This innovative collection covers the dream beliefs and practices of various religious and cultural traditions; the dream experiences and theories of particular individuals; and the methods used to investigate and understand dreaming. Contributors include Wendy Doniger, Barbara Tedlock, George Lakoff, J. Allan Hobson, Frederick Crews, Thomas Gregor, Bertram Cohler, and several other leading scholars in religious studies, anthropology, and psychology. Issues of gender, power, sexuality, language, truth, mysticism, healing, consciousness, modernization, the boundaries of Western Science, and the role of personal experience in scholarship are examined.
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'Dreams, for the most part, is a very dry representation of an infinitely fascinating subject, which would be extremely useful should your course, or indeed your interest, ever touch upon this topic.' - Adam Banister, Juice, Leeds Student newspaper
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Kelly Bulkeley teaches at Santa Clara University and is Senior Editor for the journal Dreaming.
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Good book to get a feel for the scope of the subject,
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This is an excellent book to get a feel for the scope of dream work and the various schools of thought. It is like a great cross section of the field with lots of stimulating ideas from many points of view.
Kelly Bulkeley is a dream scholar who has compiled a volume with no obvious bias. It collects the best of what is out there and presents it in an easy to digest format. If you are new to dream studies, I also recommend An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming by Kelly Bulkeley. This is a good summary resource for the work of Freud, Jung and others over the past 100 years.
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If you can only get one book on dreams -- make it this one!,
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(Right up front, I should say I am one of the authors of this book. So, I won't discuss my article.) But the rest of the book presents such a vast range of information -- the biology of dreaming, the role of dreams in different cultures (such as India, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Islam, Native American, New Guinea, Brazil...), in different cultural traditions, modern dream work from the familiar Jungian and Freudian analytical practices to less familiar non-western approaches, and a wide variety of current methods of working with dreams--that if you have no other on dreams on your bookshelf, I would highly recommend this one. And even if you have many others, this one will really open your eyes to the multi-dimensional view of dreams around the world and through time. Perhaps the strongest aspect of this collection is that the various authors do not all agree with each other, nor does the editor attempt to create an artificial cohesion. Different points of view are allowed to coexist and to challenge each other. The final chapter is my favourite: 'Dialogue with a Skeptic' which features Frederick Crews and Kelly Bulkely. It allows the reader to vicariously participate in a debate between two scholars-a logical and well-structured debate, but one that is presented with elegance. It takes alot of nerve to do that! The book as a whole is well-written, and can easily be read by anybody interested in the subject. Just pick it up, let the pages open at random, and read whichever chapter you have picked!
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Buddhist dream experience is most readily accessed through the rich and varied sacred biographies of India and Tibet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
novice dreamers, lucid dreanung, jaguar self, practiced dreamers, nonlucid dreaming, religious enculturation, dream recallers, waking reports, dreaming cognition, orgasmic dream, sleep mentation, dream manuals, waking cognition, dream navel, women dreamers, self fish, specimen dream, manioc bread, ontological correspondences, metaphor system, dream research, internal commentary, sought dreams, ant self, conception dreams Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Buddhist dream experience is most readily accessed through the rich and varied sacred biographies of India and Tibet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
novice dreamers, lucid dreanung, jaguar self, practiced dreamers, nonlucid dreaming, religious enculturation, dream recallers, waking reports, dreaming cognition, orgasmic dream, sleep mentation, dream manuals, waking cognition, dream navel, women dreamers, self fish, specimen dream, manioc bread, ontological correspondences, metaphor system, dream research, internal commentary, sought dreams, ant self, conception dreams Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Dreamer Profile, Van de Castle, Kelly Bulkeley, Native American, Holy Spirit, Near East, Hebrew Bible, Standard Edition, University of California Press, Allan Hobson, Basic Books, Characters Aggression Anxiety, Dream Summary, Hogarth Press, Barbara Tedlock, Botanical Monograph, Cambridge University Press, New Guinea, Sigmund Freud, Harvard University Press, South Asian, Lee Irwin, Motilal Banarsidass, New Haven New!
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- Lucid Dreaming (Book & CD) by Stephen LaBerge on 5 pages
- The Dreaming Brain by J. Allan Hobson Md on 4 pages
- The Mind in Sleep: Psychology and Psychophysiology, 2nd Edition by Steven J. Ellman on page 43, page 355, and page 359
- The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures) by E. R. Dodds on page 21, and page 27
- The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud on page 217, and page 221
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