Customer Reviews

All About Dreams: Everything You Need To Know About *Why We Have Them *What They Mean *and How To Put Them To Work for You

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This book could be a real gem, if only there was more focus and flow in its organization. I particularly like the methodologies put forth for dream analysis, and felt the book's strength is in its "how to" appeal. I also liked some of the background and historical perspective. I think a good editor could have re-organized and streamlined the content to make it more readable. I also did not like the frequent references to Ms. Delaney's other books. It seems like they were advertising rather than valid references.

I have been facinated with dreams since I was a child (I think we all are fascinated with dreams) so I have read as much material on this subject, from the mystic to the more cognitive stuff. This book is really good. Not mystic but not to 'scientific' to require a PhD from Yale. It has helped me to understand why I dream what I dream and how the dreams I have at night are a way that my subconcious reveals to me the inner thoughts of my soul.

Our reading group chose this title to look at dreams. With eager anticipation we read the book. It was amazing to me that this book was so shallow. It was written like an academic paper that received a D from her professor. Not only was the content unimaginaitive and the conclusions dubious, the typefaces of the books made it hard to read - actually distracting. I wanted to find something of value and found only psycho-babble of the most unenlightened kind. For those who believe they will better understand dreams from reading this book, beware. You will understand nothing more than you do now and will in fact be loaded down with nonsense. This is a zero star book. How did it receive five stars? Five stars....in your dreams Dr.

I have read several books on dreams earlier, but this one is somewhat different. It gives you the historical background, what the "gurus" such as Freud and Jung ment, then the author give her views on the different matters. The book contains very usefull guidelines to analyse your dreams and to understand them on a deeper level. I especially like the interview-methode. I also like the way she deals with typical dreams such as falling and flying. After giving some examples she gives you some realy good questions to help you to find out what this typical dream means for you. I realy recomend this book!

As host of the metaphysical reading group at Pages for All Ages Bookstore in Champaign, I always release a personal review first, before the group book review. After we are settled, a member will give their opinion, and we go around the room that way with dailogue going back and forth. In the end, we rate it 1-5 stars with a zero possible. I wish our group could have given All About Dreams a better rating as the book is not without its redeeming qualities. Ms. Delany seems a personalble, inspired, and intelligent voice on the subject. But we were looking for more. Our group is comprised with astute readers from 70 to 25 years old. There are seven of us. All the readers did not have a problems with Ms. Delany, but we had a problem with depth of the exposition. Our group rating is one star because of what wasn't in it. Our group sees a UFO connection in everything it seems and that wasn't expounded upon. It was nice to see Ms. Delany's touch upon Asian concepts, but that too lacked any informative revelation from the Vedas, the Buddhist sutras, or the Tao. Everyone thought that it was there that the best information about dreams, bardos, and consciousness was. There was much complaint about the layout of the book, from the typeface to the organization of material. Very picky is the Pages reading group. Of four books reviewd thus far, only one has received five stars. The others got wacked. Just because you appear on Ophra doesn't mean much to our group. Substance, creativity, execution, and the end prodouct are what we look at. Its nothing personal to the authors, we just love great books and have very high standards. I hope someday that Ms. Delany does the ultimate book on dreams and we can rate it five stars. We wish that to all the titles and their authors.

Okay, but readers of this book should balance the content against other compelling perspectives, e.g., DREAMS by KALLMYER is an excellent book which provides a scholarly, yet practical view that is sure to challenge the reader.

I think the book was really great and I enjoy the book it.Keep up the good book