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   From: the_johnsmith@ntlworld.com   
      
   "CoreyWhite"  wrote in message   
   news:1180392087.846733.276840@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...   
   >I came home today without going to the gym, or doing much of anything   
   > aside from eating a plate of cobbler.  When  came home I took a nap   
   > for 4 hours, and awoke with the urge to read a book.  I would like to   
   > read a book about dreaming.  Perhaps about a man so obssesed with   
   > dreaming that he kept a dream journal every night, and wandered off   
   > into his dreams eventually.  Waking up in the mornings only to find he   
   > was still dreaming, until one day he discovered he thought he had   
   > woken only to find himself dreaming, and he never woke back up.  He   
   > lived his life from that point on in the shadows between dreams & the   
   > real world.  Finding himself still meeting the people he knew, but   
   > seeing them as nightmares.  Left only perhaps with a guidepost to help   
   > him make his way back to the real world.  A map through the astral,   
   > where he finds his way to the old fairytales, and myths.  Finally   
   > meeting archetypes representing secret gods, and like the wizard of Oz   
   > they help him back to the real world.. But unfortunately he is to   
   > discover the years have past him by, and ever single change, every   
   > last mistake he made in his dreams because he neglected to think of   
   > themn as real had changed the world and he was left in a world full of   
   > living nightmares..  So he decides that the only thing he can do is go   
   > back into the shadows & face his demons again.   
   >   
   > Anyone know of a book like this?  I like Neil Gaiman, and am reading   
   > his latest book of short stories now.  The main trouble I have with   
   > reading a book like this, other than not being able to write it, is   
   > I'm not very good at reading.  I'm listening to audio books on i-   
   > tunes.  The book Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is perhaps something like   
   > this story.. but they don't have it available for download.   
   >   
   > Any good book recomendations about dreaming?   
   >   
      
      
   Ever read Ursula K. LeGuin's "Lathe of Heaven"?   
      
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lathe-Heaven-Millennium-SF-Masterworks/d   
   /1857989511/ref=sr_1_1/202-5437363-1220606?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1   
   80396224&sr=1-1   
      
   A teaser: "The uncomfortably gifted George Orr is desperately drugging   
   himself to avoid sleep, because he knows his dreams can change the world.   
   Psychiatrist Dr Haber begins with good intentions of curing Orr, but when he   
   finds he can shape Orr's "effective dreams" and force his own wishes into   
   reality, the lure of power is too much..."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)