The amount of material available to dreamwork enthusiasts over the years has gone from almost non-existent in the 1960s to overwhelming in volume today. Dreamwork being, by nature, a field dominated by amateur practitioners, it can be time-consuming filtering out low-value materials from the genuinely insightful, original and well-crafted materials that can be found with some effort.
Below you can find quality resources selected for their value in learning about dreamwork.
The Dreamwork Manual
Strephon Kaplan-Williams
A manual by one of the pioneers of the dreamwork movement in the 1970s. An iconoclastic enfant terrible, he really shook things up and challenged many of psychology's accepted theories of the day. Whether you know it or not, you are deeply indebted to him that dreamwork is what it is today. Out of print. Copies available at Abebooks.
Conscious Dreaming
Robert Moss
This man's unique resumé includes dying twice (clinically) as a child, being trained by an Australian aborigine shaman, abandoning a career as a professor of classics at the University of Melbourne to be a journalist in Europe, and abandoning that career to become a full-time dreamwork teacher. In this -- the first of many books he has written -- he outlines his approach to dreamwork. Due to his shamanic training, his approach is refreshingly free of the limitations of materialistic scientism and mainstream psychology.
The Wisdom of Your Dreams
Jeremy Taylor
Another one of the dreamwork pioneers of the 70s, Jeremy Taylor -- as an ordained Unitarian minister -- takes a decidedly spiritual approach to dreams. His work is full of example dreams from which he draws the wisdom to be found in them.
Working with Dreams
Joan Harthan
An advanced book for people who want to take their dreamwork to the next level. A thin volume full of techniques (games, journaling activities, group activities, art projects, etc.) for engaging with dreams, both individually and as a group.
Dreaming Ahead of Time
Gary Lachman
Hot off the presses at the time this list is being composed. The subtitle is "Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity and Coincidences". Gary Lachman is one of the leading writers on esoteric philosophy and history today: thorough researcher, insightful thinker, skillful writer. (One of his claims to fame is that he was once the bassist for the New Wave band Blondie.)
Our Dreaming Mind
Robert L. Van De Castle
Professor Van De Castle (1927-2014) spent most of his professional life researching and teaching about the psychology of dreaming. He was also another one of the pioneers in the dreamwork movement. This (over 500-page) book is a very broad survey of the field of dream from an academic-ish angle. Topics covered: history of dreams (ancient world to modern), rediscovery of dreams in the 20th century, scientific research on sleep and dreams, psychic element of dreams, spiritual dimension of dreams.
Electric Dreams was an online magazine about all things dream-related that was published monthly for 12 years between 1994 and 2006. Some of the leading lights of the dreamwork movement published articles in this journal over the years. This searchable index gives you access to hundreds of quality articles on a variety of dream-related subjects.
The Dream Network Journal was a print publication from 1982 until 2015. Funding was obtained to create this archive of all issues. Articles can be read online or downloaded.
The International Association for the Study of Dreams (or the IASD) is an organization with a very broad scope, embracing many types of dream-related activities. And its website is a good place to start research.
Henry Reed was among the founders of the dreamwork movement, and did pioneering work with dream sharing and dream incubation. He has also researched and published on psychic faculties and intuition. This is a video interview in which he touches upon all of these.
As mentioned above, Jeremy Taylor was one of the pioneers of the dreamwork movement, and one who was influential in emphasizing its spiritual dimension. He addresses this in this interview.
Stephen LaBerge pioneered research into the phenomenon of lucid dreaming. “What can Lucid Dreaming tell us about consciousness?” is a very wide-ranging interview with him.
The Dream Warrior Blog - mostly dream-related writings
Of Fish, dreams, and blank books - a very old blog posting of mine (on a very old blog) on how to remember and record dreams
Dreams as a spiritual practice - My view on the metaphysics of dreamwork, as I understood it in 2008 (I mostly still stand by this, but I might express it differently now).
Evolving a relationship to fairy tales - A very dream-relevant series of essays on the various approaches that can be taken to fairy tales (classical philology, Romantic criticism, Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, Rudolf Steiner, Werner Zurfluh). You can find all fairy tale-related articles on this blog through this link.
Dreamwork is for healing the world - My “call to action” for anyone who feels the inner calling to practice dreamwork. It’s not just for you. It’s for the world.