Offers step-by-step instructions on mastering the technique of lucid dreaming, explains how to become a participant in one's own dreams, and shares advice on analyzing, decoding, and understanding dreams. 17,500 first printing.
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The notion of dreaming one's way to greater mental health may seem irresistible; the catch here is that hard work is involved. McPhee, a former staffer at the Cedars-Sinai Sleep Disorders Center in Los Angeles, asserts that lucid dreams, i.e., ones in which the dreamer is actually conscious of dreaming, provide access to the unconscious mind and thus to fuller knowledge of the whole self, which can lead to happiness and self-esteem. Achieving lucid dreaming, however, is no simple feat. Techniques for remembering one's dreams and for using their incongruities and distortions as cues to conscious observation are detailed. The task then becomes to integrate the conscious and the unconscious, again no simple, short-term task. Beginning with a review of sleep research (e.g., everyone dreams about 100 minutes a night and, yes, in color), McPhee blends science (psychoanalytic and neurological) and somewhat academic self-help to yield pop psychology on a challenging level.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
These two books represent different ends of the spectrum of dream studies, a field that has grown rapidly in scholarly achievement and popular interest. The Quenks' book is narrowly focused on how to interpret dreams from a Jungian perspective. No time is spent on ancillary topics like remembering dreams, speculating on their nature, etc. They apply a set of questions to the dream, which, they reassure readers, will clarify most dreams. This limited approach may help some readers floundering with the notoriously difficult task of making sense of their own dreams. Unfortunately, the authors throw their entire system into some disarray on the final page when they report, "Prospective, religious, and very private dreams should be permitted to evolve naturally for the dreamer. An interpretation of these dreams may interrupt an important ongoing process by analyzing it." But just how does one know if a particular dream falls into one of those categories without some thought and analysis? McPhee's book, on the other hand, is basically Freudian in outlook and extremely diffuse. The title would seem to indicate it deals with how to achieve lucidity in dreams. Yet little space is devoted to that topic; instead, the author speculates on a variety of philosophical questions concerning consciousness and identity and resolves those questions with a long explanation of the Freudian mechanism of repression. There's nothing new here. The best book on dreams is Robert Van De Castle's Our Dreaming Mind (LJ 8/94) with Gayle Delaney's Breakthrough Dreaming (Bantam, 1991) and Stephen LaBerge's Lucid Dreaming (Tarcher, 1985) the best choices for the subtopics of interpretation and lucidity, respectively. Larger libraries with a readership hungry for new material on dreams may want to purchase the Quenk title; the McPhee title can be safely passed up.
Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, Wash.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, Wash.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Well, it works,
This review is from: Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: A Guide to Awakening Consciousness During Dream Sleep (Hardcover)
I found Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams in a public library in Ithaca, NY and read it without expectation, knowing that I was interested in learning to lucid dream but without any knowledge of how deep this genre was. Now, of course, I see there are many books. Anyway, I read it for a few days, followed the instructions, and sure enough I had a lucid dream. First one ever. What else could you ask for?
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This review is from: Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: A Guide to Awakening Consciousness During Dream Sleep (Hardcover)
This is an important work for the beginner to understand what is happening in our minds when we consider waking up in our sleep. It is important to understand the duality of the unconcious. there is the concious ego and the unconcious ego. both are important because one becomes the other during sleep. the author helps you recognize the difference. He also tells you point blank that it is not an easy assignment. And that many of the how to books just assume you are doing what the author is writing about. Yet really one is still stumbling around trying to remember dreams. I read a book by Carlos Castenada about dreams. He suggested looking at your hand in the dream, then slowly look up and around. mcPhee does it similar in that we often wear clothing that is inappropiate for the occassion and when we see that it is supposed to be our trigger to realize we are dreaming. This book often gets bad reviews. But really, it is an important work and needs to be read a few times to let it sink in. Dont pass up this book. It is really cheap on Amazon dotcom, it would be a good book to add to your dreaming library.
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Dreams as Applied Psychological Tool,
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This review is from: Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: A Guide to Awakening Consciousness During Dream Sleep (Hardcover)
An interesting book. I learned more about dreaming from McPhee's book. McPhee writes about dreaming as applied psychology. Lucid dreaming becomes a way to bring the unconscious into consciousness, which he sees as the primary practice of psychology and self-analysis. The problem he sees is repression which is unconscious and not available to the ego during normal waking consciousness. His goal is to become more aware of what and when we are repressing. Dreams put us in contact with the unconscious and the repressed material -- if we can become conscious in our dreams (lucid dreaming). He has a chapter on lucid dreamers of the past. But what is missing from this book is explanation of how to accomplish lucid dreaming or references for how to pursue this. There is a long section that is an extended extract from the writing of Gurdjieff which seemed the least relevant or interesting to me. The chapters reviewing the history of sleep and dream research are interesting (but maybe dated at this point).
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