Book Description
Are you listening to what your deepest self is trying to tell you? An enlightening journey to self-discovery, this guide clearly explains what your dreams really mean. Decoding these mysterious messages from the unconscious will provide you with the tools for self-development, for happier relationships, and further career success and Tony Crisp, best-selling author and dream counselor for over 30 years, shows you how. Tony decodes the dreams and gives staightforward interpretations to the most frequently-dreamed dream symbols and images that reveal the meaning of your own dream message. The first section includes exercises, over 40 True Dream stories and questionnaires that show you how to make the most of your dreams, including how to recall your dreams and how to understand key symbols. A comprehensive dictionary of dream symbols makes up the main section of the book; over 1200 dream images and symbols are revealed in detail, with meanings and interpretations given for each. The directory includes the most significant people and places of the dream world, including dream archetypes, the all-powerful messengers of the subconscious, as well as landscape and environment, spiritual symbols, animals and birds, and significant objects. This fact-packed reference book will provide you with a wealth of fascinating information to help you unlock the power of your dreams.
From the Author
Having now written five books about dreams, the new aspects of thsi book are its immediate approach to exploring your dreams. It is my first illustrated book, and this makes reading the book very alive and imaginative.
From the Inside Flap
Are you aware that you spend one-third of your life sleeping, and on average dream for four hours every night? As ancient scholars and some modern scientists agree, dreams are the way that your unconscious instinctive self processes experiences, revitalizes you, and sends powerful messages about your life. Understanding the imprtant communications that dreams send is the key to a successful life.
If you want to understand more about your own and others' behaviour and gain greater insight into your inner self, this fact-packed reference guide will provide a wealth of fascinating information to help you unlock the power of your dreamns.
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About the Author
Throughout more than four decades I have been involved in a personal search for the secrets of mind and spirit. In those years I have also been involved in teaching thousands of people techniques of deep relaxation, meditation, and methods of self-exploration.
During the forty years of seeking the wild wondrous beasts of the soul and spirit, I dared my own inner adventure. But I also travelled with other people, sharing their experience of fear and wonder as they unveiled and set loose their fountain of perception. I have trod countless dream pathways, traversed the timeless with those using drugs, and wrestled with the vitality of the body as it mimed and shouted its deepest intuitions through movement, dance and voice.
In this journey we move beyond thoughts and conjectures, interpretations and dialogue, into the jungle and mountain peaks of the unconscious – into passions, torrents of energy, oceans of awareness, castles of ancient defence and aggression, into the river of time. It is a realm of experience that is incredibly creative, containing treasures equally as fascinating as any tomb of Tutankhamen.
Excerpted from Your Dream Interpreter by Tony Crisp. Copyright © 2004. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Dreams are one of the most extraordinary experiences any of us can have, which is why they have fascinated men and women in every culture throughout the ages. In our own times, a great amount of experimentation into the nature and meaning of dreams and sleep has been conducted. This has occurred both in the laboratory and in the testing bed of everyday experience of tens of thousands of men, women, and children, along with the professionals dealing with human problems.
As with any area of thought, there are a wide variety of views as to what dreams are and what function they play in life. But if we attempt to find a synthesis of these ancient and modern views, it is that dreams are an expression of the most fundamental processes of life in us reaching toward awareness. Creatures have dreamed for millions of years prior to human emergence, and in their dreaming we see the biological life of our planet arriving at its own kind of consciousness, but achieving it in a very different way than we know in our waking life. It is like a huge pool of collective awareness that never knows itself as any one thing, but is the experience of all living creatures. The psychiatrist Carl Jung gave it the name of the Collective Unconscious. The aborigines called it the Dreamtime, and recognised that all creatures emerge from it, and pass back into it in sleep and dreams.
