Full Description
In a lucid dream, you "awaken" within your dream and realize you are dreaming. With this extraordinary sense of awakening comes a clear perception of the continuity of self between waking and sleeping and the ability to significantly influence what happens within the dream, giving you the opportunity to genuinely experience anything without physical or social consequences. In this way, lucid dreaming offers therapeutic opportunities for fantasy fulfillment, fear confrontation, and releasing the trauma of past experiences. With development and practice, lucid dreaming can provide a powerful path to greater awareness, heightened creativity, spiritual awakening, and communication with the vast interconnected web of cosmic consciousness.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Exploring the Secret Realm of the Waking Dream
1 Shamanic Plants, Psychedelics, and Mind-Body Healing
2 The Psychology and Physiology of Dreaming
3 The Science of Lucid Dreaming
4 Improving Lucid Dreaming and Developing Superpowers in the Dream Realm
5 Enhancing Dreaming with Oneirogens, Nutritional Supplements, Herbs, and Drugs
6 Exploring the Potential of Electronic Technologies
7 Communicating with Dream Characters, Archetypes, Spirits, and Disembodied Entities
8 Dream Telepathy, Psychic Phenomena, Mutual Dreaming, and Shared Lucid Dreams
9 Out-of-Body Experiences, Parallel Universes, and Alternate Dimensions
10 Conscious Dreaming as a Path to Spiritual Awakening
Notes
Bibliography
Online Resources
Index
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