Dream Wise

Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams

By: Deborah Stewart Jungian Analyst Jungian Analyst, Joseph Lee Jungian Analyst Jungian Analyst, Lisa Marchiano LCSW

Narrated by: Lisa Marchiano LCSW

An unprecedented, dreamwork-centered guide for exploring and understanding your dreams, presented by three Jungian analysts and the hosts of the podcast This Jungian Life

With Dream Wise, three expert teachers bring you a resource like none before it—a comprehensive, step-by-step guide synthesizing Carl Jung’s renowned theories with the best approaches of those who have followed in his footsteps. Ideal for every level of experience, Dream Wise is for all who are ready to meet “the faithful other, the dream maker, who visits each night with gifts of wisdom.”

The goal is to do dreamwork, not just learn about it…

“Your dreams offer a wealth of wisdom and wonder,” explain the authors. “They are one of the best, most reliable ways to get to know our mysterious depths. But you must—quite literally—rise to meet them. Sustained dreamwork facilitates a dialogue between the surface and the depths and is an essential aid in our process of unfolding.”

In Dream Wise, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee transform the most useful dreamwork concepts and principles into a unique series of 69 “keys” to unlock the meaning of your dreams, illuminating:

• How dreamwork assists us on the path of becoming whole (what Jung called individuation)
• The three levels of dream imagery: personal associations, factual explanations, and archetypal amplifications
• The shadow—the unconscious, unwelcome aspects of yourself that you can meet and integrate with the help of your dreams
• Animus/anima—the personification of our unrealized possibilities that urges us toward our highest destiny
• The practice of active imagination, Jung’s signature technique for psychological healing and growth
• How to interpret your dreams—including case examples from the authors’ professional practices, 16 daily strategies to boost dream recall, insights into the structure and dynamics of your dreams, and more

“Working with dreams requires flexibility, fluidity, and fluency in the symbolic, but above all, it should be enlivening,” say the authors. Dream Wise gives you a trustworthy map for exploring the vast reaches of your dreams… an exciting new path to creativity and healing… and a faithful compass to your true becoming.

Clarifying and Illuminating

I have been a lifelong dreamer and have read many books on dreams. This book offered several new concepts for me and helped to clarify older concepts with concise explanations and interesting examples.

Wise ways to understand dreams

This is a fabulous book. The keys create an organized way to approach our dreams with our own personal connotations and symbolism, this requires a commitment to unlocking your own dreams, but the book provides a thorough method to do it. Read by Lisa, the audiobook is excellent.

Amazing book!

I loved this book! I especially love the chapter on Active Imagination! All the techniques they laid out were new to me from playing the role of the dream figure to prequel and sequel.

I’m VERY excited to try these. They really did a beautiful job.

Oh and the chapter where you give a practical example of using multiple keys is incredibly valuable.

👏👏👏👏👏👏Bravo!

thought-provoking

This book is most useful in a paper format since it's an excellent reference to go back to again and again. Lisa, however, has done an amazing job reading the book for the audio version, giving readers like me many aha moments and encouraging me to take notes. I got inspired to start my own dream journal! thank you for this wonderful and thoughtful book!

Dreaming of The Self

I'm what the book describes as a "prolific dreamer" I never understood the meaning nor the reasoning behind them. In fact, I feared them because colonialism taught my people that they were evil. The past few years I've recorded them as an act of bravery to face them. While reading this book, it was the first time I've not only understood my dreams but I seen myself in them. How could I ever fear parts of myself? How could I deny messages I take a huge part in crafting?
Thank you for listening to your dreams and writing this book. I am now off to make manifest my own. 🙏🏽 Angelus