The Complete Dream Book, 2nd edition: Discover What Your Dreams Reveal about You and Your Life (Paperback)

by Gillian Holloway (Author)
Key Phrases: dreaming mind, dream characters, Complete Dream Book

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Product Description
The average person will dream over 150,000 dreams in a lifetime--each one a complex web of imagery and deeper meaning. The Complete Dream Book uses the interpretation of 28,000 actual dreams from contemporary dreamers, just like you, to help you access the substance and meaning of your own dreams.

Discover:

Who's who in your dreams

Which dreams recur during certain life stages

The true meaning behind your nightmares

Why you have certain dreams again and again

How to tell if a dream is worth interpreting--and if you've done it correctly

The phenomenon of precognitive dreams

The Complete Dream Book is the only dream interpretation book based on concrete data about real people's dreams and how the real events in their lives relate to their nighttime visions.

About the Author
Gillian Holloway has a Ph.D. in psychology and has been working with dream analysis for more than 20 years.She teaches college courses in Dream Psychology, Nightmares and Intuition at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.; 2 edition (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140220700X
• ISBN-13: 978-1402207006
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,546 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most useful dream interpretation books, March 31, 2002

By	Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Complete Dream Book (Paperback)

Got a dream dictionary and find it useless? Think using a dream dictionary is like trying to form a cohesive picture from a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces are cut exactly the same? The Complete Dream Book takes a different angle on dream interpretation.
Based on a database of over 18,000 dreams, the author provides real-life interpretation of common dreams. There are common dreams that occur during certain stages of life, at certain ages, and during certain changes and situations.
This book looks at these common themes in dreams and what they mean to the dreamer. While she does cover common dream symbols such as cars, houses and the like, the fascinating part of the book is the common themes (can't get your locker door open or finding an new room in your home or finding a treasure, for examples).
This is the most useful and pragmatic dream interpretation book that I have ever read and I found myself regularly commenting about how appropriate an interpretation was for a particular dream of mine.
Kudos to Gillian Holloway for what has to be one of the most useful dream interpretation books on the market today.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enormously helpful, April 29, 2004

By	mirau "critical eye, good intentions" (Sweltering Southwest US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Dream Book (Paperback)

I greatly enjoyed The Complete Dream Book. (...)I have read many, many books about dreams and dream analysis and can confidently say this book is NOT a typical "dream dictionary," and it is NOT a "similar treatment" of the subject. Holloway takes the unique approach of starting from the dreams themselves and from the dreamers' lives. Finding correlations between dream life and waking life validates her interpretations, which often differ in surprising ways from "traditional" interpretations and make a great deal of sense.

This book helped me make sense of three different recurring dreams I have had throughout my adult life, and helped me make connections between them. It also helped me understand a particularly significant, but puzzling dream I had recently. I consider my dreams a spiritual gift which have greatly enhanced my understanding of myself and my life. They have also aided the work I do to honor and develop my intuition. The Complete Dream Book has increased the depth of my understanding and has taken me further along the path to self-knowledge.

32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary Themes, Clearly Written, Practical Ideas, October 17, 2001

By	Amy Greenblatt "Amy" (South Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Dream Book (Paperback)

I like this book and its subject matter. I was a contributor of dreams to Dr. Holloway's Lifetreks website for four years. This book is a distillation of the most common themes, patterns and interpretations of the thousands of dreams collected from the site. The author has a background in psychology and has been teaching people and working with their dreams for many years. The book has practical tips for noticing what your dream is trying to tell you and common sense suggestions about what to do once the message is understood. You learn which myths people have about dreams are true and which are not, and which dreams are more common in different age groups and to which sex. Dream messages often reveal imbalances, feelings about people or situations, and personality styles. My favorite parts of the book are the frequent, gentle ways in which the author teaches the dreamer to recognize his or her own talents, interests, potentials and strengths, and use them in order to meet workday challenges and to feel more happiness. "The Complete Dream Book" is an excellent book, as good as any by Patricia Garfield, another very wise dream author I would recommend. The only criticism I have is with its title. How can this subject ever be complete?