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

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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 .

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!

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! =)

Dream interpretation is a subject I've always been fascinated with, so I was eager to read this book.

What a disappointment ... the first portion of the book is a lengthy, rambling, desultory text that goes on and on with no breaks (such as chapters, topics, etc). The author strings together numerous, unrelated examples of dreams .. some by well known historical people, others by unnamed anonymous individuals. What would have made an excellent one paragraph introduction to the topic, the author made into a never ending list (I read it on a Kindle, so I can't give you number of pages).

I had read a third of the book and there was still no progression to the book's topic of Dream Interpretation. That's when I found there is no table of contents because there are no chapters or sections in the book.

The beginning pages provide an alphabetic list of dream objects/subjects, along with associated page numbers, but these were meaningless on the Kindle. Additionally, the list is not linkable (you can't click on any of the words and jump there in the Kindle ... your only navigation is endlessly clicking the NEXT PAGE button, or making a wild guess on a numeric Kindle location.

Once I got to the actual list of dream imagery items, these items were presented very cut and dried, with only 2 or 3 lines of explanation for each item, with almost dictionary like descriptions. No hint of the idea of dream imagery's meanings being unique to the dreamer, or even any suggestion of variations in interpretation.

I have deleted the book off my Kindle. I do not feel the author has any knowledge of the subject; additionally, the quality of writing is very poor ... much like one might find in a high schooler's term paper. I gave it one star only because giving it zero stars was not an option with Amazon.

I recieved this book as a gift. And as it is beautiful, it is extremely negative! After several days I began to see a pattern. Every interpretation was negative, whereas using my other book(which I borrowed out and am looking for a new copy now)I had a more balanced daily review. The two books didnt agree on even the fundamentals. Wish I could remember the exact name...I dont so im sifting thru. I did an experiment and openned this book randomly and read the entire page...guess what? 7 or 8 out of 10 comments were negative. Appearantly the woman I inherited the book from had similar complaints.

This book has a lot of info, just very short explanations and leaves many things out. Not as happy with this one as I have been with others. The art work is great though.

I bought this book more out of curiosity than anything else. While it seems to be very comprehensive and helpful in many ways, the problem I have with it is that there doesn't seem to be any room for someone's personal interpretation. In other words, while I found many of Miller's thoughts to be on the money, some seemed to be more from an individual viewpoint, not a general acceptance of other possibilities. Still, I would use this book in conjunction with other sources to help understand what our dreams may represent. Jim Fargiano, author of The Spoken Words of Spirit: Lessons From The Other Side

This is an expansive book and the illustrations are beautiful. I feel though that it is a "gloom and doom" dream interpretation. The majority of the books dream symbols are not a good outlook for the dreamer, always something bad will happen outlook. I am putting my copy at a yard sale and maybe someone else will want it as I don't. I should have stuck to the reviews of this book, I wanted another dream dictionary to use and I thought this would be good. I am giving it 3 stars because of the extent of the symbols and the illustrations.

This book made for very exciting reading! It was very interesting to have your dreams interpreted indepth. I highly recommand this book if you are curious about the meaning of your dreams! Very informative. I had some unexpected interpretations that were surprising to know.

I got this book because I have strange dreams myself and thought it would be interesting to see if they meant anything. What I didn't want to hear was that every single thing that I dreamed about would mean death or misfortune. I personally agree with what another reviewer said, this book is a collection of Mr. Miller's interpretation of dreams and nothing more.