Alphabet for Dreamers, An: How to See the World with Eyes Closed

A captivating and trailblazing look at how dreams serve as one of our most powerful ways to understand and radically change our world.Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, An Alphabet for Dreamers provides adult readers with a new grammar for dreams, or what neuroscientist Sidarta Riberio calls oracles of the night. In this book, Sharon Sliwinski restores dreaming to its proper place as an important worldmaking activity, one that offers a gateway to another way of seeing.Each of the short 26 chapters engages a dream from the historical record from both the recent and distant past to show how these experiences can help make sense of profound social conflicts and transform our shared reality.Thinking alongside the dreams of powerful exemplars from Harriet Tubman to contemporary Indigenous activist Abigail Echo-Hawk readers come to understand how dream life is a crucial resource for generating new worlds and new ways of being.The book brings together urgent conc