Dreams: Close Your Eyes, Open Your Mind

by Tucker Shaw, Tucker Shaw

Discusses causes and meanings of dreams, and includes famous dreams through history.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

152 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2000

About the author

Tucker Shaw's novel, WHEN YOU CALL MY NAME, follows two gay teenagers during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City in 1990. In hard times, nothing is more powerful than friendship.

Reviews

[Chris Webber · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was certainly an easy enough read (I'd say consumable from 10 on up) and entertaining in design, loaded with graphics and illustrations Lots of quotes about dreams, trivia facts about dreams, etc. At the bottom of each page is a ticker with a quote.

My favorite: A dreamer lives for eternity. ~anonymous

It talks about dreaming in color vs b/w, settings of dreams, dreams interpretation and theory (Freud, Jung, etc), how to interpret different settings in your dreams.

It also has an entire section of actual dream submissions and the author's interpretation of them.

All in all, an entertaining book. It covers all the basics without bogging down in too much science or (on the flip side) new age hocus pocus.

[Sky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book back when I was in middle school. I picked it up at a public library and checked it out because it was about a subject I had always wanted to know more about, dreams. (and the cover artwork is beautiful and pretty amazing too) I learned more than I had anticipated. This book is written in a very elaborate way. It teaches the reader a lot of things and is really easy to understand and entertaining with random stories and tidbits of info. I LOVE it!!

[just another bookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tween-friendly guide to sleeping and dreams. Definitely started my interest in dream interpretations. A very easy read. I loved the lay out of the book and the way it was set up so the non-fiction material didn't seem so dense and daunting.

[Lyneise · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a fun read. I learned some interesting things.

[C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good YA read, but I found the Clinton references bizarre.

[Jensen Gomez · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really interesting book. I learned a lot of factual stuff. If you need to read a nonfiction book than
This is the book you should read, for a nonfiction it's fun.