Creative Dreaming: Plan and Control Your Dreams to Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

When I first read Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield way back in 1977, I was hooked! I entered into a world of creative dreaming that has made me successful in business, relationships and has led me to discover cures to physical ailments. Because of Patricia Garfield's classic book, I can program my dream mind to give me the solution to a problem, any problem, and I can wake up the next morning with the problem solved through a dream. This is singularly the most important book on dreams that has ever been written, and it is one that you must have if you only have a modicum of interest in your dreams. If you are interested in exploring your dreams even more, then your next stop are these titles as well: Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming Thank you, Ms. Garfield for your contribution.

I read this book for the first time in high school while I was doing research for a term paper. As a by product of that research, I learned how to manipulate my dreams, and best of all, how to fly in them. This has been one of my favorite things to do for the last 30 years. Yes, something I do while asleep. I also learned how to stand up to my fears within the dream, and consequently, in my waking life. Another benefit is that I have dreamed about work, real detailed dreams where I'm sort of reviewing things I have read in manuals and reached conclusions within the dreams that solved problems I was having at work in my waking life. I've gone into work the next day and attempted the procedures (I support computers) that I thought would resolve the problem, and they have! And not just once. This book changed my life.

Patricia Garfield's classic work is one of the landmark books of the century we are now leaving. She takes dreaming out of the hands of tenured "experts" and encourages all to become active explorers of our personal dream experiences, and of dream reality, learning from cultures - especially those of the ancient world and of indigenous peoples - that value dreaming as a source of direct revelation on the critical issues of life and death. Her account of Senoi dream practices (though sniped at by some academic nitpickers as idealized rather than anthropological) provides excellent guidance on braving up to nightmare terrors and forging alliances with dream allies who may at first appear as adversaries.I vividly remember discovering "Creative Dreaming" soon after it first appeared in the mid-1970s. I felt as if this queenly, elegant woman had picked up a sledgehammer and broken away some of the chains that had fettered our society's appreciation of what is actually going on in dreaming, and why we need to recover the ancient arts of dream incubation and dream healing. Patricia's book encouraged me to follow my own path as a dream teacher with greater courage and openness, and was a vital early influence in the research and practice that eventually led me to write CONSCIOUS DREAMING and the books that have followed. Before I ever met her in ordinary reality, she appeared several times in my dreams both as a guide and as a kind of anima figure. Thank you, Patricia, for all you have contributed to the rebirth of a dreaming culture - a dream I profoundly hope we will see fulfilled in the 21st century.

In this book,not only does Garfield explore the various issues surrounding dreams,she also gives many anecdotes drawn from dreamers' experiences. The language is readable, and the explanations - especially those on lucid dreaming - clear and concise. She minimises academic jargon yet does not "talk down" to the reader. I enjoyed this book and have re-read it many times.

Changing your life by making changes in your dreams is the most elegant solution to the struggles of living. This book is still in print because it is great. It ranks right up with the books on NLP and make a very good companion to them