Dreaming Realities: A Spiritual System to Create Inner Alignment Through Dreams Paperback – February 1, 2001

Julie and John's book is a very well written, clear,practical guide for understanding the interplay between the conscious, unconscious and higher conscious minds and the value of interpreting and participating in dream life. Their description of the role of the three minds play in helping one achieve wholeness is outstanding. The dream interpretation section in Chapter 5 is the easiest to understand and most practical application I have come across. Furthermore, the book is full of practical instructions on how to incubate and participate in your dreams for the purpose of achieving wholeness and improving ones life. If you are a serious student of dream therapy you will want this easy to read book in your library. Loretta M. Siani, Ph.D. Clinical Hypnotherapist.

This book offers a lot of good information about dreaming. Dreaming plays a role when it comes to getting a good night's sleep, so it's good to know a lot about dreaming.

I have had to read this book twice in order to be able to write a review on it, since I found it so vague, unclear, and downright incomprehensible, in part. Some of the sentences just don't make sense.The authors state that the purpose of the book is how to use your dreams to “align with yourself” – to produce “alignment among the conscious, unconscious and higher conscious minds”, whatever that actually involves.I found this book hard to understand. At the end of each chapter there is a “conscious review” and an “unconscious review”. I found out that the latter were designed to connect the themes at the unconscious level, and “contain hypnotic language useful in formatting the unconscious mind for the exercise and “Dreamtime interludes”.These interludes are processes designed to enhance some of the techniques.The book about dream techniques and “getting to know your unconscious mind”, but I feel I got nothing from it. This was despite my reading the book twice and doing all the exercises and “Dream interludes”.At times the text seemed to be psycho-babble, though I've never used the word before, that did not help me to have lucid dreams, improve retention of my dreams or anything else.However I see that several people have appreciated the book, so must accept that this is merely my own opinion. (I have a Capricorn ascendant and do like things to be spelt out, and not airy-fairy!)The book did include valid information, thus the three stars. For example, that “we observe things into being”, that reality is holographic, etc, etc. The authors also state that each night we dream we are creating multiple realities, or “parallel universes”. In this respect , we are referred to the works of Fred Alan Wolf, and I have added his books to my reading list, in the hope that they might be more clearly comprehensible.Though I followed the advice on how to incubate dreams, it didn't seem to work for me, though once, recently, when I simply asked for a dream on how to cure a bodily symptom, I got the answer with a dream about turmeric. I've been taking strong turmeric pills ever since, with no effect on the symptom in question, but, on the other hand, another symptom has in fact been relieved.These authors do offer a wealth of useful knowledge, but in my view they need to learn how to relay this knowledge lucidly (no pun intended).I found the chapter on lucidity the most interesting one. Perhaps the authors' most relevant advice, which I already knew of, was to keep saying to oneself “I am dreaming, or “Am I dreaming?”. But I have done this repeatedly to no avail.There is a good glossary of terms at the back of the book.To sum up, as stated, the book may prove of help to some of those extremely focused on reading everything about dreaming practices and lucid dreaming. But personally, I would not recommend it and there are many better books around. I feel that this is one of the more “advanced” and obscure books on the subject.

Makes perfect sense! What a find!!!!

good study

As described, good value!