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Originally developed from Jill Gregory's Novato Center for Dreams Resource List, these resources have been researched & updated by Richard Wilkerson and Peggy Coats as a summary as of the Fall of 1996.

Bibliographies

Barrett, Deirdre (1993). The "Committee of Sleep": A study of dream incubation for problem solving. Dreaming, 3(2), 115-122.

Blagrove, Mark (1992). Dreams as the reflection of our waking concerns and abilities: A critique of the problem-solving paradigm in dream research. Dreaming 2(4), pp. 205-220.

Delaney, Gayle M. V.(1988). Living Your Dreams: using sleep to solve problems and enrich your life. Revised Ed. San Francisco: Harper and Row.

Living Your Dreams (1979). San Francisco: Harper & Row.

A proposed dream experiment: Phase-focusing dream incubation. Sundance: Community Dream Journal, 1(1), 71-83 (1976).

Devereux, George (1957). Dream learning and individual ritual differences in Mohave shamanism. American Anthropologist, 59, 1036-1045.

Gregory, Jill. (1988). Dream Tips. Novato, Ca: Novato Center for Dreams.

Meier, Carl Alfred (1966/1962). The dream in ancient Greece and its use in temple cures (incubation). In Von Gruenebaum, G. E.& Caillois, R. (Eds). (1966).

The Dream and Human Societies (Chapter 17, pp. 303-319). Berkeley: University of California Press. Originally a paper read to the "International Colloquium on 'Le reve et les societes humaines'" in Royaumont, France, 1962.

Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Original German, 1949) (1967/1949).

Radin, Paul (1936). Ojibwa and Ottawa puberty dreams. In R. H. Lowie (Ed.),Essays in Anthropology (pp. 233-264). Berkeley, CA: University of Cal Press.

Reed, Henry (1991). Dream Solutions: Using your Dreams to Change your Life. San Rafael, CA: New World Library. PO Box 1541, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Getting Help From Your Dreams.Virginia Beach, VA: Inner Vision Publishers (1985).

Dream incubation: A reconstruction of a ritual in contemporary form. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 16(4), 53-70 (1976a.).

Schatzman, Morton (1987). The meaning of dreaming. New Scientist, December 25, 36-39.

Solve your problems in your sleep. New Scientist, 98 (1360) June, 692-693 (1983a).

Sleeping on problems really can solve them. New Scientist, August 11, 416-417 (1983b).

About the Author:

Richard Wilkerson is general editor for The Internet Dream E-zine, Electric Dreams, and director of DreamGate, the Internet Communications and Dream Education Center. He writes the Cyberphile column for the Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter.