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 Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams
ASIN: 0525946586
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent work
Comments: I have never read any of Sylvia's books, but after reading this I am surely going to read all her available works. The interpretations of the dreams are not at all what convinced me, she is excellent in the way of teaching how to use the interpretations to benefit you. It is very surprising and informing, Sylvia worked very hard. I'd like to recommend a good similar book, SB: 1 or God by Karl Maddox
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 Dream Dictionary : An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconsious Mind
ASIN: 0440237076
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Unreal, uncanny, so helpful!
Comments: I am constantly amazed by how clear my dreams become when I look up their elements in this book. The definitions allow me to immediately relate dream images to things happening in my life and from there, to understand or resolve them. Tony Crisp includes explanations of well-known psychological theory on dreams (Jung, Freud) as well as cues on processing your dreams. Overall, the book is much more than a dictionary; it really is the A-Z guide that the cover promises. That having been said, I believe the information contained here is most helpful when you're concurrently exploring your unconscious or working through issues by additional means, e.g., journaling, counseling/therapy, etc.
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 Dreams, a Portal to the Source
ASIN: 0415064538
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: Enter into the portal of your dream life...
Comments: ...as written by authors of a Jungian persuasion.
Those very familiar with Jungian dream theory will find the first couple of chapters slow and basic. Others will welcome the exposition of why dreams do what they do.
Dreams, not just as imaginal compensations for the narrowness of conscious daily life, but as completions, as fillings-in to be lived as night-time dramas; dreams as metaphoric missing pieces of what we neglect in our journeys toward wholeness; as messages, or letters, in the Talmudic sense, we must open to understand: all this is here, and warmly recommended.
I can't write a book review without at least a brief comment on style. In this case, nothing close to the poetry of a Hillman or a Romanyshyn. Adequately expository, though. They do a good job of seeing to it that the reader gets the ideas.
The authors claim to have written for clinicians, but the educated non-therapist unacquainted with the tools of dreamlife can find real gold in this book.
If you're curious beyond the simple "did I dream that because I ate a bad hamburger" or "I can't understand my dreams, so they don't make any sense," then begin here.
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 Interpretation of Dreams
ASIN: 0380010003
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: great sci classic, perhaps to be seen as copernicus someday
Comments: This is the book that started the revolution in our view of human psychology: it uncovered the (always disputed) existence of the unconscious mind as well as created an entirely new mode of thinking about the human psyche.
Strangely enough, it is also a fun and very informative read: there are great case studies of patients, charming autobiographical asides, and a rigorous snapshot of the science of dreams at the time. It is also beautifully written: ironically, though never the recipient of the Nobel prize, Freud did win the Goethe prize in Germany for his writing style. As Walter Kaufman said so eloquently, with his rich ironies and attention to the individual, Freud offered a way to reintroduce poetry into science.
Certainly, much of what Freud thought is now disputed and discredited. Like Copernicus, whose model of our solar system failed in many respects, Freud also made fundamental errors, in particular his notorious over-emphasis of sexuality and the phallus. But we do not blame Copernicus for not seeing what Kepler, Newton, and later Einstein discovered: we value him as a step towards the unknown, as a pioneer, however timid. Freud will come to be seen the same way, as the discoverer of the unconscious mind.
Warmly recommended.
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 Our Dreaming Mind
ASIN: 0345396669
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: The best book on dreming so far, if not the best imaginable
Comments: Robert Van De Castle has a sense of vocation for his subject that conveys beautifully. He speaks very plainly and directly, without talking down to the reader. He's as objective as you can be with a subject that's so completely subjective (yet universal.)
The one negative review of Van De castle's book is from a Freudian. There is not "disenchantment" with Freud, he has been largely discredited. Dreams are not intentionally disguised infantile sexual wishes. The 'sub'conscious does not consist entirely of repressed desires. Freud's idea of the ego as basically the entire mind reminds me of the idea of the Earth being the center of the universe. They are just products of a different era.
While sometimes a little simplistic in its prose style and speculative in nature, Our Dreaming Mind is on a much higher plane than the new age junk that largely consumes shelf space devoted to the subject in book stores. Well worth the investment.
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 The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis
ASIN: 1557989354
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: What the study of dreams SHOULD be
Comments: For far too long, most books about dreaming have been the realm of TV psychologists, mystics, and charlatans; G. William Domhoff is working to change all of that. This book is an excellent overview of recent breakthroughs and future possibilities in quantitative content analysis and neuroimaging studies. Domhoff also makes a convincing case for abandoning the Freudian and Jungian tenets that strangled dream research for most of the last century -- and he sows the seeds of a new cognitive theory that could guide research in the new millennium.
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 In Your Dreams: Falling, Flying, and Other Dream Themes: A New Kind of Dream Dictionary
ASIN: 0062514121
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Buying my second copy.
Comments: This is the most helpful dream interpretation book I've owned to date, and I've wasted lots of money trying out other books. This book is great for beginners, easy to read and understand and may offer a fresh approach to seasoned dream interpreters. I use my copy like a dream dictionary - looking up themes and characteristics of my latest dreams, but it is intended to make you your own dream expert if read from cover to cover. It's approach is to offer you interpretations of many common dream themes. The opinions range from classic interpretation (Freud and Jung) to modern interpretations. Ultimately, the author's goals is to teach the reader the key to dream interpretation - the individual and their feelings. Sample dreams are given in each chapter to illustrate this style of interpretation. Each chapter also ends with a series of questions to ask yourself that help you clarify what's important in your dreams. I have learned skills from reading this book that have unleashed my power to understand my dreams. It really gets you thinking.
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 Cloud Nine: A Dreamer's Dictionary
ASIN: 0380808897
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Cloud Nine: A Dreamer's Dictionary
Comments: Most of us are visited nightly by dreams. And most of us are puzzled by the fragments we can recall of these elusive visitors. Do dreams mean anything? If so, what? How can we better remember them? Is it possible to "control" our dreams? Sandra Thomson, a psychologist and author, tells readers all about dreams in Cloud Nine: A Dreamer's Dictionary. Thomson says that "dreams show us our conflicts and way to resolve them; they chronicle our inner striving." She adds that dreams can be "a second language." She starts with a general discussion of dreams, highlighting the primary theories of the significance of dreams. People have tried to understand their dreams since the beginning of time, often relying on shamans. The first dream book was written in the second century A.D. Hundreds of people have studied and attempted to explain dreams since then. Freud was a pioneer in dream interpretation. Thomson explains his theories, then goes on the discuss the work of other researchers, including Jung, Adler, Horney, and Perls. She clearly explains what each believed to be true about dreams, which is helpful to readers trying to understand the symbolism of their own dreams. Dreams use symbols and the meaning of the symbols vary from person to person. Thomson highly recommends that each person prepare their own "dream dictionary," in which they figure out the meaning of their unique symbols. The bulk of her book is a generalized dream dictionary that will help readers get started. She offers alternative meanings for most of the symbols, enabling users to better interpret their dreams. She provides extensive instructions for decoding individual dreams. The book is filled with "dreamercises," which are designed to assist in recalling and interpreting dreams. Thomson also explains how to put your dreams to work for you, by asking for solutions to daytime problems. She also describes how to teach yourself how to have lucid dreams, in which the dreamers are aware that they are dreaming before they wake up. Thomson wrote Cloud Nine to "allow you to participate more fully in understanding your own dream productions or in identifying your growth tasks." The guidelines and exercises she provides gives readers the tools they need to understand and interpret their dreams.
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 Dreaming With the Wheel: How to Interpret and Work With Your Dreams Using the Medicine Wheel
ASIN: 0671784161
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Many helpful techniques for remembering dreams
Comments: This is one of the most comprehensive and easily accessible books I've read on techniques for remembering dreams and categorizing their importance. I liked it so much I'm buying my own copy! I'll use it extensively as an ongoing workbook.
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