The Scribes of Sleep: Insights from the Most Important Dream Journals in History

Dream journals are a powerful resource for psychological and spiritual discovery, with contemporary dream science showing that analyzing a series of dreams over time can provide more information. The Scribes of Sleep is the first book to gather historical and cross-cultural evidence of the value of dream journals as sources of healing, religious experience, and metaphysical insight.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 20 July 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Dream journals hold immense potential for psychological and spiritual exploration. Recent advancements in dream science have revealed that analyzing a series of dreams over time can provide far more insightful information than studying individual dreams alone. Many individuals have recognized this truth and have diligently maintained dream journals for years, even decades, extracting profound guidance from the patterns they uncovered. The Scribes of Sleep, the first book to compile historical and cross-cultural evidence highlighting the therapeutic, religious, and metaphysical benefits of dream journals, takes readers on a captivating journey. Dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley showcases seven remarkable individuals who kept dream journals: Aelius Aristides, Myoe Shonin, Lucrecia de León, Emanuel Swedenborg, Benjamin Banneker, Anna Bonus Kingsford, and Wolfgang Pauli. Given the intricate and multifaceted nature of dreams, particularly when viewed in a series, Bulkeley adopts an interdisciplinary approach to unravel their meanings, drawing from data science, depth psychology, and religious studies. As these diverse methods converge and shed light on one another, it becomes evident that the practice of keeping a dream journal fosters specific qualities of religiosity, guiding dreamers toward more individualistic, mystical, and pluralistic directions. This transformative journey ultimately leads to the development of a free spirit.

Weight: 452g
Dimension: 164 x 244 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197609606