Montague Ullman, M.D., author of the Cosimo-on-Demand book Appreciating Dreams, is presenting a paper at the fifth annual online Psiber Dreaming Conference, in progress now and running through October 8. Events and papers to be presented include:

  • • The Physics of Psi Dreaming, featuring papers by Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Mark Schroll
  • • Spanish language thread with featured paper by Drs. Stanley Krippner and Rosa Anwandter
  • • Dream Telepathy and Precognitive Dreaming Contests
  • • and an all new Virtual Dream Ball

At Cosimo we’re terribly interested in the borderland between psychology and the paranormal, and so there are a few books about dreams in our backlist. In addition to Appreciating Dreams — which is about exploring our nighttime visions in a trusting small-group setting — we also offer Families and the Interpretation of Dreams, by Edward Bruce Bynum, an intriguing discussion of how family dynamics express themselves in our dreams.

Our untapped psychic abilities were of tremendous interest to the parapyschologists and New Thought philosophers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, too. In the two-volumes-in-one A Handbook of Dreams and Fortune-Telling, from Cosimo Classics, early pop astrologer Zadkiel presents a dictionary-style guide, dating from the mid 19th century, to interpreting your nocturnal hallucinations. And the 1897 work The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, by legendary folklorist Andrew Lang, explores how the dead supposedly manifest themselves through our dreams.

All together, these four books represent a fascinating look at how our understanding of our ability to dream — and our wisdom in interpreting our dreams — has evolved from one based in the supernatural to one rooted in science.

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