Theresa is regularly featured in national newspapers and magazines, and she is a frequent radio, podcast and television guest and ITV: This Morning’s regular dream decoding expert. She hosts her own popular spiritual podcast called White Shores and weekly live UK Health Radio Show: The Healing Power of Your Dreams.
Her latest book is the paranormal thriller, NightBorn, available at Amazon US and Amazon UK.
You can visit her website at www.theresacheung.com or connect with her on X, Facebook, Instagram or Goodreads.
I’ve spent much of my life exploring dreams, consciousness and the mysteries of the psyche through my non-fiction work, spiritual writing, and dream research. But the more I studied dreams, the more I felt that fiction could allow me to explore these ideas in new and powerful ways that could reach a larger more mainstream audience. NightBorn sprang from a “what if” question that haunted me for a long time: what if dreams weren’t just private and what if they could be shared, manipulated, weaponised?
I chose to write this story because it felt both deeply personal and terrifyingly possible. As someone fascinated by psychology, the unconscious and the porous boundary between waking and sleeping life, I wanted to imagine a world where the dream space becomes a battlefield. Writing NightBorn gave me the freedom to weave together psychological tension, conspiracy, and the surreal potential of shared dreaming, all questions I’ve long wondered about.
Can you give us a blurb so others will know what it’s about?
What if the line between your waking life and your darkest dreams disappeared forever? Alice Sinclair, a driven psychology professor, is about to find out. When thousands of people begin experiencing terrifying, vivid nightmares — all centered around her — Alice’s quiet academic life is shattered. Haunted by the question of why she’s become the subject of these shared dreams, Alice embarks on a desperate search for answers, uncovering a chilling secret: someone — or something — hungry for global power has discovered a way to manipulate consciousness itself. The world is fast becoming a playground for those in control of the dreaming mind. In a heart-stopping race against time, Alice must navigate a treacherous web of deception, where nothing — and no one — can be trusted, not even herself.
Can you tell us a little about the main characters?
- Alice Sinclair is the protagonist. She’s a psychology professor: intelligent, analytical, rational. But her life turns upside down when she realises she’s appearing in and perhaps even controlling other people’s nightmares. Alice is forced to confront everything she thought she knew about consciousness, identity and what it means to "own" your mind.
- Others around Alice: As the novel unfolds, Alice becomes embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy that spans not just individuals, but institutions. There are allies and enemies whose true motives are unclear and part of the psychological tension comes from Alice’s inability to fully trust anyone, even people close to her. (I don’t want to give away too many spoilers!)
I wanted Alice to feel like a real, grounded person: someone readers can believe, empathise with and fear might be on the brink of losing herself.
Where and when does this book take place?
NightBorn is set in the near future, in Florida USA and also in central London UK in a world very similar to our own. Alice’s academic life is rooted in the familiar: university halls, lecture theatres, everyday routines. That normality makes the incursion of the surreal, shared nightmares, mass consciousness manipulation all the more jarring. By situating the story in a world that feels recognisably our own, I hope the sense of psychological horror lands more deeply with readers.
They say all books of fiction have at least one pivotal point where the reader just can’t put the book down. What is one of the pivotal points in NightBorn?
One of the most pivotal moments comes fairly early on, when Alice realises that the nightmares she’s experiencing and sharing aren’t isolated. They’re not just hers. Thousands of people all over the world are reporting the same horrifying, vivid dreams dreams in which she is central.
That moment reframes the entire story. What began as a personal psychological mystery becomes something much larger: a global phenomenon. At that point, the stakes jump from “What is happening to me?” to “What is happening to humanity?” It’s a turning point where Alice moves from being a bewildered academic into someone running for answers and safety. That shift in tone and scope tends to make readers hold their breath.
Does your book carry a message?
Yes. It is a thriller that messes with your mind for a reason because as well as being a page turner it is also a crash course in dream decoding for those who don't tend to read non fiction though I hope I’ve woven it subtly into the story. NightBorn is ultimately an exploration of consciousness, identity, and power. It asks: Who owns our minds? And: What happens when that boundary between self and other - between private inner life and public influence - breaks down?
I wanted readers to ask themselves: what if the unconscious isn’t just private and personal and what if it can be manipulated, controlled, harnessed? And what responsibility do we have, individually and collectively, for the landscapes of our own minds?
It’s also a cautionary tale about power, political, psychological, technological, and the ways in which control over consciousness might become the next frontier.
What's your next project?
My next non fiction project explores the Twin Flame Journey but fiction wise I’m already thinking about what comes after NightBorn. While I don’t want to reveal too much just yet, I am very interested in continuing to explore the boundary between dreams and reality perhaps from a different angle. Expect more psychological suspense, maybe more conspiracy, perhaps even a deeper dive into dreamscapes that blur the lines between memory, prophecy and imagination.
Where can we pick up copies of NightBorn?
It's currently available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle.
Is there anything you’d like to tell your readers and fans?
Yes just a heartfelt thank you. Writing NightBorn has been a journey: a leap from non-fiction and spiritual writing into the imaginative, unpredictable world of fiction. I poured a lot of personal experience, decades of research and maybe a bit of fear into this book.
If you pick it up, I hope it makes you think differently about your dreams and it may very well trigger clearer dream recall as that is what readers are telling me. I hope it makes you question what’s real. And maybe, just maybe, make you a little more curious about what happens behind your closed eyelids when you sleep.
Thank you for reading, for supporting me, and for exploring this world with me. I can’t wait to hear what you think… and what you dream.
