Nightmare Encyclopedia Lists Your Darkest Fears
The Nightmare Encyclopedia is a new book, published by NewPageBooks.com at $19.99. It doesn’t need much explanation, so I’ll just quote a bit of the press release. If you really want more, there’s a link below.
BELLINGHAM, MA, (PRWEB) November 17, 2005 - Everyone dreams, and everyone can recall a nightmare that shook them to their core. The Nightmare Encyclopedia: Your Darkest Dreams Interpreted explores the influence nightmares have had in literature, art, music, and film; the psychological and physiological theories behind sleep and dreaming; and hundreds of interpretations to common nightmare images such as fire, battles, drowning, being chased, and many others.
“Though not everyone remembers their dreams, nightmares we don’t forget so easily,” said Jeff Belanger, co-author of The Nightmare Encyclopedia. “All dreams have a message we can use to better understand our lives, but nightmares have a message that demands immediate attention. Nightmares have influenced us all, from artists to politicians, athletes to military leaders, and each of us can learn to better understand and interpret our own dreams.”
Many of the world’s traditional societies are taught that our souls leave our bodies and travel to other realms when we dream, so nightmares could be the result of getting lost in one of dreamland’s bad neighborhoods. Some cultures believe that demons can attack and rape human beings in their sleep. Modern psychologists tend to view nightmares as repressed conflicts that return from our unconscious to haunt us in our dreams. We all have questions, and oftentimes our own dreams can give some answers.
