Lucid Dreaming Books: Reviews by
World of Lucid Dreaming

These are my favorite lucid dreaming books - from self-help books teaching anyone how to have lucid dreams and OBEs, to science fiction perspectives of the dream world. Each link will show you the best deals on Amazon.

Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming

Dr Stephen LaBerge

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This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming - that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. It is based on Dr Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state.

The book also encompasses the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists - including German psychologist Paul Tholey. This practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: solve problems; gain greater confidence; improve creativity, and more.

Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life

Dr Stephen LaBerge

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What if right now, reading these words, you suddenly realized that you were actually dreaming – and that in this domain you could do anything imaginable? That is what it's like to dream lucidly, teaches Stephen LaBerge.

In this new book and CD, he teaches his simple, proven methods for becoming fully conscious in the dream state... with expert instruction gleaned from LaBerge's 20 years of pioneer in research at Stanford University.

Now anyone can learn to consciously explore and use their dreams for self-discovery, creativity, fantasy fulfillment, emotional healing, and profound spiritual insights. The CD includes two complete guided dream induction sessions.

Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self

Robert Waggoner

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This is the account of an extraordinarily talented lucid dreamer who goes beyond the boundaries of both psychology and religion. In the process, he stumbles upon the Inner Self.

While lucid (consciously aware) in the dream state and able to act and interact with dream figures, objects, and settings, dream expert Robert Waggoner experienced something transformative and unexpected. He was able to interact consciously with the dream observer-the apparent Inner Self-within the dream. At first this seemed shocking, even impossible, since psychology normally alludes to such theoretical inner aspects as the Subliminal Self, the Center, the Internal Self-Helper in vague and theoretical ways. Waggoner came to realize, however, that aware interaction with the Inner Self was not only possible, but actual and highly inspiring. He concluded that while aware in the dream state, one has both a psychological tool and a platform from which to understand dreaming and the larger picture of man's psyche as well.

Robert Waggoner proposes five stages of lucid dreaming and guides readers through them, offering advice for those who have never experienced the lucid dream state and suggestions for how experienced lucid dreamers can advance to a new level. This book offers exciting insights and vivid illustrations that will intrigue not only avid dreamworkers but anyone who is interested in consciousness, identity, and the definition of reality. Read my interview with Robert Waggoner.

Dreamside

Graham Joyce

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It began as an experiment in college - a seemingly harmless investigation into lucid dreaming, the ability to control one's dreams.

But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now, ten years later, the dreams have returned to upend their adult lives.

The dreams of youth fade, if you're lucky. If not, they can consume you... and will.

"Graham Joyce writes the kind of novels we keep hoping to find, but rarely do." Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden Sea.

"What a flowing, well-crafted read — I couldn't put it down! Pick a quiet and comfortable place to enjoy this one; it is very absorbing." Naomi de Bruyn, GreenManReview.

Journeys Out of the Body

Robert A Monroe

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When, unpredictably and against his will, Robert Monroe began to have out of body experiences, he was alarmed and incredulous. He found himself leaving his physical body to travel to places far removed from the material and spiritual realities of life on earth; in effect he became an inhabitant of a world unbounded by time or death. As he met others who have suffered the same experience, and read the long history of those who have known the phenomenon in the literature of the East, his fears were alleviated, but his journeys began to increase in frequency and their effects changed his life.

In this classic, first-hand account of the out of body phenomenon, Monroe challenges us to rethink our ideas about life and death and, with step-by-step instructions, invites us to initiate the out of body experience for ourselves.

Multidimensional Man

Jurgen Ziewe

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Leading a highly demanding professional life Jurgen Ziewe compensated by practicing intensive meditation to gain balance and spiritual inspiration. He soon discovered there was more to life when he was catapulted out of his body into a parallel universe. For nearly forty years he kept a secret diary detailing his excursions, which reveal a fascinating alternate reality that awaits us once we leave our mortal bodies. The author discovered a multidimensional universe, which he could step into in full waking consciousness. In his own words, "It was like walking into another room". He returned each time with breath-taking accounts of a world which forms not only the natural extension but the foundation of our physical universe. Jurgen Ziewe gives vivid and compelling accounts of meeting his deceased relatives, of interviewing the 'dead', and even of accompanying himself in a previous life. He describes with the zest of a travel journalist some of the mind-bending places he has visited, and recalls the excitement of unearthing the magical powers which are rooted in the higher dimensions of our reality.

The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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"If we cannot carry our practice into sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes, "if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."

Included are detailed instructions for the dream yoga including foundational practices done during the day. Dream practices are followed by sleep yoga, also known as the yoga of clear light. It is considered a more advanced practice to stay aware during deep sleep. Most Westerners do not even entertain this as a possibility.

"A detailed guide to using our night-lives for awakening: thought-provoking, inspiring, and lucid." -- Stephen LaBerge

Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements

Thomas Yuschak

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Simply the most effective approach to inducing lucid dreams and out of body experiences. This breakthrough book tells you everything you need to know on how to start experiencing extremely advanced lucid dreams and OBEs using the LDS (Lucid Dream Supplement) induction technique. This is the first comprehensive guide that explains how to use natural, non-prescription, and healthy supplements to induce some of the most profound experiences that humans can achieve.

Thomas Yuschak holds Masters Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Modern Physics. He has been studying lucid dreaming for over a decade and has become a leading authority on the supplement approach of inducing lucid dreams. Yuschak is the founder of AdvancedLD, an organization dedicated to the research, development, and teaching of the most advanced and effective induction techniques known.

A Dream Come True

David L Kahn

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Every night when you fall sleep, you have the opportunity to gain new insights into your life, your work, and your relationships through your dreams. Here, in this friendly, down-to-earth guide to interpreting and even guiding your nighttime reveries, discover:

How emotions are the building blocks of your dreams... the strength to embrace the fears your dreams reveal... training your dream habits to mimic your waking habits... the particular power of lucid dreams... important differences between long and short dreams... appreciating color, music, and visual metaphors in dreams... tapping into your extrasensory perception via dreams... interpreting precognitive dreams... and much more.

Eschewing the hard-and-fast deterministic approach of traditional "dream dictionaries," while never denying the power of cultural symbols that influence us all, professional dreamer David L. Kahn shows you how to listen to your subconscious and gives you the tools you need to determine what your unique dreams mean to you. Royalties from the sale of this book benefit The Aid for Traumatized Children Project.

Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power

Jean Campbell

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Of all the aspects of dream study, mutual dreaming is probably the least understood. The very fact that people can meet in the dream state and recall it upon waking challenges our ideas of time, space and the nature of dreams.

In this stunning new book, World Dreams Peace Bridge founder, Jean Campbell, traces the history of group dreaming research beginning in the 1970s and demonstrates how this research led her to believe that dreamers, working together can change the world.

Campbell's book looks at the power that two or more people can tap when striving to dream the same dreams. She describes several different group dreaming experiments over a period of ten years and shows how she organized The World Dreams Peace Bridge.

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

D T Max

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The first symptoms begin after just a few nights without sleep, with shaking, sweating and overwhelming anxiety. Several weeks on the insomniac is unsteady on his feet, wracked by fevers, and drifting in and out of delirium as the body's vital organs begin to fail. Finally, after months of agonizing open-eyed deterioration, the victim falls into a state of exhaustion resembling a coma and mercifully dies.

Chronic sleeplessness, or Fatal Familial Insomnia, is a rare, inherited affliction that has tormented one noble Venetian family since the eighteenth century, striking at random and only after the child-rearing years are over, so that the deadly legacy is passed on like a dynastic curse. The cause of this sickness eluded the experts until the 1990s when it was identified as a rogue protein called a prion - the agent that is also responsible for Mad Cow Disease, 'scrapie' in sheep, and the fatal outbreak of uncontrollable laughter that decimated a tribe in Papua New Guinea. As appalling as these conditions are, however, the future of prion-driven diseases is even more mysterious and frightening: for prions are not alive and have no DNA, making them virtually impossible to destroy.

D T Max's ground-breaking work of scientific detection traces the revelation of the operating methods of the prion, reaching back to the 18th-century English farmers who pioneered intensive breeding methods at King George's command to the brilliant biologists whose revolutionary research has helped crack the prion case and offers new hope for victims, and may enable us to prevent a potentially catastrophic future prion plague. With exceptional fluency, grace, and sympathy, D T Max - who himself suffers from an undiagnosed neurological disease - tells a story that is at once enlightening and spell-binding.

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