All About Dreams
HarperSanFrancisco, 1998

An overview of Gayle’s work in the last twenty-five years. In addition to instructions on the Dream Interview, you will find a surprising and engrossing history of dream interpretation, a comparative critique of Freud, Jung, and Boss as well as a chapter on understanding various approaches to interpretation via the behaviors and not just the theories of the interpreter. The significant role of the use of dreams in the sciences, arts, and in business is also presented to inspire you. Suggestions for organizing dream study groups and for individual study will support you in mastering the language of dreaming.
ISBN: 0-06-251411-3 (pbk.). To order call: 1-800-331-3761

"Delaney liberates dreamers from the hegemony of the dream expert, so they can appreciate on their own the rich meanings expressed in their dream lives.  All About Dreams is a significant contribution to human self-understanding."
Gordon Globus, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy
University of California Irvine

In Your Dreams: Falling, Flying, & Other Dream Themes
HarperSanFrancisco, 1997

A new kind of dream dictionary that serves as a resource for appropriate questions for common dreams and images for both amateurs and professionals. Fixed interpretations almost always lead dreamers away from the real and personal meaning of a dream.  Instead, one needs to know the right questions to ask in order to discover why a given dreamer dreamt a particular dream on a given night.  Obviously, dreams of, say, cats will have different meanings for people who like cats than for those who  hate them.  Or for those who are allergic to cats or whose cats have just died.  And what about dream cats who are of different breeds and personalities?  If you don't know how to ask yourself the right questions, you'll never learn the language of your own mind in sleep!

Each entry in the book is divided into four sections:

1.  Variations: Consider all the different roles, say, cats could play in a dream.

2.  What Others Have Said: A sometimes serious, sometime humorous look at what Tradition, Freud, Jung, and others have said about a particular image or theme. 

3.  Sample Dreams: Two examples of how my students have worked to interpret a dream about a given image or theme.

4.  What Do YOU Say?  A list of questions tailored to help you find out what your dream about, say, cats means to you. 

Dream themes and images are listed alphabetically so you go directly to your image and find the questions that will lead you to your personal interpretation. Each section begins with instructions for asking fruitful questions for each type of dream element, i.e. settings, people, animals, objects, feelings, actions, and major dream themes.  Many therapists keep this one beside their chairs.
ISBN: 0-06-251412-1 1-800-331-3761

Living Your Dreams
HarperSanFrancisco, 1979, revised 1988, new preface 1996

The classic best-seller on modern, practical dream work. Target your dreams for specific problem solving and enhanced creativity by applying Gayle's method of incubation which her students have been using to assess and solve personal, relationship, and work related problems since 1971. This is a good book to inspire people new to dream study.  The emphasis is on learning that we have a source of insight and creativity of inestimable, practical value within ourselves.
ISBN: 0-06-251446-6 1-800-331-3761

"Thank you for writing Living Your Dreams.  It has opened up continents to me; continents I had thought only accessible through others.  It is gratifying to know that in our dream maker we all have a wise counselor.  In our society we have been taught on so many levels that we are wanting, impoverished, in need of everything from Scientology to Listerine in order to make ourselves whole.  Your book had helped me in the return to the self in the truest sense."
Stephanie Greene,  Brattleboro, VT

"For several years now, I have used dreamwork in Executive Development Programmes for managers and R&D scientists.  I have always found Gayle Delaney's work extremely useful, and have used the ideas and methods from Living Your Dreams to help managers and scientists to solve problems that they faced in the marketplace, in the laboratory, or in their lives."
Francis A. Menezes, Director
Tata Management Training Centre
Pune, India 

Sensual Dreaming: How to Understand and Interpret the Erotic Content of Your Dreams Formerly titled Sexual Dreams. (Men like this book.)
Fawcette Books 1994

Remember those exciting and sometimes embarrassing dreams we all have, including being naked in public and having sex with an unexpected partner? These dreams could be about sex, your relationships, or your work. This book shows you how to use dreams to shed old inhibitions, resolve sexual conflicts, and recognize when sex serves as a metaphor for other issues. It also helps men and women talk about and understand sexuality at a more sophisticated and interesting level.
ISBN: 0-449-90974-3.  This book is temporarily out of print. To be notified when it becomes available, please send your email address to: dreams@gdelaney.com

"Dr. Delaney's deep knowledge of dreams in general, and sensual dreaming  in particular, shines through in this book.  She offers the reader a fascinating tour through the universe of sexual dreams, and she does so with frankness, tact, and sensitivity.  Anyone who reads Sensual Dreaming will gain valuable insight into dreams, sexuality, and human relationships.  Dr. Delaney writes with elegant simplicity, and she entertains as she informs the reader."
Joseph M Natterson, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine
and editor, "Dreams in Clinical Practice"

New Directions in Dream Interpretation 
State University of New York Press 1993

Gayle edited this book which contains seven different approaches to dream interpretation presented by mature, savvy specialists in each area including chapters by Drs. Loma Flowers,  Steve Walsh, Erik Craig, Joe Natterson, John Beebe,  Milton Kramer, Raymond Greenberg, Chester Perlman, and Montague Ullman.  Modern versions of Jungian, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological dream work are presented as actually practiced by mature leaders in each area.  The parallels and differences between the various approaches expands the readers' appreciation of each method.
ISBN: 0-7914-1605-4 (hard), 0-7914-1606-2 (pbk).  To order call: 1-800-666-2211

The Dream Companion

Six audio tapes, and dream recording, incubation, and nightly, weekly, monthly, quarterly: annual review sheets are included in a big three-ringed white notebook. Dream interview cards too. This is a very detailed, step-by-step program for individuals and groups studying on their own. HarperSanFrancisco bought the rights and produced the one-tape version Dream Kit described below. I still have copies of the Dream Companion selling at $50.00 (includes shipping and handling). Send a check made out to Gayle Delaney to Delaney and Flowers Dream Center, 16 Manzanita Place, Mill Valley, CA 94941.  Dreamers outside of the U.S., please add $15 for mailing and send a money order in U.S. Dollars.

"My own life has been profoundly affected by this inner work.  And because of the way in which you have designed The Dream Companion to facilitate individual work, my own dream work has measurably  improved and deepened...  In my private psychotherapy practice I have always encouraged my clients to bring their dreams to therapy.  But truthfully, it wasn't until I intensely began to study and apply your dream interview method that I really felt a solid confidence in my dream skills.

Your interview method has helped to improve my therapy skills generally.  It is a wonderfully gentle, yet powerfully insightful method of illuminating another's inner experience.

All of this has really been a way of sending you a heartfelt thank you.  I can barely imagine the magnitude of the impact you have had on so many people by simply offering a method of dream work which is accessible, flexible, and motivating--perhaps evolutionary."
Kathleen J. Meadows, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist, Victoria, British Columbia

Breakthrough Dreaming: How to Tap the Power of Your 24-Hour Mind

Here, Gayle Delaney, founder of the Association for the Study of Dreams and dream specialist for over 25 years, offers very detailed techniques for dream interpretation to enhance creativity and to help deal with problems. This book shows how to understand the metaphoric language of dreams through a host of specific examples of actual interpretation dialogues. The Dream Interview Method is taught step-by-step and guides the intermediate and advanced interviewer through common pitfalls by providing strategies to unlock difficult dreams.  Dr. Delaney presents the dream interview process as a method we can learn to use on our own and with others. The goal is to help the reader achieve an open channel between waking and dreaming. This book is the basic teaching manual used at the Dream Center and in Dream Interview Dream Groups.
ISBN: 0-553-35281-4.

"A dazzling performance...The work of a clinically mature and scientifically sophisticated practitioner."
Harry Fiss, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
The School of Medicine of the University of
Connecticut Health Center

"Gayle Delaney has done it again and more.   We've already used her first book in our Creativity class at Stanford and now we will have an even greater power for using dreams than ever.  Reading this book is like being in the hands of one of the great experts on dreams, but then being brought up to her level...  the payoff is that you will begin to access the highest powers of your mind in both waking and sleeping times."
Michael Ray
Professor of Creativity and Innovation and of Marketing
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

"Masterfully organized, lucidly presented...Extraordinarily effective in extracting the meanings expressed in the dreamer's metaphorical sleep language."
Walter Bonime, M.D.
Clinical Professor and Training Analyst
New York Medical College, and author of “The Clinical Use of Dreams”

"This book provides us with structure and guidance to unearth the messages of our dreams.  Delaney helps us all realize this information is accessible to all of us through practical steps that are not beyond anyone's capabilities.  As always, her style and knowledge continue to enlighten us."
Bernard Siegel, M.D.
Author of “Love, Medicine, and Miracles”

"Anyone desiring access to the creativity and common sense that is our nightly birthright will find eminently sensible guidelines for how to proceed in this book."
John Beebe
M.D., Editor of “The C.G. Jung Library Journal”

Temporarily out of print, but available here and there.  Amazon.com still has some copies.  Please write Gayle at 16 Manzanita Place, Mill Valley, CA 94941 or E-mail me if you cannot locate a copy through  library and bookstore search departments. Also, www.amazon.com,  www.greenapplebooks.com, and www.barnesandnoble.com will search on the Internet for you. If I have your E-mail address, I shall notify you when I find a new publisher!

The Dream Kit: An All-In-One Toolkit for Understanding Your Dreams.
Includes Book, Tape & Cards
HarperSanFrancisco

The Dream Kit is a unique effective system for exploring the rich and mysterious world of the sleeping mind. The kit contains a workbook for nightly, weekly, and monthly dream analysis, and a set of laminated question cards that can be used alone or to interview others and provide effective questions for each element of a dream.   These cards are tremendously helpful in learning the Dream Interview Method individually or in groups.

The audiotape contains a general introduction to the world of dreams useful in introducing friends and family who think dreams are nonsense to a better-informed viewpoint and ends with a pleasant sleep induction which can be played anytime you need help falling asleep.

If you would like a copy, send a check for $55.00 to Delaney and Flowers Dream Center, 16 Manzanita Place, Mill Valley, CA 94941. There are about 6 copies left.
ISBN: 0062512846

"I strongly recommend The Dream Kit to everyone.   It reaches down deep into the heart and strengthens the dreamer's own access to herself and her relationships."
Arnold Mindell, Ph.D.
Jungian Analyst, author of “Working with the Dreaming Body”

"Delaney is a pioneer in empowering people with these new and extremely useful tools for understanding the problem-solving functions of the dreaming mind.  The Dream Kit will teach not only lay dreamers, but also psychotherapists how to interpret dreams effectively and with total respect for the private, unique meaning of any individual's dreams.  This portable dream teacher will do much to dispel the old myths about fixed interpretations."
Harry Fiss, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
The School of Medicine of the University of
Connecticut Health Center

Bring Me A Dream
(Video Tape or  DVD)

Drs. Flowers and Delaney discuss and demonstrate the use of dreams for problem solving with four dreamers. Both incubation and the dream interview are presented in this 60 minute video tape.  Taped by Christian Broadcasting Network in 1988 or so.  Please make check for $30.00 payable to Delaney & Flowers, 16 Manzanita Place, Mill Valley, CA 94941.  Dreamers outside of the U.S., please add $15 for mailing and send a money order in U.S. Dollars. Please indicate whether you would like a DVD or a VHS  (USA format) audio tape.

Your Sleeping Genius (formerly titled Breakthrough Dreaming)
(Audio Tape)
Nightingale Conant, 1999

This is a five-tape program which introduces the listener to the various creative and problem-solving aspects of dreaming and includes a small workbook to get one started.  To order call: 1-800-525-9000

Breakthrough Dreaming
(Audio Tape)

A two-tape version of Your Sleeping Genius described above. 
 ISBN: 0-671-53682-6.  Simon & Schuster 1997

Going To Sleep

Now the Day has tired me,
I yearn for the starry night.
May she receive me kindly,
Like a tired child!

Hands, leave your doing,
Brain, leave your thinking-
all my senses
would now sink into slumber.

And the unwatched soul
wants to soar up freely
to live a thousand times more intensely
in the magic circle of night.

From Four Last Songs by Hermann Hesse and Josef Von Eichendorff and put to music by Richard Strauss