The Illustrated Guide to Dreams: Dream Symbols and Their Meanings

by Brenda Mallon

Dreams are highly creative works of art, atmospheric and colorful, dramatic and adventurous, filled with texture, taste, extraordinary images, and sound. And, like any true artwork, their layers of meaning become apparent only when we dig beneath the surface. Contact your subconscious, and all the wisdom it contains, with this richly illustrated map of the dreamscape. Begin the journey by keeping a journal to aid self-knowledge and as a source of inspiration. Advice on active work techniques--including a dream checklist with questions to answer--paves the way for enlightening interpretations. Check for recurring places, people, and patterns, and make sense of the "language of symbols," from archetypes to labyrinths to saints and sinners. Consider the different ways psychic phenomena surface in dreams, and connect with ancestral voices. Use these nightly fantasies to diagnose illness, heal addictions, solve problems, and enrich creativity. You'll understand your dreams and yourself.

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2000

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[Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anais Nin, writer painter and companion to Henry Miller and Salvador Dali, kept a lifelong journal in which dreams became the key to her creativity. She used dreams as the inspiration for a number of books and her extensive dream records and interpretations investigates "Let Go and Let God"..Relationships are a regular feature of our dream world, relationships with friends, family etc. Dream Lover: The sleeping mind can identify what you find attractive and eventually you can meet in your waking world. When you dream of the other person a bond is so strong that even in their sleeping state they share their lives. Sometimes lovers are separated by long distances, they can still communicate with each other through their dreams. My dreams set me up for the start of the day. If it is a good dream I have a good day. I also dream in technicolor. From Particia Garfield's book Creative Dreaming she concludes that the freedom of activity in dreams is linked to the freedom of creative thinking in all areas. Research has shown that creative people often have the most creative dreams, implying a strong relationship between the waking and sleeping mind. Dreams & Creativity - for centuries writers, artists and performers have all been inspired by their dreams to push the creative boundaries of their art. Surrealist Salvador Dali used dreams to create astonishing works of art. Some of the greatest stories ever told began life as dreams. Inventions - Many inventors have brilliant flashes of inspiration or make world-changing scientific discoveries via their dreams; this is because the dream completes their waking work in their area of expertise. Niels Bohr Danish Physicist won his Nobel prize for his formulation in 1922 of the Quantum Theory. Albert Einstein said that a dream he had as a young man inspired his scientific research. In the dream he was sleighing down a mountainside at the speed of light. He noticed that the refracted light of the stars curved into a spectrum of colors and he was deeply moved by this that he puzzled over it and thought about it days on end. He said that eventually it led him to the Theory of Relativity. The process of dreaming enables us to organize our waking thoughts. This could enable you to see things in a new way to solve problems or find inspiration.