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    Understanding Your Dreams
    Understanding Your Dreams
    Understanding Your Dreams
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    Understanding Your Dreams

    By Carole Somerville

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    Dreams can be confusing, fascinating, frightening or inspiring. There are many types of dreams including recurring dreams, predictive dreams, nightmares, flying dreams, falling dreams and wish-fulfilment dreams. There are just as many dream theories. This book will answer many of your questions about dreams and offers helpful guidance on dream interpretation using real dreams as examples.

    Content:

    Introduction
    Chapter One – What are dreams? – States of consciousness – Why analyse dreams? – How dreamwork can give psychological insight – Remembering dreams – interpretation of dreams and the dream content – Linking dreams to life events – Reversals in dreams – Universal symbolism in dreams
    Chapter Two – Dreaming around the world – Dream incubation – The Gate of Dreams – Interpreting dreams in the past – Freud and dreams – Jung and dreams
    Chapter Three – The Twilight Zone –
    Chapter Four – Types of dreams – Lucid dreams – Psychic dreams – Spiritual guidance through dreams – Astral travel and dreams – Dreams of winning the lottery – Nightmares – The collective unconscious and common dreams – The Feminine within – The Masculine within
    Chapter Five – Children and dreams
    Chapter Six – Dream symbolism and dream interpretation – Hidden meanings in your dreams – dream interpretation examples
    Chapter Seven – Dreams as a reflection of life with example interpretations
    Chapter Eight – Deceased relatives and estranged lovers
    Chapter Nine – Dream Inspiration

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarole Somerville
    Release dateSep 30, 2011
    ISBN9781466108677
    Understanding Your Dreams
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    Carole Somerville

    Carole is a qualified astrologer and has a degree in Psychology, Education and English Literature. She is also a Certified Reiki Master. Astrology is Carole's main subject. Psychology, the tarot, dream interpretation, history and spiritual realms fascinate her too. Carole has been addicted to writing from the moment she could hold a pen and counts her blessings to have been able to make a career out of something she loves.In the 1980s Carole was the leading writer for key astrology magazines in the UK including Destiny, Your Stars, Exploring the Supernatural and Your Future. In the 1990's Carole's print media clients extended to include The Daily Mirror, The People and Destiny. Carole's work began to incorporate problem pages, dream analysis and information booklets. Between 1994 and 1996 she was astrologer for the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. This led to Carole becoming astrologer for a number of other regional newspapers.Carole has also worked as a consultant for the Psychic Friends Network and helped them establish and then write their quarterly magazine Destiny. In recent years along with Carole's astrological work, she has been studying complementary therapies and Reiki. Her books include fiction as well as non-fiction.

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    Understanding Your Dreams - Carole Somerville

    UNDERSTANDING YOUR DREAMS

    By

    Carole Somerville

    Copyright © Carole Somerville

    Smashwords edition published September 2011

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes.

    Thank you for downloading this eBook. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying or information storage and retrieval systems— without written permission from the copyright holder. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

    UNDERSTANDING YOUR DREAMS

    Table of Contents:

    Chapter One – What Are Dreams?

    Chapter Two – Dreaming Around the world

    Chapter Three – The Twilight Zone

    Chapter Four – Types of Dreams

    Chapter Five – Children and Dreams

    Chapter Six – Dream Symbolism and Dream Interpretation

    Chapter Seven – Dreams as a Reflection of Life

    Chapter Eight – Deceased Relatives and Estranged Lovers

    Chapter Nine – Dream Inspiration

    Introduction

    Dreams can be confusing, fascinating, frightening or inspiring. There are many types of dreams including recurring dreams, predictive dreams, nightmares, flying dreams, falling dreams and wish-fulfillment dreams. There are just as many dream theories. Some psychologists think that dreams are the mind's attempt to make sense of random activity going on during the waking life while others suggest dreams are a representation of subconscious desires.

    This book was originally published in 2003 by the Psychic Companion network and designed as a response to the many questions, queries and contributions received about dreams from its members.

    Questions on dreams and requests to have dreams interpreted were by far the most popular ones received and it was impossible to print them all in their quarterly magazines. To solve the dilemma of what to do with these letters other than file them away, it was decided that I should write a book to tell you everything you currently want to know on dreaming.

    The current book has been edited to include new material on dreaming and dream interpretation.

    CHAPTER ONE

    WHAT ARE DREAMS?

    We may experience them in different ways but dreaming is an experience we all share. Some people always remember their dreams, others will recall the more vivid ones and some will tell you that they never dream. It is a fact however that everyone dreams.

    Why do we dream? Despite modern technology, there are only theories - no definite answers - as to why. Experiments that have deprived people of dream-sleep have proved that we need to dream, otherwise all sorts of bizarre problems (including hallucinations and an inability to cope with tasks demanding concentration) occurs.

    Scientific theories about dreaming take a view that dreaming is a mechanism by which the brain can sort out the information it receives during the day in order to make sense of it. It has even been suggested that dreaming is an accidental by-product of brain activity and as the brain sifts through impressions made during the day, it will discard the nonsense and therefore, according to the psychologist Empsom, This accumulation of nonsense is expressed in dreams created only in order to be forgotten. Other theories see dreaming as unconscious problem solving.

    Generally speaking, dreams 'happen' to us. They are not (although in rare cases they can be) controlled by our conscious mind. In 1989, Empson said, When dreaming we are the spectators of an unfolding drama, and only rarely does one have the impression of being in control.

    There are some people who are of the opinion that dreams are not important. They have no meaning. However, this book is written from a different perspective. Dreams come in all forms and they are rich in symbolism. They have a language of their own. Those who dismiss dreams as nonsense and who aren't willing to spend a little time learning the language of dreams will never understand the magic that is within them. There are indeed many who will testify that their lives have been enriched by tuning into, and respecting, the power of their dreams.

    States of Consciousness

    Sleep is an altered state of consciousness. Consciousness is a person's active perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories. Of course we can't be aware of everything at once and therefore there are different levels of consciousness or awareness but when we are awake, we are conscious. The unconscious is believed to be responsible for dreams, habits and mannerisms, slips of the tongue and even symptoms of illness. Our unconscious is made up from all our past experiences but how far back do these experiences go? Carl Jung, for instance, put forward the notion of a 'collective unconscious' which is said to be inherited and shared by us all. This interesting concept will be discussed in the next chapter.

    The conscious is not

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