Diane Brandon - Dream Interpretation for Beginners: Understand the Wisdom of Your Sleeping Mind

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Dream Interpretation for Beginners: Understand the Wisdom of Your Sleeping Mind 2015 by Diane Brandon.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the dreamers, those who strive to understand their dreams and use them as a tool for unfolding in their lives and who value the glimpses into other worlds, inner terrain, and spiritual realms that they can give us.

Acknowledgments

Every book represents the culmination of a tremendous amount of work and effortand not just on the part of the author. This book is no exception. There are many people who have contributed to this book becoming a reality, and I am in their debt.

Thanks to everyone at Llewellyn who has worked to make this book a reality. Angela Wix has always been welcoming and open to whatever questions and materials I send her way, as well as easy to work with and prompt in responding to my numerous and seemingly endless questions. I worked closely with Andrea Neff, who served as production editor on this book, and would like to thank her for her assistance.

I would especially like to express gratitude to all those who contributed dreams for me to include with interpretations in this book. Some of these wonderfully cooperative people dont know me well, aside from my presence in my dream group on Facebook, yet many of them immediately replied to my plea for dreams. Others are close friends who willingly stopped what they were doing to send some of their dreams to me for inclusion. A book on dreams would be meaningless without dream samples in it, so I am indebted to all those who were kind enough to comply and feed me their dreams.

I would also especially like to thank Theresa Waltermeyer, who first started urging me in the mid-1990s to write a book on dreams, so taken was she by her perception of my ability to interpret dreams. She continued to exhort me, at seemingly regular intervals, to write that book on dreams. The regular drumbeat of her promptings finally took hold, and I sat down in early 2013 to begin work on this book. Thanks, Theresa, for your persistent and knowing urgings! I hope this book meets your expectations and is the book you envisioned me writing.

I would also like to thank all the prodigious scientists who have researched our world of sleep and dreams over the years. Their research findings have shed valuable light on this other world of ours, and I am immensely grateful for their work and contributions to our knowledge and understanding. I started voraciously reading what I could find in this field of research back in the early 1970s, and to this day I still light up when I find new research findings. Researchers may not know those who read of their work, but many of us greatly appreciate their efforts.

Lastly, I would like to thank you, the reader, for having taken the time to access this book and read it. May it give you useful information and insight and be a tool for your life enrichment!

contents

Part 1: Basics about Sleep and Dreams

: Why Dreamwork?

: Common Questions and Facts about Sleep and Dreams

: Sources and Types of Dreams

: Some Common Dreams and Their Potential Meanings

Part 2: How to Interpret and Understand Your Dreams

: Tips for Interpreting Your Dreams and a Step-by-Step Procedure

: Dream Samples and Their Interpretations

: Your Turn: Dreams for You to Interpret

: Working with the Information Youve Gathered

: Additional Recommendations, Cautions, and Tips

: Additional Healing Modalities

: Additional Ways to Work with Your Dreams

: Knowing Your Whole SelfBefriending Your Unconscious

introduction

You startle awake, the traces of a dream dancing around the edges of your mindpersistent yet elusive. Scenes and faces leap out at you and then vanish, tantalizing you with their inconstancy, while emotions flicker and appear and disappear repeatedly. What in the world was that about? you wonder.

You may or may not be able to get the dream traces out of your mind. Some vestiges may linger and then evaporate, seemingly daring you to make sense of them. It was so bizarre , you keep thinking. Since it was so bizarre, it couldnt mean anything, you tell yourself.

Or could it?

Have you ever experienced this? If you have, then youre definitely not alone. Millions of people experience this almost nightly and have a similar reaction: That dream was so bizarre. How could it possibly mean anything?