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in February 2026.

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  • Publisher : Mind Strength Balance (February 15, 2026)
  • Paperback :  234 pages
  • ISBN-13 (paperback) : 978-1-7381399-7-2 
  • Dimensions :  6 x 9 inches

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Dreaming Yourself Into Being, Disintegration, the Search for Wholeness, and the Creation of Self-Awareness uses dreams as a bridge to the subconscious, exploring how dreams to make you more lucid and aware. The book includes half a dozen hypnotic inductions, that can be downloaded or streamed as MP3 files, to increase your perception.

Dreams are misunderstood as foreign voices, which leads us to see them as repressed reflections of ourselves. They are not voices of what we are but of what we are becoming. Once you have a better understanding of dreams’ contradictory nature, which is to say your own contradictory nature, you can engage in dreaming as a 2-way dialog.

The book is divided into two parts. The first seven chapters explore dream’s functions in relation to how our minds work. The next ten chapters present ways to shape, interact, and understand dreams. Here we’re moving from understanding the function dreams to engaging in creating, interacting with, and benefiting from them.

The last chapter presents six trance inductions aimed at developing your subtle perception. These hypnotic inductions are available to readers as audio files that can be downloaded or streamed as MP3 files from the web. Dreaming Yourself Into Being will be available in print, digital, and audio book formats.

Get a discounted pre-publication copy by sponsoring the January 2026 Kickstarter campaign at:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindstrengthbalance/dreaming-yourself-into-being-a-guide-to-personal-dreamwork

Samples From The Book

Preface

If you don’t understand your dreams, or you don’t dream, don’t despair. You can learn to better remember your dreams (Reed, 1973; Breus, 2019). This book is about why you should. And the reason you should is that dreams can teach you much about yourself. Things you might not learn any other way.

Remembering something of your dreams is better than nothing, but the number of dreams that one can remember is almost unlimited. Of the hours of dreams that each of us has each night, good dream recallers only remember a few minutes. Extensive recall is rare.

It’s funny that we take thinking for granted. We consider thinking the most advanced process in the universe, one we uniquely possess, yet we accept it without question. The first thing to be learned from dreams is that you accept things that you should question.

Some people make a profession of questioning thinking. Most of us don’t as it gets us nowhere. But questioning your meaning and purpose can be valuable. Dreams explore these questions by connecting us to how we feel and what we’re aware of.

To be conscious is to be aware of and play an active role in the reality you’re creating. Dreaming, in its various forms, is a necessary component of consciousness. Where consciousness focuses on how you manage your reality, dreaming focuses on the reality you don’t know how to manage.

Modern psychology has failed to recognize that self-awareness is built from what you were previously unaware of. This issue is deeper than examining the parts, which is only possible when you have parts to examine. Dreams are not put together from bits of meaning, they’re assembled from things we don’t understand.

Dreams are the creation of sense from things that don’t make sense. This precedes reduction, analysis, and interpretation. The premise of this book is that the process of dreaming is an early stage of consciousness. We cannot interpret dreams based on symbols, analysis, and language because they barely exist in dreams. Dreams create these things.

Consciousness emerges from nothing, begins with perception, and leads to awareness. Dreams are a small window into the process of emerging awareness. They must be understood using something more basic than waking consciousness. It must be this way.