The Dreamer's Companion
by Stephen Policoff
Chicago Review Press
The Dreamer's Co
mpanion:
A Young Person's Guide to Understanding Your Dreams and Using Them Creatively,
is aimed at young people, for whom little has been written on the subject;
it touches upon many different aspects of dreamlore--a little dream anthropology,
some contemporary theories, ideas on dream recall and dream sharing. It has
a lengthy section on dreams and creativity, a common sense guide to understanding
your dreams, and much more. The book emerged from the author's use of dreams
to teach writing at NYU, where he is Master Teacher of Writing, and also Wesleyan
University, where he was for many years director of the writing program at
the Center for Creative Youth. Possibly the most unique feature of this book
is that it quotes 50 of his former students (most of them 15-20, a few somewhat
older), on their own experiences with nightmares, psychic dreaming, and attempts
to wrest illumination from the dark and tangled scenarios of their unconscious.
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