A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming

Learn how to become a dream navigator and explore the strange and thrilling world of your nightly dreams with this “refreshing blend of science, whimsy, and practical tips” (Sarasota Herald-Tribune).

Imagine experiencing all the things that happen in dreams, but with one extraordinary difference: You are “lucid” —consciously, joyously in control. Not just an adventure (yes, you can fly), a lucid dream is a time ripe for creative thinking, healing, inspiration, and self-knowledge.

This lively dream guide shows step-by-step how to become lucid, and then what to do once awake in the dream world. Here’s how to reconnect with dreams, and the importance of keeping a journal and timing REM cycles. How to use simple reality checks to differentiate between waking and sleeping states. How to incubate a dream to solve a problem.

With every dream we are washing up on the shores of our own inner landscape. Now, learn to explore this strange and thrilling world.

• “[A] refreshingly practical guide to controlling dreams.” 
  --Publishers Weekly
   
  “Step-by-step instructions for achieving the alluring, mysterious goal of lucid dreaming.”
  –Parade.com
   
  “Three young, New York-based oneironauts (‘dream navigators’) have come along to fish these techniques out of esoterica. Pulling from a wide array of lucid dreaming traditions, they offer step-by-step instructions.” 
  --Tricycle
  
  “A refreshing blend of science, whimsy and practical tips on spicing up your dream life.”
   --Sarasota Herald-Tribune