Your dreams can change your life - if you listen to them. They are a window into what you subconsciously know, and they can also provide miraculous insight.
It's not a crazy idea. You can improve your life by listening to your dreams. These 101 enlightening true stories from ordinary people who listened to their dreams will amaze and inspire you. More importantly, they will encourage you to listen to your own dreams and inner voice to help you navigate your way to a more magical life than you ever thought possible.
Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published 191 new Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today.
Amy is credited with revitalizing the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand, which has been a publishing industry phenomenon since the first book came out in 1993. By compiling inspirational and aspirational true stories curated from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences, Amy has kept the thirty-year-old Chicken Soup for the Soul brand fresh and relevant.
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As someone who has long been intrigued by our dream lives, I was immediately interested in an ebook red-flagged by my library app titled "Listen to Your Dreams." In my haste to check it out, I somehow missed the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" header. Nothing against this wildly-successful series, but I've never been a huge fan of books that are compilations of inspirational anecdotes. Nevertheless, my fascination with dreams spurred me to begin reading the assortment. I found the first 15 or 20 bite-sized slices of life to be quite interesting. I especially liked how each mini-chapter started with a thought-provoking quote that set the tone for the upcoming tale. However, as I plowed through a few dozen stories, their themes and implied messages seemed to commingle into an almost repetitive collection. I sense I would have arrived at a different conclusion -- and assigned a higher rating -- if I had chosen to read one tale each day for 101 days. But reading nearly 40 entries in the span of a few days felt a bit a like "soup overdose." I guess I had been expecting more of an analysis of dream patterns as opposed to inspirational nuggets. But that's not the fault of the author or the book marketers. In this case, this dream devotee had his head in the clouds and clearly misinterpreted the book's underlying objectives.