Exploring the world of lucid dreaming
by Stephen LaBerge · first published 1991
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Practical, technique-focused guide covering relaxation, dream recall and dream journaling, and then methods for inducing lucid dreams; suits readers who want a step-by-step starting point and are willing to practice.
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…able to get 7.5+ hours of sleep each night. I still attempt to lucid dream when convenient, but I don't practice every day like I used to. Great resources to get started with learning lucid dreaming: - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. & Howard Rheingold - https://www.dreamviews.com/
on “MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’” ↗Buy, read, and enjoy "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge, PhD. It's the key text on this topic. A few years back I used the book with great success but I've fallen out of the "LD" world unfortunately. Keep a dream journal. That's the…
on “Ask HN: Tips, Tricks and Thoughts on Lucid Dreaming?” ↗A really great book about dreaming and inducing lucid dreams is "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Dr. Stephen LaBerge[0]. It goes through relaxation techniques, improving dream recall, and eventually how to induce lucid dreams. It's quite a process and takes some work, but I was able to use his…
on “Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity” ↗Yeah. Read "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" book by Stephen LaBerge. It proposes a number of techniques, some of them works better than other for different people. If you are not predisposed to lucid dreaming (some people are), then the main obstacle…
on “Induce Lucid Dreaming” ↗I'm glad Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and Moonwalking with Einstein made that list. Lucid dreaming and "photographic" memories are two of the most amazing near-superpower skills that anyone can and probably should learn.
on “What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?” ↗Seems to me like you're just in a state where you're conscious while you're body is getting ready to sleep. You're also in a state of sleep paralysis. You should check out a book called Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. He has sections on sleep paralysis and nightmares. First few chapters tell you about the stages of sleep
on “When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led Me to Meltdown” ↗…new? I read a book years ago about lucid dreaming which described experiments in which lucid dreamers were able to communicate with awake observers through pre-arranged eye signals. I think the book was Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, which came out in 1991.
on “Scientists Found a Way to Communicate with People Who Are Asleep and Dreaming” ↗…reliably enter them and remember the dreams just involved too much stuff that messed with me getting enough sleep. But I did read one of Stephen LaBerge's books on the subject. I'm pretty sure it was "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming", but I'm not certain it was that one. But it definitely mentioned sex in dreams as a motivation, at least early in his practice. So I certainly don't think your the first or only person who's had that…
on “The new science of controlling lucid dreams” ↗LaBerge proved that people can have lucid dreams at will as part of his doctoral research at Stanford. Even if you haven't mastered the at-will inductions like MILD or WILD (see Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by LaBerge or consult Google), you can increase your frequency of lucid dreams (once or twice a week for me in my third year of high school) by using critical state testing, which practitioners of Tibetan…
on “Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby” ↗He apparently started in the early 1980s (if not sooner), since his first book on the subject was published in 1985. Here's a blurb from his 1989 book: "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge’s extensive laboratory work at Stanford…
on “Neuroscientists reveal method to train people to have lucid dreams” ↗