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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.
Elliot Riley is a reference librarian living in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Her creative nonfiction and poetry has appeared in Halfway Down the Stairs, Moonglasses and Bone Parade.
Table of ContentsPrefaceSection One. How to Lucid Dream1. Definitions and Misconceptions2. Tips to Get Started3. Increasing Dream Recall4. Reality Checks5. Induction Techniques6. Prolonging a Lucid Dream7. Common MistakesSection Two. Why Learn to Lucid Dream?8. Dealing with Nightmares and Anxiety9. Activities to Try in a Lucid Dream10. Long-Term Goal Setting11. Dreaming’s Influence on Creativity and Invention12. Meditation13. Teaching Children to Lucid DreamSection Three. Sleep Science and Philosophy14. What We Know: Scientific Data15. Demographic Trends in Lucid Dreaming16. Dreams and Video Games17. Out-of-Body Experiences and Astral Projection18. Lucid Dreaming as an Altered State of Consciousness19. Additional Perspectives20. What We Don’t Know: Questions for Further InquiryChapter NotesBibliographyIndex