Official Website of Walter Berry
Kelly Sullivan Walden
Inspirational speaker and bestselling author of Dreamifesting: Harness the Power of Your Dreams to Create the Life You Desire
"Walter Berry’s The Detective of Dreams is absolutely enchanted—deep, insightful, and profoundly practical, while brimming with wonder, awe, and, most of all, humor . . . oh yes, and a bit of well-placed name-dropping. Walter’s unique spirit, along with his reverence and respect for dreams and the dreaming mind, shines through on every page and in every dream he explores with his soul-magnifying glass. If you find yourself in a dream slump, this book will crack the case of how to awaken you back to the magic of your dreaming soul."
Dr. Clare Johnson
Author of The Art of Lucid Dreaming and The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming
"The Detective of Dreams is a wise and playful guide to the fantastical world of dreams. With his trademark humour and depth, Walter Berry leads us into the awe-filled wonders of dreaming. Illuminated by evocative dream sketches, this vivacious and inspiring book rekindles curiosity and opens us to the mystery of being alive. A marvellous journey into the hidden life of the psyche, this book will help you to encounter—and cradle with love—the
beating red heart of your dreams."
Deirdre Barrett, PhD
author of The Committee of Sleep, president of The International Association for the Study of Dreams, and faculty member of the Harvard Medical School
Walter Berry’s The Detective of Dreams is a warm, playful, and compelling invitation to take dreams seriously without flattening their mystery. Berry writes with infectious wonder about the unruly intelligence of the dreaming mind. With curiosity as his magnifying glass and empathy as his method, he shows readers how dreams are not fixed messages to decode, but living encounters with the self. A great storyteller, he weaves anecdotes from his Hollywood career into his discussions of the dream detective work he does, and the result is accessibly engaging and thought-provoking.
My Story
Walter Berry, aka The Wizard of Awes is a certified dreamworker, having graduated from the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work and holds weekly dream groups (which have been featured in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times). He has his MFA in theatre arts, is a visual artist and lighting designer in the motion picture industry. He is a past board member for the International Association for the Study of Dreams, a member of the IASD Conference Committee, conducts workshops internationally, appears on multiple radio shows, has written articles for Dreamtime Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and lives in Southern California.
Drawn into the Dream
What if your unconscious could draw? Well, it turns out it can. Your brilliant unconscious has been trying to talk to you through your dreams your entire life. You have probably worked with these crazy symbolic images that appear in dreams, but here a new method will be introduced.
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Instead of just talking about them, we will draw them. These simple lines which depict a dream are the focal point as we explore their meanings and emotions. Just like the dream images of wooly mammoths and horses created by Upper Paleolithic peoples in the caves of Southern France 20,000 years ago, our drawings will produce the same emotion—awe. In this state of awe, we will understand what our dreams are saying, and what we need to do as we traverse this mortal coil.
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Awe is a central theme of the book. You will experience the author encountering awe for the first time as he carried Judy Garland to her dressing room for six nights in 1967. The author weaves his life’s tale around the untangling of meanings of the myriad of dreams he has encountered as a dreamworker. You will see how a pair of shoe laces in a dream saved a life, and how a grief-eating panther brought peace to the daughter of a suicide victim. A fun and enlightening read as the author makes you feel completely Awe-full.
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Welcome to the Land of Awes.
To give you an idea how the process of drawing your dream works, Master Dreamworker Walter Berry draws his own dreams and talks about the process as he does so. Here are some videos that illustrate a bit of the magic involved.
Walter Berry is interviewed by CanvasRebel Magazine and talks about how he began doing dreamwork.
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Can Dreams Predict Your Life? Dream Expert Walter Berry Explains
Walter Berry takes his own advice and draws his dreams on camera and analyzes the drawing as he draws it.
The Wizard of Awes discovers he has drawn “Swan Lake” when making a video of his dream “Breaking the Spell.”
Walter Berry draws a dream titled “Featherstone” at the same time talking about how he discovers a giant round flying stone is related to money. Check it out.
Walter draws a follow-up dream in which he again flies with a stone. Watch as he discovers new ideas as he draws “Flying Stoned.”
Dueling Queens. Watch as I draw and talk about a dream I had involving a chess match to the death between the good Queen and the evil Queen.
Author Walter Berry appearance on Sophia Louisa's
So Zoom In" podcast, where he talks about how dreams are messages from the unconscious that we need to hear and the place dreams play in creativity.
Sophia Louisa interviews Walter Berry about working dreams and the release of "Drawn into the dream: How drawing can take you to the land of awes"
An interview with Debbie Spector Weisman where Walter talks about the process of drawing the dream and other things.
Walter is interviewed about dreams by VoyageLA Magazine, a Los Angeles centered magazine that highlights interesting people across the Los Angeles area.
testimonials
Walter Berry’s new book, The Detective of Dreams, is a friendly, funny, personal,
and accessible way to learn how to understand your dreams. I highly recommend
this book to anyone who wants to understand how to solve the mystery
of their own dreams and to deepen the experience of dreaming in general.
Dr. Leslie Ellis
Author
A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy