The Dreamer's Companion A Young Person’s Guide to Understanding Dreams and Using Them Creatively

by Policoff, Stephen Phillip

• ISBN13: 9781556522802
• ISBN10: 1556522800
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Dreams are blueprints of the unconscious mind, and this guide provides the key to reading them. Written for young people aged 12 and up, The Dreamer's Companion shows how dreams have shaped human thought from ancient times through the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to today, as writers, artists, scientists, and dreamers try to understand their origin, meaning, and eerie power. From keeping a dream journal to using dreams to problem-solve, here are tools for mining and enjoying these treasures of the sleeping world.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Unique World of the Dreamer: Your dream landscape is part of your uniqueness	p. 1
Caution: Misconceptions Ahead: Eight misconceptions and superstitions people have about dreams	p. 9
Asclepius, Joseph, and Other Heavy Dudes: A walk through time and the role of dreams in ancient history	p. 19
Giant Turtles to Guide Us: Vision quests, sexual dreams, and gaining insight into your true feelings	p. 27
The Royal Road: Sigmund Freud and the animal side of human nature	p. 37
Walking through the Tunnel: Carl Jung, UFOs, and human longing for spiritual guidance	p. 47
Pieces of the Puzzle: No one has more practice in understanding dreams than you do	p. 59
Help! I'm a Victim of Neurochemicals!: The mechanics of how our brains work or where our brains come up with this weird stuff	p. 69
OK, Wait ... This Isn't Real, Right?: Lucid dreaming and other cool night journeys	p. 79
I Wake Up Screaming!: Anxiety dreams and other common childhood experiences	p. 91
The Far Side of Dreams: Premonitions, The "X-Files," and the "Twilight Zone" of unexplained phenom	p. 107
Fourteen Deep and Important Questions about Dreams: Flying, falling, and other dream trips	p. 125
Opening the Door: Training yourself to recall your night journeys	p. 141
Ready, Set, Journal! Dream fragments, diaries, and dreaming solutions to your problems	p. 149
Open Letters: Understanding the symbols in your dreams - a unique interpretation for each person	p. 161
More Letters: Some dream themes to consider	p. 173
Questions, Questions, Questions! More questions to help you figure out those crazy, weird images in your head	p. 191
The Little People Made Me Do It! Dreams can renew and enhance your creative instincts; your dreams can inspire your writing, drawing, dancing, singing, and more	p. 197
I'll Let You Be in My Dream: Form a dream group to share and understand the theater of the night	p. 235
The Hope of Dreams: Dreams can entice us to leap over the boulders life hurls in our path	p. 245
Appendix: Read These! See These!	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 263
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