Publisher's Synopsis
Almost everything we are told about dreaming is wrong. I want to set the record straight, and present you with the truth.Hi, my name is Derek Lee, and I have invested decades of work into bringing you this book. The F-Model of Dreaming is a unique presentation of my own conclusions regarding "what dreaming is" as well as a curation of many of the brightest ideas I have been blessed with finding along my journey.We use the term "dreams" to signify our wishes and desires, and this mis-conception is so engrained in our cultural heritage that Freud invented a system of dream interpretation to make sense of the fact that, when examined closely, dreams are typically anything but our manifest wishes. However, Freud made some giant errors (even though we owe him much). Dreaming is something very different from that which we would want to happen in our waking lives. Falling, fleeing, fighting, and a number of generic failures and mis-fortunes are the normal themes within dreams. This is true now and always has been, as evidenced by the earliest writings and artifacts regarding dreams.In my lifelong pursuit of the question "What are dreams?," I found that the dreaming mind is intertwined with our fables, fairy tales, philosophies, and religions. I re-discovered an ancient language used by the mind to speak to itself in the darkness of sleep. It turns out that dreaming can be understood by the "fight or flight" adage, combined with a host of other F-words. How convenient. And the cornerstone of the dreaming model I present is etched with two words: Failure & Fortitude. Rather than exist as a useless cacophony of neural noise, dreams actually prepare the waking mind for survival.Drawing from years of research and piecing together thousands of clues, I have curated for you the most complete story on the nature of dreaming. This includes not only a pithy history of dream theories and musings, but also the latest findings in cognitive-behavioral science, lucid dreaming, and even suggestions on how to get the most out of your relationship with your own dreams. Everything leading up to and including Freud's seminal work--The Interpretation of Dreams--and Jung and other colleagues after him, up through elucidations shared by Richard Feynman and Stephen LaBerge, and the breakthroughs that instigated Alcoholics Anonymous and CBT Therapy are all in here.For those with both a casual interest in dreaming, psychology, philosophy, and/or neuroscience, and for those who believe they have exhausted any of these topics, I think you will find plenty of gems in The F-Model of Dreaming. Oh, I also explain Consciousness through a N.O.V.E.L. conceptualization in this book. Yea, it's well worth the effort to obtain and finish this work.I'll see you inside.
