📚 Dreams

The nightly cinema of the brain: what dreams seem to be made of, what research says they are for, and the long history of trying to read them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject dreams in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Die Traumdeutung	Sigmund Freud	1899	141
	Dream Psychology	Sigmund Freud	2017	46
	Forbidden Flowers	Nancy Friday	1975	24
	An experiment with time	John William Dunne	1927	22
	What's in a dream	Gustavus Hindman Miller	1901	21
	Das Dritte Reich des Traums	Charlotte Beradt	1966	21
	Man and His Symbols	Carl Gustav Jung	1964	18
	Gegenwart und Zukunft	Carl Gustav Jung	1957	13
	Why We Sleep	Matthew P. Walker	2017	11
	The dream game	Ann Faraday	1974	10
	Your dreams & what they mean	Nerys Dee	1984	9
	Dictionary of Dreams	Gustavus Hindman Miller	1984	9
	The complete idiot's guide to interpreting your dreams	Marci Pliskin	1998	8
	The dream book	Betty Bethards	1985	7
	Zolar's encyclopedia and dictionary of dreams	Zolar.	1963	6
	Book of dreams, numbers, and lucky days	Zolar.	1985	6
	Creative dreaming	Patricia L. Garfield	1975	5
	Lucid dreaming	Stephen LaBerge	1985	5
	Inner Work	Robert A. Johnson	1986	5
	Understand your dreams	Alice Anne Parker	1991	5
	Dream Spells	Claire Nahmad	1994	5
	Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams	Sylvia Browne	2002	5
	Edgar Cayce on dreams	Harmon Hartzell Bro	1968	4
	The Inner Eye	Joan Windsor	1985	4
	Lucid dreams in 30 days	Keith Harary	1989	4
	清醒梦	Stephen LaBerge	1990	4
	The dream encyclopedia	James R. Lewis	1995	4
	Drommenes dimensioner	Ole Vedfelt	1998	4
	The complete dream book	Gillian Holloway	2001	4
	The dreamer's dictionary	Robinson, Stearn Lady.	1974	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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