Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion, a cobweb of no consequence at all.  Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: one gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies. But those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if only mortals know them.

                    Penelope, in The Odyssey

 

• “The Varieties of Religious Dream Experience” (introduction to Visions of the Night)

• “Reflections on the Dream Traditions of Islam” (  article)

•  “Snakes” (chapter 2 from Spiritual Dreaming)

•  Dreams: A Reader on the Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming (edited book)

•  Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, Psychology (book)

• Spiritual Dreaming: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Journey (book)

• The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Dimensions of Dreams in Modern Western Culture (book)

Contact Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.