Dream On: A Dream Dictionary: 1,111 Dreams with Biene the Oracle

Everyone dreams. Almost no one knows what to do with them in the morning.

Most dream books make you look up a symbol. This one lets you start with how the dream felt.

Dream On gathers 1,111 dreams — the ones nearly everyone has, and a thousand more the night gets specific about — and reads each one the way the whole world has learned to: the old dream dictionaries, Freud and Jung, the classical traditions of China, India, and the Islamic science of dreams, a betting window in Buenos Aires, and what the sleep laboratory can (and can't) actually confirm. Ten voices, side by side, allowed to disagree.

And at the end of every entry, one more voice has the last word. The Oracle — Biene, who keeps bees and has, in two thousand years, never once been surprised. She doesn't predict. She doesn't diagnose. She hands the dream back to the only person who can read it: you.

This is a dream book with a conscience. Where a dream touches your health, it says so plainly: a dream about your body is not a diagnosis of it. Where the old traditions reach for doom, it declines to frighten you. It would rather be honest than mysterious — and it's funny where the night is funny, because sometimes a banana is just a banana and the floor is wet.

Look up a falling dream at 3am. Or look up the feeling — mortified, frantic, oddly free — and find every dream that arrives wearing it. Read what ten traditions made of it, hear what Biene says, and go back to sleep.

1,111 dreams. Ten traditions. One oracle who charges less than silence.