Lucid Dreaming book reviews and recommendations
Hi, forgive me if a similiar topic has been posted and please direct me to it if it exists! Nothing came up in a search.
I thought it'd be a good idea to put together a booklist of LD related books that you've found helpful. I've got a book on AP that touched on LD, and a book about the mind with a chapter on LD, but I wouldn't recommend either of them. I'd really like to start reading more about it!
So, what do you recommend? :)
Lucid Dreaming Book Reviews
Ive had this idea for a while and I think its time I bring it into reality.
Idea: Read Lucid Dreaming books then provide concise and informative reviews. I have already read the major LD books like Laberge, Castenada, Waggoner, and Rinpoche, so I will save those for later.
I just picked up two books from the library today.
1. The Everything Lucid Dreaming Book: Using your dreams to solve problems, improve creativity, and understand yourself.
Author: Michael R. Hathaway, DCH(Doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy)
2. Banishing Night Terrors and Nightmares: A breakthrough program to heal the traumas that shatter peaceful sleep.
Authors: Christopher Raoul Carranza and Jane Rogers Dill, Ph.d., L.M.F.T.(Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), D.A.P.A.(Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor)
Y'all can expect a review of each book in no more than two weeks. I hope to keep this going with other books as well. It is for my enjoyment, your information, and my own self education. I hope you all enjoy them as much as I will enjoy reading the books and writing the reviews.
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I'll do "Leaving the Body" by Scott Rogo.
Hey chimpertainment and dutchrapter
I'll do a report on the murdered D. Scott Rogo's 1983 book, "Leaving the Body: A Complete Guide to Astral Projection" It was the first book I ever read on lucid dreaming. Then he got murdered and I got sooo mad because I loved all his books and his engaging writing style.
I bought that book a total of three time because I gave away two.
Ha!
The faded invoice is inside the yellowing pages of Leaving the Body. The reciept records that on December-11-2008 from Cosmic Pages I bought:
$19:95 Leaving the Body
$49:95 New Mythic Tarot
$34:95 Astral Dynamics
Wow! I still got all those books and Astral Dynamics is a lucid dreaming book too.
Now I remember.
This amazing guy called EyeOneBlack on another site back in 2008 opened a thread to discuss the book "Astral Dynamics". I ran around looking for it but wound up having to get Cosmic Pages to order it in for me. It took 6 weeks and by the time I got it noboby wanted to discuss it any more (boo-hoo-hoo).
Anyway I will begin reading Leaving the Body by Scott Rogo and put together a review.
Quick book review: Are you dreaming?
I promised a few of you guys i'd write a book review on this one, so here it is :)
Are You Dreaming? - Exploring lucid dreams - A comprehensive guide.
by Daniel Love
For the record I read the paperback version but it's also on kindle. I bought mine on amazon: Are You Dreaming?: Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide: Daniel Love: 9780957497702: Amazon.com: Books
Rating: 5/5 stars.
Gonna keep this really short because i'm still processing the book having only just finished read it but maybe this'll be of use to someone :) These are my first thoughts.
Basically I loved this book and highly recommend it to everyone. Covers LOADS of stuff and has WAY more in it than most of the other books on LDing that I've read recently. Is obvious that the writer really cares about LDing and is very experienced. Has some really cool ideas on the future of LDing too. It's nice also that it just reads really honestly and doesnt try and fool you into thinking you will be LD master really quickly without working at it. It says something like "learning to LD is like learning to play the piano - you get better with time and you need to work at it" which is so true but you dont often get experts being honest about this so that's really nice and refreshing.
There are LOADs of interesting ideas and techniques in this book too many to talk about in a quick first impressions review but check out the look-inside bit on amazon and you'll see what I mean just by the size of the contents page!!!! it's not exagerating when it calls itself a comprehensive guide, it even mentions dreamviews!! :banana:
OVerall this has gone instantly into my top list of LD books alongside ETWOLD. Actually this is the first book i've read since ETWOLD that has really impressed me or given me that fuzzy-warm excited feeling about lucid dreaming. Plus may be a coincidence but I've had loads of LDs whilst reading this! :banana:
I've been lucid dreaming for years and I still learnt a lot I actually think it's probably aimed towards experienced lucid dreamers. I cant say how it'd be for a newbie but i'd put it on the same reading level as something like ETWOLD kinda sciency but also exciting and dreamy too. Is a good all round book that I think deserves 5/5 stars :)
Hope this review is helpful sorry if its a bit short but i'm on my way to work and trying to type this on a touchscreen is tricky!!!!
Linky... Are You Dreaming? - Amazon.com: Books
Came Across This Book . . .
Surfing around, I found this guy, Ryan Hurd, who seems to know what he's talking about. He wrote a book called, "Lucid Immersion Blueprint" and I was wondering if anyone here has read it. And if you have, what do you think of it? Is there anything new in it, or is it just the same old stuff rehashed into a new package?
Thanks in advance for any input.
Books to read about lucid dreaming?
Apart from LaBerge's EWLD and Carlos Castaneda's Art of Dreaming (have ordered already) what other books about lucid dreaming can I read?
New book om dreaming (tibetan perspective)
Apparently there is a new book on dreaming, from the tibetan perspective, coming to market in the not-too-distant-future:
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I have no specific knowledge of the book but thought I would just bring it to peoples attention.
Sorry about the typo in the threads title ... (a very Danish typo, I'm afraid)
Hopefully this is the place for it...
But I have stumbled upon a great book for lucid dreamers of all experience levels.
A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics by Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel, and Thomas Peisel
In this book, these men talk about the the way in with they became lucid and give ideas of things to do once you have become lucid. They talk about lucid dreamers as being pioneers comparable to astronauts and the explorers of the Earth we live on. I love the idea of lucid dreamers being romanticized and the idea of exploring a world that no one has previously gone to. If you are interested, and judging by the fact that you have joined this website I believe you are, definitely give this book a try :)