Recommended Introductory Dream Books

Ann Faraday's two best-sellers, Dream Power and The Dream Game, published by Harper & Row, and Berkeley Medallion Books in paperback, are both excellent introductory books, offering many interesting insights.

My own Dream Work: Techniques for Discovering the Creative Power in Dreams (Paulist Press 1983).

Our Dreaming Mind by Robert Van de Castle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994) is the best general survey of our efforts to discover more about the multiple meanings and significance of our dreams, from the oldest theories and schools of dream work in the ancient world right through to the most recent studies of dreams through scientific research in the laboratory.

One of the best general books about dreams and working with dreams is Alan Seigel's Dreams That Can Change Your Life (Jeremy Tarcher, 1990.) He organizes dreams around landmark events in waking life and this book provides an invaluable key to understanding them.

The two best coffee table picture books (in the order of my preference) are Dreams: Visions of the Night by David Coxhead and Susan Hiller (Avon/Flare, 1995) and Dreams and Dreaming: Mysteries of the Unknown (Series) by the editors of Time/Life Books (1990).