A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming

A good overview for a beginner looking to find out about the subject, but lacks depth and substance. I've found better lucid dreaming knowledge and techniques just browsing the internet.

This is an amazing book about an amazing phenomenon.

What I like about the idea of becoming lucid in your dreams is its huge potential in exploring your subconscious mind and potentially healing yourself.

This book is written in a very easy-to-read way. It starts by explaining the history of using dreams for all sorts of reasons. It turns out that ancient people knew about the positive effects that becoming lucid in their dreams could have on their lives.

Then, we learn about DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming), which is the most common way of becoming lucid in your dreams. There is a detailed step by step instruction on how to do it.

Towards the end, we also learn about a more effective technique called WILD (Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming), which is a bit more advanced but a very promising one. If you master this one technique, you would be able to enter dreams directly from waking state. This is supposed to be a very interesting experience on its own.

I have had a couple of lucid dreams before and I constantly write dreams in my dream journal upon waking up. This has helped me to better remember my dreams, lucid or not. Authors talk about this in the book too, along with the importance of reality checks that you should be performing a couple of times a day.

The things that I think and intuit that are possible via lucid dreaming excite me very much. Becoming conscious of your unconscious mind is the key to solving many of your life's problems. Dreams seem to be a great medium to look straight into the eyes of the hidden aspects of your psyche. Shadow work is essential if you want to return to your state of wholeness, and exploring dreams lucidly seems to be an exciting and a very fun way to do it.

Also, authors make correlations between lucid dreaming and what mystics have been saying for thousands of years, that we are all connected, and that life is a big dream that we can awaken from, just like a lucid dream. As you become more aware inside your dreams, you clearly see the interconnectedness of everything in it and you easily recognize that all of that is just your mind and you are the creator of everything in it and the only thing left is to just explore the infinite potential of it.

What if the waking world is just like that, and a solidity of it is just an illusion. Well, that's what all those mystics and cutting edge quantum physicists have been telling us. It seems that lucid dreaming can help us realize all that and more.

So, read this book if you want to get excited about mastering lucid dreaming, like me.

Sweet dreams.

Exceptional.