Full Description
A lucid dream is a dream in which you become aware that you re dreaming. It s a powerful opportunity to explore the unfathomable depths of reality, solve problems, create new possibilities, and take charge of your own healing and happiness. This book provides a range of practical techniques, artistic activities, and guided visualizations to help you bring the creativity and super-conscious awareness of lucid dreaming into your life. Includes tips on how to get and stay lucid, cutting edge advice from experts, techniques for using lucid dreams to assist with sleep disturbances and overcome nightmares, and ways to integrate lucid creativity for healing and mindfulness in daily life.
Contents
Contents
List of Practices xiii
Foreword by Dr. Keith Hearne, BSc, MSc, PhD xvii
Disclaimer xxi
Part 1: How to Lucid Dream • 1
Introduction 3
Chapter 1—Wake Up: Three Golden Tools for a Lucid Mindset 15
Chapter 2—How to Trigger Lucid Dreaming 31
Chapter 3—Your Gateway to Lucid Dreams: Sensations While Falling into and Waking from Sleep 43
Chapter 4—Stay Lucid: The CLEAR Stabilisation Technique 57
Chapter 5—Should We Control Our Dreams? Going with the Flow 71
Chapter 6—Using Magic in Dreams: Active Ways of Guiding Dreams 83
Chapter 7—Understanding Your Dream Body and Lucid Dream Physics 97
Chapter 8—The People You'll Meet: Lucid Dream Mentors, Puppets, and Psychological Projections 113
Part 2: Lucid Dreaming to Promote Creativity, Skill, and Pleasure • 133
Chapter 9—Creativity Elixirs: Lucid Writing, Creative Trances, and Lucid Dreaming While Awake 135
Chapter 10—Improve Physical Skills: Lucid Kickboxing, Guitar Riffs, and Scuba Diving 153
Chapter 11—Promote Creative Skill: Meet Your Inner Artist and Problem Solver 167
Chapter 12—Sex in Lucid Dreams: From Orgasms to Ethics 183
Part 3: Lucid Dreaming to Assist Sleep Disturbances and Overcome Nightmares • 197
Chapter 13—Nightmares as Creative Gifts: Lucidity and Nightmare Solutions 199
Chapter 14—Kids and Bad Dreams: How Lucid Dreaming Can Help 219
Chapter 15—Could Lucid Dreaming Be a Remedy for Sleep Disorders? 237
Part 4: Lucid Dreaming for Healing and Wellbeing • 249
Chapter 16—Psychological Healing and Overcoming Phobias 251
Chapter 17—Physical Healing of Pain and Illness 263
Chapter 18—Healing Others in Lucid Dreams 281
Part 5: Extraordinary Lucid Dreaming for Connection and Oneness • 293
Chapter 19—Lucid Dream Telepathy: Coincidence or a Natural Human Potential? 295
Chapter 20—Out-of-Body Experiences and the Rainbow of Conscious Experience 309
Chapter 21—The Void and the Lucid Light: When Imagery and the Dream Body Disappear 325
Chapter 22—Using Meditation and Mantras in Lucid Dreaming as a Fast Track to Oneness 339
Chapter 23—Death and the Divine: Lucid Dreaming out of This World 353
Chapter 24—Living a Lucid Life: Reality Creation and the Art of Happiness 371
Conclusion 379
Appendix I: A Brief History of Lucid Dreaming 387
Appendix II: An Invitation to Dream Lucidly 391
Glossary of Terms 393
Bibliography 399
Resources 417
Index 419
