The Secret Mind: Unlock the Power of Dreams to Transform Your Life

Discover the solutions your dreams are trying to give you, and recapture your imagination and purpose in the process, with this go-to guide for decoding your subconscious.

Over the last three decades, researchers have noted a steady decline in creativity-that is, the ability to find the essence of a problem, think through it critically, and imagine different ways to resolve it. Busy lifestyles, endless scroll, and biases that favor efficiency over curiosity are partially to blame. But there is an antidote: learning to dream again.

Enter Bonnie Buckner, PhD, creative dreamwork expert. Harnessing the power of dreams has been her life's work, and what she has found in doing dreamwork with executives and creatives across the globe is this: We all have a "secret mind"—a part of our brain that knows exactly how to solve problems and fix creative slumps—and that "secret mind" can be accessed through our dreams. In The Secret Mind, Buckner shares her method for translating the mystery of dreams to solve problems. She will teach you how to build the muscle for remembering and understanding your dreams; identify patterns and unresolved issues in dreams; use the waking dream method to re-enter dreams to address unfinished business in your waking life.

Drawing from neurobiology and social psychology, The Secret Mind presents dreaming as a practice for both personal and global development. With Buckner's simple tools and exercises, a more beautiful, creative world is just a dream away.