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A science journalist explores the latest research on dreams-how they work, what they're for, and how we can reap the benefits.
While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming-the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they're dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the science of dreams at an...
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"During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten...
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Sterling Ethos
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English
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"Dreams are a window into the subconscious, and for those who understand their meanings, they are also a crucial step in self-understanding. In this comprehensive volume, author Cassandra Eason shares her decades of study on the subject. From visions of angels to trips to the zoo, from buying a dream home to escaping from demons, Eason catalogs 1,001 scenarios, exploring different types of dreams, practical symbolic meanings, dreams' psychological...
8) Free fall
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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A young boy dreams of daring adventures in the company of imaginary creatures inspired by the things surrounding his bed.
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Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"This is a quick, easy, practical guide to help people get lucid fast. It's an excellent introduction or refresher into the world of lucid dreaming and provides practical tips on how to help you get lucid, increase the frequency of your lucid dreams, stay lucid for longer, and successfully navigate the exhilarating world of lucid dreaming"--
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Editorial Kairós
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Primera edición
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Español
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En muchas sociedades los sueños han sido considerados como la puerta a otro mundo, por lo que las predicciones recibidas por este medio se consideraban sagradas: profetas, santos y místicos han recibido enseñanzas de los dioses a través de los sueños. En la corriente psicoanalítica, los sueños se asocian al inconsciente y tienen un carácter terapéutico. Con una capacidad de síntesis asombrosa, García Campayo analiza qué son los sueños...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
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English
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"What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human history. It is an investigation on the grand scale, encompassing literature, anthropology, religion, and science, one that articulates the essential place dreams occupy in human culture, and how they functioned as the catalyst...
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In the end, has anyone really led a blameless life? Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the “real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no...
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Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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As a little girl gets ready for bed each night, she does not realize a lot of her activities are being mirrored by her favorite heroine, Supergirl, but they will both turn sleepless nights into sweet dreams.
16) Edge of dreaming
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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As seen on PBS. Amy Hardie is a rational woman and professional filmmaker until she has a dream that her horse will die, and wakes to discover him dead in her field. She tries to pass it off as mere coincidence until another nightmare where her deceased ex-husband predicts that she will die before her next birthday. Amy chronicles her quest to understand the meaning of her destabilizing dreams.
17) A swirl of ocean
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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A decade after her caregiver finds her alone on the beach, twelve-year-old Summer begins wondering where she came from, until a frightening experience in the ocean triggers dreams of a strangely familiar girl in another reality.
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Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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"Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into the area, she and discovers everyone--and everything--has its own story. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic neighbor, the narrator accumulates these stories, tracing the history of Nowa Ruda from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, from the caller who wins the radio quiz...
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2020.
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English
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Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, the husband, and dreams of starting a family. Their relocation to small-town Pennsylvania comes with the usual challenges--finding a new job, new friends, new furniture--but the move is nothing the couple can't handle. That is, until Mia finally meets the stranger she has been dreaming about for a decade. And here's the catch: He's been dreaming of her, too. Now Mia must navigate the...
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