Years before I completed my dissertation "Dreaming & Stress Coping in Cancer Patients" in fulfillment of my PhD in Social-Personality Psychology, I was keeping a computer-based dream diary, logging in over 2,000 typed pages of text about 750 of my most significant dreams. I also published a novel based in real events about the relationship between dreaming & waking experiences and the struggle of four scholars to pursue the truth about dreaming in an academic culture inhospitable to the study of dreams.

I composed a series of essays addressing frequently asked questions about dreams.

http://www.fireflySun.com/book/DREAM_FAQ.php

Discussions include:

1. Relating the content / characteristics of dream experiences with blood chemistry, coping styles, and symptomatology in cancer patients.
2. Addressing the role of symbolism in the psychological economy.
3. The role of mathematical operations in interpreting dreams that include numbers.
4. Discrediting dyspeptic skeptics, slouches, and other sources of prejudice against dreaming
5. Proposing empirical concepts for a science of dreams analogous to meteorology.

I hope you enjoy it.