Full Description
Lucid dreaming, the skill of recognizing that you're dreaming within a dream, has a vast potential to not only improve the content of your dreams but also to quell anxiety and improve confidence during your waking life. Leveraging both scientific research and two decades of personal experimentation, this book provides everything readers need to know in order to begin lucid dreaming for the first time and to improve the frequency, control, and clarity of existing lucid dream experiences. Personal anecdotes and dream journal entries from the author help clarify points of confusion and motivate readers. This book focuses heavily on the connections between lucid dreaming, mindfulness, and anxiety, and on the myriad benefits lucid dreaming can have while you are awake.
Whether you have never had a lucid dream before, or you want to improve the quality and frequency of your lucid dreams, the techniques provided here will make the process simple. With the skill of lucid dreaming, your dreams will become your own personal playground, laboratory, artist studio, or spiritual center. What you gain from such a journey is up to you.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Section One. How to Lucid Dream
1. Definitions and Misconceptions
2. Tips to Get Started
3. Increasing Dream Recall
4. Reality Checks
5. Induction Techniques
6. Prolonging a Lucid Dream
7. Common Mistakes
Section Two. Why Learn to Lucid Dream?
8. Dealing with Nightmares and Anxiety
9. Activities to Try in a Lucid Dream
10. Long-Term Goal Setting
11. Dreaming's Influence on Creativity and Invention
12. Meditation
13. Teaching Children to Lucid Dream
Section Three. Sleep Science and Philosophy
14. What We Know: Scientific Data
15. Demographic Trends in Lucid Dreaming
16. Dreams and Video Games
17. Out-of-Body Experiences and Astral Projection
18. Lucid Dreaming as an Altered State of Consciousness
19. Additional Perspectives
20. What We Don't Know: Questions for Further Inquiry
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
