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9780761177395 English 0761177396 Imagine Experiencing All the Things That Happen in Dreams, but with one extraordinary difference: You are "lucid"-consciously, joyously in control. Not just an adventure (yes, you can fly), a lucid dream is a time ripe for creative thinking, healing, inspiration, and self-knowledge. This lively dream guide shows step-by-step how to become lucid, and then what to do once awake in the dream world. Here's how to reconnect with dreams, and the importance of keeping a journal and timing REM cycles. How to use simple reality checks to differentiate between waking and sleeping states. How to incubate a dream to solve a problem. With every dream we are washing up on the shores of our own inner landscape. Now, learn to explore this strange and thrilling world. The Oneironaut�s Compass Every time you see this compass icon in the book, stop, look around, and seriously ask yourself: "Am I dreaming?� This reality check technique is the first step to waking up inside your dreams. Book jacket., Imagine being able to fly. Walk through walls. Shape-shift. Breathe underwater. Conjure loved onese"or total strangerse"out of thin air. Imagine experiencing your nighttime dreams with the same awareness you possess right nowe"fully functioning memory, imagination, and self-awareness. Imagine being able to use this power to be more creative, solve problems, and discover a deep sense of well-being. This is lucid dreaminge"the ability to know you are dreaming while you are in a dream, and then consciously explore and change the elements of the dream. A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, with its evocative retro illustrations, shows exactly how to do it. Written by three avid, experienced lucid dreamers, this manual for the dream world takes the reader from step onee"learning how to reconnect with his or her dreamse" through the myriad possibilities of what can happen once the dreamer is lucid and an accomplished oneironaut (a word that comes from the Greek oneira, meaning dreams, and nautis, meaning sailor). Readers will learn about the powerful REM sleep stagee"a window into lucid dreams. Improve dream recall by keeping a journal. The importance of reality checks, such as eoeThe Fingeree"during the day, try to pass your finger through your palm; then, when you actually do it successfully, youe(tm)ll know that youe(tm)re dreaming. And once you become lucid, how to make the most of it. Every time you dream, you are washing up on the shores of your own inner landscape. Learn to explore a strange and thrilling world with A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming., ONEIRONAUTICS: from the Greek words oneira , meaning dream, and nautis , meaning sailor. An oneironaut is someone who has learned to travel consciously in the dream world. If you have ever, while sleeping, been aware that you were dreaming and, even for a moment, used that awareness to control the course of your dream, then you have experienced lucid dreaming. A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming teaches readers how to experience dreams while they're happening, opening the doors to creativity, insights, joy and wholeness. This book will help you remember and reconnect with your dreams, fly, shape shift, defuse nightmares, and use lucid dreaming for guidance and personal growth. Until now, books on lucid dreaming have had a distinctly woo-woo slant-emphasizing spiritual or supernatural aspects, or concentrating on psychological self-discovery. The writers of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming -three award-winning writers and filmmakers in their twenties, who began lucid dreaming in their teens-have searched for the best techniques out there, made some improvements and then boiled them down to their simplest, most practical forms to make this ability available to everyone. With dozens of real-life dream accounts by lucid dreamers, and forty beautiful, dreamlike illustrations, this is the book on dreaming for a new generation.
9780761177395 English 0761177396 Imagine Experiencing All the Things That Happen in Dreams, but with one extraordinary difference: You are "lucid"-consciously, joyously in control. Not just an adventure (yes, you can fly), a lucid dream is a time ripe for creative thinking, healing, inspiration, and self-knowledge. This lively dream guide shows step-by-step how to become lucid, and then what to do once awake in the dream world. Here's how to reconnect with dreams, and the importance of keeping a journal and timing REM cycles. How to use simple reality checks to differentiate between waking and sleeping states. How to incubate a dream to solve a problem. With every dream we are washing up on the shores of our own inner landscape. Now, learn to explore this strange and thrilling world. The Oneironaut�s Compass Every time you see this compass icon in the book, stop, look around, and seriously ask yourself: "Am I dreaming?� This reality check technique is the first step to waking up inside your dreams. Book jacket., Imagine being able to fly. Walk through walls. Shape-shift. Breathe underwater. Conjure loved onese"or total strangerse"out of thin air. Imagine experiencing your nighttime dreams with the same awareness you possess right nowe"fully functioning memory, imagination, and self-awareness. Imagine being able to use this power to be more creative, solve problems, and discover a deep sense of well-being. This is lucid dreaminge"the ability to know you are dreaming while you are in a dream, and then consciously explore and change the elements of the dream. A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, with its evocative retro illustrations, shows exactly how to do it. Written by three avid, experienced lucid dreamers, this manual for the dream world takes the reader from step onee"learning how to reconnect with his or her dreamse" through the myriad possibilities of what can happen once the dreamer is lucid and an accomplished oneironaut (a word that comes from the Greek oneira, meaning dreams, and nautis, meaning sailor). Readers will learn about the powerful REM sleep stagee"a window into lucid dreams. Improve dream recall by keeping a journal. The importance of reality checks, such as eoeThe Fingeree"during the day, try to pass your finger through your palm; then, when you actually do it successfully, youe(tm)ll know that youe(tm)re dreaming. And once you become lucid, how to make the most of it. Every time you dream, you are washing up on the shores of your own inner landscape. Learn to explore a strange and thrilling world with A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming., ONEIRONAUTICS: from the Greek words oneira , meaning dream, and nautis , meaning sailor. An oneironaut is someone who has learned to travel consciously in the dream world. If you have ever, while sleeping, been aware that you were dreaming and, even for a moment, used that awareness to control the course of your dream, then you have experienced lucid dreaming. A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming teaches readers how to experience dreams while they're happening, opening the doors to creativity, insights, joy and wholeness. This book will help you remember and reconnect with your dreams, fly, shape shift, defuse nightmares, and use lucid dreaming for guidance and personal growth. Until now, books on lucid dreaming have had a distinctly woo-woo slant-emphasizing spiritual or supernatural aspects, or concentrating on psychological self-discovery. The writers of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming -three award-winning writers and filmmakers in their twenties, who began lucid dreaming in their teens-have searched for the best techniques out there, made some improvements and then boiled them down to their simplest, most practical forms to make this ability available to everyone. With dozens of real-life dream accounts by lucid dreamers, and forty beautiful, dreamlike illustrations, this is the book on dreaming for a new generation.