Thread: Information, material and sources accumulation (research dept.)

Hello comrades and colleagues.

As part of our effort to write the book, the Research Department will be gathering material and sources of information for the book.


The process for sedimentating information will be the following:
First, we will try to gather all material (online or otherwise) we could use about lucid dreaming, sleep science, induction techniques and etc. Once we're done, we will progressively filter the information, leaving a final product directly usable by the Chapter Writing Department.



Many of us have had contact with several other websites about lucid dreaming, which could contain useful information. With that in mind, I call out everyone in the Research Department to help us with the following:

Run around the Internet/library and post here (or message me) all the sources of information you find about: lucid dreaming, sleep science, dreaming culture, sleep pharmacology, induction techniques, dream journalling, etc. There is no need to filter the information yet - we'll do that later. If you can, write a sentence or two about what the source is about. Here is a short example:

Dreamviews - lucid dreaming website and forum
http://www.dreamviews.com
An introductory website to lucid dreaming with lots of information, tutorials, and a forum.

LD4all - lucid dreaming website and forum
http://www.ld4all.com/
Introductory website and community; information and tutorials.

I'm counting on everyone's help.
I will update this post to list sources as they arrive.

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Source list

http://www.dreamviews.com/
Introductory website.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=25
Tutorials on specific techniques.
DV also has some good non-official tutorials made by members.

http://www.mortalmist.com/
Contains some good technique tutorials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
Vast wikipedia article, contains many sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
Wikipedia article on sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream
Wikipedia article on dreams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Yoga
Wikipedia article about Dream Yoga.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming
Lucid dreaming wikibook, incredibly good source.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/230676/Exp...Lucid-Dreaming
Exploring the world of lucid dreaming, by Stephen LaBerge (attribution+noncommercial license).
Support the author by buying the book!

http://www.ld4all.com/guide.html
Beginner-friendly guide to lucid dreaming at LD4all.

http://ld4all.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=30
LD4all knowledge base.

http://lucidcrossroads.co.uk/
Introductory website.

http://dreampush.com/
A few spare articles about lucid dreaming.

http://luciddreams.ws/
Short website.

http://www.lucidipedia.com/
Introduction and wiki.

http://www.youtube.com/user/lucidipedia
Lucidipedia channel on youtube.

http://www.lucidity.com/
The lucidity institute website. Spare articles.

http://www.dreaminglucid.com/
E-zine on lucid dreaming. Curious articles.

The New Science of Dreaming
Recent scientific publication on dreams.

http://www.asdreams.org/index.htm
The International Association for Study of Dreams website.

http://www.asdreams.org/subidxeduq_and_a.htm
Short FAQ about dreams.

http://www.headtrip.ca/
Website of the book The Head Trip.

http://zzzone.net/zzzone/dreams.pdf
Scientific publication on the Physiology and Psychology of Dreams.

http://www.lucidipedia.com/misc/index.php

A site for dreamers, journalling, techniques, etd. kind of like DV(but not as good)

Originally Posted by Banana

http://www.lucidipedia.com/misc/index.php

A site for dreamers, journalling, techniques, etd. kind of like DV(but not as good)

Not trying to start a flame war here, but I think the 'good' aspect of a site is subjective to the user. I like Lucidipedia better.

And now, for once, let's not get into the discussion of which is better >.>

http://www.dreaminglucid.com/
E-zine on lucid dreaming. Contains lots of information.

Clicky
I'm planning on buying this soon.

The International Association for the Study of Dreams
http://www.asdreams.org/index.htm

Tons of great information from researchers, including a giant list of nearly every book on dreaming out there.

http://www.asdreams.org/subidxedubookbib.htm

They have some nice FAQs with answers based on current knowledge and science:

http://www.asdreams.org/subidxeduq_and_a.htm

I've updated the list. I'd be glad if we could find more beginner-friendly sources on dream physiology.

http://www.youtube.com/user/lucidipedia?blend=2&ob=1
^I forgot. Check out the advanced series.

kromoh, it would be great if you could organize the source list into what chapter it is relevant to, and also links to posts here on the forums from the researchers.

edit: you were going to do that anyway - i'll just go ahead and start the filter thread

currently reading:

Man and His Symbols - Carl G. Jung; (C) 1964

discussion of symbolism in the consciousness of man, great elaboration on dreams. though dreams are not it's focus. Carl Jung probably has a specific book on dreaming but this one is certainly accessible to the average reader and covers alot of Jung's theories.
still reading this one.