Dreams have changed the world. Famous writers, composers and scientists have cited their dreams as inspiring their creations.
Mary Shelley had an idea haunting her “midnight pillow.” The next morning she wrote, “I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others.” Voila Frankenstein.
During the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe had a dream-vision of the Union victory. This inspired her to write “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Paul McCartney woke up one morning with a tune in his head. He sat at the piano and plunked out one of the best songs of the 20th century, “Yesterday.”
When Danish physicist Niels Bohr was trying to figure out the structure of the atom, none of his designs fit. Finally in his dreams he saw the nucleus of the atom with the electrons spinning around it. Result? In 1922 he won the Nobel Prize in physics.
Your dreams carry important messages too. In WHAT DO MY DREAMS TELL ME?, Dr. Janice Baylis, a credentialed teacher and retired reading specialist with a Ph.D. in psychology, will teach you how to interpret and apply those messages. She has taught dream study courses at several community colleges. Her students there urged her to write her first book, Sleep on It! The Practical Side of Dreaming (1977).
Dr. Baylis just published her fifth book, Dream Dynamics and Decoding-Personal, Practical, Powerful Messages. A charter member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, she is preparing her 10th presentation for the I.A.S.D. conference this June.
In her OLLI class, she will use Power Point presentations, lecture, and practice exercises in associative thinking to help you mine your dreams for self-growth, improving relationships, problem-solving and other practical benefits.
Instead of a rehash of Freud or Jung, in this course you will discover how your dreams can enrich and enlarge your life.
Course prerequisites? Pay attention to your dreams.
