Dreams & Dreaming:

A Select Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell (2020)

Dream-land (1883), an etching by S.J. Ferris (after a painting by C.D. Weldo)

Adler, Shelley R. Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body

Connection. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.

al Akili, Muhammad. Ibn Seerin’s Dictionary of Dreams: According to Islamic Inner

Traditions. Philadelphia, PA: Pearl Publishing House, 1992.

Aristotle. “De Somniis: (On Dreams),” in Richard McKeon, ed. The Basic Works of

Aristotle. New York: Random House, 1941: 618-625.

Artemidorus (Robert J. White, trans.) Interpretation of Dreams: Oneicritica.

Torrance, CA: Original Books, revised ed., 1990.

Ashish, Sri Madhava. An Open Window: Dreams as Everyman’s Guide to the Spirit.

New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007.

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Barrett, Dierdre and Patrick McNamara, eds. The New Science of Dreaming, 3 Vols.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.

Bergson, Henri (E.E. Slosson (trans. and ed.) Dreams. New York: B.W. Huebsch,

1914.

Bird, Louis (Susan Elaine Gray, ed.) The Spirit Lives in the Mind: Omushkego

Stories, Lives, and Dreams. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press,

2007.

Bogzaran, Fariba and Daniel Deslauriers. Integral Dreaming: A Holistic Approach to

Dreams. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012.

Brakel, Linda A.W. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2009.

Breger, L., I. Hunter, and R.W. Lane. The Effect of Stress on Dreams. New York:

International Universities Press, 1971.

Brightman, Robert. Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships. Berkeley,

CA: University of California Press, 1973.

Bromberg, Philip M. Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys. Mahwah, NJ:

Analytic Press, 2006.

Buck-Morss, Susan. Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East

and West. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Bulkeley, Kelly. The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meaning of

Dreams in Modern Western Culture. Albany, NY: State University of New York

Press, 1994.

Bulkeley, Kelly. Visions of the Night Dream: Dreams, Religion, and Psychology.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Bulkeley, Kelly. Dreaming in the World’s Religions: A Comparative History. New

York: New York University Press, 2008.

Bulkeley, Kelly. Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Bulkeley, Kelly. ed. Dreams: A Reader on the Religious, Cultural, and Psychological

Dimensions of Dreaming. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Bulkeley, Kelly, Kate Adams, and Patricia M. Davis, eds. Dreaming in Christianity

and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University

Press, 2009.

Burroughs, William S. My Education: A Book of Dreams. New York: Viking Books,

1995.

Caligor, Leopold and Rollo May. Dreams and Symbols: Man’s Unconscious

Language. New York: Basic Books, 1968.

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Cartwright, Rosalind D. The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and

Dreaming in our Emotional Lives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Cavallero, Corrado and David Foulkes, eds. Dreaming as Cognition. New York:

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

Covitz, Joel. Visions in the Night: Jungian and Ancient Dream Interpretation. Toronto:

Inner City Books, 2nd ed., 2000.

Dalai Lama. Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the

Dalai Lama. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1996.

Dement, William C. The Promise of Sleep. New York: Dell, 2000.

Deutsch, Eliot. Advaita Vedānta: A Philosophical Reconstruction. Honolulu, HI:

University Press of Hawaii, 1969.

Dumpert, Jennifer. Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep.

Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2019.

Dunlop, Charles E.M., ed. Philosophical Essays on Dreaming. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, 1977.

Edgar, Iain R. The Dream in Islam: From Qur’anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration.

New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

Empson, Jacob. Sleep and Dreaming. New York: Palgrave, 3rd ed., 2002.

Evans-Wentz, W.Y. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines. Oxford, UK: Oxford

University Press, 2nd ed., 1958.

Felek, Özgen and Alexander D. Knysh, eds. Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies.

Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 2012.

Flanagan, Owen. Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious

Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Flannery-Dailey, Frances. Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the

Hellenistic and Roman Eras. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Fonagy, Peter, Horst Kächele, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, and David Taylor,

eds. The Significance of Dreams: Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in

Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 2018 (Karnac Books, 2012).

Foulkes, David. A Grammar of Dreams. New York: Basic Books, 1978.

Foulkes, David. Dreaming: A Cognitive-Psychological Analysis. Hillsdale, NJ:

Lawrence Erlbaum, 1985.

Foulkes, David. Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Freud, Sigmund. “The Interpretation of Dreams,” in James Strachey, ed. and

trans. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Freud, Vol. 4.

London: Hogarth Press, 1953-1960. [or below]

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Freud, Sigmund (Joyce Crick, trans.) The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford, UK:

Oxford University Press, 1999.

Frieden, Ken. Freud’s Dream of Interpretation. Albany, NY: State University of

New York Press, 1990.

Gackenbach, Jayne and Stephen LeBerge. Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain:

Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming. New York: Plenum, 1988.

Gallop, David. Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams (A Text and Translation with

Introduction, Notes, and Glossary) Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1996.

Garfield, Patricia. Pathway to Ecstasy: The Way of the Dream Mandala. New York:

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Globus, Gordon. Dream Life, Wake Life: The Human Condition through Dreams.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987.

Gouda, Yehia. Dreams and Their Meaning in the Old Arab Tradition. New York:

Vantage Press, 1991.

Graham, Laura R. Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante

of Central Brazil. Tucson, AZ: Fenestra Books, 2003.

Green, Celia E. Lucid Dreams. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1968.

Green, Celia E. and Charles McCreery. Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of

Consciousness during Sleep. London: Routledge, 1994.

Greenson, R., et al. The Dream Discourse Today. New York: International

Universities Press, 1993.

Guenther, Herbert V. The Life and Teachings of Naropa. Oxford, UK: Oxford

University Press, 1963.

Gyatrul Rinpoche (B. Alan Wallace and Sangye Khandro, trans.) Meditation,

Transformation, and Dream Yoga. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2002.

Harris, Monford. Studies in Jewish Dream Interpretation. Northvale, NJ: Jason

Aronson, 1994.

Harris, William V. Dreaming and Experience in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Harrisson, Juliette. Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory

and Imagination. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Hartmann, Ernest. The Nightmare: The Psychology and Biology of Terrifying Dreams.

New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Hartmann, Ernest. Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory on the Origin and

Meaning of Dreams. New York: Perseus Books, 2001.

Heynick, Frank. Language and Its Disturbances in Dreams: The Pioneering Work of

Freud and Kraeplin Updated. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1993.

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Hill, Clara E. Dream Work in Therapy: Facilitating Exploration, Insight and Action.

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2004.

Hillman, James. The Dream and the Underworld. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.

Hobson, J. Allan. Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind.

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Hobson, J. Allan. Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2002.

Hobson, J. Allan. Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir. Cambridge, MA: MIT

Press, 2011.

Holowchak, M. Andrew. Ancient Science and Dreams: Oneirology in Greco-Roman

Antiquity. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.

Hopkins, James. “The Interpretation of Dreams,” in Jerome Neu, ed. The

Cambridge Companion to Freud. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,

1992: 86-135.

Hunt, Harry T. The Multiplicity of Dreams: Memory, Imagination and Consciousness.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.

Husser, Jean-Marie. Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World. Sheffield:

Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Irwin, Lee. The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great

Plains. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

Jedrej, M.C. and Rosalind Shaw, eds. Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa.

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992.

Jouvet, Michel (Laurence Grey, trans.) The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.

Jouvet, Michel (Laurence Grey, trans.) The Castle of Dreams. Cambridge, MA: MIT

Press, 2008.

Jung, Carl J. (R.F.C. Hull, trans.) Dreams. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University

Press, 1974.

Jung, Carl J. (Richard and Clara Winston, trans., Aniela Jaffé, ed.). Memories,

Dreams, Reflections. New York: Vintage Books, 1965.

Jung, Carl J. (William McGuire, ed.) Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar given in

1928-1930. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Kakar, Sudhir, ed. On Dreams and Dreaming. New Delhi: Viking/Penguin, 2011.

Katz, Jonathan. Dreams, Sufism, and Sainthood: The Visionary Career of Muhammad

al-Zawāwī. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

Kelzer, Kenneth. The Sun and the Shadow: My Experiment with Lucid Dreaming.

Virginia Beach, VA: A.R.E. Press, 1987.

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Kinberg, Leah. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā: Morality in the Guise of Dreams. Leiden: Brill,

1994.

Kramer, Milton. The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration. New York:

Routledge, 2007.

Krippner, Stanley, Fariba Bogzaran and Andre P.D. Carvalho. Extraordinary

Dreams and How to Work with Them. Albany, NY: State University of New York

Press, 2003.

Krippner, Stanley and Debbie J. Ellis, eds. Perchance to Dream: The Frontiers of

Dream Psychology. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009.

Kruger, Steven F. Dreaming in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge

University Press, 1992.

LaBerge, Stephen P. Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in Your

Dreams. New York: Ballantine, 1985.

LaBerge, Stephen P. “Lucid Dreaming and the Yoga of the Dream State: A

Psychophysiological Perspective,” in B. Alan Wallace, ed. Buddhism and Science:

Breaking New Ground. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 233-258.

LaBerge, Stephen P. and Howard H. Rheingold. Exploring the World of Lucid

Dreams. New York: Ballantine Books, 1990.

Lakoff, George. “How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual

Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis,” 1993 Dreaming, 3 (2): 77 – 98.

Lamoreaux, John C. The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation. Albany,

NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Lansky, Melvin R., ed. Essential Papers on Dreams. New York: New York

University Press, 1992.

Lattas, Andrew. Dreams, Madness, and Fairy Tales in New Britain. Durham, NC:

Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

Lear, Jonathan. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Lincoln, Jackson Steward. The Dream in Primitive Cultures. London: Cresset Press,

1935.

Lipton, Diana, ed. Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal

Dreams of Genesis. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Mageo, Jeannette M., ed. Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity,

Identity and Emotion. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Malcolm, Norman. Dreaming. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959.

Marlow, Louise, ed. Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in

Islamic Lands. Boston, MA: Ilex Foundation/Washington, DC: Center for

Hellenistic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2008.

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Mavroudi, Maria. A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of

Achmet and Its Arabic Sources. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

McGinn, Colin. Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 2004.

Meier, C.A. Healing Dream and Ritual: Ancient Incubation and Modern

Psychotherapy. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 1989.

Miller, Patricia Cox. Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a

Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Mittermaier, Amira. Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011.

Moffitt, A., M. Kramer and R. Hoffmann, eds. The Functions of Dreaming. Albany,

NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Moss, Robert. The Secret History of Dreaming. Novato, CA: New World Library,

2009.

Mullin, Glenn H., tr. and ed. Readings on the Six Yogas of Naropa. Ithaca, NY: Snow

Lion Publications, 1997.

Noegel, Scott B. The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. New

Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 2007.

Norbu, Namkhai (Michael Katz, ed.). Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light.

New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1992.

Obeyesekere, Gananath. The Awakened Ones: The Phenomenology of Visionary

Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities. Chicago, IL:

University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Pace-Schott, E., et al., eds. Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and

Reconsiderations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Pagel, J.F. The Limits of Dream: A Scientific Exploration of the Mind/Brain Interface.

Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2008.

Pick, Daniel and Lyndal Roper, eds. Dreams and History: The Interpretation of

Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Plane, Ann Marie. Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians,

Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia, PA: University of

Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Plane, Ann Marie and Leslie Tuttle, eds. Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions: The Early

Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Poirier, Sylvie. A World of Relationships: Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the

Australian Western Desert. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

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Radha, Swami Sivananda. Realities of the Dreaming Mind: The Practice of Dream

Yoga. London: Shambhala, 1996.

Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi. “Dreams and the Coherence of Experience: An Anti-

Idealist Critique from Indian Philosophy,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.

32, No. 3 (Jul., 1995): 225-239.

Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi. Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Outline of

Indian Non-Realism. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2001.

Rock, Andrea. The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream. New

York: Basic Books, 2004.

Rockmore, Tom. “Freud’s Dream Theory and Social Constructivism,” in in Jon

Mills, ed. Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy. Albany. NY: State

University of New York Press, 2004: 17-34.

Rupprecht, Carol Schreier, ed. The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and

Language. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Rycroft, Charles. The Innocence of Dreams. New York: Pantheon, 1979.

Saint-Denys, Hervey de (Nicholas Fry, trans.) Dreams and How to Guide Them.

London: Duckworth, 1982.

Sallis, John. “The Logic and Illogic of the Dream Work,” in Jon Mills, ed.

Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University

of New York Press, 2004: 1-16.

Shulman, David and Guy G. Stroumsa. Dream Cultures: Explorations in the

Comparative History of Dreaming. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Sharma, Arvind. Sleep as a State of Consciousness in Advaita Vedānta. Albany, NY:

State University of New York Press, 2004.

Sharma, Arvind. The World as Dream. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2006.

Shulman, David and Guy G. Stroumsa, eds. Dream Cultures: Explorations in the

Comparative History of Dreaming. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Sirriyeh, Elizabeth. Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam: A History of Muslim

Dreaming and Foreknowing. London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 2015.

Sparrow, G.S. Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light. Virginia Beach, VA:

A.R.E. Press, 1976.

Springett, Ben. “Philosophy of Dreaming,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

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Stanner, W.E.H. White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938-1973. Canberra:

Australian National University Press, 1979.

States, Bert O. The Rhetoric of Dreams. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

States, Bert O. Dreaming and Storytelling. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,

1993.

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States, Bert O. Seeing in the Dark: Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming. New Haven,

CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Sumegi, Angela. Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Place.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Szpakowska, Kasia Maria. Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient

Egypt. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2003.

Tedlock, Barbara, ed. Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Thompson, Evan. Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience,

Meditation, and Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa (Glenn H. Mullin, trans.) The Six Yogas of Naropa:

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Valberg, J.J. Dream, Death, and the Self. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,

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Varela, Francisco J., ed. Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying: An Exploration of

Consciousness with the Dalai Lama. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1997.

Vaughn-Lee, Llewellyn. In the Company of Friends: Dreamwork Within a Sufi Group.

Inverness, CA: Golden Sufi Center, 1994.

von Grunebaum, G.E. and Roger Caillois, eds. The Dream and Human Societies.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966.

Waggoner, Robert. Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. Needham, MA:

Moment Point Press, 2009.

Wallace, B. Alan. Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream

Yoga for Insight and Transformation. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 2012.

Wangyal Rinpoche, Tenzi (Mark Dahlby, ed.) Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep.

Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.

Wax, Murray L. Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming.

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Westerhoff, Jan. “A Dream,” in Westerhoff’s Twelve Examples of Illusion. New

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Windt, Jennifer M., “Dreams and Dreaming,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of

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Wolfson, Elliot R. A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism

of Imagination. New York: Zone Books, 2011.

Young, Serenity. Dreaming in the Lotus: Buddhist Dream Narrative, Imagery, and

Practice. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1999.

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Zamir, Muhammad. Dreams, Miracles, and Supplications in Islam. Dhaka,

Bangladesh: The University Press Limited, 1995.