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Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl gets boy back... ...sort of. Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear hisvoice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she'scrazy, but she knows he's here. Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

by Howard Rheingold, Stephen Laberge

"<A> solid how-to book...For amateur dream researchers, this is a must." WHOLE EARTH REVIEW This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships... (more)

Gossamer

by Lois Lowry

Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? Drawing on her rich imagination, two-time Newbery winner Lois Lowry confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story... (more)

Dreamgates: An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death

Dreamgates: An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death

by Robert Moss

Shamanic practitioner, dream explorer, and author of "Conscious Dreaming" Robert Moss provides exciting, new conscious dreamwork techniques that can launch readers into other worlds and the furthest reaches of their imaginations.

Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul

Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul

by Robert Moss

Explores the ancient Iroquois tradition of dreams, healing, and the recovery of the soul. • Explains Native American shamanic dream practices and their applications and purpose in modern life. • Shows how dreams call us to remember and honor our soul's true purpose. • Offers powerful Active Dreaming methods for regaining lost soul energy to restore our vitality and identity. The ancient teaching of... (more)

Full Moon

by Brian Wilcox

For my birthday, Grandma sent me a crystal globe of the city where she lives. “If you look carefully, maybe you can see me,” she wrote. Late that night, I woke to find a full moon glowing in a starry sky. “To Grandma’s,” I shouted. So begins a boy’s search for his grandmother as he is transported on a magical journey through nighttime New York City. The globemoon pulls him along to sweeping vistas. From the... (more)

The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming

The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming

by Michel Jouvet

Michel Jouvet is perhaps the world's leading sleep and dream researcher. In The Paradox of Sleep, Jouvet takes the reader on a scientific and sociological tour of the history of sleep and dream research. Jouvet tells the story of a handful of neurobiologists, including himself, who pioneered sleep and dream research in the 1950s. He describes the technical and ideological obstacles they faced and opens his... (more)

Dreaming

by Jill Barnett

Romantic Times hails Jill Barnett as "a true new star of the genre!" Unfailingly engaging and original, she now concocts another winning tale wherein a stubborn lord and a high-spirited lass are locked in a battle of wills...and on a collision course with love. Most English girls meet their heart's desire across a crowded ballroom or in a genteel parlor. Letitia Olive Hornsby finds hers when she knocks him... (more)

Lucid Dreaming

by Celia Elizabeth Green

Lucid dreams are dreams in which a person becomes aware that he or she is dreaming. They are different from ordinary dreams, not just because of the dreamer's awareness, but because lucid dreams are often strikingly realistic and may be emotionally charged to the point of elation. Celia Green and Charles McCreery have written a unique introduction to lucid dreams that will appeal to the specialist and general... (more)

Advanced Lucid Dreaming - The Power of Supplements

Advanced Lucid Dreaming - The Power of Supplements

by Thomas Yuschak

Simply the Most Effective Approach to Inducing Lucid Dreams & Out of Body Experiences. This breakthrough book tells you everything you need to know on how to start experiencing extremely advanced lucid dreams and OBEs using the LDS (Lucid Dream Supplement) induction technique. This is the first comprehensive guide that explains how to use natural, non-prescription, and healthy supplements to induce... (more)

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

by Siena Cherson Siegel

Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet. To Dance tells and shows the fullness of her dreams and her rhapsodic life they led to. Part family history, part backstage drama,... (more)

Night Wings: A Soulful Dreaming and Writing Practice

Night Wings: A Soulful Dreaming and Writing Practice

by Sally J. Nelson

Sally Nelson helps you put on your night wings with techniques for courting and giving form to your dreams. Once you’ve done this, Nelson teaches you how to recognize personal and transpersonal themes and characters and how to develop them in your writing through visionary meditation and numerous exercises. In doing so, you foster your own growth as well as tap the source of human experience from which you can... (more)

Dream Work: Techniques for Discovering the Creative Power in Dreams

Dream Work: Techniques for Discovering the Creative Power in Dreams

by Jeremy Taylor

Offers an invaluable tool for the exploration of the inner life contained within our dreams and individual, group,and community techniques for discovering more of the multiple meanings inherent in every dream. With extensive, annotated bibliography.

Dream Dictionary

by Richard Craze

Analyze your dreams with this wonderful guide, which is packed with fascinating information about the world of dreams.

Trauma and Dreams

How does trauma shape dreams, and what might the dreaming mind reveal about the effects of traumatic events? In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together a distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers--among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert J. Lifton, and Oliver Sacks--to integrate the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. The book focuses on catastrophic events, such as... (more)

Childrens Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

Childrens Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness

by David Foulkes

David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it--active stories in which the dreamer is an actor--appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues... (more)

The Dolphin

by Sergio Bambaren

Revised Edition! “ The Dolphin is a wonderful book that awakens the dreamer within us. Like The Little Prince, it is written in simple language, yet it contains a strong and inspiring message that will enchant people of all ages.” — Louise L. Hay, the best-selling author of You Can Heal Your Life In the journey through life, it is the will of the heart that decides our destiny, for to achieve our... (more)

A Martian's Dream of Christmas

by Kenneth Keith Chartrand

After gazing through a telescope, Hextoo, a pre-teen Martian boy, longs for a Christmas of old. He suggests to his father that they take a trip to Azurum (Earth) to cut down an evergreen tree and bring it back to Mars. After landing on Earth, Hextoo and Martoo exit the spaceship and walk about the snow-covered field. They find a grove of specially grown evergreen trees. Nearby, in a bush path, a young orphan boy... (more)

Sleep and Dreaming: Origins, Nature and Functions (International Series in Experimental Psychology ; V. 23)David B. Cohen

Sleep and Dreaming: Origins, Nature and Functions (International Series in Experimental Psychology ; V. 23)

by David B. Cohen

Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying

by The Dalai Lama

Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying is an absorbing account of the expanding dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Revolving around three key moments of consciousness — sleep, dreams, and death — the conversations recorded here are both engrossing and highly readable. Narrated by Francisco Varela, an internationally recognized... (more)

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by Howard Rheingold, Stephen Laberge

by Lois Lowry

by Robert Moss

by Robert Moss

by Brian Wilcox

by Michel Jouvet

by Jill Barnett

by Celia Elizabeth Green

by Thomas Yuschak

by Siena Cherson Siegel

by Sally J. Nelson

by Jeremy Taylor

by Richard Craze

by David Foulkes

by Sergio Bambaren

by Kenneth Keith Chartrand

by David B. Cohen

by The Dalai Lama