Read A Book Of Dreams: How to Interpret and Understand Your Dream Symbols

My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) (ISBN 0-14-009454-7) is the final novel by William S. Burroughs to be published before his death in 1997. It is a collection of dreams, taken from various decades, along with a few comments about the War on Drugs and paragraphs created with the cut-up technique. The book is dedicated to Michael Emerton (January 18, 1966 - November 4, 1992).

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Most of the dreams are concerned with mundane affairs: talking to his friends Ian Sommerville, Allen Ginsberg and Brion Gysin; protecting his cats; trying to get sex, drugs or something to eat. There are flying dreams, erotic suitcase-packing dreams, dreams of being bullied by men in uniforms. There are references to strange drugs such as "Jade" and "Bogomolets Anti-Human Serum 125." In addition, there are other segments which seem unconcerned with dreams at all, such as a chapter where Burroughs instructs the reader on how to create botulism. There is a place he refers to as the Land of the Dead, which, like Interzone, seems to be a conglomeration of many cities: Tangiers, London, Paris, and others.

The novel is extremely easy to read, in part thanks to the translation by Simon Pare, which is flawless and transparent. As well, Jen Valero deserves mention for a very attractive book design for this edition.

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This book really stuck out as original in my mind in the way it fuses together different scenes and characters with a narrative and descriptive flow identical to some of the dreams I've had. This occurs very near the beginning of the book and is a feat never quite repeated in the rest of it. The first third of the book has some very interesting bits in it aside from the previously mentioned. It sort of sucked me into a mystical pseudo-scientific world I used to experience when I was a kid reading those heavily illustrated UFO and Monster-Cryptid books you could get at elementary school book fairs. However, there were places where the text seemed to bog down.

The second third of the book seemed to zoom by and had I the spare time I would have probably read much farther if not finished the book. The last third of the book though was a slower read, at least for me, it also seemed to relate to The Book of the SubGenius in my imagination for some reason or another. The book is split into halves with the first welded together by the framing episode of a motorcycle accident in France and the anesthetic gas that precipitates the dream state where all its ideas swirl together. The second half was very fragmentary and jagged. Whether or not that was the author's intention, I found it abrasive and hard to read as each subsection skipped around. This section of the book also got repetitive with its imagery which seemed intended in order to create some connective tissue but which sort of lost me.

I did like this book if not solely for the dream-like flow at its start but also for its good use of imagery and the science fiction framed but ultimately fantastical element of "cloudbusting". I would recommend this to readers looking for something a little different; an auto-biographical mishmash of dreams and memories with the added elements of weather machines and UFOs.

On his way to meet his son for the first time, hardened former war correspondent Henry Skinner is hit by a car after rescuing a child from drowning. He is rushed to hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairy-tales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place.

This book is for adults, but it is for adults precisely because of the child-like sense of wonder it instantly evokes, a sense of wonder only an adult can recognize and appreciate. The Sandman: Book of Dreams was delivered to me, out of the blue via UPS. When I opened up the package I felt like a kid again, unwrapping that mail-order glow in the dark inflatable Frankenstein from the back cover of a comic book. The only difference being that with this book, once I opened it and delved into the mysteries it beheld that sense of wonder was not only sustained, but magnified.

Sarah S. Davis is the founder of Broke by Books, a blog about her journey as a schizoaffective disorder bipolar type writer and reader. Sarah's writing about books has appeared on Book Riot, Electric Literature, Kirkus Reviews, BookRags, PsychCentral, and more. She has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Library and Information Science from Clarion University, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

The doctor came back again and smiled. He said they had not been able to get my shoulder back in its socket and would have to give me gas again. Again? Had I already been through some dream? The mask came over my face slowly and it was sickening and familiar. This has happened before and before. There is another dream. There was an incredible dream I had that no one would ever believe. The gas was sweet as I tried to remember and already one had passed and two was coming because I was a soldier in a war long ago but no one would ever believe three or four and already it was racing down a purple corridor with neon numbers clicking on and off in the trillions spinning all the way through the purple ribbon until out of it a thin black ribbon bent around the side of my head, encircled it, grew wider and wider and because no one would believe what happened was all black.

We sat on the last seat of the school bus going home, playing tic-tac-toe in the suede on the back of my cowboy jacket with the fringes on it. I stretched the jacket over my books and smoothed it one way with my hand so we could make a tic-tac-toe cross going the other way. Ray heaped his denim jacket over his knee and made an 'x'. Then I made an 'o' and he made another 'x'. I made an 'o' and he beat me with the next 'x'.

The bus driver was a big strong man with curly blond hair. He looked like the kind of musclemen they showed at the end of comic books, and the muscles in his arms rippled as he steered around the last corner before our place. I leaned down and saw the cluster of pipes from the cloudbuster sticking up between the hard green Palo Verde leaves. The bus stopped right by the gate and instead of opening the door, the driver turned around and looked at me.

That's why dreams can look like a vivid film full of scenery, details, and even dialogue that your subconscious mind creates. "Your dreams are messages from you, to you, about you, in order to improve you," says Lauri Loewenberg, a professional dream analyst and author of "Dream on It: Unlock Your Dreams, Change Your Life."

Whether you want to start remembering your dreams more easily or better understand the details and symbols throughout your shut-eye adventures, there are several books that can help you piece everything together.

I spoke with Loewenberg as well as psychotherapist Aimee Hartstein, LCSW about their dream book recommendations, including dream dictionaries, dream interpretation guides, and even explainers on lucid dreaming.

Curious about what your dreams may signify? One of the best parts about this book is there is "lots of information that is easy to digest," according to Loewenberg, making it ideal for someone who's new to all things dreams. "In my beginning years as a dream analyst, when I still needed reference material, this was my go-to book," Loewenberg added.

If youre looking for an all-encompassing book about dreaming, this book is "both inspirational and informative," said Hartstein. "[Gailing's] tips on how to capture and remember your dreams are really helpful," she added, praising the book's suggestions on how to keep a dream journal. Gailing also addresses the importance of sleep and getting a good night's rest to help with dream recall. "My clients with children really like it too, as there are chapters that address sleep and dreams for kids," said Hartstein.

If you've ever had a dream that you can't seem to shake and you keep wondering if there's a hidden message, this book can help you interpret and understand it. "Dreamers can look up any themes, symbols, or events that come up for them in a dream and get some advice and interpretations,'' said Hartstein. "I really like this book because it helps get patients interested in dreams and symbols, which I think helps them become more acquainted with their own inner life."

Decoding meanings of imagery can take some time to figure out, but with plenty of practice and guidance, you can learn what your subconscious may be transmitting to you in the form of dreams. "The author is a Jungian analyst who helps walk people through the steps of their own dream analysis," said Hartstein. "It's a little more complex but gives a nice how-to for someone who wants to explore on their own."

If you're looking for a comprehensive book devoted to all things dreams, look no further. "I love this book because it illustrates how dreaming is a very important part of the human experience," said Loewenberg. It interweaves the history of dreaming through cultures, and dreams' influence on art, psychology, and religion as well as covers specific types of dreaming such as lucid and paranormal dreaming. "If nothing else, you will come away from this book having a lot more respect for your dreaming mind," added Loewenberg. 2ff7e9595c