About the Book
DIVING BEFORE DAWN: A Dream Exploration
Accessing your “innernet” through dream journaling
Dreams are ephemeral, like Instagram posts, providing valuable “Tweets” from conversations with our playfully ingenious subconscious. Awakening to this rich source of insight is available nightly to everyone who chooses to go Diving Before Dawn.
The author uniquely blends dream interpretation, memoir, and self-help genres to demonstrate the value of keeping a dream journal.
The narrative unfolds through 170 dreams spanning thirty-eight years of her dream journals and their interpretations, illustrating the profound insights that dreams reveal. Her journey into self-discovery, told through her dream world, brings to life a deeper understanding of her shadow self, childhood trauma, her spiritual awakening, and the grief from the sudden death of her husband of thirty-eight years. The prevalence of precognitive dreams and how she uses them as navigational tools throughout her life are highlighted.
Interspersed throughout the book are thirty-three original works from six artists that amplify the visceral, dreamlike experience.
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Imagine reviewing thirty-eight years of your dream journals, discovering the profound insights from your subconscious’s guidance and wisdom. Experience this liminal doorway to a readily available wealth of nightly information. Journey with the author as she shares 170 of her dreams and their interpretations, unfolding a story within a story. This unique self-help memoir reveals a lifetime of discovering her dream language and the value of keeping and reviewing a dream journal. Awakening to this rich source of insight is available nightly to everyone who chooses to go Diving Before Dawn.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandi Madison faithfully kept a dream journal for more than fifty-four years. At sixteen, she began teaching herself techniques for dream recall and interpretation. Her ardent desire is to help others use their dreams as a rich source of inner guidance. Her gift of helping others, her curiosity and passion for information, and her attention to detail while seeing the big picture have been woven into her careers as an award-winning high school college and career counselor, director of the Universal Book Effort (a non-profit book donation organization), and owner of Pond’s Edge Nursery. Frequently viewed as an outlier, self-educated, not following the mainstream, and living eighteen years off the grid, she has never been shy about exploring new territory. Always ready for new beginnings, she lives in Bellingham, Washington. Find her online at sandimadison.com and @sandimadisonauthor.
What people have to say about the book
“I see your book as a beautiful contribution to the realm of consciousness studies, and I sincerely hope that many others will take an interest in it. You opened a whole new world through your inner discovery! After reading your book, my dreams have either gotten considerably more complex and lucid due to my openness to dream interpretation, or I have simply learned how to understand and capture my dreams more clearly due to the catalytic impact of your book!”
is a Quantum Health Coach, Holistic Healthcare Practitioner, and author of Falling Up: A Path to Self-Realization.
“This is not your usual dream memoir but an unpredictable maze of revelations, reflections, invocations, and prophecies that rekindle the inner child and emphasize the power of our precognitive awareness in shaping our reality. Madison ingeniously takes us into the dream state where things are as they really are, not as they appear to be. Gems of wisdom are artfully woven into a visual and visceral tapestry of alchemical symbols and archetypal keys that open doors to inner knowing and rediscovery. You are holding a psychic map to a treasure trove. The compass is YOU. The treasure is to unlock the precognitive memory of your inner child as you work through emotional trauma and familial karma. Madison skillfully teaches us the art of visceral knowing to heal the cognitive dissonance in the world as we restore our natural state of childlike innocence and wonder.”
dance theater scholar, esoteric researcher, and Yoga expert. She is the author of Yoga Outside the Box.
“Sandi Madison is living her dreams, and inspiring us all to do the same. Her work is a beautiful personal exploration into the beauty of your night vision and the insightful future that looks back at you every single night in them.”
the Queen of Dreams, is the best-selling author of
“The Dream Dictionary A to Z”, “The Dream Cure”, “Dreaming of Your Future”, and podcast host of
White Shores.
“What a fascinating manuscript! It is unique—I have not seen anything like it. Sandi is an erudite writer. Sandi taps a rich resource of wisdom and insight available to all of us: our nightly dreams. By turns whimsical, entertaining, and enlightening, in Diving Before Dawn, she mines a lifetime of dream-journaling, discovering a well-spring of life-affirming inner knowledge. Dreams are conversations from your subconscious; Sandi inspires you to hear your own.”
articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. She has authored or co-authored five books.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Be Your Own Dream Diver!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2025
Sandi has written a fascinating book on her dream interpretation logs spanning 50+ years. The use of interpreting animals, symbols, feelings from her dreams into psychological help for her evolutionary process. She lived off the grid for 18 years while raising a family, working and creating businesses like sending books to Africa for poor people and a periennial seed garden. A multifaceted woman: a dancer; a mother; a wife and an actress on radio and on the stage in Western Washington. The dreams pointed her in the direction to overcome childhood negative behavior patterns through her dreams. She pulled herself up by the bootstraps when her partner of 38 years suddenly died. This renegade woman is a crafty wordsmith. The book shows you how you, too, can interpret your dreams for healing. It's a page turner. I didn't want to put it down. Where is your vacquero? Push yourself to grow! You can do it, too.