Dreams are more than just random images that play in your head at night. They are a source of inspiration and transformation that can have a profound effect on your waking state. While everyone dreams, not everyone makes use of this unique resource. Patricia Garfield presents techniques and information, drawn from many dreamers and widely varied cultures and times, that will enable you to plan your dreams ahead of time, influence them while they are occurring, and recall them and their lessons forever afterward.
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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful
By Robert Moss
Format:Paperback
Patricia Garfield's classic work is one of the landmark books of the century we are now leaving. She takes dreaming out of the hands of tenured "experts" and encourages all to become active explorers of our personal dream experiences, and of dream reality, learning from cultures - especially those of the ancient world and of indigenous peoples - that value dreaming as a source of direct revelation on the critical issues of life and death. Her account of Senoi dream practices (though sniped at by some academic nitpickers as idealized rather than anthropological) provides excellent guidance on braving up to nightmare terrors and forging alliances with dream allies who may at first appear as adversaries.
I vividly remember discovering "Creative Dreaming" soon after it first appeared in the mid-1970s. I felt as if this queenly, elegant woman had picked up a sledgehammer and broken away some of the chains that had fettered our society's appreciation of what is actually going on in dreaming, and why we need to recover the ancient arts of dream incubation and dream healing. Patricia's book encouraged me to follow my own path as a dream teacher with greater courage and openness, and was a vital early influence in the research and practice that eventually led me to write CONSCIOUS DREAMING and the books that have followed. Before I ever met her in ordinary reality, she appeared several times in my dreams both as a guide and as a kind of anima figure. Thank you, Patricia, for all you have contributed to the rebirth of a dreaming culture - a dream I profoundly hope we will see fulfilled in the 21st century.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Maria_airaM
Format:Paperback
I read this book for the first time in high school while I was doing research for a term paper. As a by product of that research, I learned how to manipulate my dreams, and best of all, how to fly in them. This has been one of my favorite things to do for the last 30 years. Yes, something I do while asleep. I also learned how to stand up to my fears within the dream, and consequently, in my waking life. Another benefit is that I have dreamed about work, real detailed dreams where I'm sort of reviewing things I have read in manuals and reached conclusions within the dreams that solved problems I was having at work in my waking life. I've gone into work the next day and attempted the procedures (I support computers) that I thought would resolve the problem, and they have! And not just once.
This book changed my life.
This book changed my life.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By shetakaey
Format:Paperback
I've had this book for years, and really have gotten a lot out of it. It talks about confronting your fears in your dreams, and the important of the dream life to various cultures. If you are a magick user or pagan, you would probably enjoy this book. I was prompted to write this review when I read below that some people think she's an idiot... I thought she did a very good job.
This is a book about dream control. It's worth the ten bucks.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Creative Dreaming
Contains very good tips and techniques to awaken one's creative dreaming skills also contains information on what other cultures practice
Published 2 months ago by Maura McCabe
5.0 out of 5 stars
sonhos criativos
O livro tem linguagem clara, e de facil entendimento. Prende a atençao,realmente muito bom. Fiquei muito satisfeita com a aquisiçao. Parabens a autora Patricia Garfield.
Published 11 months ago by TBP
4.0 out of 5 stars
very interesting book
One of the reviewers complained that the author spent too much time recounting her own experiences, so I set my expectation level low when I received the book. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ms Muffintop
2.0 out of 5 stars
Didn't do anything for me.
I did not find this book useful, but to be fair I wasn't entirely sure what I was looking for. I was hoping it would help me to remove myself from a lot of the negative dreams I... Read more
Published on November 14, 2009 by Shades
5.0 out of 5 stars
A little further reading into the book reveals the how to part...
I read this book many years ago when it was still in hardcover. Unless it has significantly changed with newer editions, it does indeed contain solid techniques on how to evoke a... Read more
Published on May 7, 2008 by Erik Wood
5.0 out of 5 stars
Creative Dreaming
This book will show you how to change and control your dreams so that your waking life will be more successful.
Published on April 29, 2008 by Bonnie W. Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars
Discover the New and Fascinating Worlds that Lie Hidden in Your Dreams...
When I first read Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield way back in 1977, I was hooked! I entered into a world of creative dreaming that has made me successful in business,... Read more
Published on August 25, 2007 by Charles Prosper
2.0 out of 5 stars
curious book
Because the author questions whether the unconscious exists I question whether she knows what she is tallking about. Read more
Published on April 24, 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
even the skeptical will believe
this book is incredible. patricia takes you thru each system of dreaming chapter by chapter and gives great details. Read more
Published on March 31, 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific Book on creative dreaming
Patricia has done her homework and is one of the foremost experts in dream study. Anybody interested in putting their dream time every night to work for them out to be interested... Read more
Published on March 21, 2002 by Shawn Regan
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- Lucid Dreaming (Book & CD) by Stephen LaBerge on 4 pages
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambala Pocket Classics) by Chogyam Trungpa on 4 pages
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by Karma-Glin-Pa on 4 pages
- Dr. Ann Faraday's Dream Power by Ann Faraday in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- World Book in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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