Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416) and index.
Contents:
Part 1: How to lucid dream. Wake up: three golden tools for a lucid mindset -- How to trigger lucid dreaming -- Your gateway to lucid dreams: sensations while falling into and waking from sleep -- Stay lucid: the CLEAR stabilisation technique -- Should we control our dreams?: Going with the flow -- Using magic in dreams: active ways of guiding dreams -- Understanding your dream body and lucid dream physics -- The people you'll meet: lucid dream mentors, puppets, and psychological projections -- Part 2: Lucid dreaming to promote creativity, skill, and pleasure. Creativity elixirs: lucid writing, creative trances, and lucid dreaming while awake -- Improve physical skills: lucid kickboxing, guitar riffs, and scuba diving -- Promote creative skill: meet your inner artist and problem solver -- Sex in lucid dreams: from orgasms to ethics -- Part 3: Lucid dreaming to assist sleep disturbances and overcome nightmares. Nightmares as creative gifts: lucidity and nightmare solutions -- Kids and bad dreams: how lucid dreaming can help -- Could lucid dreaming be a remedy for sleep disorders? -- Part 4: Lucid dreaming for health and wellbeing. Psychological healing and overcoming phobias -- Physical healing of pain and illness -- Healing others in lucid dreams -- Part 5: Extraordinary lucid dreaming for connection and oneness. Lucid dream telepathy: coincidence or a natural human potential? -- Out-of-body experiences and the rainbow of conscious experience -- The void and the lucid light: when imagery and the dream body disappear -- Using meditation and mantras in lucid dreaming as a fast track to oneness -- Death and the divine: lucid dreaming out of this world -- Living a lucid life: reality creation and the art of happiness -- Appendix 1: A brief history of lucid dreaming -- Appendix 2: An invitation to dream lucidly.
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