The Demands of the Inner Lover:
Three Men’s Relationship with the Woman of Their Dreams
One man dreams that his beloved wife of ten years is leaving him for other men. Another man, a blusterous alpha male, continues to dream of his former lover, in spite of doing all that he can to forget her, and he is shaken to his depths. A third man, the author, reveals the deeply heart-opening encounters he had over twenty-five years with a woman in his dreams. Through their dreams all three men face their deepest longing and accounting with themselves.
These stories demonstrate the soul’s capacity to evolve the personality through dreaming. At the same time they show the importance of de-literalizing dream figures, seeing their symbolic function, and cooperating with the demands they place on us.
