How Dreams Speak: An Interactive Journey into Your Subconscious (150+ Symbols, Illustrated and Fully Explained)

Drawing on a spectrum of sources and personal experience, Chilton, an artist and leader of journaling workshops, provides an informative primer on plumbing dreams for their deeper meanings, inspirations, and possible portents of the future. The initial chapters include a brief discussion of theories proposed by sleep science and psychology to explain the reason for dreams and their implications for the psyche; there’s also an interesting overview of eight basic types of dreams. Chilton deftly veers between academic theories and more mystical concepts. She gives tips for increasing the frequency and intensity of dreams, keeping a dream journal, recognizing symbols, and analyzing dream imagery. The book’s tools for dream interpretation include brief guides to numerology, the esoterics of color, and metaphoric meanings of people and animals. Chilton interprets, in-depth, more than 120 major dream themes and symbols, arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced. She also supplies questions with which readers can further explore the relevance of their dreams’ images, sounds, or feelings.