Books to Understand our Dreams

We often have dreams whose meanings we want to know. It may be recurrent dreams or just a random dream. But, all dreams have some kind of significance.

Usually, it has something which our unconscious mind wants to tell us – an omen, a reminder, a way to let us know that we must deal with something we have been avoiding. What is better than to turn to books to understand our own minds better?

Here’s a list of books which can help you in doing just that!

 

1. Dream Dictionary for Dummies, Penney Peirce

This series of “For Dummies” is available in a wide range of subjects from Economics to Yoga. It does treat you like a dummy, but only so that you know about what you need to in a proper way from the grass root levels. It is the easiest of any books to go through to help you understand your dreams.

 

2. Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text, Sigmund Freud

This book and its author are infamous. Sigmund Freud has in his lifetime given such theories which will drive you crazy, or amazed, to grasp the concepts. He has also written this book in 1899 and the interpretations are still relevant today, on the same topics on which humans dream even today (Humans have after all not changed much).  It won’t just pick topics and tell you what they mean though, he will explain to you the theories and you’d be reading of case studies and be efficient to analyze your own dreams.

 

3. The Ultimate Dictionary of Dream Language, Briceida Ryan

What are the secrets that your dreams hold, ones that you cannot otherwise interpret? 25,000 dream symbols are explained in this book. There is a chance that if you cannot find what exactly you dreamt about, you will have to reconsider since then the symbol probably does not exist!

 

4. What Your Dreams Are Telling You: Unlocking Solutions While You Sleep, Cindy McGill with David Sluka

We spend a substantial amount of time in our lives sleeping, dreaming. What if we could utilize this time to just not rest but also unleash our full potential? This book is unique since it is here to help you understand your dreams, analyze them and utilize them to give direction to your life. You’d also read about how dreams have changed the lives of people throughout history to the present day.

 

5. Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, Robert Waggoner

A lucid dream is one where the reader is aware that they are awake in their dreams. This book is specific to such kinds of dreams. The author breaks down the five stages of lucid dreaming and shows how to master each of the phases. It is an inspiring book to read.