Decode Your Dreams: Unlock your unconscious and transform your waking life

by Ian Wallace, Sophie Douala (Illustrator)

Become your own dream analyst and begin a powerful journey of self discovery with bestselling author, psychologist and dream expert Ian Wallace. 

Dreams are no longer some largely indecipherable code. They are authored by our own subconscious. When you create a dream, you are encoding a meaningful story about how to fulfil your emotional needs, intentions and purpose  in waking life. So who better to decode your dreams than you? 

Decode Your Dreams  empowers you with all you need to know, from unlocking your unconscious and learning how it influences your experiences, to creating positive life changes in light of these insights. This easy-to-use guide offers an original, two-step method that nurtures the connection between the ever-evolving unconscious and conscious mind for transformational results . Wallace explains  how to decipher dream meanings  before answering each diagnosis with suggested  waking-life actions . Reflect on the best solutions to recurring daily dilemmas, identify and heal anxieties that are holding you back, and confront and seize new opportunities to pursue your passions.
We dream to continually update our sense of self. So learn something new with every dream and develop your own human superpowers of self- and situational awareness  with this book.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

192 pages, Hardcover

Published January 18, 2022

About the author

1.Author and illustrator of children's books.

Reviews

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small]

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Decode your Dreams is an interesting book about why we dream and what our dreams mean, as well as guiding you to apply and decipher what your dreams mean in your real waking life.
The book is broken down into sections which I found really helpful as this helps you find what you're looking for much easier. There is an index at the back to help you find things alphabetically, too.
Each section has a decode chart, which is a great tool to help you break your dreams down, too.

[Mrs Karen Bull]

Always been fascinated about our dreams and why we have them
Each dream has meaning and this book helps understand each dream

[Winnie | Her Digital Coffee]

Decode Your Dreams by Ian Wallace is a book that helps you uncover the potential meaning behind your dreams. I’ve always been fascinated by how other’s interpret their dreams and was drawn to this book immediately.

Whenever I have vivid dreams, I Google the meaning and am often left with a very basic description. Decode Your Dreams covers 7 different dream topics. These topics include work and play, relationship and family, birth and death, and more. Each dream description is about 2-3 sentences long. I was expecting an in depth description with this book, or one that offers more than one explanation, however, this is a great basic book to have around. The book has beautiful imagery and it’s categorized in a way that’s organized and easy to find.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

[Crystal]

Dreaming has always fascinated me and this book immediately caught my attention. This book was very easy to read and having the how to apply what you're dreaming to your real, waking, life was interesting. I also enjoyed having the dreams broken up into sections, because I feel like this is the type of book that someone would pick up with a certain dream on their mind.

[Nette]

This book is stunning! Decode Your Dreams explains what dreams are and how you can interpret your dreams, and how they answer what you might be going through in your life. The book aesthetic is beautiful. The colors, the brief, easy-to-understand explanations are helpful. Ian Wallace also provides tips to remember your dreams and discusses lucid dreaming, Decode Your Dreams covers it all.

[Joni Owens]

Very interesting. I read this book cover to cover but you could easily use it as a dictionary of sorts and just look up what you need. I have very interesting dreams so I find it fascinating what these dreams could mean. Personally I didn’t love the colors in the book but that’s a preference and doesn’t effect the book at all.

[Sandra V.]

If you ever wanted to know a bit more about dreams. As you will learn, it's not always what you think it is. A real adventure on self-discovery!

[J Earl]

Decode Your Dreams by Ian Wallace is a nice addition to any collection of books about understanding your dreams.

I should preface my comments with an explanation of how I view dream interpretation/understanding. I don't think there is any single key to "decoding" dreams. There are certainly archetypes that are common, there is symbolism that is common within and even between some cultures. There is also the very personal aspect which is different for everyone. So I don't believe there is a simple way to decode or understand or interpret our dreams. That doesn't mean I don't believe we can come to an understanding of them. I think having as many tools at your disposal will allow you to make better interpretations, especially as you analyze more of your own dreams. So...

I find the layout of this book useful, especially for those who might just be beginning to think about their dreams on a deeper level. Many of the keys mentioned here are the usual ones, but they are often juxtaposed with different scenarios, which is helpful and why I like having more than one way of interpreting.

I would recommend this to anyone who wants to, or already does, analyze their dreams. This is not definitive, but neither is any other book. This makes some useful contributions that will enrich a reader's present or future efforts.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.