I'm aware of LaBerg and have one of his books, but he is old school and people got to move beyond that. LaBerg also has a very narrow view of lucid dreaming. If you accept everything he says, then you would also believe there is no such thing as an OBE, period. This may or may not be true, but I'd rather find out for myself whether the two experiences are one in the same. Point being, people got to look beyond what Laberg preaches and realize there is still much to be discovered. Besides that lucid dreaming is a niche per se, it will probably be ordinary people like you and me who don't have the resources to run scientific experiments that expand the field with no information. Medical companies aren't exactly lining up to do sleep studies on lucid dreamers. People can't just discredit everything Newport says because he is selling it. Is not selling a book another way to make money? Then I guess LaBerg could be discredited as well. I personally have not got Newport's sleep signal to work yet, but other people swear by it, so I think that there is probably something to it. The timer method he recommends I do find much easier than any of LaBerg techniques. I have a lucid dream almost every night using the timer, so it is definitely an easier approach the requires very little work. As others have noted it may not be the exact reasons that he believes it to be effective, but there is a science somewhere in there.

Honestly I found lots of stuff in his videos that I haven't seen anywhere, including this site. So that part of his sales pitch is true in my opinion. I just think people are discrediting possibly great techniques simply because this guy is selling them. I will happily post all of this techniques here for free and people can just try them for themselves and see. Don't say something he claims is false and unscientific, unless you yourself can show scientifically why he is wrong. I see commends like "well my personal experience is this". To me that doesn't disprove anything.

In summary, I don't see a problem with the guy saying, hey I have newer, better methods, if the methods work. No one has proved otherwise. If I had a complaint against the videos, I would say he should have tried to create at least a small structured study to verify that the phenomenon could be reproduced consistently in other people besides himself. Someone noted here or another site (cant remember) that its an issue of the mind's unconscious and conscious processes not communicating, rather than a body vs. mind communication thing (in reference to the sleep signal). To me this makes more sense and would reveal if true that there is validity to the technique, it just doesn't work that way for the reasons that he thinks it does. I think dreamviews is a great thing and a resource for people like me, but if we can interject his techniques and broaden our horizons, then why not. And if someone asked me where to start I would definitely say his videos over a book. Unfortunately he does focus too much of OBEs and doesn't tell you much about using the potential of lucid dreams, so you do need those other resources and sites like dreamviews.