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Advance Praise for Dream-Singers
"You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It's a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it."-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive
Acclaim for Dream Reader
also by Anthony Shafton
"A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it."-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Author of Working with Dreams and Dream Telepathy
"Breathtaking . . . the single most complete and thorough analysis of contemporary dream theories yet written . . . Shafton has a keen sense for what people most want to know about dreams, and an admirable ability to explain difficult concepts without oversimplifying them."-Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., Past President, The Association for the Study of Dreams, Author of The Wilderness of Dreams
Acknowledgments.

PART ONE: A REVERENCE FOR DREAMS.

1. Through the Porthole of Dreams.

PART TWO: THE AFRICAN CONNECTION.

2. Dream Is What We Do: Influences from Africa.

PART THREE: THE FABRIC OF THE DREAM HERITAGE.

3. Grandmother Will Come: Ancestor Visitation Dreams.

4. That Bolt of Lightning: Predictive Dreams.

5. We Got the Signs: Signs in Dreams.

6. Blackonomics: Playing the Numbers from Dreams.

7. I Knew You Were Gonna Say That: Deja Vu and Predictive Dreams.

8. The Underbeat: Dreaming and Other States of Consciousness.

9. Didn't Bother Me None: Experiences at the Edge of Dreaming.

10. Take Me Through: Dreams and Dreamlike States in Religion.

11. All Life Passes Through Water: Dreams in Hoodoo.

12. Little Stirrups: Witches Riding You and Sleep Paralysis.

PART FOUR: DREAMS ABOUT RACE.

13. The Same Old Nightmare: Race in Dreams.

PART FIVE: DREAM SHARING AND THE FUTURE.

14. What My Mother Does: Dream Sharing and the Future.

Appendix A: Index of Interviewees.

Appendix B: Traditional African American Dream Signs.

Appendix C: Technical Details about Policy and Numbers Gambling.

Appendix D: Dream Books for Policy and Numbers Consulted for Chapter 6.

Appendix E: Dream Book Authors and Publishers.

Notes.

References.

Index.