How to Complete a Nightmare: Responding Creatively to Disturbing Dreams

How to Complete a Nightmare asserts that there are no bad dreams. There are only difficult ones, and these dreams intend to help us. Psychologist-trained Len Worley demonstrates that disturbing dreams are part of Nature’s evolutionary push to help us face anything within ourselves that leaves us disempowered, afraid, or weak.

Dr. Worley proposes that even so-called trauma dreams, which remind the dreamer of past hurt, are orchestrated by our deeper intelligence to give us rehearsal time, muc...