Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Varieties of Religious Dream Experience
1. Root Metaphor Dreams
2. Dreaming and Conversion
3. Where Do Dreams Come From?
4. Sharing Dreams in Community Settings
5. Dreams and Environmental Ethics
6. Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society: A Winnicottian Reading of Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams
7. Dreaming Is Play: A Response to Freud
8. Gods, REMS, and What Neurology Has to Say about the Religious Meanings of Dreams
9. The Evil Dreams of Gilgamesh: Interpreting Dreams in Mythological Texts
10. Wisdom's Refuge in the Night: Dreams in The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Richard III
11. Dreamily Deconstructing the Dream Factory: The Wizard of Oz and A Nightmare on Elm Street
12. Dreams within Films, Films within Dreams
13. Dreaming in Russia, August 1991
Postscript on Dreams, Religion, and Psychological Studies
Bibliographical Essays
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Jung and Analytic Psychology
Alternative Clinical Theories about Dreams
Sleep Laboratory Research on REM Sleep and Dreaming
Dreaming and Cognition
Content Analysis
Nightmares
Children's Dreams
Gender and Sexuality
Popular Psychology
Lucid Dreaming
Paranormal Dreams
Cross-Cultural Studies of Dreaming
Dreams, Psychology, and the Humanities
Dreams, Psychology, and Religion
Key Resources in the Study of Dreams
Bibliography
Index