Dreaming Your Real Self: A Personal Approach to Dream Interpretation - Softcover

Mazza, Joan

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9780399524141: Dreaming Your Real Self: A Personal Approach to Dream Interpretation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399524142 ISBN 13: 9780399524141

Publisher: TarcherPerigee, 1998

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Unlike other books that focus on universal dream interpretations, Dreaming Your Real Self shows you how to uncover individual dream symbols to find the personal messages behind them. Each night, through our dreams, we send ourselves messages to help us live better in the world and with others. By understanding our dreams and unlocking their mysterious language, we can reach self-understanding. Begin working with your dreams immediately and reap the rewards in your private, personal, spiritual, and creative life.

� Unlock the mystery of your strangest dreams
� Improve dream recall
� Use dreams to discover hidden talents and power
� Learn how to work with your dreams without an expert
� Know how to choose a dream partner or group
� Apply dreams to problem solving
� Request guidance from your dreaming self
� Access dreams to stimulate creativity
� Decode the layers of dream meaning
� Activate dreams to improve strengths and skills
� Understand the meanings of typical dreams: houses, disasters, flying, falling, sexual encounters, attacks, etc.
� Stop nightmares and recurrent dreams

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"Our emotions are laid bare in our sleep. We see the raw aggression and rage in us, the unchecked and indiscriminate sexuality. The grief we thought was past rises again as do the hurts and wounds of childhood. In dream sleep, we can't stuff down the feelings we do in waking life when we distract ourselves or suppress the feelings with denial, drugs, alcohol, food, sex. People use all kinds of means to keep from letting their feelings be part of their awareness. In dreams, the emotions are all there. The lid is off," says author Joan Mazza, a psychologist who's led dream groups and seminars across the country. With their laid-bare feelings, dreams are a direct pathway to discovering our unconscious thought processes, solving interpersonal problems, and more fully understanding ourselves.

While Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams may be a classic in this arena, it's pretty proscriptive. A cigar may be a cigar to one dreamer but symbolize something else to another person and yet something different to someone else--differences Ye Olde Psychoanalyst didn't take into account in his book way back in 1900. Dreaming Your Real Self is different. With exercises to improve dream recall in the first place (how can you analyze them if you can't remember them?) and a thorough guide to uncovering the meanings under the various layers of your dreams, it'll turn you into your very own analyst--without the hefty price tag. The book also teaches the art of "dream incubation," the process of literally "sleeping on it," or planting a question in our minds and going to bed to dream for its answer. With analytical exercises from the basic to advanced level, Dreaming Your Real Self is a sure bet for anyone looking to turn the mystery of dreams into a guiding light in your life.

About the Author:

Joan Mazza, M.S., is a licensed mental health counselor with a master?s degree in counseling psychology. She conducts ongoing dream groups and leads seminars for mental health professionals nationwide. She has taught classes in journal writing, creativity, intentional relationships, and personal growth.

To visit her web page go to:
http://www.joanmazza.com

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