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Books - Dreams & Dreaming

Private Dreams of Public People
by Lauren Lawrence, Larry King
For the first time, public figures like Madonna, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Candace Bushnell, Kelsey Grammer, Chris Kattan, Luciano Pavarotti, Paul McCartney, Juliette Binoche and a host of others confess their intimate dreams. Dream expert Lauren Lawrence dissects these dreams, giving us unprecedented insight into celebrities' deepest thoughts and what makes them shine. From ancient times of Delphian oracles to present day psychoanalysis, dreams have always captivated, inspired and fascinated us. What secrets do we unlock when we close our eyes? We are in a constant search for meaning in our dreams, hoping to discover the mysteries of our unconscious. Private Dreams of Public People approaches the dream like never before, focusing on celebrity dreamers, and the expression of talen inherent within their nighttime journeys. Available in Hardcover

Dreaming As Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
By J. Allan Hobson
In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling--and controversial--theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying theme is that the form of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and memories derive from specific nerve cells and electrochemical impulses described by neuroscientists. Among the questions Hobson explores are: What are dreams? Do they have any hidden meaning, or are they simply emotionally salient images whose peculiar narrative structure refects the unique neurophysiology of sleep? And what is the relationship between the delirium of our dream life and psychosis? Available in Paperback

Crisis Dreaming: Using Your Dreams to Solve Your Problems
By Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D. and Lynne Lamberg
Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D. and Lynne Lamberg present new evidence that dreams are coherent symbolic reflections of the dreamer's mental state. Crisis Dreaming provides simple, effective strategies for remembering your dreams and for "rewriting" better dream scripts while you sleep.

These tactics are based on Dr. Cartwright's more than 35 years of scientific research. You can carry the insight you gain from your dreams into your waking life to help resolve depression and anxiety brought on by divorce, bereavement, serious illness, job loss, and other crises.

In this book, you'll meet people who learned, with Dr. Cartwright's help, to use their dreams to change their daily lives. They gained control over the demons that plagued them. By following the guidelines in this book, you can achieve that goal, too. Available in Paperback

The Conscious Exploration of Dreaming: Discovering How We Create and Control Our Dreams
By Janice Brooks, Jay Vogelsong, J. Allan Hobson
Author Janice Brooks states: Many people can become aware that they are dreaming while they are dreaming - they can dream lucidly. The Conscious Exploration of Dreaming, by my husband Jay Vogelsong and myself, details observations and experiments from our own extensive lucid dream accounts and places them into the framework of a relatively little-known perceptual theory of dreaming. We critique many popular notions about lucid dreaming and dreaming in general, and attempt to integrate our ideas with modern sleep and dream research. Though laboratory research has largely superseded psychoanalytic thought in explaining dream generation, ordinary people may have difficulty relating such research to their own personal experiences with dreaming. We hope that our book will help to bridge this gap. Available in Paperback

The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming
By Michael Jouvet
Michel Jouvet is perhaps the world's leading sleep and dream researcher. He discovered a mysterious dream state that he called paradoxical sleep. This third category of brain activity (distinct from sleeping and waking) is a state of very deep sleep with some specific motor events, including rapid eye movements (REM). In The Paradox of Sleep, Jouvet takes the reader on a scientific and sociological tour of the history of sleep and dream research, concluding with his own ideas on the function of dreaming.

A key section of the book is Jouvet's discussion of why we dream. After summarizing Freud's theory of dreams, he contrasts it with current neurobiological data. Finally, he outlines his own controversial theory about why we dream: to preserve our individuality. Dreaming, claims Jouvet, is necessary for the genetic reprogramming of our brain. Available in Hardcover

Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of Mind
By Owen J. Flanagan
What, if anything, do dreams tells us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"?

With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. And in Dreaming Souls he provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Written with clarity, lively wit, and remarkable insight, Dreaming Souls offers a fascinating new way of apprehending one of the oldest mysteries of mental life. Available in Hardcover

Dream Dictionary: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences
By Tony Crisp
Based on 22 years of research, this guide is an instant alphabetic reference to dream symbols and their meanings, the significance of recurring dreams and nightmares, predictive dreams, problem-solving aspects of dreaming, and more. The only mass-market size dream guide in an alphabetized format. Available in Paperback

Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep
By Celia Elizabeth Green, Charles McCreery
Lucid dreams are dreams in which a person becomes aware that he or she is dreaming. They are different from ordinary dreams, not just because of the dreamer's awareness, but because lucid dreams are often strikingly realistic and may be emotionally charged to the point of elation.

Celia Green and Charles McCreery have written a unique introduction to lucid dreams that will appeal to the specialist and general reader alike. The authors explore the experience of lucid dreaming, relate it to other experiences such as out-of-body experiences (to which they see it as closely related) and apparitions, and look at how lucid dreams can be induced and controlled. They explore their use for therapeutic purposes such as counteracting nightmares. Throughout, there are many case histories to illustrate the text. Available in Paperback