their shiny black stinging tails. One has her cornered. Should she move away fast, or move slowly? Will it deliver a fatal sting?

Abigail woke up completely terrified, and the first thought in her head was, “It’s an omen that someone wants revenge on you”. She’s not an irrational or superstitious person, but as you’ll hear her explain, there’s a situation in her life where this might be possible, though she hadn’t worried about it until this nightmare.

Even so, “I’ve listened to enough episodes of The Dream Show to know that it’s about me, not about what somebody else is doing,” Abigail said, opening to what her dream really means and what she can learn about herself and her situation from it.

I received a lovely email yesterday from one of our avid listeners who said that what she really enjoys most about The Dream Show is “all the vivid and unique characters you have conversations with.” I agree. It’s a pleasure for me to have these conversations that spring from the dream analysis, and it’s an honour for me – and I hope for you – to be invited into our guests’ lives to explore how their dreams relate to their outer and inner worlds, and to witness their challenges, unique perspectives on life, insights as a result of the dream, healings, and transformations.

How often do we have this opportunity in daily life to be invited so deeply into another’s life, to listen, to empathise, to grow? We are blessed by our generous, heartfelt, volunteer guests who bring their dreams to share in all of these ways. Thank you to you all.

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Gay is my guest with a dream about going into a dark cave to look for her grandmother’s bones, discovering, to her delight, American Indian cave drawings, following these deeper into the darkness, only to be led to a terrifying demon. At this point Gay tried to wake up from her dream, but she was unable to move, feeling trapped, weighed down, panicky.

This frightening experience of feeling paralysed and unable to move, either during a dream or in the moments of first waking, is a phenomenon known as sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis keeps us safely in bed while dreaming, stopping us from moving our muscles and acting out our dreams, but when mind and body are out of synch, as happens for Gay from time to time, the results are terrifying.

We look at sleep paralysis, what causes it, and how to escape it on waking, then we go in more deeply to explore the connection between several of Gay’s dreams which have ended in this experience.

We discover wonderfully healing treasure in these dreams, throwing light on a number of areas of Gay’s life that she hadn’t realised were connected. A medical condition, a taboo subject within the family, and a new way to connect to her ancient heritage, all come together in this episode. Enjoy.

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Where do dreams and nightmares come from? The brain, the body, the mind, the soul, the universe, God, or the dream movie production unit at work, nightly, in the depths of our unconscious?

Last week I saw the Pixar movie, Inside Out, (I give it five stars), which included a peek into the dream production studio where the main character’s dreams were being created, staged and screened. It reminded me of my own tongue-in-cheek take on how our dreams are made, which I wrote in my 2003 book, Dream Alchemy (Note 2018: after being in print all this time, Dream Alchemy was updated and republished as The Dream Handbook, pub by Hachette in Australia and by Little Brown in the UK in 2018), and which I blogged, as an extract, as ‘The Dream Oscars’ in 2011.

We begin today’s episode with The Dream Oscars and then move to a more serious look at how dreams are made before changing tone again to explore what we can learn when our muscles, joints, and ligaments release tightly held emotional stress through massage and other forms of bodywork, and deliver the content for processing in our dreams.

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Do you remember your childhood dreams? What’s the earliest dream you can recall? How old were you? Was it a nightmare, or was it pleasant? Did you tell your parents about your dream? What did they say or do?

Do you remember any of your teenage dreams? At the time, what did you think they meant? Did you take them literally? Did they upset or worry you? Where did you think your dreams came from? Did you tell anyone about them?

Did you learn about dreams and how to understand them at school?

What do you tell your children about dreams? How do you help them?

First up in today’s episode, we explore the possibilities of a dream education. How might we introduce dreams – in a practical, helpful way – into kindergartens, schools, and colleges? I have seen so much pain caused by people taking their dreams literally, and worrying unnecessarily. I’ve seen the suffering of people who are scared to talk about their dreams, and of those who experience weeks and months of broken sleep (and all the ills that go with that) due to recurring nightmares. In every case, these people missed the personal development opportunities their dreams offered to enhance their life skills.

Also in this episode, and related, we look at a dream about death. The dreamer noted that in her culture to dream of death means a birth in the family. How does this cultural dream education influence our dreams, and our understanding of them? Death dreams are common for many people, and particularly for teenagers, so we explore their meaning.

This episode wraps with a dream alchemy exercise you can apply to most dreams, an alchemy that delivers fresh insight about your dream and yourself, and that also offers a door for positive change. Enjoy.

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Let’s get practical. There are two alchemy exercises for you to do in this episode. One will untangle one or more complexities you’re experiencing, leaving you feeling lighter and clearer about what to do. The other will tune you in to be more aware of some of the unseen forces that guide you, the good fairies and the bad fairies, or, to be more scientific than poetic, the positive and negative unconscious voices that drive you.

Listen along, contemplate the perfect in the ordinary, acknowledge and discover the deeper mysteries of life’s guiding breeze, and, above all:

Simplify the complicated

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This episode marks the sixth anniversary of The Dream Show. Now, I’m not sure which is the most popular episode, but I do know which of my blog posts is the most popular, most viewed, most commented upon. Which do you think it is? What dream subject do you think might attract the most interest? Have a guess. I will reveal all at the end of this episode, and read it to you.

On the way to the reveal, we look at dreams where you find yourself in front of an audience, unprepared, expected to perform, and we look at the words of wisdom we are given as young children, how these influence us in our lives, and the power of revisiting these with fresh eyes.

Where does Danced by Love come into it? Listen to find out, to be uplifted, inspired, and to discover more about the art and science of dream analysis.

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“It’s a really gross dream,” said Vashti, my guest in this episode, “and I was shocked by it. I’m curious, because how I was in the dream is not like me in waking life.”

Some of the elements include a baby that someone keeps putting into a toilet on a nest of toilet paper floating on filthy, disgusting water, and a pagan ritual in a forest where things begin quite hopefully with a small, handheld idol of Pan and move into darker territory.

Vashti’s behaviour in the dream is not like her behaviour in waking life, but the dream, once analysed, helped her to see some of the issues underlying the choices she is making in her life, issues she hadn’t been able to see clearly before.

Have you ever had a gross dream, a dream that shocked and disgusted you, a dream that you probably kept to yourself? We all have. It’s healthy, and helpful.

Sometimes, when we are making big positive changes, or when we’re on the verge, not of madness but of healing and transformation, old, deeper, darker, unconscious issues, beliefs, and emotions, find their way into our dreams. Think of this as a cleansing process, a readiness to flush out old stuff, to become more aware of our old ways and limitations as we let them go. Analysing and working with such a dream has enormous benefits, helping us to move forward confidently beyond previous blocks, limiting self-judgements, beliefs, and fears.

Listen as Vashti shares her dream and we explore and analyse it, relate it to what is going on in Vashti’s life, and create dream alchemy to support Vashti in crafting her best path.

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My guest, Domonique, asks about a dream that begins with a trip in a car that looks like a spaceship and ends with her firm refusal to be a witness for the Court Marshalls against her friend, Jules. “I’m older than I look,” she states, richly, and melodiously, standing her ground.

There are two hidden keys featured in the dream, and Domonique knows where they are and how to lay her hands on them. How do these dream keys relate to her life? How long have they been hidden? How have they just come to light, and what can she do with them from this day forward?

There are mysteries to playfully explore as we delve into this dream: why does the car look like a spaceship, why is Jules being evicted from his apartment, and what does the letter T stand for?

You might like to notice the kind of questions I ask, and see how you can apply similar questioning when you’re exploring your own dreams. There’s some word play and recurring themes at work in this dream, and you’ll pick up tips on how to identify these in your dreams and how to gain deeper self understanding as a result.

As with all our guests, Domonique relates the analysis to what’s happening in her waking life and shares personal insights that enrich and inspire all who listen.

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Is there one area in your life where you feel stuck, or one problem that you can’t fix no matter how many different solutions you try? In this episode, we go back to basics to see how your dreams can help you to move the apparently immoveable, to solve the apparently unsolvable.

Enjoy this mix of the light-hearted, the deeply serious, and practical tips on working with your dreams to move past stuck, with some entertaining lessons of life thrown in to make you smile.

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