Possibly since time on earth began, dreaming has connected human beings to powerful insights and guidance. Dreaming Since Eve reveals how the brilliant dream process grants not only understanding and inspiration, but also actual solutions. The key to receiving this astute guidance requires only that we pay attention.In Dreaming Since Eve, Valerie Meluskey, Ph.D., explores the universal human world of dreams and sexuality. Most people, psychologists included, assume that sexual dreams are about our personal sexuality. The author has discovered that sexual dreams are about our deepest needs and desires-about what we feel is lacking- not merely about physically sexuality. We learn that our true inner needs are felt with extraordinary intensity. Interestingly, dreams that truly explore physically sexual issues come forth in our dreams with various metaphors, frequently from the animal kingdom, especially the feline family, and also in the symbols of desserts and sweets-pies, cakes, cheeses, and fruits. Our higher imagination even makes symbolic use of the game of basketball, a game of five (senses) with a great deal of intense back and forth interaction as an analogy for sex.The author has utilized the dreams of some of her clients from over more than thirty years as a psychotherapist. These carefully chosen dreams answer dreamers' questions about all types of relationships. Separate chapters focus on conflictual relationships; those without and longing for a close relationship; homosexual and lesbian relationships; impotence and frigidity; sexual abuse and its healing; and the process of creating wholeness.Separate chapters show the readers how to decipher the meanings of dreams. 1. The first chapter recognizes that dreams illustrate the dreamer's self and Self evaluation. 2. The most useful approach to learning what our dreams have to tell us involves getting in touch with our feelings: how the emotions felt during the dream reflect events in our lives that elicit those same feelings. 3. The next avenue of discovery involves the language used to alert us. 4. A similar area of detection involves summarizing the dream content to find a theme. 5. Then, of course comes the famous and popular work of exploring symbols-both personal and universal. Our ability to dream illustrates our capacity as artists through our dreaming-dramatists, actors, poets, musicians, choreographers, and all varieties of the visual arts. We realize how our dreams come through the inner eye, the "Third Eye" via which we access a higher dimension of ourselves. Our function of dreaming also proves that we are endowed with a high level of innate psychological insight. Valerie Meluskey has explored dreams and their meanings since her childhood. Earning a Masters Degree in psychology satisfied her love of dance and theater in her fieldwork with Movement, Dance, and Drama Therapy. She was able to introduce work with dreams to young adults (age 15 to 35) at a small private mental health facility in which the patients lived on a farm in 6 updated houses.Dr. Meluskey's doctoral work included NLP (neuro linguistic programming), Open Focus Biofeedback, and research on coping with life after death in various cultures, and more work with dreams. As the title Dreaming Since Eve suggests, her work addresses the spiritual origins of dreaming. For example, in the Old Testament of the Judeo Christian Bible, God puts Adam to sleep to perform the amazing operation of bringing forth Eve-and nowhere does scripture report that Adam ever woke up!Readers of Dreaming Since Eve can learn a great deal about themselves and others, and about their connection to their personal creative and spiritual source. This book can be used as a text for self-knowledge, and for school or group work.