NY Times Bestselling Author Reviews David Rivinus’s “Always Dreaming”

Julia Ingram, the New York Times bestselling author of “The Messengers” wrote an extensive review of dream analyst David Rivinus’s book “Always Dreaming.” The review first appeared in the New Age magazine, “The Connexion,” and can be read in its entirety on Rivinus’s website (URL listed below). 

In her comments, Ingram calls “Always Dreaming” a “unique addition to the fascinating process of dream interpretation.” She is especially taken with Rivinus’s idea that dreaming does not stop when we awaken in the morning. Ingram says, “He uses the term ‘Waking Dream’ to describe certain events in our lives that are particularly ‘shocking, bizarre or repetitive.’ He encourages his friends and clients to interpret ‘real life’ events just as one would interpret a nighttime dream.” 

Ingram notes that the concept of the waking dream is radical. She writes, “I want to introduce this part of my review by first noting that as I read several online reviews of ‘Always Dreaming,’ it was clear that even though I believe the author very clearly explains the concept of the waking dream, a lot of readers did not grasp the concept, and misunderstood him to be talking about day dreams.” 

Ingram refers to examples of waking dreams that Rivinus highlights in “Always Dreaming,” especially an incident that Rivinus uses to open his book: The car of a young man named Austin crashes through a three-foot retaining wall. Ingram writes, “The author helped Austin to look at each of the metaphors of this incident and together they interpreted it to be a message from his own subconscious…” Analyzing an automobile accident as a series of metaphors represents a radical departure from the normal view of such events. 

Julia Ingram is a licensed therapist, hypnotherapist and past-life regressionist based in Portland, Oregon. Her book, “The Messengers” relates the life of the apostle Paul during the time of Jesus. The information she documents comes from repeated clinical sessions she had with a client named Nick Bunick. “The Messengers” became a New York Times bestseller. 

David Rivinus is a dream analyst who has lectured and facilitated workshops across the Americas and in Western Europe. He has been a presenter at the annual convention of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and he is the author of the book “Always Dreaming” available on Amazon. For more information, visit www.teacherofdreams.com.