Llewellyns Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming
I’m biking up a two-mile-high mountain and the path is getting dangerously narrow. To my right, there’s a sheer death drop.
Fear rises in me and then to my enormous relief I realise that I am dreaming! Determined to face my fear, I swing my handlebars to the right… and cycle off over the edge of the cliff.
It’s the most exhilarating ride of my life!
When I finally come to a halt, I shout out to the dream: “Why is lucid dreaming so amazing?” The answer booms out: “Because you can experience the beauty of the entire universe.”
This lucid dream happened in 2015 when I was climbing a two-decade-high mountain of work, writing a ground-breaking, comprehensive guidebook to lucid dreaming.
My intensive academic and personal research into lucid dreaming had already resulted in me becoming the first person to do a PhD on lucid dreaming and the creative process, and I was leading lucidity workshops internationally.
But the big, practical lucidity handbook I was writing was getting bigger and bigger (turning itself into a veritable mountain!).
After that dream, I knew I needed to take the plunge and get it published.
That dream just came true, in the best possible way. The book is now out in the world: Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming: A Comprehensive Guide to Promote Creativity, Overcome Sleep Disturbances & Enhance Health and Wellness.
I wrote this book for all those interested in taking lucid dreaming to a new level, whether by having more lucid dreams, or by exploring deeper.
What makes Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming different from other books out there?
This powerful, in-depth, how-to lucid dreaming resource book contains over 70 practical techniques and activities to help people to get lucid, stay lucid, and explore the dream world in rich and exciting ways.
Practices include “Empowerment Techniques for Lucid Nightmares” (practice #45), “How to Create a Fabulous Lucid Dream Sex Life” (practice #39) and “Lucid Dreaming into Dying” (practice #70).
The book draws on cutting edge science and psychology and is packed with inspiring stories of life-changing lucid dreams.
Apart from covering the essential ground of how to get and stay lucid and experiment with guiding dreams, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming explores the following hot topics and more:
- How can we overcome psychological resistances to lucid dreaming?
- The ethics of sexual behaviour and violence in lucid dreams
- How conscious are lucid dream figures?
- The role of lucidity in sleep disorders
- Lucid dream physics – how does it work?
- How to resolve children’s (and adults’!) nightmares
- Should we “control” our dreams?
- What are the scientific and practical aspects of lucid dream healing?
- How to deepen creativity in lucid trance states
- The future of cutting-edge scientific and academic lucid dream research
- What are the best techniques for engaging with lucid dream figures?
- A scientific and personal look at out-of-body experiences
- What is the lucid dream body made of? A new hypothesis
- Death, dying, and lucidity
- A new theory of dreams and reality
The foreword is written by Dr Keith Hearne, the pioneering British psychologist who first scientifically proved the existence of lucid dreaming in 1975.
Dr Hearne writes
“Dr Clare Johnson has energetically led the way in revealing the limitless practical and spiritual potential of lucid dreaming, so far-reaching it can change the world.”
Dr Keith Hearne with the world’s first Dream Machine
Published by Llewellyn Worldwide, the physical book is 427 pages long in a generous oversized format – so it’s the size of at least two “regular” books. It has five sections:
- How to lucid dream;
- Lucid dreaming to promote creativity, skill and pleasure;
- Lucid dreaming to assist sleep disturbances and overcome nightmares;
- Lucid dreaming for healing and wellbeing;
- Extraordinary lucid dreaming for connection and oneness.
The how-to of getting lucid, guiding dreams, and enabling lucid dreaming to enrich our waking life is explored, and the book also explores deep lucid dreaming.
Deep lucid dreaming refers to the profound experiences that lucid dreaming can open up for us, such as being bodiless in dream space, trav¬elling at incredible speeds in white light, and connecting with a baseline state of consciousness that may be the bedrock of reality and the universe.
What are top sleep and dream researchers saying about Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming?
“Dr. Johnson has clearly established herself to be the ultimate guide to lucid dreaming. This is a magnificent book!”
– Carlos Schenck, MD, sleep disorder specialist and author of SLEEP.
“An unprecedented accomplishment [by] a master lucid dreamer.”
– Scott Sparrow, EdD, author of Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light.
“A powerful how-to resource book that is also inspirational. Highly recommended!”
– Patricia Garfield, PhD, author of the classic 1974 lucid dreaming guide, Creative Dreaming.
How can you get hold of the book?
Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming can be ordered at any physical bookstore in the world, and it is available in many online stores, such as: Barnes & Noble, Llewellyn Worldwide, and Amazon.com. It’s also available as a Kindle ebook. I would love to hear your thoughts on the book, so do contact me via my website or leave a comment on any of my YouTube videos.
About The Author
Dr Clare Johnson has researched lucid dreaming for 20 years and is a lifelong lucid dreamer. She is Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Visit her at: www.deepluciddreaming.com
About the author
Rebecca Casale is a writer in Auckland, New Zealand. She founded World of Lucid Dreaming in 2008 to share her passion for conscious dreaming. Today, she runs the illustrated blog Science Me while working as a freelance science editor.
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