Recurring Dream Symbols: Maps to Healing Your Past

by Kathleen Sullivan and Kathleen M. Sullivan

Book Overview

Do you ever wonder why your dreams often contain recurring symbol or themes? Have you been haunted by recurring dreams of being chased, being naked in public or having your teeth fall out? Based on her work with dreamers analyzing their own recurring dream symbols, Kathleen Sullivan explains that working recurrent dreams as a series is the key to unleashing the healing force of these symbols. Fourteen dreamers participate in the study illustrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809141841
• ISBN13: 9780809141845
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The dream that keeps giving

This is one of the best dream books I have read and I have read lots. The author writes in a clear, interesting style that makes it hard to put her work down until you eyes demand a rest. After reading the book I realized that I have been having repetitve dreams for years but had not noticed them as there were not identical. The book will also help you make the paradign shift form seeing repeated figures as representations of characterizations of yourself that need attending to and not get sidetracked by mistaken literalim.

Brilliant Dream Work

I highly recommend Recurring Dream Symbols by Kathleen Sullivan. This book provides techniques that one can immediately apply to their own dream material. Ms. Sullivan, through her excellent teaching and well written book, allows us to witness the growth experienced by 4 men and 10 women dreamers. Her knowledge and passion for dream work is evident in the clarity of her writing, variety of approaches and brilliant dream weaving.I learned by participating in a dream group the value of paying attention to other people's dreams. As you read Recurring Dream Symbols I have no doubt you will recognize and be able to own for yourself much of the material presented.

Dream Gems

Kathleen Sullivan's newest book, Recurring Dream Symbols:Maps to Healing Your Past, reads like a series of short stories. These stories are deceptively simple. I found that I needed to gently remind myself to slow down, so as not to miss the many gems that are discovered within each dream story. I enjoyed playing dream detective, along with the dreamers and Ms. Sullivan, as they explored the dreams. Ms. Sullivan expresses through her writing who she is and how she teaches. By example, she teaches us how to be dream explorers. And throughout the book, each dreamer proves that we can HEAL ourselves by paying attention to recurring dreams.

Sheds Light on Recurring Dreams

Kathleen Sullivan has done an excellent job on a subject that is relatively untouched in the dream field. Not only does she make sense of the hugely different dream series she worked with but she provides an articulate and highly readable overview of what recurring dreams may be trying to help us work through or heal, AND fantastic guidelines for people to begin identifying and working with recurring dream symbols of their own. It was especially intriguing to me to see, as both a reader and a person with a recurring dream series of my own, that working through a dream series is not necessarily a linear process. The whole idea that change and awareness takes place on many different levels at different times, and is not a simple progression from "A" to "B" to enlightened being.This is a breakthrough book on the subject of recurring dreams and is a good read for anyone interested in dreams -- whether yours are repeating or not!

Great book!

This is a wonderful book for people who take their dreams seriously and want to understand them. The heart of the book is the 14 case studies (ten women and four men) whose work on their recurring dreams with the author led them to transform their lives in very positive and inspiring ways. And I found it very interesting and valuable that in these case studies nearly every dream symbol imaginable is discussed and interpreted. In the last fifteen years I have read a lot of books on dreams and this may be the best of them. I highly recommend it.