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 enlarge | Author: Gillian Holloway
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 22848
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
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Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 140220700X
Dewey Decimal Number: 154.63
EAN: 9781402207006
ASIN: 140220700X
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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 The compleye dream book, 2nd edition July 20, 2007
This book certainly revealed my dreams I was having, because they were getting to the stage where I was worrying about them, but the problem has been solved, thankyou.
at least one is accurate May 25, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
in the section under recurring elements of dreams i was awestruck by what i had read. there was an exact description of my own personality there. i have asked others for their opinions and the agreed as well, the recurring element in my dream was linked to a certain personality profile that mathced 100%. coincidence maybe, but it still shocked me that there might actually be some tr4uth to this subject.
Complete Dream Book, 2nd edition: Discover What Your Dreams Reveal about You and Your Life (Complete Dream Book) May 7, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Awesome purchase and quick delivery!!
 Informative January 10, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book was very informative and had a lot of valuable advice, not a lot of quacky, new age mumbo jumbo. On the other hand, it seemed to go over the same stuff over and over again.
The Activation Synthesis Theory... November 10, 2005
16 out of 29 found this review helpful
One of the reviewers below stated that dreams are nothing but the biological byproduct of the brain, and they don't mean anything. This is not a fact. This is a THEORY, known as the Activation-Synthesis theory.
"Activation Synthesis Theory is a neurobiological theory of dreams, put forward by Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, which states that dreams are a random event caused by firing of neurons in the brain. This 'random firing' sends signals to the body's motor functions, but because of a paralysis that occurs during REM sleep, the brain is faced with a paradox. It synthesizes a narrative by drawing on memory systems, in an attempt to make sense of what it has experienced.
The orginal 1977 theory denied that dreams have meaning or are related to our real world enviornments. But this point drew plenty of criticism from other dream experts, and so, in 1988, Hobson published a revised theory acknowledging that dreams do reflect past memories, fears, hopes and desires." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_Synthesis_Theory).
As you can see, this is not a proven fact. This is only a hypothesis, and a flawed hypothesis at that. There is an article by G. William Domhoff that explains why: (http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/domhoff_2000e.html).
Scientists can only study the PHYSICAL aspects of the brain at this point of time. As Robert Wilkerson states, there is sort of a "brain-mind" split in research... subtle forces such as the imagination cannot be directly observed in this way." [...].
All I'm saying is, I don't think it's a good idea to say something is a proven fact when it is not. I'm not going to come out and say "It's a fact that dreams have meaning." It isn't a fact. I can't prove it; nobody can. But it's what I believe. The thing is, there are only theories pertaining to the meaning in dreams. In the end, it's a personal decision, whether or not you believe dreams mean anything at all.
Decide for yourself.
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