Dreams have been with us since the beginning of time, and have been viewed differently from century to century, and culture to cultures. Check out these resources to help you take a dream journey through time:

The History of Dreams with Richard Wilkerson This delightful six week coursegives you both e-mail essays on the history of dreams and dreaming, as well as interactive labs and online dream groups to teach you ways of exploring and understanding your dreams. Course includes dream groups on line plus:

1. Introduction and Basic Recall Skills: The Peer-Relations Approach
2. Ancient Dreams: Messages from the Gods
3. Sigmund Freud: The Dreamwork of the Unconscious
4. Carl Gustav Jung: Mythic Dreams and Wholeness
5. Other Pre- 1960's Dream Theories
6. Frederick (Fritz) Perls : Gestalt Dream Techniques.
7. Mindell and Gendlin: The DreamBody
8. From Couch to Culture: Grassroots & Modern Dreamwork Movements
9. Non-Interpretive Dreamwork: Lucid, Mutual, Paranormal & Pro-active Dreaming.
10. Dream Science and Dreamwork: Friends or Foes?
11. Dream Anthropology: How Culture Influences Dreamwork
12. Dreaming In Cyberspace: New Trends in Dream Sharing on the Internet.

Understanding Dreams, Perspectives from the Ancients through Modern Times A wonderful essay by Gail Bixler-Thomas encapsulating a brief history of dreaming.

Our Dreaming Mind, the definitive book on dream techniques, theories, and perspectives historically. By Robert Van De Castle.

 

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History of Dreaming