Visions of the Night Dreams, Religion, and Psychology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Varieties of Religious Dream Experience	1
1	Root Metaphor Dreams	7
2	Dreaming and Conversion	15
3	Where Do Dreams Come From?	23
4	Sharing Dreams in Community Settings	31
5	Dreams and Environmental Ethics	39
6	Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society: A Winnicottian Reading of Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams	47
7	Dreaming Is Play: A Response to Freud	59
8	Gods, REMS, and What Neurology Has to Say about the Religious Meanings of Dreams	67
9	The Evil Dreams of Gilgamesh: Interpreting Dreams in Mythological Texts	77
10	Wisdom's Refuge in the Night: Dreams in The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Richard III	93
11	Dreamily Deconstructing the Dream Factory: The Wizard of Oz and A Nightmare on Elm Street	103
12	Dreams within Films, Films within Dreams	111
13	Dreaming in Russia, August 1991	119
	Postscript on Dreams, Religion, and Psychological Studies	129
	Bibliographical Essays	131
	Freud and Psychoanalysis	131
	Jung and Analytic Psychology	134
	Alternative Clinical Theories about Dreams	137
	Sleep Laboratory Research on REM Sleep and Dreaming	139
	Dreaming and Cognition	141
	Content Analysis	144
	Nightmares	146
	Children's Dreams	148
	Gender and Sexuality	151
	Popular Psychology	154
	Lucid Dreaming	157
	Paranormal Dreams	160
	Cross-Cultural Studies of Dreaming	162
	Dreams, Psychology, and the Humanities	167
	Dreams, Psychology, and Religion	170
	Key Resources in the Study of Dreams	173
	Bibliography	177
	Index	213