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“[A] solid how-to book . . . For amateur dream researchers, this is a must.”—Whole Earth Review

Lucid Dreaming—conscious awareness during the dream state—is an exhilarating experience. Because the world you are experiencing is one of your own creation, you can do the impossible and consciously influence the outcome of your dreams.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge’s extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psychologist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to:

• Solve problems
• Gain greater confidence
• Improve creativity
• Face and overcome fears and inhibitions
• Create a new sense of empowerment and liberation in your life

The techniques you’ll learn in this exciting workbook will make your nightly dream journeys more enjoyable, increase your understanding of yourself, and make you realize that the possibilities of expanding consciousness are far greater than you might think.

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This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology,establishing a scientifically
researched framework for using luciddreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of
your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University
mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as wellas the teachings of Tibetan
dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psycholgist Paul Tholey,
this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: Solve problems; Gain greater
confidence; improve creativity, and more.
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"[A] solid how-to book...For amateur dream researchers, this is a must."
WHOLE EARTH REVIEW
This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psycholgist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: Solve problems; Gain greater confidence; improve creativity, and more.

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"[A] solid how-to book...For amateur dream researchers, this is a must."
WHOLE EARTH REVIEW
This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psycholgist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: Solve problems; Gain greater confidence; improve creativity, and more.

About the Author

Stephen LaBerge, PhD, laid the groundwork for his pioneering breakthroughs in lucid-dreaming research while obtaining his PhD in psychophysiology at Stanford University. Since then he has continued his work at Stanford studying lucid dreaming and psychophysiological correlates of states of consciousness. In 1988, acting on his conviction that lucid dreaming offers many benefits to humanity, Dr. LaBerge founded the Lucidity Institute, the mission of which is to advance reseaerch about the nature and potentials of consciousness and so apply the results of this research to the enhancement of human health and well-being.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; 4/27/94 edition (November 13, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780345374103
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345374103
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.09 x 0.87 x 6.84 inches

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A toolbox; I have started to lucid dream more

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2023

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Imagine having a large toolbox with a lot of tools that are new to you. In it are a lot of useful tools for your job at hand, but so many look similar to other ones to where it can be confusing to know when to use what one. That's how this book works. Overall, this book is a really good tool box with a lot of explanation, but it's hard to fully understand how/when/if to use all of the "tools", or methods, in it.

This book is kind of a catch-all to lucid dreaming. I believe that I have had quite a few lucid dreams before reading this book, but now I am certainly increasing my proportion of lucid dreaming, and my remembrance of dreams is increasing. This book will give you a lot, and I mean a lot, of different strategies and methods for many things regarding lucid dreaming. It can be a bit overwhelming trying to figure out what methods to use because this book provides so many; it seems to place an almost equal importance on many methods, making it hard to decide what to do for a lucid-dreaming strategy. However, I recommend looking up methods online as well, as many of the ones he goes through are explained on sites like reddit by others trying to lucid dream.

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In Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, LaBerge provides a detailed, albeit borderline "how-to" manual on lucid dreaming, which encompasses a wide variety of techniques, so there is definitely at least one that will work for everyone. Furthermore, LaBerge goes into a thorough description of the applications of lucid dreaming to real life, which proves to be quite interesting and even motivational in a very scientific approach. However, despite this and the very goal-oriented aspects of the book, this scientific approach proves to be very reductionist, so while still inspirational, one should look towards other literature for inspiration as well as motivation is a key component of lucid dreaming. From my personal experience with the book, I highly recommend this book for people new to the concept of lucid dreaming that would like to try it out.

Through the incorporation of psychological studies, Tibetan dream yoga, other dream research and beliefs (such as that of Jung and Freud), and his own research at the Lucidity Institute in Stanford University, LaBerge has created a book capable of teaching even the most closed-minded of people to lucid dream. The book contains every main technique with clear instructions including a detailed description of the technique he pioneered, known as the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams, or MILD.

From the very beginning of the book, Dr. LaBerge reveals many personal experiences of other people who have written to him, thus providing a fantastical background on lucid dreaming and the expectations which can be enjoyed from reading this book. Furthermore, LaBerge also provides a FAQ for many skeptics of lucid dreaming (such as myself) who were unsure of the "risks" of lucid dreaming or whether they would be able to. LaBerge also provides a series of tips and tricks for beginners, such as keeping a dream journal, focusing on the idea of dreaming before sleeping, and "reality checks". The next few chapters provide detailed techniques to induce a lucid dream, specifically the WILD and MILD techniques. By Chapter 6, most of the induction techniques will be exhausted, and LaBerge then focuses on showing readers how to improve their achieved lucidity- how to retain their lucidity, prevent premature awakenings, awaken when desiring to do so, and guide dreams intelligently. Towards the last few chapters of the book, Dr. LaBerge even goes through many of the applications of the book, such as enjoyment in action, adventure, romance, and pleasure, spiritual growth, relieving oneself/exploring the dark side of nightmares, and rehearsal of daily life. The applications tie in the greater scheme of why one is to try lucid dreaming in the first place.

After you have reached an advanced stage of lucid dreaming, the book invites you to take a new dimension with expansion of your ability regarding lucid dreaming to break all types of self-defined parameters. You can explore the dream stage to an even greater extent by constantly proving to yourself that you can go another step forward. Laberge discusses seeking out mutual dreams or trying to exercise precognition by getting a dream character to speak or write to you about a future incident. You may also try to alter the course of events of something happening in reality (LaBerge has a very fascinating personal experience with precognition involving his son and how he may have saved a life).

In a quote from the book, LaBerge states, "According to `The Doctrine of the Dream State' an ancient Tibetan manual of lucid dream yoga, the practice of certain dream control techniques lead to the capacity to dream anything imaginable. Tulku makes a similar claim, `Advanced yogis are able to do just about anything in their dreams. They can become larger or smaller or disappear, go back into childhood and relive experiences, or even fly through space". Despite the seemingly extravagant claim, this is all very possible. The Tibetans heavily influenced LaBerge and today's lucid dreamers as they have been lucid dreaming for more than a thousand years. Their experiences and techniques have influenced many of the applications we believe in today and add further credibility to the use of these applications.

Such applications proved to be extremely interesting, and all were further discussed with their own set of a "how-to", thus backed up by a good amount of fact. For example, in the idea of rehearsal of daily life, one could learn how to improve athleticism by learning dance moves or shooting a basketball over and over again. One could improve their confidence in these sports as well as other activities such as public speaking by having lucid dreams involving speaking in front of large crowds.

Other interesting applications were problem solving and healing. A lucid dream can be a stage for all your problem solving purposes. Lucid dreams can provide countless trial and error situations to determine what kind of solution would work in reality. The metaphysical aspect of healing is discussed thoroughly as well, with interesting probed ideas such as whether or not the physical body can be healed of disease if the dream body is healed and whether various avenues of healing can be used in an attempt to help a particular ailing person.

The metaphysical aspect I found most intriguing involved understanding the self. It was how LaBerge showed that lucid dreaming can have a deep spiritual effect toward understanding ourselves if we were to surrender our egos and allow our dream to take us somewhere rather than us trying to control it. Another quote taken from Tulku in this book, truly summed up the power of lucid dreaming; "Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience, yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality." One of the greatest things I have garnered from reading this book is that we can learn so much from lucid dreams about life, death, and the time in between.

If you are new to the concept of lucid dreaming, and would like to try it out, then this book is for you. Before reading I could only rarely recall dreams, and although I am still unable to lucid dream, it has only been a month and I can now recall dreams almost every night and even choose what I dream about before I sleep. I have yet to even try most of the techniques in this book, and I'm still very excited. The applications of this book are outstanding and the how-to sections make lucid dreaming very much possible for everyone. I suggest reading the book before sleeping and with an open mind. If getting bogged down by the steps, take a break and come back to it later. Lucid dreaming should be fun to learn, and from what I can tell, motivation and relaxation are key.

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Michael Cheng

good, but -

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info in this book is accurate useful and comprehensive, but nowadays you can learn a lot about lucid dreaming on the internet. there's a reddit group about lucid dreaming that is especially good. But if you like reading from a book, or feel the sort of privacy that reading affords helps you with lucid dreaming, then i highly recommend this book.

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A lot of good information and cool stories

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Lucid dreams achieved with this book and the excercises!!

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I purchased this book at a vunerable time in my life. I had never heard of Lucid dreaming but it sounded interesting when I accidently stumbled upon it so I thought'why not?"

Well half way through the book I had my first lucid dream. AMAZING!

I began writing down my dreams in the morning. Even a sentence or just a word I could remember from them at first. After a few days I started rememberng more details. I wrote them down for a week. Then I wrote a page of common links I kept seeing in my dreams (ie: rejection) It was always common. And a page of things I wanted to do if I ever became lucid. I re-read all of these things often and would say to myself outload many times a day " Am I dreaming?" If I was not, I would follow up with " are you sure?"

So I layed in bed one night and tried the W.I.L.D technique. I started seeing vortex swirls and colours with my eyes closed but still awake. I was then thrust into a very life like dream. I asked myself if I was dreaming. I replied to myself that 'no! Of course I wasn't" I asked myself Are you sure? And suddenly I looked around and said "Oh my god, I am dreaming". Everything suddenly changed!!! I felt like I was not in the dream but in real life. I was lucid!!

Immediatley as I looked around, the room I was 'standing in' fell away like it dismantled itself and the floor dropped away from under my feet. I was falling in pitch blackness and I could see a red light.

I was yelling in my dream that I was awake, and I was so excited and then I woke up. So dissapointed but I felt euphoric for days afterwards.
I have only had 1 other lucid dream. I realized I was dreaming, became lucid and woke up instantly from the excitement.

I became busy and stopped puttting in effort to write down my dreams and so I've not had another, but I'm getting back into it now and this book is definitley a 'how to' guide. I would recommend it to everyone.

Lucid dreaming is not scary, it is an overwelming sense of joy. Good luck to all.

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Claudio Hinojosa

Muy útil , de lo más claro y práctico que he leído del tema.

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Ejercicios prácticos , te lleva paso a paso para ir comprendiendo cómo funciona el proceso de los sueños lúcidos

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Diogo de Almeida Barbosa

Um clássico!

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Ótimo livro, é o clássico dos sonhos lúcidos, apesar de existirem alguns títulos mais atuais como o do Daniel Love.

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ラビット

実用的な明晰夢練習マニュアル本

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on October 5, 2007

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この分野の第一人者、スティーブン・ラバージ氏による著作。「明晰夢-夢見の技法」で見られた学術・研究的な部分を簡略化し、実際に明晰夢を見るためのテクニックの紹介により重点を置いた実践マニュアルとなっている。

特に、ラバージ氏が開発したMILD(記憶による明晰夢誘導法)についての解説は上記の本より詳細であり、私もこの方法で何度も明晰夢を見ることができた。難しい単語が少ないので読みやすく、価格が安いのもポイント。ただし、「明晰夢-夢見の技法」と内容的に重複する部分もあるので注意。

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Utente

#1 book for Lucid Dreaming. Absolutely recommended.

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There's not so much to say. This is the best book about lucid dreaming. I have read it for the first time around 10 years ago and it continues to be the best. Concise, clear, helpful and right to the point. Extremely helpful for every lucid dreamer, both new and experienced.

lisa

Molto buono

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Questo è il primo libro scritto dalla persona che è riuscita a dimostrare scientificamente la realtà dei sogni lucidi (coscienti) quindi è un classico. E' scritto molto chiaramente e le tecniche presentate sono efficaci. Se siete interessati ai sogni lucidi, questo libro non può mancare. Per quanto riguarda il punto di vista del buddhismo tibetano sui sogni, qui c'è solo un accenno, e per approfondire l'argomento consiglio di iniziare con il libro di Charlie Morley "Sogni di risveglio" (Dreams of Awakening")

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