A Lucid Dreaming Technique (Monroe's Technique)

My mother ordered the whole Time Life book series back in 1988 called “Mysteries of the Unknown”. There’s like 30 long hardcover books in the series. Some are really good like “Dreams and Dreaming” and “Psychic Voyages.” While some are just stupid. The two I mention deal with Lucid Dream or Astral Travel/Dreaming. Anyhow…I still have some of the books. This is a method from “Psychic Voyages”. It’s mainly focusing on Astral Projection but it can apply too Lucid Dreaming…its one way to LD…but takes concentration and patience, and you can’t use supplements. I scanned this page from the book and placed it here so anyone can download it too have. You can buy the book on ebay for a few bucks. Dreams and Dreaming is the counterpart too this book. Outside of that the series goes into things such as parapsychology, spirit communication, using instinct to tell if a disaster is about to hit…and some others that were kind of weird/dumb. If you go too Youtube and put in “Time Life: Mysteries of Unknown” you’ll see those spooky yet funny commercials they ran back in 1989. Okay here’s the this technique I scanned from the page of the book to download or look at to help newbies and oldbie. Instead of focusing on leaving the body instead focus on having or falling into a Lucid Dream...this could work too during the later REM cycles (4 hours after rested sleep, waking up, than doing this technique with that dream in mind to stay conscious in)

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Ref: Time Life “Mysteries of the Unknown” – 1988. Page 31. Author: Time Life Books Research.

This sounds very interesting, thank you for sharing! :)

I haven't yet learned much about Astral Projection (would definitely love to educate myself on it more), but what I felt was my first real experience of SP was *PRECISELY* what this author described in Step #6!!! That was the most prominent feeling, was allowing myself to float upward. It was the best feeling imaginable. I'd give anything to consciously experience this again. I had a sort of OBE experience (eyes closed though) when I felt like I was trying to do the "roll out of body" technique (I was trying all I could remember and basically failed, found myself in the perfect SP but no way to enter into a dream, just all dark) and felt like I had touched the other side of the bed's floor (Impossible, I would've fallen in real life as I sleep on the opposite side and the bed is tall).
Point is, the feeling of going upward was unreal. Going to look into learning about Astral Projection, thank you for sharing this!

I wonder if the 'Monroe' in the article is Robert A. Monroe? It was him who first got me interested in lucid dreaming and astral projection as a teenager and I owned all of his books at the time. Definitely worth checking out his stuff if interested in OOBE's - I tried and tried but still never managed to have one!

I still have all his gateway program tapes - You've just reminded me about them. I think I should convert them to MP3. They're certainly very relaxing!

Thanks very much for sharing that.

Here is a video version of it as well for those interested ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1O-FQqUyjs

I like the 'focus on an image as you are drifting of to sleep' part. Lucid dream induction is all about visualization for me. Thanks for sharing!