The Dreamer's Dictionary [Paperback]

Barbara Condron (Author)

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This is the only reference of its kind: a thousand entries explore the symbolism and language of dreams, using key words to provide universal meanings of dream images and representing four decades of study into a subconscious language common to all dreamers. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: SOM Publishing (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944386164
• ISBN-13: 978-0944386163
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #751,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you dream, and you do, you should have this book!, January 16, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Dreamer's Dictionary (Paperback)

Never before has the science of dream interpretation been made so understandable. I have used this book thousands of times since I bought it about a year ago. The insight Dr. Condron offers from her own experience is invaluable to dreamers, which we all are! I have even used this book to help kids better understand their own dreams.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars okay, but a lot missing, March 12, 2002

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This review is from: The Dreamer's Dictionary (Paperback)

There is too much left unsaid in this book for a novice...for instance, it will list a symbol such as "run" but not really give you clues as to what it means if someone is chasing you in your dream or you are just running...maybe i'm just a novice, but i need a little more information to understand the symbolism.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incomplete is good, and more accurate, July 20, 2007

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This review is from: The Dreamer's Dictionary (Paperback)

This is a response to the reviews giving low rating for the book being incomplete.

I've used this book as a reference for several years, as a student and teacher in the School of Metaphysics, and I'm actually glad it's only as detailed as it is. This book allows room for applying these universal symbols to specific dream context. It also stimulates you to reason and figure out more specific symbols from the general ones. That's why there are often questions asked in the symbol entries.

It's important to give some meditative thought to the symbols in a dream and to the larger image that from which they are cut. I've found there's a tendency for beginning dream interpreters to turn dream interpretation into an exercise in listing symbols and meanings without actually imagining the meaning or seeing the connection of the symbol to its meaning. And there's a tendency to just decide that a dream means whatever you feel like it means without understanding how or why, also. I guess this book tries to keep away from either of those mistakes.

Really, it's a lot easier with someone to teach you.

I do think that it would help to have more examples of entire dreams, their interpretations, and how they reflected the dreamer's waking life, as well as a little more on why the symbols mean what they mean.