"When a book appears that is timely, scholarly, comprehensive, and well-written, it stands as a landmark."
MONTAGUE ULLMAN, M.D.
Author of WORKING WITH DREAMS
In this brilliantly researched study, Robert L. Van de Castle, Ph.D., an internationally recognized dream authority, examines the vital role that dreams have played throughout history. OUR DREAMING MIND delves into the most provocative experiments that scientists are conducting on the dreaming mind in this century. Vast in scope and startling in its revelations, here is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of dreams, written with clarity and grace. Dr. Van de Castle shares with all readers the amazing riches he has discovered throughout a lifetime of research and reflection on dreams.
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Despite its two-column, textbookish format, an unpedantic survey by a self-described ``dreamworker'' of how dreams have been regarded throughout history, with emphasis on the author's own experiences during 30 years of investigation into ``clear- seeing at night.'' The former director of the Sleep and Dream Laboratory at the University of Virginia Medical School, Van de Castle (who will be featured in a Discovery Channel series, ``Dreams,'' in August) argues ardently and articulately that dreams are a proper subject of scientific research. He engages the reader immediately with lots of anecdotes about dreams that have inspired military and spiritual leaders, artists, and scientists. He looks briefly at views of dreams in early civilizations, when their interpretation was the province of shamans and priests, and then moves briskly on to the 19th and 20th centuries and the ideas of Freud, Jung, Adler, and a dozen or so others. Dreams have been regarded by some as the reflection of unconscious needs and by others as merely responses to sensory stimuli. Van de Castle, however, sees them as a source of creative power that should be tapped to improve the course of human history. He reports on recent research into paranormal, prodromal (i.e., diagnostic), and lucid (i.e., conscious) dreams, describes his own studies of the dreams of women during menstruation and pregnancy, and responds vigorously to those who have questioned the validity of his telepathic-dream research. Likely to provoke similar questions is his account of ``dream helper'' ceremonies, in which a group of telepathic dreamers--whom he refers to as ``midnight swimmers in a common cosmic sea''--dream collectively about a target person's problem and help find solutions to it. For those eager to explore the land of dreams this is an amiable guide, with lots of leads on how to get more deeply involved; skeptics, however, will not be persuaded. (Book-of-the- Month alternate selection/Quality Paperback main selection) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Inspirational imagery revealed in dreams to Muhammad, Gandhi, Descartes, Wagner, Handel, Coleridge, Yeats, Orson Welles, Elias Howe and many others has wrought significant changes in politics, science, art, music, film, literature and religion. Yet dreams have been devalued in Western culture, and one reason for this, suggests Van de Castle, is that Freud's forging of strong links among dreams, neuroses and sex has thwarted a wider exploration of the full meaning of dreams. Former director of the University of Virginia Medical School's Sleep and Dream Laboratory, the author explores the dream theories of Freud, Jung, Montague Ullman, Fritz Perls and others. He surveys the importance of dream imagery in ancient and non-Western cultures and crams in a wealth of information on children's dreams, recurrent dreams, nightmares, gender differences in dreaming and much else. This immensely readable resource is a monumental history of dreams and a practical stimulus for those who want to remember and work with their dreams. Illustrated.
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