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The Committee of Sleep - How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving-And How You Can Too (Paperback)
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The Committee of Sleep - How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving-And How You Can Too (Paperback)
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is
resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on
it." --John Steinbeck Scientific research confirms what people have
always known: answers, ideas, and inspiration do come to us in
dreams. Harvard psychologist and world-renowned dream specialist
Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., offers this rich collection of examples of
how the world's most creative practitioners in art, music, film,
science, literature and other fields have used the revelations of
their dream life to inform their work. Dr. Barrett offers insights
showing us how to encourage lucid, meaningful dreaming, and how to
apply the meanings of our dreams to solving problems--from the
everyday to the extraordinary. This is the stuff dreams are made
of. In the visual arts, Jasper Johns couldn't find his unique
artistic vision until he dreamed it in the form of a large American
flag. Salvador Dali and his colleagues built the startling new
genre of surrealism out of dreams. Kubla Kahn dreamed the design
for his stately pleasure dome; thousands of years later, Lucy
Davis, chief architect at a major firm, continues the tradition of
dreaming designs into life in her extraordinary buildings. Film is
a fertile avenue for dreams: "Twice I have transferred dreams to
film exactly as I had dreamed them," confides director Ingmar
Bergman, as have Federico Fellini, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa,
Robert Altman, and John Sayles. From Mary Shelley's terrible
nightmare, which became Frankenstein, to Stephen King's haunting
dream as a little boy, which led to his first bestseller, countless
writers have consulted the Committee. Musicians from Beethoven to
Billy Joel and Paul McCartney have whistled the Committee's tunes.
In science, physiologist Otto Loewi dreamed the medical experiment
that earned him the Nobel Prize. In sports, Marion Jones dreamed
she'd broken a world record, then brought the dream to life. Gandhi
translated his dream of resistance into a movement that changed the
world. Since Freud, we take it for granted that our dreams reflect
our past. In The Committee of Sleep, Barrett reveals how dreams can
also tell us about our future potential--and how to reach it. Read
this book, sleep on it, and see what transpires Deirdre Barrett,
Ph.D., is on the psychology faculty of Harvard Medical School. She
is the author of the widely acclaimed The Pregnant Man: And Other
Cases from A Hypnotherapist's Couch.Supernormla Stimuli, anf
Waistland. She is Past President of both the International
Association for the Study of Dreams and The Society for
Psychological Hypnosis. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Dreaming, and has published numerous professional articles and
chapters on dreams. Her commentary on dreams has been featured on
NBC, Life Magazine, Self, and other national venues. She has
lectured on dreams in the U.S., Russia, Kuwait, Israel, England,
and Holland. "This fascinating and balanced compendium is the first
critical examination of the tricky subject of the role of dreams
and dreaming in creative life--a question which has been pondered
since antiquity. Dr. Barrett draws vividly and eloquently on the
world's literature as well as her own clinical experience; one
leaves this book with much more respect for sleep and dreaming."
--Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
and An Anthropologist From Mars
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