Making of the Book
Needless to say, the Universal Dream Key book
project has involved many years of research. The ideas behind this
research are described in the Introduction,
About Universal Dreams. But there is also a physical story of people
and dreams,
machines and media, conferences and conversations. This part of the story
is presented to acknowledge those relationships and offer guidance to
those who are planning dream research, either online or off.
I. Collecting Data
As mentioned in the introduction the survey
reflected the 12 Universal Dream Themes that I had developed from my analysis of the
worldwide
collections of thousands of dreams, a synthesis of the professional literature on dream
content, and my own 50-year-long dream diary.
II. Getting Participants.
The
survey was placed online at my website,
and notices were sent out to both online and offline sources, including
Usenet Newsgroups related to dreams and dreaming, Electric Dreams e-zine,
the Association for the Study of Dreams,............
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Making of the Book
