Thread: Lucid Dreaming book reviews and recommendations

Thank you, filtereyez Yes, the information and it's availability is why I loooove technology and internet. I have some more books, but they were all mentioned in posts in this thread. I'll send you PM with some of my favorite websites. Happy dreams

Originally Posted by gab

Thank you, filtereyez Yes, the information and it's availability is why I loooove technology and internet. I have some more books, but they were all mentioned in posts in this thread. I'll send you PM with some of my favorite websites. Happy dreams

Could you pm those sites to me too please? I love devouring all the literature on lucid dreams that I can ^^

I recommend> Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advancements and Reconsiderations

I recommend:
Stephen LaBerge: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
Thomas Yuschak: Advanced Lucid Dreaming | The Power of Supplements
I have read these 2 books and they are great.

I recommend:

Robert Monroe - Journeys out of the body
Carlos Castaneda - The Art of Dreaming

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Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self - Robert Wagonner, absolutely essential imo.

absolutely..I totally second that!

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.

That first sound very intresting
Out of the other's I found that laberge's book was slightly outdated because I read it after I read through the entire site, but it did give me a few ideas.
Waggoner's book was certainly intresting at parts but I tended to disagree with alot of what he said. Although I didn't like a majority of the chapters his book did make me more open to the idea of obe's and telephathy.
I've found it hard to find a book in which the author doesn't go into too much occult things like AP and OBE's, so I hope that "The Everything Lucid Dreaming Book", cant wait to hear your review.

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.

Dear Chimpertainment

Here is the link to chapter 4 (best bits) of the book I will review for you called "Leaving the body" a complete guide to astral projection by the murdered D. Scott Rogo (1983)

http://www.dreamviews.com/f19/leavin...2/#post1947374

Originally Posted by Iapetos

I recommend:

Robert Monroe - Journeys out of the body
Carlos Castaneda - The Art of Dreaming

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It's funny that you mention Carlos Castaneda with the hype about Robert Wagonner, he mentions reading books by Castaneda in the earlier chapters of his book. Definitely have to check out some of Castaneda. ^_^

glad to see there is some interest. Thank you for the link DebraJane!

Unfortunately, my reading skills are not what they used to be so my reviews will be delayed by a week or so. I am about halfway through The Everything Lucid Dreaming Book and it has been pretty great so far. Soon and very soon, we shall have a review!

I've found those books online today:

The Art Of Lucid Dreaming: A Manual - Carolus M. den Blanken
Lucid Dreams In 30 Days - Keith Harary, Pamela Weintraub
Lucid Dreaming Manual - Marc VanDeKeere
A Course In Lucid Dreaming - Stephen LaBerge
Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming - Stephen LaBerge

I've read enough of this thread to know that I should read LaBerge, but can anyone tell me if the other books are worth reading? At the moment, I plan on reading them, but if they're crap, I'd like to know so I don't waste my time...

Are there any books out there that don't merely rehash what is already known? I'm looking for anything, even most obscure stuff, mystic or whatever.

Books is a good motivation source and entertaining to read , but remember that you shouldn't relay on the techniques, but actually learn on your own.

By doing that you don't only learn how to lucid dream but also how to do it regularly.

So see through the techniques and see the core of the method or technique. For example when Waggoner or Castaneda's books tells you to look at your hands, it's not the act of looking at your hands that will make you aware of lucid, but the fact the fact that you intend to do something.

Castaneda does however explain the intending in more detail, so I second Iapetos' (my own) suggestion..
The Art of Dreaming is a very special book, but it's really good and I've read it five times

I'm not looking for techniques in books, they've been rehashed over and over, I want something else. Like about the nature of dreams and what can be done with their help. In other words, books on dreams are mostly advertising how great they are and how to attain them, but there's nothing new in them that wasn't said before anyway.

Never read Waggoner, but Castaneda was among the first ones I read, and I'd say he's the most obscure author I've seen.

I don't want to sound dismissive, so I'll explain my views a bit. As far as Castaneda is concerned, he presupposes something called intent to be the cause of "dreaming". If we match it to lucid dreaming, then it doesn't really fit in. Just remember the theory in another topic (about lucidity timing and RCs), it doesn't match his "intent" at all. According to Castaneda, all of whose books I read trying to understand him, intent is completely independant from desire or non-desire, from wanting something to happen or not wanting it to happen. But I think you can agree that causing LDs works because we want them to happen! So whatever he's writing about, it doesn't make sense to me, and I find him extremely obscure.

I see Waggoner is popular, even though I've never heard of him, so I'll read him just to know what popular books talk about.

Don't try to overanalyze it by reading his exact words, just like a technique it's just a guidance not an exact way. The importance in the book however is the mindset that he presents not the actual technique.

Take all the information you resonate with, leave the rest if you want to.

As usual I am a professional procrastinator...I have finished The Everything Lucid Dreaming Book and will be writing up a review shortly...

Originally Posted by Chimpertainment

As usual I am a professional procrastinator...I have finished The Everything Lucid Dreaming Book and will be writing up a review shortly...

No review yet? Ah well take your time.....*5 months later......*

I think we need a new definition of shortly.

Indeed. His definition of shortly could be a couple of months as far as we know.

hey sorry guys! I had to return the books to the library before I completed the review. Im still doing the everything lucid dreaming review however, and that will be done this weekend. This obviously hasnt been at the top of my priority list but I will get it goin here soon...Its about 1/4 of the way done...

Book Review

“The Everything Lucid Dreaming Book” Michael R. Hathaway, DCH. Copyright 2012.
Price: $15.56 at Amazon.com ISBN: I-4405-2855-1

This is an Exposition regarding the subject of Lucid Dreaming. It also comes with a CD of Guided Meditations to be used before sleep.


Author’s Purpose: The author reasoned that while there are apparently a variety of lucid dreaming books, many are not accessible to most people. He also mentions that he tends to view the world in a different way than most people. This led him to write a book generalizing the common topics of lucid dreaming.

The book is full of practical knowledge concerning lucid dreaming. The author outlines how one becomes lucid, and several techniques for beginners. He spends about a third of the book explaining how to become lucid and individual lucidity practices. Following the first five chapters, the author begins exploring benefits of lucid dreaming. They range from health benefits, to help with nightmares, to exploring mystical realms within dreams.
The book is quite an easy read with large text and just under three hundred pages. The author refers to the reader as a she which I found unique. The author is very aware of accusations levied against certain fringe concepts in the book but seems to support them regardless. Even if you don’t believe or practice mystical exploration, or lucid healing, there is quality information in large quantities.
To me, the book was very good at communicating the basic ideas of lucid dreaming. Every foundational aspect is outlined in great detail and provides a formidable structure for the reader to build upon. Anyone that picked this book up off the shelf would be able to learn lucid dreaming exclusively through the information held within. I plan to purchase the book myself to add to my library.
In the meantime, I will be checking this book out of the library again very soon.


I know this review is rather short, and I hope to write something more extensive in the future. My reading skills pretty much suck, so it takes me a while to get through a book. anyway, to a more productive future!

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!!

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!

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