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The interpretation of dreams
Sigmund FreudThe foundational modern text, which treats dreams as disguised fulfilments of unconscious wishes. It is psychoanalytic rather than New Age, but almost all later dream writing responds to it.
Creative dreaming
Patricia L. GarfieldA popular early guide to dream recall, dream journaling and using dreams for creative problem-solving. It helped set the self-help template that much later dream writing follows.
Lucid dreaming
Stephen LaBergePresents the research and techniques behind dreaming while aware that one is dreaming. It is the standard reference for the lucid dreaming strand.
The dream game
Ann FaradayA practical book on interpreting dreams and using them for self-understanding, written for general readers. It is widely cited as an early example of the popular, non-clinical dream guide.
Conscious Dreaming
Robert MossConnects dream work with spiritual practice, intuition and the idea of dreams as a path to other realities. It is representative of the New Age side of the category.
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More dreams books
- The meaning of dreams
The meaning of dreamsCalvin S. Hall - Better Than the Movies
Better Than the MoviesLynn Painter2021 - Why We Sleep
Why We SleepMatthew P. Walker2017 - Dream Psychology
Dream PsychologySigmund Freud2017 - Man and his symbols
Man and his symbolsCarl Gustav Jung1964 - Dreams
DreamsCarl Gustav Jung1956 - Forbidden flowers : more women's sexual fantasies
Forbidden flowers : more women's sexual fantasiesNancy Friday1975 - The Sandman
The SandmanNeil Gaiman1993 - Sandman
SandmanNeil Gaiman1994 - Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams
Sylvia Browne's Book of DreamsSylvia Browne2002 - Trauma And The Soul A Psychospiritual Approach To Human Deve
Trauma And The Soul A Psychospiritual Approach To Human Development And Its InterruptionDonald Kalsched2012 - The Practice of Dream Healing
The Practice of Dream HealingEdward Tick2001