Why nightmares? What is the purpose of these terrifying, upsetting dream dramas? The author tries to answer the questions of the why and what of nightmares.
The author suggests analyzing nightmares in a five step process:
1. Emotions -- notice what you feel in the dream and also when you wake up.
2. Create a very simple, brief story line describing the dream.
3. What does the story line say about you and your life?
4. See how the symbols in the dream relate to your waking life.
5. Use the message the dream is conveying to address problem areas in your life.
The author then applies this method to sample nightmares supposedly taken from real life and explains how understanding the root cause of the bad dream helped the dreamers cope with life's difficulties.
I don't know anything about the author. Supposedly the author is an expert at dream interpretation. But the author also claims to believe that dead loved ones visit people in their dreams. And that dreamers can receive warnings about future events in their dreams. And that ghosts are real. The author also quotes Marianne Williamson, "A miracle is a shift in perception from fear, to love..." which gives you an idea of where the author's head is.
The book was interesting, mainly I enjoyed reading about the nightmares. As for all the mumbo jumbo, meh.
To quote a quote by Noel Coward from the book, "It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and disbelieve it, and how few respond in the same way to deceit."
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