Body Mind & Spirit : Dreams

Exploring the fascinating world of dreams, this comprehensive reference examines more than 250 dream-related topics, from art to history to science, including how factors such as self-healing, ESP, literature, religion, sex, cognition and memory, and medical conditions can all have an effect on dreams. Dream symbolism and interpretation is examined in historical, cultural, and psychological detail, while a dictionary--updated with 1,000 symbols and explanations--offers further insights. Dreaming about teeth, for instance, can indicate control issues, and dreaming of a zoo can indicate that the dreamer needs to tidy up some situation. Examining these concepts and more, this is the ultimate dreamer's companion. more...

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Ever since the first person woke up yawning and stretching from the first sleep, dreams have intrigued humankind. At some point all of us have been mystified or terrified or delighted by a vivid dream, and we all wonder -- what do our dreams mean? In her inspiring book, Dream Power, Los Angeles Times dream columnist Cynthia Richmond draws on her experience .. more...

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A belief in the power of dreams runs through African-American life like a mystical thread, predicting the future, offering a glimpse of lost loved ones, informing decisions, and inspiring literature. Anthony Shafton distills a long time fascination with dreams into a seminal study of their place in black culture. More than 100 African Americans, both famous - such as literary lions John Edgar Wideman and Gloria Naylor - and ordinary men, women, and children, share their personal dream life and discuss its significance. Illuminating a wonderful variety of dreams, this book offers every reader insight into a centuries-old spiritual tradition. more...

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What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and often hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. This book introduces sleep laboratory science, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep, and explores how the science of dreaming impacts our understanding of psychoanalysis and mental illness. - ;What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness. J. Allan Hobson investigates his own dreams to illustrate and explain some of the fascinating discoveries of modern sleep science, while challenging some of the traditionally accepted theories about the meaning of dreams. He reveals how dreaming maintains and develops the mind, why we go crazy in our dreams in order to avoid doing so when we are awake, and why sleep is not just good for health but essential for life. - ;Fascinating. - Caroline Green, BBC Focus more...

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Acknowledgments. Prologue: "To Sleep: Perchance to Dream". 1. Heart Throbs. 2. The Dreaming Mind. 3. Sleepy Heads. 4. Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep. 5. Self-Expression in Dreams. 6. Philosophical Perplexities. Epilogue: Here Comes the Sun. Selected Bibliography. Index more...

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