10,000 Dreams Interpreted: An Illustrated Guide to Unlocking the Secrets of Your Dreamlife [Paperback]

Gustavus Hindman Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 26, 1997

Uncover the deep-buried mysteries contained within the unconscious. With this updated, expanded, and beautifully-illustrated edition of a ground breaking work in allegorical dream interpretation--first published nearly a century ago--you can identify the unique meanings of the visual symbols in your dreams. Understand your hidden thoughts, fears and desires. Find out what your dreams predict for your future, and how they can affect everyday life. Arranged by category, the concise entries and extensive cross-referencing enable you to look up thousands of dream elements, including animals, weather, people and places, illness, deaths, births, sports, toys, buildings, methods of transportation, magical creatures, religious imagery, clothes and jewelry, behaviors, business and industry, furnishings, emotions, and more. The author's original introduction offers information on dream theory and the rationale behind his method of analysis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble (February 26, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760705259
• ISBN-13: 978-0760705254
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,891,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book for beauty Not Content, October 18, 2000

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M. Patterson "jasmines1" (Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 10,000 Dreams Interpreted: An Illustrated Guide to Unlocking the Secrets of Your Dreamlife (Hardcover)

I purchased this book because of my interest in the topic and the beauty of the book. The introduction is complete and interesting. The layout of the book gives the reader ease of use, the topics are extensive, easy to locate with a comprehensive cross reference throughout the book. The beauty of the book is what makes it stand out among similar titles. It is unfortunate that the positive aspects of this book stop there.

I have spent extensive time studying the mind from many aspects, everything from a psychological/scientific point of view to a parapsychology/psychic/spiritual point of view. In that I have come to believe that there many truths and all areas should be considered.

From my perspective this book seems to carry a negative overtone. Not that Miller's interpretations are all negative, there just seems to be a strong negativity throughout his commentaries. This, I'm concerned, may instill needless fears in those "searching for answers". I strongly believe one truly needs to go with their own personal feelings about their dreams; if their feelings from the dream are negative it represents something negative, and if they are positive it represents something positive.

I have read several books on the subject, as well as compared interpretations between authors, in this I found Miller's "views" were much his own and not a general consensus. Not to mention he seems matter a fact in his interpretations leaving no room for personal exploration. That said, there are many other books on the subject which can guide one to their own interpretations while still providing a general meaning to what a dream symbolizes, giving individual value to each interpretation .

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is my dream bible, January 2, 2003

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"xtinemarie" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10,000 Dreams Interpreted: An Illustrated Guide to Unlocking the Secrets of Your Dreamlife (Hardcover)

This book is largely a reprint of a dream interpretation manuscript written at the turn of the last century (1800-1900). It draws on some archetypal dream imagery that some feel all people share in our collective unconscious. As old as this information is, it is surprisingly, eerily accurate today. Many times I've had some bizarre dream that I couldn't make sense of, only to look up the imagery in this book and see that it described a situation in my life perfectly. For example, I woke up terrified after having dreamt of being in a huge fire. When I read that fire usually means a burst of energy in the form of huge success in business, I was thrilled. I had just switched careers and, yes, things turned out very well, just like the dream portended. I've had to buy this book for a couple of friends just to get them to stop calling me after every time they had a crazy dream!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dreams Galore, April 27, 2005

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Seraphim Product "Sera" (Orange, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10,000 Dreams Interpreted: An Illustrated Guide to Unlocking the Secrets of Your Dreamlife (Hardcover)

I found this book useful for my dream interpretations, however, as with many things in life, it has it's faults. It is a bit outdated, considering it has shirt-waists, parasols, and chalk for the face. It is good to have the old, but you also need the new. It is the best I have found so far, but is a bit in the past and with that, I couldn't find meanings on anything that exists now but did not then. I also think, that since the white race was "superior" at that time, nothing relating to other races was included. Also, it seems to surround the Christian religion beliefs so it is not a very open-minded kind of book, I guess.. which might make it inaccurate. I was disappointed in how they had interpretations for the Devil and Satan, but not for Lucifer. It was a very important dream in which Lucifer is/was not the same as the other two.

I have looked in other dream books, and saw the EXACT same interpretations as in this book, and I wonder if they stole it, or vice-versa. This has made me slightly worried on the originality and accuracy of these meanings. However, the book is none-the-less useful at least 80% of the time.

Are you wondering if these interpretations are ever true? Well, to secure your hope, I believe so, since I have encountered some way of proof. I will explain... I would interpret my friend's dreams, and the dreams would have no significant connection between the events in her dreams and what the interpretations foretold. She was to be my ex-friend soon, and when I interpreted her dream, it foretold of her to be careful with friends and that a friend was going to betray her or something like that (have mercy, I don't remember the exact meaning). It basically foretold of what was to happen and the result of it. And it did come true, of course, and so that has stabilized my belief that our dreams can tell us something. So yeah, it can be some brain function, but don't underestimate things and have an open-mind. Having in open-mind in life is essential, so why not have one when it comes to dreams?

Don't take your dreams for face value, that would be naive.

Also, if you believe that dreams are just results of your brain organizing memories, thoughts, etc. and that they have no connection to the future/past/present or have spiritual meanings, then there isn't any reason for you to be upset when you read through these books. I don't see why you are at all. I had to mention this after seeing some angry comments on some dream books because they couldn't find a book that interpreted their dreams at face value(which is a stupid). Just because the meaning of, let's say, a horse, foretells evil and bad, they aren't saying horses are evil and bad. So stop and think! =)