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Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams: A Guide to Awakening Consciousness During Dream Sleep

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I found Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams in a public library in Ithaca, NY and read it without expectation, knowing that I was interested in learning to lucid dream but without any knowledge of how deep this genre was. Now, of course, I see there are many books. Anyway, I read it for a few days, followed the instructions, and sure enough I had a lucid dream. First one ever. What else could you ask for?

This is an important work for the beginner to understand what is happening in our minds when we consider waking up in our sleep. It is important to understand the duality of the unconcious. there is the concious ego and the unconcious ego. both are important because one becomes the other during sleep. the author helps you recognize the difference. He also tells you point blank that it is not an easy assignment. And that many of the how to books just assume you are doing what the author is writing about. Yet really one is still stumbling around trying to remember dreams. I read a book by Carlos Castenada about dreams. He suggested looking at your hand in the dream, then slowly look up and around. mcPhee does it similar in that we often wear clothing that is inappropiate for the occassion and when we see that it is supposed to be our trigger to realize we are dreaming. This book often gets bad reviews. But really, it is an important work and needs to be read a few times to let it sink in. Dont pass up this book. It is really cheap on Amazon dotcom, it would be a good book to add to your dreaming library.

An interesting book. I learned more about dreaming from McPhee's book. McPhee writes about dreaming as applied psychology. Lucid dreaming becomes a way to bring the unconscious into consciousness, which he sees as the primary practice of psychology and self-analysis. The problem he sees is repression which is unconscious and not available to the ego during normal waking consciousness. His goal is to become more aware of what and when we are repressing. Dreams put us in contact with the unconscious and the repressed material -- if we can become conscious in our dreams (lucid dreaming). He has a chapter on lucid dreamers of the past. But what is missing from this book is explanation of how to accomplish lucid dreaming or references for how to pursue this. There is a long section that is an extended extract from the writing of Gurdjieff which seemed the least relevant or interesting to me. The chapters reviewing the history of sleep and dream research are interesting (but maybe dated at this point).