Lucid Dreaming (Paperback)

by Stephen Laberge (Author) "Strange, marvelous, and even impossible things regularly happen in dreams, but people usually do not realize that the explanation is that they are dreaming..." (more)
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Product Description
Dr. Stephen LaBerge draws on recently developed techniques that teach you to be aware of what you are dreaming, and ultimately control and manipulate the outcome of your dreams, in order to: overcome long-term, deep-seated fears, anxieties, and phobias; harness the healing power of your unconscious, awaken creativity, and more.
Dr. LaBerge presents further excersises in EXPLORING THE WORLD OF LUCID DREAMING.
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From the Publisher
Stephen LaBerge is considered the pioneer of lucid dreaming, with more than 20 years of research at Stanford University. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034542011X
• ISBN-13: 978-0345420114
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,026,155 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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60 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic! Get it used, read, and be more lucid, December 13, 2002

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This is a classic, well worth (re-)reading twenty years later. The author's later EXPLORING THE WORLD OF LUCID DREAMING isn't actually more _comprehensive_ than this book, but rather more practical, "a step-by-step guide to lucid dreaming: how to do it, and what to do with it." LUCID DREAMING, in contrast, includes material on NDEs, OBEs, dream telepathy, mutual dreaming, and other topics for which lucid dreaming has important implications. It is a _different_ book, addressing "why?" sorts of questions, perhaps with more philosophical depth, and certainly more implications, while EXPLORING... focusses on "how?"LD techniques, and "what?"LD applications.

LUCID DREAMING is currently out-of-print, but widely available in libraries, used book stores, and convenientlyAmazon.com. If you are interested in dreaming and transcendence you'll want to read this book. And if you're interested in lucid dreaming, you'll want to re-read it.

44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy This Book By the Original, March 8, 2007

By	A. Isernia (NY, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Lucid Dreaming (Book & CD) (Audio CD)

I bought this book not realizing it was just a condensed version of the author's book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. There is nothing new here except a CD you don't need. If you are new to ludid dreaming you want to stick to Laberge's previous work. If you have already read that, you won't need to spend your money on this. It's like the cliffnotes version with pretty packaging and a CD thrown in to make it sound worth the money. It's simply not.

31 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Important but incomplete work , February 19, 2005

By	fortune - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lucid Dreaming (Book & CD) (Audio CD)

Steve Laberge's work was the culmination of a flurry of interest in lucid dreams that began in the late sixties and early seventies with works like Altered states of consciousness and THE LUCID DREAM MANIFESTO: Reprint Of: Lucid Dreams, Dreams and Sleep: Theoretical Constructions, 1974. Dr. Laberge was able to expand on these early treatises and engage a larger community outside of academia and this book is the result of that engagement. This is an excellent survey of lucid dreams with advice on how to achieve them. The book is also strong on examining varieties of lucid dream experience and therapeutic benefits of lucid dreaming. The book is weak on placing lucid dreams within a more general theory of dream content and cognition. Laberge's explanation for why we don't always know we are dreaming in a dream-because they follow the same neural pathways as waking perception and seem so real-is not persuasive. The world is still waiting for a comprehensive analysis of lucid dream experience and phenomenology on the level of Martin Heidegger's BEING AND TIME. Still, this is a most valuable book.