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43 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not a How to at all, October 7, 2002
I am glad that this book has changed title from the origional How to plan.... because quite frankly it tells you nothing. If this were a how to article in a magazine you would laugh it off. The author rambles on about different cultures and different dreamers in the past and present and talks about her own dreams but never gets to the point, which is: how to plan and control your dreams. Example: If this were a how to on how to bake bread, it would tell you the history of bread, what cultures baked what type of bread, even talk about the construction of ancient mud ovens but would not ever get around to telling you what ingredients you need, how to put them together and all that for baking your own bread. The book reads much like a dream, it might make sense while you are having it, but when read in reality you have to wonder what the author was up to. There are plenty of references in the back, at least in the edition I read, but who wants to try to find ancient manuscripts or articles from science journals to understand why the author thought the information was important enough to put in there? If you are really interested in a step by step how to then your better bet would be Stephen LaBerge's book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, or his first book Lucid Dreaming. There is actual scientific data on dreams and the state of dreaming, and methods for inducing dreams from WILD Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming where you go straight into dreams fully concious, to MILD where you practice the intention to recognize the next time you are dreaming. A much better and less holistic book that doesn't ramble. I'd like to state that I respect the author, but her choice of title for this book is misleading. It is interesting for what it is, which is a collection of anectodes about different dreams and dreamers, but it is not what I would consider how-to.
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