Dreams Do Come True: Decoding Your Dreams to Discover Your Full Potential

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Summary: No more nightmares!
Review: Dreams Do Come True is all about change. The greatest discovery for me in reading this book was how my nightmares can work for me.

I have always been a person who was afraid of nightmares. Now I am using them as vehicles to discover something about myself! So while I might still wake upset, now I set right to figuring out what the heck that was about!

The author opens the door to understanding dreams. No more dream dictionaries for me. I find the subject absolutely fascinating. And she writes like she's talking right to you.

An easy read and yet very enlightening.

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Summary: Great book! Highly recommended.
Review: Dreams Do Come True: Decoding Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential is more than your typical dream book. It really taught me how to decode a specific dream and helped me understand why I had that dream on a certain night.

In this book, Layne Dalfen shows how we are problem-solving in our dreams. She explains how the dream is always about something that pertains to what is on our mind during a particular day or week.

This book taught me how to recognize a current issue within a dream and how to identify a solution to that issue based on the content of the dream and my own feelings towards the issue.

I feel that after reading this book I am better equipped to figure out on my own the meanings behind the dreams I have.

I really enjoyed this book and I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Intriguing and Informative
Review: I have just finished reading Dreams Do Come True, which I found very intriguing and informative. It gives the readers practical tools to begin the journey of interpreting and understanding the meaning of their dreams. I enjoyed Layne Dalfen's conversational and friendly manner to write about her life experience with dream interpretation. Her book opens a door for the readers to walk out into the field and see the landscape of their own personal human experience, and is an invitation to explore it.

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Summary: Refreshing and revealing
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Dreams Do Come True: Using Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential. Ms. Dalfen really shows you how to get inside yourself by understanding your dreams.

For a lot of people this isn't necessarily an easy thing to do because some might not like everything they see, but the author gives us the inspiration by showing us how she did it herself. And you know, maybe she didn't like everything she found either, but she got through it. This was the main thing that showed me that I could do the same.

This isn't like those other feel good self help books. If you really want to put in the hard work it takes to understand yourself and change your life Layne gives you the tools to do it.

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Summary: Refreshing and revealing
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Dreams Do Come True: Using Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential. Ms. Dalfen really shows you how to get inside yourself by understanding your dreams. For a lot of people this isn't necessarily an easy thing to do because some people might not like everything they see, but the author gives us the inspiration by showing us how she did it herself. And you know, maybe she didn't like everything she found either, but she got through it. This was the main thing that showed me that I could do the same. This isn't like those other feel good self help books. If you really want to put in the hard work it takes to understand yourself and change your life Layne gives you the tools to do it.

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Summary: Refreshing and revealing
Review: I thouroughly enjoyed Dreams Do Come True:Using Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential. Ms. Dalfen really shows you how to get inside yourself by understanding your dreams.

For a lot of people this isn't necessarily an easy thing to do because some people might not like everything they see, but the author gives us the inspiration by showing us how she did it herself. And you know, maybe she didn't like everything she found either, but she got through it. This was the main thing that showed me that I could do the same.

This isn't like those other feel good self help books. If you really want to put in the hard work it takes to understand yourself and change your life, Layne gives you the tools to do it.

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Summary: My personal review of Ms Dalfen's book
Review: I was struck by how well it is written and
how she laid out the ideas and theories
in such logical sequence. It's easy reading,
but very meaty, at the same time. I enjoyed
her personal anecdotes, as well as other
examples that she gave as demonstrations.
The graphs are very helpful, too. And, even though there is
a lot of serious material in the book, it's not
intimidating or overwhelming, as it could easily
have become.

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Summary: Wonderfully practical guide
Review: I've been interested in dreams for a long time. I've read many of the "classics" in the field-The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud, also Jung, Perls, etc. These books are usually more theoretical in tone. If you're looking for practical guidance on how to understand your dreams, Dreams Do Come True by Layne Dalfen is a better choice because she includes many of the ideas of these classics, but in a down-to-earth form you can use.

I liked Layne's book because she gives various approaches to understanding and using your dreams. A lot of other authors will give you a pretty rigid set of steps to follow, and if they don't work for you, tough luck. (Even worse, dream dictionaries tell you exactly what your dream means, regardless of who you are or what your life experiences have been!) Layne gives you different approaches and exercises to try, so if one doesn't work you can try another. Or you can go through all the exercises with your dream, so that you keep arriving at a new, deeper understanding of the dream. And once you know what the dream means, Layne also gives you different exercises for using your dream to work out your problems and improve your life.

Of the different self-help books I've read, this is one of the few that really help. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Wonderfully practical guide
Review: I've been interested in dreams for a long time. I've read many of the "classics" in the field-The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud, also Jung, Perls, etc. These books are usually more theoretical in tone. If you're looking for practical guidance on how to understand your dreams, Dreams Do Come True by Layne Dalfen is a better choice because she includes many of the ideas of these classics, but in a down-to-earth form you can use.

I liked Layne's book because she gives various approaches to understanding and using your dreams. A lot of other authors will give you a pretty rigid set of steps to follow, and if they don't work for you, tough luck. (Even worse, dream dictionaries tell you exactly what your dream means, regardless of who you are or what your life experiences have been!) Layne gives you different approaches and exercises to try, so if one doesn't work you can try another. Or you can go through all the exercises with your dream, so that you keep arriving at a new, deeper understanding of the dream. And once you know what the dream means, Layne also gives you different exercises for using your dream to work out your problems and improve your life.

Of the different self-help books I've read, this is one of the few that really help. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Hidden messages
Review: While I think that traditional dream interpretation may be an over-analysis of random brain impulses, certainly certain poignant events during the day can trigger dreams that deliver secret messages to us.

After reading Layne Dalfen's book, I had a nightmare. I was able to discern a warning in the dream, a warning about an issue that was bothering me and that I hadn't dealt with.

Perhaps dreams are sometimes messages and sometimes random, but a really memorable dream is worth examining. If there is a hidden message there, "Dreams Do Come True" can help you find what you might be telling yourself.