Lucid Dreaming for Beginners by Mark McEllroy |
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But I have stumbled upon a great book for lucid dreamers of all experience levels. |
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Lucid Dreaming for Beginners by Mark McEllroy |
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Your resistance to something,
Is the only power it has over you.
This too, will pass.
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My education, A Book of dreams: William S. Burroughs: |
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For me Are You Dreaming? by Daniel Love is the best lucid dreaming book since ETWOLD |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I'm looking for a good book to be my first about lucid dreaming, any suggestions? |
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See my previous post. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I finally got the time to read all of this thread, which was a great way to get to know you people a bit. Very entertaining that debate you had on Robert Wagoners book. It is not easy to do PSI research in the world, that's for sure. I would recommend the first half of the book, witch I found lovely. I am a person who are becoming more and more interested in a spiritual path, but I love to both read and talk to skeptics. As long as they have good arguments. I gave away all my Castaneda books in my mid twenties, but I start to regret it a little. The man must have been stoned and dreaming a lot, but it is also interesting. To the point which are two books that is not mentioned: |
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Last edited by Auke; 06-18-2014 at 03:05 AM.
See all previous posts. |
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Last edited by DreamBliss; 06-18-2014 at 09:07 PM.
Your resistance to something,
Is the only power it has over you.
This too, will pass.
My Blog
My Zen Photography
It was mentioned briefly, but I must second The Conscious Exploration of Dreaming by Janice Brooks and Jay Vogelsong. This seems like the best book beyond the basics (Laberge or Daniel Love). It is a few proficient lucid dreamers doing their own experiments with lucid dreams, which will provide both information and inspiration for your own. I waited a while, but was very happy with the purchase, because it really stands out among the many other books, which often add little bits to previous works. This one stands alone! |
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I've read Michael Raduga's book and I think it's the most comprehensive on the subject. He groups every phenomenon that occurs which has any affiliation at all with REM sleep into the term "The Phase" and lists more classes of methods than any other author on the subject, and the methods actually do work. I do think, however, that Raduga should participate in Neuroscientific research in order to gain some scientific veracity that he's lacking in when compared to Stephen LaBerge. |
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hi I would like to know if anybody has joined a work shop group as I have asked if I can so that it can help me to discover lucid dreaming, I really don't know much about lucid dreaming so any advice would be good. |
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This is my current favorite as well! Admittedly I am only a third of the way through, since I pretty much only read my LD books during my WBTBs (there's too much else I need to read during the day), but I really like this book's down-to-earth perspective. It's also a refreshing change from the tendency of many books to rehash the same introductory ideas and techniques; it explores instead more advanced issues about the topic. |
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hi thanks for the feedback, as I am new to the lucid dreaming site I thought that I would obviously have a look at u tube and I found a couple of videos which were for beginners of lucid dreaming so have started looking at them but so far all I am able to do is go into like a hypnotic state and fall asleep. so far no lucid dreaming but I will try and look at Raduga's website that you mention so thanks once again. |
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Right now I'm reading "Dreams Of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming And Mindfulness Of Dream And Sleep", by Charlie Morley. I've read a few books about lucid dreaming by western authors and, of course, they all end up talking about more or less the same. I also once read a book about dream yoga, but it was hard to read for me. This book in particular gets the western and eastern ideas about lucid dreaming and mixes them, providing a new insight on the matter. A good read if you have read the basics and want something slightly different. |
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"If you must sleep a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams?"
Stephen LaBerge
Really? I couldn't stand that book and it's one of the few LD books I've given to charity as I found it made me cringe and feel embarrassed to be a lucid dreamer. Really hippy drippy and the author comes across like a new age conman. I really felt like Charlie Morley doesn't know how to lucid dream or isn't at all experienced with it and is just teaching stuff he took from other books and online but doesnt really get it. There's just something about his tone and way he acts on his youtube videos that makes it seem like he should be selling insurance or part of some kind of evangelical cult. I don't know about anyone else but I can always tell a lucid dreamer from a wannabe, it's like an intuitive thing. Morley seems like a wannabe to me. |
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Last edited by LucidMoon; 08-05-2014 at 12:04 AM.
This is interesting for me to read LucidMoon. I was checking out Charlie Morley's web site a couple of weeks ago, I tell you why soon. The first thing that where thrown in my face was an ad for David Icke... The site is now all different but here is some proof of there earlier bromance https://mbasic.facebook.com/profile....118711877&_rdr |
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The reason most of us here don't like mystical lucid dreaming books is because they impose all kinds of bogus constraints on people. |
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Thanks Dutchraptor, you said exactly what I was thinking! |
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Last edited by LucidMoon; 08-09-2014 at 01:15 PM. Reason: grammar
I think this thread at times has an air of "high-falluting holier-than-thou-ness" about it, which provokes me like few things do. So I'll just vent a little bit now. |
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Last edited by Voldmer; 08-09-2014 at 02:20 PM.
So ... is this the real universe, or is it just a preliminary study?
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I am going to go against the flow here and withdraw any recommendation or support for a book. |
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Your resistance to something,
Is the only power it has over you.
This too, will pass.
My Blog
My Zen Photography
I have a few recommendations: |
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Essential reading:
Dennis Klocek: The Seer's Handbook, Carlos Castaneda: The Art of Dreaming, Robert Monroe: Journeys Out of Body, Arnold Mindell: Dreaming Awake: Techniques for 24-hour LD... Always seek knowledge!
"None but ourselves can free our minds."
~Robert Nesta Marley
Has anyone here read the book "The Toltec Secret: Dreaming Practices of the Ancient Mexicans"? I looked on Amazon and it has some pretty good reviews. I might buy it. But I need to know if anyone here read it and might recommend it. Seems like it has some very interesting lucid techniques. |
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Last edited by DreamBeard; 12-07-2014 at 07:30 AM.
Just finished Are You Dreaming? by Daniel Love (I know, I'm late to the party, but whatever ) Definitely one of the best books on not just lucid dreaming, but dreaming as a whole. The way he explains the sleep cycle is awesome. And there's something about the tone of his writing that just keeps me reading over and over. |
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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi
Charlie morley first book was the one for me. A perfect well balance book that its in the middle between a completly hedonic approach to lucid dreaming and the very advance practices of dream yoga that are only taught in strict long term retreat. |
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