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Originally Posted by waves
This book sounds very interesting, Mari. 
Did you buy it / are you reading it?
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HI, Waves,
The author has been busy and has an interesting bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ian_Barasch
Here is an interview with about the book:
http://www.healingdreams.com/interview.htm
Here is part two:
http://www.healingdreams.com/int2.htm
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Barasch: The medieval Hasidic commentator Amoli distinguished between the "Dreamweaver" and the "Master of Dreams." The Dreamweaver produces ordinary dreams, which are a rehash of waking life, what Freud called Tagereste, "the residues of the day." The Dreamweaver is probably close to our conscious mind, or just below it, in the subconscious.
But the Master of Dreams is another story.
The more you look into what Jung called "big" or "numinous" dreams - dreams in which the dreamer is being spoken to - the more you find them infused with great wisdom. These dreams tend to be very vivid, with bright color and intense sounds. You get the sense you've been somewhere else. They're called "clear dreams" in some traditions, "true dreams" or "talking dreams" in others.
When I was trying to sort out my own big dreams, I would tell people, "It was a dream, but it wasn't a dream." I had no language to describe it. But then I studied Jung and looked at other cultures and discovered they all talk about it. Most commonly, they make a distinction between true dreams and ordinary dreams, or big dreams and little dreams.
And the big dreams, the true dreams - whatever you want to call them - seem to come from a Master of Dreams, a source outside ourselves, which appears to be the basis for our idea of God.
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I have too many issues with sleep to add one more thing.
Mari