Dreams

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern 20th Century dream science, Nobel Prize winning author and metaphysician Henri Bergson provides a deep and profound picture of how dreams reside within the collective unconscious. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding our true spiritual nature. Henri Bergson, an early 20th century French philosopher of the modernist period and Noble Prize winner, provides a profound analysis of the true metaphysical nature of dreams. Bergson begins this short book on dreams as follows "Before the dawn of history mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming. The wise man among the ancients was preeminently the interpreter of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the quickest road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; failure to give satisfaction in this respect led to banishment from court or death. When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian mound where it has lain buried for five thousand years or more, the chances are that it will turn out either an astrological treatise or a dream book." We are honored to publish this new quality paperback edition of a timeless classic.