Cloud Nine: A Dreamer's Dictionary

by Sandra A. Thomson

• ISBN13: 9780380773848
• ISBN10: 0380773848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-30
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

This comprehensive dream dictionary offers thousands of dream symbols and definitions. "Cloud Nine" is an invaluable guide to dream interpretation, providing essential information on how to recognize and understand your own personal dream symbology, encourage peaceful sleep and pleasant dreams, and much more. It also includes illuminating exercises, techniques, pointers, and tips from some of the world's most respected contemporary dream masters.

Table of Contents

Practical Guide to Understanding Your Dreams
Dreams: Mirrors of Growth	p. 3
How to Make the Most of This Book	p. 7
Keeping a Dream Journal	p. 8
Delving Into Your Dream Images	p. 11
An Inner Cast of Thousands or Merely a Small Pantheon?	p. 14
Giving Your Dream Symbols Their Voice	p. 16
Whose Dream Is It, Anyway?	p. 19
Endnotes	p. 19
Annotated References	p. 21
Last Night I Had the Craziest Dream	p. 22
Dreams as a Second Language	p. 23
Pioneer Dreamworkers	p. 24
By Their Associations Shall Ye Know Them	p. 26
Traversing the Royal Road	p. 28
The Play's the Thing	p. 30
Bigger Than Life	p. 33
Image Amplification	p. 36
Historic Dreamworkers	p. 38
We Need to Talk More	p. 39
And They Lived Happily Ever After	p. 42
Annotated References	p. 43
It Took All Day to Get Ready for This	p. 44
Our Inner Pacemaker	p. 45
Why We Sleep	p. 45
Sleep's Signature	p. 46
Why We Dream	p. 47
The Dreaming Eye	p. 49
The Envelope, Please	p. 50
America's Mounting Sleep Deficit	p. 54
Dietary Lullaby	p. 54
Remembering Ritual	p. 57
Annotated References	p. 58
Make That Dream Count	p. 59
Men's Dreams	p. 60
Women's Dreams	p. 60
Children's Dreams	p. 63
Personal Dream Vocabulary	p. 64
It Means What I Say It Means	p. 65
Series Dreams	p. 67
Dream Flow	p. 69
Turning-Point Dreams	p. 71
Polishing a Dream's Facets	p. 72
Dream Groups	p. 73
United, We Dream	p. 74
Tonight, Tonight, I'll Dream My Theme Tonight	p. 76
Enough Already	p. 77
Annotated References	p. 78
Midnight Messages	p. 80
Join the Crowd	p. 80
National Nightmares	p. 81
Banishing Bad Dreams	p. 83
Problem-Solving and Healing Dreams	p. 85
Put a Dream Under My Pillow	p. 86
Shamanistic Dreaming	p. 90
Lucid Dreaming	p. 91
Look, Ma, I'm Dreaming	p. 93
Psychic or Psi Dreaming	p. 95
Precognitive Dreaming	p. 97
Annotated References	p. 99
The Dream Quest	p. 101
Ageless Inspirations	p. 102
Actualizing Your Dreams	p. 104
Say It Your Way	p. 105
Dream Treasures	p. 107
The Ever-Expanding Image	p. 109
Journey to the Center	p. 110
Home	p. 111
A Dreamer's Dictionary
How to Use This Dictionary	p. 115
Symbology from A to Z	p. 118
Bibliography	p. 562
Index	p. 573
Oneirophiliac Card	p. 577
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