Searching, searching

The world wide web is a great reference resource for material on dreams and dreaming.

Here are some examples of web searches that you can replicate:

1. IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams) - site search tool. The term "dream interpretation" yielded 181 specific results on the IASD site alone. This site is highly trustworthy, as far as I can tell.


2. WebMD search yielded 71 results; interesting for what we would have thought was a medical sight. Some of the items have to do mostly with sleep, of course, but those two subjects are related, after all.


3. Wikipedia - "dreams" is to be taken "with a grain of salt," so to speak as anyone can edit entries in this public encyclopedia. But it will make for very interesting reading, indeed. Here is a paragraph as an example (italicized words are linked in the original):
   

   Using dreams in therapy -
   The expectation fulfillment theory of dreams has introduced a more practical way of using dream metaphors in therapy. Human givens therapists know that dream metaphors that clients bring to therapy have therapeutic value because they can often grasp through the metaphor what is worrying their patient. They can then help clients to see more objectively what is troubling them. Depressed people dream more intensely than non-depressed people, and the expectation fulfillment theory explains why Griffin also proposed that hypnosis is most usefully defined as a direct route to activating the REM state, and that all hypnotic phenomena can be explained with this insight. Since trance and suggestion play such an important role in psychotherapy, this fact is of great significance to psychotherapists and counsellors.
   
   Embodied Imagination is a therapeutic and creative form of working with dreams and memories pioneered by Robert Bosnak and based on principles first developed by Carl Jung, especially in his work on alchemy, and on the work of James Hillman, who focused on soul as a simultaneous multiplicity of autonomous states. From the point of view of the dreaming state of mind, dreams are real events in real environments. Based on this notion, one can “re-enter” the landscape of a dream and flashback to the images, whether it is a memory from waking life or from dreaming. One enters a hypnagogic state—a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping--and then, through the process of questioning, images are explored through the perspective of feelings and sensations manifested in the body, enabling new awareness to develop

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