Dream

Dreaming is the subjective experience of remembered and imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. The scientific discipline of dream research is oneirology. Dreaming has been associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of sleep that occurs during the latter portion of the sleep cycle, characterized by rapid horizontal eye movements, stimulation of the pons, increased respiratory and heart rate, and temporary paralysis of the body. However, this association has been questioned since it may be that dream recall after REM sleep is common and because dreams are more easily recalled after waking from light REM sleep.

Books on Dreams

• Artemidorus, The Oneirocritica of Artemidorus, University Microfilms, New Haven (1971).
• Gerolamo Cardano, Sul sonno e sul sognare , Marsilio, Venezia (1989).
• Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, Rayo, (1994).
• Jayne Gackenbach, Stephen LaBerge, Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain: Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming, Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York (1988).
• Carl Gustav Jung, Dreams, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1974).
• Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York (1992).
• Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Avon, (1980).
• Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York (1998).
• Creative Dreaming (1974) ISBN 0-671-21903-0 by Patricia L Garfield