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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 Race Recovery Coach, she helps women break free from the stress and burnout of toxic work environments. Carolina also shares her personal path of healing and recovery from the Rat Race she experienced during her corporate career.

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Music and Sound Editing by Euan Gray

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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 hundreds of my blogs about dreams and dreaming, going back to 2009, and selected the best to feature in these interludes. I hope you enjoy them.

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Our next episode of The Dream Show, ep 289, will be out in two weeks on March 20. My guest, Carolina Bakker, The Rat Race Recovery Coach, shares a dream for us to explore and interpret before we talk about her work and life.

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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 histories and deeper insights into the way she works with her clients. There’s plenty here to inspire and enlighten!

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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.

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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 then chat about the app which offers dream interpretation, AI conversations to take you deeper, and visual art to illustrate your unique dream. And much more, which you’ll discover when you listen. We also return, toward the end of our conversation, to do some dream alchemy on Annabel’s shark dream.

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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 Lisa and I explore her dream and chat about her book.

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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 student, about the neurological aspects of dreaming. We dip into oneirology in the middle section of today’s episode.

Finally, I include a radio interview from last week (ABC Radio Hobart), where the same presenter who invited me to chat about oneirology last year (Joel Rheinberger), interviewed me about my new novel, Ninth Life. Which – to round off the animal theme – features a cat.

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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.

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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, our guest in episode 277. Kat shares the results of doing the two dream alchemy practices I prescribed when we explored her dream. She also shares her experiences of being a guest on the show, and the insights that flowed when she listened to her episode and continued to engage with the material.

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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.

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