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My Two New Books on Therapeutic Dreaming (video)
Monday, 5 January, 2026
KickstarterCrowdfunding is supposed to be for raising money, but I’m using it to announce my books to a larger audience. The Kickstarter website will promote any campaign that reaches its funding threshold, so I set my reward prices low and my threshold at $50. I’m hoping you’ll sponsor one of the reward tiers so the campaign will quickly exceed its threshold. You can see the campaign at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindstrengthbalance/dreaming-yourself-into-being-a-guide-to-personal-dreamworkDreaming Yourself Into BeingI’m offering digital, audio, paper, and hardcover versions of my new book Dreaming Yourself Into Being. The book contains 18 chapter and 248 pages in a 6”x9” format.The book reviews dreams, dreaming, dreamwork, and dream therapy. Its chapters span theory, therapy, engagement, incubation, interpretation, and integration. I’ve included several self-hypnosis sessions that you can read and also listen to online as .mp3 audio files.It’s a do-it-yourself guide that takes quite a different approach from all other books on dreaming. I insist dreams are not just jumbled collections of thoughts, but an effective third way of thinking, one that’s more primitive than either intellect or emotion. At the same time, dream thinking is more fundamental.Dreams are a window onto the process by which we organize our reality. Once you stop trying to interpret your dreams and see them as explorations into thoughts you do not understand—either the scenes or the relationships between them—you’ll appreciate your dreams as not presenting answers, but presenting questions. Their confusing nature comes from their being more raw, open, and honest than you intellectually allow yourself to be.Most people don’t remember their dreams because they find no benefit in it. When you develop a deeper relationship with your dreams you begin to understand their language. It’s a largely visual and emotional language of uncertain associations. Your dreams are asking you to consider a kaleidoscope of situations both in themselves and in relationship to each other. These are not symbols or messages, they are questions, conflicts, and fears. Understanding this enables you to engage in the process and be less of a witness.When you follow your dreams into areas of deeper uncertainty they begin to speak to you. At that point your dreams present you with characters who address you and situations in which you have choices. You gain a natural kind of lucidity, one that’s still in the dream but more self-aware. The continuity of your dreams grow and you remember more dreams.Dream Fragments: Collected Ideas on DreamingAs I finished the Kickstarter campaign page I wondered what I could add to further explain these ideas, so I wrote another book. I collected 18 of my previous posts on dreams, edited them, and added 10% more material explaining the connections between each piece.Although these pieces were written separately over the course of three years, I found they kept focusing on the issue of how we think, and how dreams reflect a different way of thinking. The pieces are poetic, pragmatic, and epistemological. I’m really trying to get you to understand “dream think” and to use it in everyday life.This is another aspect that distinguishes these from other dream books. I emphasize that dreams’ wide-open, uncensored, associative, and seemingly nonsensical parade of images is a passive language. It’s not trying to tell you anything, it’s trying to lead you somewhere, but it doesn’t know where. “Nowhere” is exactly the place where we keep all of our troubled, uncertain, and repressed images. Dreams are taking you to the fertile chaos of your uncertainties and giving you a safe place in which to explore them. You certainly couldn’t do this in your waking life!Big DiscountsThe campaign offers both books in their different formats, a signed hardcover edition, and a great 18”x24” poster of the Helen Stoller collage that appears on the cover of Dream Fragments. I’m offering these at cost because I’m not looking for profit, I’m looking for exposure. If I do make a profit—I’ll profit on the posters—then I’ll use it to market the books through Amazon, Goodreads, and BookBub.I’m also reviving my online course on dreaming, which I gave years ago and then set aside to write these books. Enrolling in the course is one of the reward tiers. Please take a look at the campaign and be a sponsor if you’re at all interested in dreamwork or the psychology of dreams. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe
