Ann Faraday

{{short description|British psychologist|bot=PearBOT 5}}{{Infobox academic

| alma_mater = University College London {{Small|(BS, PhD)}}

| thesis_title = Factors Affecting the Experimental Recall of Dreams

| thesis_year = 1969

| discipline = Psychologist

| sub_discipline = Dream analysis

| notable_works = Dream Power (1972)

}}

Ann Faraday is a British psychologist, who conducted an experimental study of dreams for her PhD thesis at University College London.{{Cite thesis |last=Faraday |first=Ann |title=Factors Affecting the Experimental Recall of Dreams |date=1969 |degree=PhD |publisher=University College London}} After several years in experimental dream research, she then trained in hypnotherapy, Freudian and Jungian analysis and Gestalt therapy. She was a pioneer of the Human Potential Movement and the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Great Britain.

She is considered a pioneer of the empirical evaluation of the content of dreams. She is the author of two books about dream interpretation: the bestseller{{cite journal|quote=When pressed regarding their interpretation I refer students to a bestselling book by the English psychologist and sleep researcher Ann Faraday (Dream power. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1973).|author=Webb, W. B.|date=1981|title=The return of consciousness|journal=The G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series|volume=1|pages=133–152|publisher=American Psychological Association|doi=10.1037/10086-005 |isbn=0-912704-36-5 }} Dream Power,Faraday, Ann (1972). Dream Power. New York: Coward, McCann & Geogregan. Also: London: Hodder & Stoughton. and The Dream Game.Faraday, Ann (1975). The Dream Game. London: Maurice temple Smith The Dream Game devotes a chapter to puns in dreams, including verbal puns, reversal puns, visual puns, puns involving proper names, puns involving literal pictures of colloquial or slang metaphors, and puns involving literal picture of common body language.{{cite journal|author=Kilroe, P. A.|date=2000|title=The dream pun: What is a play on words without words?|journal=Dreaming|volume=10|number=4|pages=193–209|doi=10.1023/A:1009428923348 |s2cid=144915156 }} From the 1970s, Faraday appeared on many radio shows and workshops for the purpose of recording and interpreting of dreams.

According to the Encyclopedia of Psychology, "writers and psychologists, such as Ann Faraday, helped to take dream analysis out of the therapy room and popularize it by offering techniques anyone could use to analyze his or her own dreams".[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0004/ai_2699000446 Dreams], Encyclopedia of Psychology. In addition, Faraday wrote for the Association for the Study of Dreams newsletter. Her books indicate that she also tried yoga and Zen-like activities, which were popular during that time period. Faraday believed that by placing too little importance on dreams, our society contributes to the poor recall of dreams, which most people immediately forget upon awakening.

From the 1970s, she and her partner John Wren-Lewis (1923–2006) travelled extensively, particularly within United States, Malaysia and Thailand, before settling permanently{{when?|date=September 2023}} in Sydney, Australia.{{cn|date=September 2023}} She also had a daughter, Fiona.{{cite journal|title=Sleeping with the Guru|date=January 2005|quote=Sometime in 1980, John Wren-Lewis, my daughter Fiona and I found ourselves on a crowded Indian bus, sitting next to a young Western woman dressed from top to toe in white, who seemed oblivious to the heat, noise and smells around us.|journal=Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review|volume=17|number=1|publisher=Hecate Press}}