Why we dream: the transformative power of our nightly journey / Alice Robb, 266 pgs.
What happens when we sleep? Lots of stuff. Your brain can be very creative in sleep, you can discover answers to problems, make peace with people, and recover from fear. Or, for some, never remember a dream. Robb does an interesting overview of the history of dreaming from ancient times to modern interpretations. Lucid dreaming can be enhanced by learning to recognize them and setting the stage. Talking about your dreams can be controversial mostly because they matter more to you than anyone else. There are groups who get together to discuss and interpret their dreams. The author did a good job of trying almost everything she writes about so we get a first hand appraisal of many ways of getting the most of your dreams.
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Dreams by Sigmund Freud, 120 pages.Five lectures by Freud, all part of Freud's larger work, The Interpretation of Dreams. It's difficult for anyone who has watched too much Bugs Bunny, Gilligan's Island, or any of countless other cartoons and crappy comedies to take Freud or his sexy, sexy interpretation of the dreams we all have too seriously. Houses, ladders, repetitive motion, forests, caves and snakes are all obviously sexual to the founder of psychoanalysis, with no room for a fish-dream just being a fish-dream.
Freud's lecture style, with his "you would say, about this dream something obvious and rather stupid. I would counter with something so devastatingly inspired that you must admit, once again, that I am correct." gets old quick.
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