title: Waking Dream Therapy: Dream Process as Imagination
author: Gerald N. Epstein
description: The essential action of a waking dream is to take over where a dream has left off, continuing its story with the client awake and engaged. The momentum continues by bringing the insights into waking life. There is a natural integration and Unity that occurs in the right and left hemispheres of the brain and in all levels of one's being. Reading this book reminds me of why I love working in the Imaginal realm of healing so much.<i>- ImagiNews, The Journal of Imagery International 9/2012. Reviewed bySusan Ezra, RN, HN-BC </i>
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  Chapter One
   
   Hammering my fist against the back of my closet wasn't one of my more pleasant dreams. Actually, it
  hurt. The pain broke through my comfortable sleepy haze, and I felt the primitive part of me that never
  slept coolly measuring my slow gathering of will as I tried to wake up. With an eerie feeling of
  disconnection, I watched it happen, even as in my dream I tore the clothes off the rod and threw them to
  my rumpled bed.
   Something, though, wasn't right. I wasn't waking up. The dream wasn't passively shredding into
  hard-to-remember bits. And with a jolt I realized I was conscious but not awake.
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   What in hell? Something was really, really wrong, and instinct sent a pulse of adrenaline thorough me,
  demanding I wake. But I didn't.
   My breath was quick and ragged, and after I emptied the closet, I dropped to the floor and ta