i had read this book a while ago. i think its great and find it irritating that so many people are posting what amounts to "Yeah its the same ole crap, i've seen it before, why bother?" Jaded lucid dreamers, who would have thought it?

Most of it is basically a detailed course on getting OBEs with a slew of techniques that are different from every other OBE book I have read. The way he lays it out and breaks it down makes it pretty clear and easy to follow.

as mentioned most of the techniques are based upon staying still while awakening from sleep. he calls them 'indirect techniques.' one would not have to be dreaming and for most of them one doesn't have to do any sort of dream re-entry or visualizations. they are very 'mental-physical' techniques aimed at body separation and inducing OBE's, which are also useful for lucid dreaming.

i consider it different from your standard DEILD in that the DREAM EXIT part is not necessary, though it is wasteful to split hairs over this, and one could conceivably simply call them variations. I also consider many of the techniques he talks about to be variations of FILD's, basically the perceived tiny motion of body parts until separation.

my greatest issue with these techniques is that i could never really wake up without moving, though i tried to practice it and condition myself. i plan on re-reading and re-trying some of these in the near future however.