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My Lucid Dreaming Kit Review
 This is my review of the Lucid Dreaming Kit, an intensive package of lucid dreaming aids, the main part of which is an ebook called "How to Lucid Dream in 7 Days" by Bradley Thompson. The kit also contains an Audio Stimulation CD containing binaural beats to entrain your level of consciousness and provide verbal lucidity cues while you dream.
This is an intensive guide that guarantees your first lucid dream in 7 days - or your money back. That's quite a claim - and I'm not convinced it WILL work for everyone that fast. But even if you don't experience a lucid dream in 7 days, the course has some valuable advice and is worth sticking with.
What is The Lucid Dreaming Kit?
Bradley Thompson's lucid dream kit is a comprehensive, quick-start guide to lucid dreaming. It contains a great deal of information for beginners to dramatically boost your dream recall and help you start having lucid dreams in the next week. However, if you are already knowledgeable in lucid dreaming then this is not the course for you. It really is an intensive guide for beginners.
The main component is a practical how-to ebook called How to Lucid Dream in 7 Days that you must read every day for a week. This is the commitment part. If you fail to commit to that part, I can tell you right now this won't work.
In each lesson, you'll learn a little more about how lucid dreaming works, and how to apply it to your sleep time. This is not intellectual - in fact I found the ebook to be dumbed down so don't expect to learn any in-depth science of the sleeping brain! However, it does give you the footing you really need to get started.
Specifically, the Lucid Dreaming Kit teaches you:
- How to remember all of your dreams - even if you think you never dream (you do - but you may not have any memory of it).
- Four methods for going lucid on demand - Bradley proclaims these to be the great secrets of lucid dreaming...
- The ultimate lucid dreaming tool - you probably already own one, but have never used it in this context before.
- The logical feedback technique - to enter your lucid dream consciously without any preparation. This one's a little more advanced.
- How to stop yourself from waking up from a lucid dream - this is the kind of thing every lucid dreamer should know (but many don't).
- The drink you can buy anywhere to boost your dreaming - another one of Bradley's tricks to get you lucid sooner.
- How to turn nightmares into lucid dreams - with a relatively simple trick. I use this one myself a lot and it is very empowering.
Effects of The Lucid Dreaming Kit
As you know I'm a lucid dreamer already, having on average 1-2 lucid dreams per week (sometimes more, sometimes less). I did indeed lucid dream that week, four times, but I can't definitively say it was due to the Lucid Dreaming Kit.
However, I went through the workbook step-by-step as if I was a total beginner. There was one bit I was really impressed with - how fast my dream recall shot up overnight. Usually I remember one or two vivid dreams each morning. But when I used Bradley's method for remembering dreams, I recalled 4-5 dreams in one night. This has never happened to me before, and it was really quite easy.
The Audio Stimulation CD
The kit also includes the Audio Stimulation CD. This is a 72-minute brainwave entrainment recording which relaxes you into the dream state and gives you verbal prompts to recognize the fact that you are dreaming. The brainwave entrainment worked really well (you know me, I love brainwave entrainment).
As for the spoken cues to recognize when I was dreaming... They didn't seem to work for me. Either the voices didn't coincide with my REM sleep or I simply didn't integrate them into my dreams. The only time I did hear them was when they occasionally woke me up. But actually that can be a blessing when you're learning lucid dreaming - because every time you wake up in the night, it's an opportunity to incubate another lucid dream while you fall asleep.
Conclusion
Overall I recommend this kit to beginners because it:
- Condenses a whole lot of information for the complete beginner
- Doesn't bog you down with unnecessary and complex terminology
- Offers an intensive schedule for inducing lucid dreams
- Dramatically improves dream recall with one simple method
- Contains a 72-minute brainwave entrainment CD
- Genuinely seems to help people have their first lucid dream in a week
The kit condenses so much of Bradley Thompson's knowledge and experience into one resource, that when you take it all in during one intensive week... your chances of having a lucid dream are high. I wouldn't go as far as saying it will definitely work for everyone, because for various reasons, it wont. But for many people who commit to the kit for one good week, this could be the thing that kick-starts your first bunch of lucid dreams.
At $59.95 the Lucid Dreaming Kit is not cheap but does include several resources (some more which I haven't mentioned here, like the password-protected dream diary, the reality checker, and the lucid dreaming screensaver to help incubate lucid dreams while you work). It is also 100% guaranteed which means if you don't have a lucid dream in 7 days you can claim your money back.
(90-day Money-Back Guarantee)
Update: Eight-Hour CD Version
Due to demand, Bradley Thompson has released an eight-hour version of the Audio Stimulation CD to help you have more lucid dream success. As I alluded to my in review, the original 72-minute CD does it's job, if a little clumsily. It's not an exact science - because it can give you reality prompts when you're not dreaming. It's also less effective on people who find it difficult to get to sleep or who wake up frequently at night.
The new eight-hour version is said to be a much more effective tool which more accurately positions the reality prompts over a full eight-hour sleep period. In Bradley's words, "...rather than randomly trying to catch your mind while in REM, we're aligning your sleeping patterns so we can be SURE they're in REM when we send out the audio prompts."
You can get the Eight-Hour CD for a 20% discount here. |
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