Women and meditators as gifted lucid dreamers
Author
Faculty Advisor
Date
1991
Keywords
Dreams, Symbolism (Psychology)
Abstract (summary)
With the morning light, tens of thousands of people awaken and record their dreams in a special journal. Many others meet in grass roots dream groups to discuss their nighttime adventures. Still others in psychotherapy work with dreams to understand their deeper feelings and motives. Never before has there been a time when the value of our dream life has been so widely recognized. In this rich collection of thirty original essays by the leading authorities on dreams, readers will find many clues to decoding the language of the night. Contributors offer insights into dreams as a universal and special source of knowledge whose messages can bring growth, healing, and wisdom. They also tell us how we can interpret our dreams according to several different traditions. Many other topics on the frontiers of dreamwork are explored as well, such as shared dreaming, lucid dreaming, psychic dreaming, brain research, dreams and creativity, dreams and health problems, and gender differences in dreams. Contributors include: Gayle Delaney on personal and professional problem solving in dreams, June Singer on the Jungian approach to dreamwork, Montague Ulman on doing dreamwork without professional help, Patricia Garfield on women's body images revealed in dreams, Stanley Krippner on tribal shamans and their travels into dreamtime, Earnest Hartmann on nightmares, Jayne I. Gackenbach on lucid dreams, Kenneth Atchity on dreams, literature, and the arts. For anyone interested in this subject, Dreamtime and Dreamwork is a fascinating, state-of-the-art collection.
Publication Information
Gackenbach, J.I. (1991). Women and meditators as gifted lucid dreamers. In S. Krippner (Ed.), Dreamtime and dreamwork: decoding the language of the night. Los Angeles: Tarcher.
DOI
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Item Type
Book Chapter
Language
English
Rights
All Rights Reserved