Dreams of Awakening

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Dreams of Awakening is a thorough and exciting exploration of lucid dreaming theory and practice within both Western and Tibetan Buddhist contexts. It not only explores lucid dreaming practices, but also the innovative new techniques of Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep, the holistic approach to lucidity training which the author co-created. The book is based on over 12 years of personal practice and the hundreds of lucid dreaming workshops which Charlie has taught around the world, in venues as diverse as Buddhist temples and dance-music festivals. Using a three-part structure of Ground, Path and Germination the reader is given a solid grounding in:. the history and benefits of lucid dreaming . cutting edge research from dream and sleep scientists.. entering the path of learning to do the practices. prophetic dreams, lucid living, out of body experiences and quantum dreaming.Although Dreams of Awakening presents many different angles on how to make the 30 years we spend asleep more worthwhile, the fundamental aim of the book is to teach people how to lucid dream their way to psychological and spiritual growth. This book is for all those who want to wake up, both in their dreams and waking lives.

My Thoughts

I am usually suspicious when I read books about spirituality. Indeed, I don't really like when certain things are stated "like that", without necessarily being supported by scientific evidence. In this case, this book is as much spiritual as scientific, so it's all right.

First of all, this book is very interesting for beginners in lucid dreaming. It is a good guide, it presents the most used and recommended techniques for beginners.

For those who are more advanced, it is also useful because it proposes other methods, which are a bit more spiritual but just as interesting. It also explains what to do once in the dream.

He also talks about other things, for example shared dreams, or premonitory dreams. On the other hand, the scientific evidence is questionable. For example, the author said that premonitory dreams are well regarded by the scientific community, yet in some research I found that the scientific community does not approve of premonitory dreams. There are other examples like this. In short, you have to check the author's references to make sure he is not talking nonsense.

In the appendix, the author offers some examples of lucid dreams that are fun to read.

To conclude, This book is on the whole interesting and successful.

To Read or Not to Read?

This book is particularly interesting for beginners as it is a good guide to get started. However, the experienced will also get something out of it as the approach taken by this book is unusual and covers little known methods.

Dreams of Awakening

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My Thoughts

To Read or Not to Read?

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