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Title: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by PHD Stephen Laberge ISBN: 0-345-37410-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 November, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easily the best book on Lucid Dreaming.
Comment: First, I must state that I want to give this book more around 4 1/2 stars, but I mine as well round up.
If you are starting to become interrested in lucid dreaming, I HIGHLY recommend that you order or pick up this book. It has techniques for becoming lucid and tips for what to do when you're lucid. Along with that, the book has ways for lucid dreaming to further improve your life, beyond the aspect of just having fun.
However, I wanted to give the book 4 1/2 stars for one reason and one reason only. Like other reviews that have stated this, this book totally is without the spirituality that is experienced during a lucid dream and LaBerge's theories on dreams are a solely based on Freud, which may or may not be a good thing, depending how you look at it.
Overall, excellent book. If you're looking into lucid dreaming, read this book. Believe me, it will be an incredibly useful tool for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eye Opening
Comment: This was the second book I've read on Lucid Dreams, but easily surpassed the first by including much more practical information for the average lucid dreamer. You'll almost want to take notes when you read this, as some of it is so useful and eye opening that you won't want to forget any of it. A terrific guide.
Rating: 3
Summary: Useful techniques but dull metaphysics...
Comment: On the one hand I found this (very cheap and handy)book very useful in that it contains detailed, clear descriptions of lots of different techniques for inducing lucid dreams. I often read it in the dead of the night after my first awakening in order to focus my mind on lucid dreaming before going to sleep again and I have found it very effective in inducing a heightened state of consciousness in dreams.
On the other hand, this is a very irritating book because of Laberge's dogmatic insistence that dreams are just mental constructions, illusions created by the brain, which in philosophical jargon I term a typical case of scientific reductionism: the "nothing more than" disease which afflicts the whole scientific establishment in the West.
Although the author does not realize it, such a trivial theory undermines his whole case for trying to have lucid dreams and getting answers to deep questions from dreams in the first place: why should one bother about illusions? Besides, if the content of dreams comes solely from one's individual brain, how can one expect to find anything new in one's dreams? Obviously this is an illustration of the famous principle GI-GO (garbage in/garbage out).
Of course, being a Western scientist trained at Stanford University, Laberge could not possibly have come up with more exotic but perhaps more accurate explanations, namely the existence of etheric bodies and realms, which have a transpersonal nature.
Buy the book for the methods and tricks but look for inspiration elsewhere. Where? This is a hard question. No matter how much inspiration self-proclaimed dream guides purport to draw from their fantastic adventures in dreamland (I'm thinking of Robert Moss), I haven't as yet read a single really well-written book on dreams and lucid dreaming, although the topic is such an interesting one. All are trivial, boastful and superficial, if not downright misleading.
Maybe the best solution is to trust yourself and go through the whole process of trial and error with the aid of the few tricks that really work for you, tricks which you can find easily on the Internet. Unless you are a psychic, it is a long process, believe me (certainly not one that cannot be accomplished in 30 days!).
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Title: Lucid Dreams in 30 Days : The Creative Sleep Program by Keith Harary, Pamela Weintraub ISBN: 0312199880 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby ISBN: 1559391014 Publisher: Snow Lion Pubns Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming by Arnold Mindell ISBN: 1571743596 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Conscious Dreaming : A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life by Robert Moss ISBN: 051788710X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Lucid Dreaming by PHD Stephen Laberge ISBN: 0345333551 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 14 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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