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Lucid Dreaming ebook Reviews
The following are my own lucid dreaming ebook reviews.
I'll tell you which authors are clearly bluffing and have never had a lucid dream in their lives. I'll tell you which ebooks are scams. And I'll tell you which are genuinely helpful and will teach you how to have lucid dreams and take those experiences to the next level.
I've written up most of the lucid dreaming ebooks on the net, and in no way do I endorse all of them. Indeed, I've dedicated the first half of this page to recommended ebooks - and the second half to those I don't endorse. I hope this helps you decide how to dedicate your own time and resources.
A list of recommended lucid dreaming ebooks (click to jump to review):
A list of lucid dreaming ebooks to avoid (click to jump to review):
RECOMMENDED LUCID DREAMING EBOOKS
Here are the ebook packages I believe are genuinely helpful...
The Lucid Dreaming Fast Track Review
 by Rebecca Turner
The Lucid Dreaming Fast Track reveals the most popular lucid dream induction techniques known to man. It also tracks my personal experience of learning to lucid dream as a teenager. It is a book for complete beginners and anyone who has dabbled in lucid dreaming and wants to learn more.
The Fast Track has three parts:
- The Art of Lucid Dreaming eBook
- The Guided Meditation Handbook
- The Lucid Dreaming Hypnosis MP3
Together they contain background research, essential techniques, troubleshooting advice, dream control challenges, and advanced lessons in dream control.
The course also provides meditation practices specifically geared for lucid dreaming, plus a professional hypnosis MP3 which uses guided meditation to help your visualization practice and subconsciously program your dreams each night.
Written in my usual style (if you like the website, you'll like the book), this is a friendly and accessible guide to developing your lucid dreaming skills.
"A wonderfully condensed e-book... that concerns not just the topic of lucid dreaming, but its complete landscape. To us, it was actually kind of a surprise to discover such a nicely packed and yet still complete bundle amidst the many fuzzy lucid dreaming resources out there. No wonder we rated it with 4 stars."
- Tim Post, Author of Lucidipedia
Price: $37
More info: Download it here.
 The Lucid Immersion Blueprint Review
The Lucid Immersion Blueprint is an original course by Ryan Hurd (author of DreamStudies.org) for lucid dreamers who are looking to take their skills up a notch.
Ryan has a way of balancing objective scientific insight with spiritual self-inquiry. He emphasizes the need to take a holistic approach to lucid dreaming and remains in awe of the extraordinary potential for self-growth.
Though he doesn't claim to be any kind of expert or "guru" in lucid dreaming, I think he makes an inspiring tutor with ample personal experience to draw from.
There is, I should say, far more information in this course than you actually need to dip your toe in the waters of lucidity. Casual readers may well find this overwhelming, finding it unnecessary to learn about the depths of dream theory and cultural interpretations before experiencing lucid dreaming for themselves.
However, this is no discredit to Ryan's work. I'm sure there are many ambitious and advanced dream explorers who will revel in the depth of information here, which is beautifully packaged.
Price: $27 (Essential Edition) / $37 (Advanced Edition)
More info: Full review or download it here.
The Lucid Dreaming Kit Review
 by Bradley Thompson
The Lucid Dreaming Kit guarantees to teach anyone how to have lucid dreams in a week - or your money back. That's the real selling point of this course because there is no denying: it is highly intensive.
The kit includes:
- How to Lucid Dream in 7 Days eBook
- 70-minute Audio Stimulation CD
- A digital dream journal
- A lucid dreaming screensaver
The Lucid Dreaming Kit is a highly practical resource for beginners. It doesn't bog you down with complex terminology and is very readable.
One downside is it doesn't go into depth on a lot of key issues, but the course is comprehensive and would suit a lot of causal readers with little time to spare.
Price: $59.95
More info: Full review or download it here.
Lucid Fiction Review
 by Various Authors
Lucid Fiction is the world's first collection of short stories based around lucid dreaming.
Just as horror movies beget nightmares, so too can the stories in Lucid Fiction beget lucid dreams. You'll get into the mindset of a lucid dreamer and be entertained by these 12 illustrated sci-fi and fantasy shorts.
Though this is not an educational resource for lucid dreaming, this innovative work exploits the principle of subconscious lucid dream incubation, identified by Dr Stephen LaBerge. Simply by reading and thinking about lucid dreaming before sleep dramatically increases your chances of having a lucid dream.
"Clever, imaginative and engaging... Highly recommended for lovers of science fiction and fantasy." - Joshua Anderson
"After reading through the collection, I had a powerful lucid dream the same night..." - Ryan Hurd, Dream Studies
Price: $4.95
More info: Download it here.
Directed Dreaming Review
by Evelyn Grazini
 Directed Dreaming is a way of accessing your subconscious intuition through your regular dreams.
You ask questions while awake, and receive answers through your dreams. It is not the same as lucid dreaming, but it does share some similarities. Namely, it probes your own subconscious for answers to life's questions and involves learning to remember your dreams.
This 75-page ebook starts by discussing the sort of things you might like to ask your subconscious - like how to attain your dream job or ideal relationship. It encourages you to think differently and gain the answers you seek through your dreams via personalized messages and symbols deliberately planted by your subconscious mind.
While Directed Dreaming takes place during unconscious dreams, it shares the same basis as asking your lucid dream questions. In both cases, the answers come directly from your own subconscious, which can be very knowledgeable. This is a very powerful aspect of lucid dreaming and not to be sniffed at. Some of the leading authorities on lucidity are putting their efforts into this relatively new field of research, to harness the amazing psychological applications.
Price: $17.95
More info: Download it here.
LUCID DREAMING EBOOKS TO AVOID
I felt the following e-books were a letdown, for reasons explained below...
Lucid Dreaming Made Easy Review
 by Benjamin Lime
Yikes. Another internet marketer cashing in on the lucid dreaming bandwagon.
Benjamin Lime, who signs off with the title "expert lucid dreamer" has clearly never had a lucid dream in his life (if he is even a real person). Lime openly admits on page 10 that when he started writing the book, he thought lucid dreams weren't lucid unless you could control them. This is a fundamental misconception - not a revelation to make yourself while writing your expert book on the subject.
Spending $47 on this lucid dreaming e-book package will leave you with A LOT of fluff material and, if you're like me, stopping every page to quote bits out loud to whoever sits within earshot because you can't believe he just said that. I'll give you an example from his mythbusting section:
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Lucid Dreaming is new age:
- Let's put this to rest immediately, even though you may not believe in the bible, the story of Joseph is well known, so to quote "We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about my sheaf and bowed down! 8 His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or are you going to have us as your subjects and dominate us? And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said." Amp Bible Genesis 37:5. Now I don't think that if Joseph had a lucid dream more than two thousand years ago, we could claim that lucid dreaming is new age.
- Direct quote from Lucid Dreaming Made Easy by Benjamin Lime |
Even if you ignore all the grammatical errors, the fact that he doesn't understand what New Age means let alone how to debunk it, the fact that he admits the bible requires belief then uses it to convey evidence for something that happened 2,000 years ago, and the fact that this quote has nothing to do with lucid dreaming... this entire half-page of content (double-spacing helps pad out the book) is a meaningless pile of crap written by a fraud. There, I said it.
And it bears close resemblance with the rest of the work.
I'm also stunned by how openly Lime admits that his research into lucid dreaming began with him writing the book. I repeat: he is no expert lucid dreamer and he should not be writing a book on the subject:
Keeping a Dream Journal
Doing research on the topic of lucid dreaming; it has come up not only on various websites, but also in many E books that the necessity of keeping a dream journal is highly important.
- Direct quote from Lucid Dreaming Made Easy by Benjamin Lime |
His tribute to The Dangers of Lucid Dreaming (page 46) make me want to crack his skull against a wall. Ahem. And I'm not a violent person.
He genuinely believes (yet without giving any kind of convincing explanation) that lucid dreaming can be addictive, can alienate you, and can cause dissociation:
Dissociation
Most people have tried to differentiate between their dreams and reality, and all of a sudden you now have an excess or illogical memories to sort out which may be a big annoyance, an example of this would be losing something in the waking world and then finding in a dream and not trying to decide if you had found in reality or not.
- Direct quote from Lucid Dreaming Made Easy by Benjamin Lime |
If you read that sentence in one breath I commend you.
Besides excelling at spouting random nonsense and misconceptions, this ebook also contains a shocking about of plagiarism. Scanning through this "expert" rendition I found a total of 22 pages (that's about one-quarter) were articles lifted from my own website. (On contacting the publisher with a copyright infringement notice I was told all this information was taken from a book on lucid dreaming sold by Master Resale Rights. This further validates my theory that this entire book is either lifted from other sources or based on half-baked internet research.)
Other pages are lifted from Wikipedia (Lime shamelessly adds Wikipedia links for further reading - what was it you paid for again?) and doubtless other authors' works are republished without credit nor permission.
This kind of sloppiness continues into the bonus products. Neither the 45-page bonus ebook (Hypnosis for Lucid Dreaming) nor the 116-page bonus e-book (Meditation for Lucid Dreaming) contain a single reference to lucid dreaming. They are re-published works exclusively about hypnosis and meditation, respectively, which I guarantee Benjamin Lime did not write (yet takes full credit for).
In short, Lucid Dreaming Made Easy is a poor attempt to cash in on the lucid dreaming phenomenon. Lime is not a lucid dreamer, nor a competent writer. The best thing about this package is the product design, which is so swish as to trick people into parting with their money. Don't.
Lucid Dreaming: Living in Your Dreams Review
 by Steven Aitchison
Steven Aitchison writes a popular personal development blog called Change Your Thoughts, and his clear and methodical writing style holds true in this short but sweet lucid dreaming ebook.
Living in Your Dreams explains the stages of sleep, a history of lucid dreaming, the applications of controlling your dreams, and the prerequisites to having a lucid dream. Unfortunately this is all information you can easily find online and at just 26 pages this ebook falls well short.
I feel the author skimped on his duties of presenting a way to "live in your dreams" as the title promises. The four pages dedicated to lucid dreaming techniques don't provide nearly enough detail to fuel your lucidity quest, which is a shame because I reckon he'd do a really good job. For a definitive guide to lucid dreaming, this really doesn't cut the mustard, lacking the breadth and depth of information to make a useful resource.
The Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming Review
by Unknown Author
The Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming is an e-book created for the purpose of recycling as a free bonus, or re-branding so internet marketers can re-publish the content under their own name. Yuck. But you wanted an honest review of the content so here it is.
This book contains some partially useful information for the complete novice looking for a way in. It answers of questions like: how long does lucid dreaming take to learn, are lucid dreams related to PSI phenomena, and should you kill someone in a lucid dream? However the answers weren't really meaty enough to hold my interest, and were quite subjective without really backing up the mystery author's opinion.
It also covers the potential dangers of lucid dreaming, which I felt were complete nonsense, made up by someone who has never had a lucid dream before, and likened the condition of lucid dreaming to becoming a schizophrenic. This is gross misinformation.
I'll admit this is an easily digestible take on the joys of lucid dreaming, but it is not a definitive guide for someone who's taking this seriously. You'll find this book on sale on some websites, available for free on others, and to be honest your time is better spent on a better quality, all-round resource than this type of thing.
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