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The Nightmare Encyclopedia: Your Darkest Dreams Explored
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The Nightmare Encyclopedia examines ideas about bad dreams found in different parts of the world, in different periods of Western history, in recent clinical research, in current theories of the occult, and in popular films. Most of the world’s traditional societies are taught that our souls leave our bodies and travel to other realms when we dream, so maybe nightmares are the result of getting lost in one of dreamland’s bad neighborhoods. In medieval Europe, it was thought that demons could attack and rape human beings in their sleep. In contrast, modern psychologists tend to view nightmares as repressed conflicts that return from our unconscious to haunt us in our dreams.
The Nightmare Encyclopedia includes interpretations of dream symbols found in nightmares. Large bodies of water, for example, often symbolize the unconscious. So a bad dream about drowning might represent being overwhelmed by issues that have been repressed into the unconscious mind. A nightmare about beheading, on the other hand, might reflect traumatic memories and guilt harbored about our bad judgements and wrong decisions.
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| Author | Jeff Belanger; Kirsten Dalley |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bounty Books |
| Place | London |
| Year | 2007 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| ISBN | 9780753714638 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Condition | Fair |
| Comments | Corners bumped; clean inside. |
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