Exploring Your Dreams: How to use dreams for personal growth and creative inspiration

by Ruth Snowden (Psychologist)

Dreams are an integral part of who we are and carry valuable messages. They can reveal our true selves, unmasking our fears, hostilities, hidden talents and desires. Enabling us to explore and learn from hidden aspects of the psyche, dreams can teach you a lot about yourself and others, helping you with problems and guiding you throughout your life. This book gives advice and guidance on exploring and interpreting your dreams, and using them for personal and creative development. It - The place of dreams in human culture - How to prepare for, and how to record your dreams - Dream analysis, including common dream types and the strange but powerful world of symbolism - Advanced dream exploration, including joining a dream group and working with others.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

125 pages, Paperback

First published July 29, 2011

Reviews

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am fascinated with the subconscious part of the mind and I wanted to explore how this can present itself when we dream. This book provides lots of techniques for analysing and interpreting your dreams. I took issue with how it was structured; it made for repetitive, disjointed reading. I also found there were a lot of far-fetched examples where someone dreamt about something and from that one dream, they made a life-changing decision. It also wasn't terribly well written. You can however, see how analysing your dreams can help you improve your understanding of hidden emotions (those which are stuck in your subconscious).

[Simmy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Personally I think this book is something that you truly need to focus on if you want to gain results from it. I don't have time at the moment so I didn't even bother reading deeper into it and literally just scanned through. On the other hand, parts of the book were eye openers and actually quite interesting.