Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

by Stanley Krippner, Fariba Bogzaran (Contributor), Andre Percia De Carvalho (Contributor)

Discusses extraordinary dreams and offers suggestions for interpreting and appreciating your own extraordinary dreams.

From visions of a past life to glimpses of the future, history is full of accounts of unusual dreams. This fascinating book explores historical, scientific, and cross-cultural research on these sorts of extraordinary dreams, and offers practical suggestions on how to work with them—either individually or as a member of a dream group—to enhance one's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health. Each chapter is devoted to a particular type of dream, and presents a summary of research data on their nature. Specific categories of dreams discussed include creative, lucid, out-of-body, pregnancy, healing, collective, telepathic, clairvoyant, precognitive, past-life, initiation, and spiritual visitation dreams, as well as dreams within dreams. Entertaining and instructive, this book points the way to an expanded conception of human potential for the twenty first century.

Genres: Psychology

211 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2001

About the author

Dr. Stanley C. Krippner Ph.D. is an executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in Oakland, California. He was previously director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, and director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York. He has written extensively on altered states of consciousness, dream telepathy, and parapsychological subjects.

Reviews

[Tait · Rating 3 out of 5]

Krippner’s work falls into a particular category of approaches to dreamwork that lean heavily into scientific studies to back up their claims, which is at least better than all the metaphysical books that rely on scant anecdotal dream reports from their friends. But it also falls into a pattern that this type of more “sciencey” dream book has, which is it barely offers any actual way to work with dreams other than long lists of question asking you to reflect on your life.