Dreams can inspire inventions and inspire our waking lives. They worry us and scare us. Some people seek to intensify their dreams, while other discover — inadvertantly — that intense dreams can be prompted by the most unlikely of situations. We all wonder about our dreams and how to interpret them in a way that’s meaningful to us.

And now there’s an indispensable new guide to learning how to pay attention to our dreams and really hear what they are telling us: A Dream Come True: Simple Techniques for Dream Interpretation and Precognitive Dream Recognition, by David L. Kahn, brand new from Cosimo.

Every night when you fall sleep, you have the opportunity to gain new insights into your life, your work, and your relationships through your dreams. Here, in this friendly, down-to-earth guide to interpreting and even guiding your nighttime reveries, discover:

• how emotions are the building blocks of your dreams
• the strength to embrace the fears your dreams reveal
• training your dream habits to mimic your waking habits
• the particular power of lucid dreams
• important differences between long and short dreams
• appreciating color, music, and visual metaphors in dreams
• tapping into your extrasensory perception via dreams
• interpreting precognitive dreams
• and much more.

A sample of Kahn’s friendly style:

If you find yourself having dreams about being chased or fighting something, make a conscious decision next time to stop running and stop fighting. Turn around and face whatever “it” is. This sounds hard to do. How can you love some hideous-looking creature that you perceive is trying to hurt you? You must remember that this is merely a physical representation of your fears and anxieties. Do not fear these dreams. They are opportunities to heal yourself, and to rid yourself of harmful habits. Show your monster love.

Eschewing the hard-and-fast deterministic approach of traditional “dream dictionaries,” while never denying the power of cultural symbols that influence us all, professional dreamer David L. Kahn shows you how to listen to your subconscious and gives you the tools you need to determine what your unique dreams mean to you.

Royalties from the sale of this book benefit The Aid for Traumatized Children Project.

A Dream Come True is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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