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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Adrian Chiles

No one wants to hear about your dreams – unless you follow my golden rule

A man sitting in an armchair is leaning forward,  smiling and talking to a woman opposite him
‘I dreamed my legs were carrots’ would be a good opening gambit. Photograph: FreshSplash/Getty Images

As everyone knows – or ought to know – there is nothing as boring as listening to someone tell you about a dream they have had. This is a shame, as there is some good, out‑there content going begging. There could be gold in there, if only the dreamer knew how to deliver it. This is the problem: not the dreams themselves, but how bad we are at sharing them.

Keenly aware of the wondrous magic in some of my own dreams, and anxious for no one to miss out on hearing about them, I have been working on my dream-telling technique. And I’ve come up with some guidelines.

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