Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss

So you've started a dream journal and you've accumulated all these pages and pages of dreams and then you think ... now what? The next step is invariably lots and lots of questioning about precognitive dreams you discover, messages you receive, symbolism that recurs etc. This is the book you need to make sense of all those garbled, tangled thoughts and questions.

Conscious Dreaming is a guide to capturing your dreams and to working with them, with loads of fascinating examples. There are ten chapters with a myriad of themes in each, so the dream you are wondering about is bound to fit in somewhere. Moss' approach is at once pragmatic and yet magical. He takes ideas from Australian aboriginal and Native American traditions and applies them to a dreamworld that is easily recognized.

He also has some pointers for life outside of dream time. I've tried his exercise of asking the universe a question and then taking the next unusual thing that happens as indicative of an answer. Very cool stuff, and this nearly always provokes an Îaha' or two. The answers/events make waking life just as complex to decipher as dream time, oh la la!

Truthfully I haven't done all the exercises included here, or even read the book in sequence. My approach is more improvised, but I like knowing that if I really want to be organized about dreamwork, I have the info here to let me do it. I mean, it shouldn't really be work exactly, should it? By the way, this is one of the favourite dream books of my dream share club and they are super hard to please!

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