Rough list of themes that interest me (WIP):

Dream Interpretation

• Practical manuals, both historical and recent.

• Ancient accounts (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, China)

• Mythic, religious, preternatural, and supernatural accounts

  • The dreams of oneiromancers, oracles, shamans, mystics, priests, kings, and Gods.

  • Visions, prophecies, divine dreams, omens, clairvoyance, revelation.

• Psychoanalytic accounts: Freud, Jung, Rank, Desoille, Durand.

• Artistic and aesthetic aspects

  • Dream's use in artistic movements: Medieval dream poetry, Romanticism, Dada, Surrealism, ...

  • The association of dreams with useful cognitive states: creativity, imagination, insight.

• Dream imagery, symbols, "the language of dreams," poetics of dreams.

Dreams

• Dreams and the human sciences: anthropology of dreams (esp. folklore), cognitive psychology and dreams, etc.

• Similar altered states of consciousness: lucid dreaming, induced dreaming, reverie/daydreaming, somnambulism/sleepwalking, nightmares, night hags and sleep paralysis, trance, hypnosis/mesmerism, the unconscious, hallucinations, delirium, phantasia, opium use, ...

• Dream diaries and dream journals of various people.

• Philosophy of dreams and dreaming: Aristotle, Kant and Swedenborg, Bachelard, Bergson, Benjamin, recent analytic philosophy.