A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming by Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel, Thomas Peisel Read Free Book Online Page B

powerful, creative force. And it’s not some mystical mumbo jumbo nonsense. If you’re thankful for something in advance, it has already happened in your mind, eliminating any stress and fears that come with the unknown. As you visualize yourself in the dream in the present moment, imagine yourself looking around at the dream world in front of you. Give thanks for the lucid dream prior to actually  experiencing  it.  Even  say  out  loud,  “thank  you,”  and  let  those  goose bumps run down your spine. Ahhhh, feels good.
    I Caught a Big One!
    An effective intention is all about bringing a future goal closer
    to the present moment, like a fisherman reeling in a fish,
    dragging it through the water toward his boat. The better the inten-
    tion, the less space there is between you and your goal, the more
    real and tangible it is. All that is required to become lucid is to go
    to bed with the confidence, expectation, and intention to realize
    when you are dreaming.
    You are dreaming every night, unconscious and unaware that
    you’re inside a dream. Begin now to look for awareness in your
    dreams. If you do, you might be surprised to actually find it.
    This is one of the greatest paradoxes: the very thing for which
    you are looking is actually essential to finding it. Chew on that
    one for a while.
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    Summary
    •   Many people have their first lucid dream directly after hearing or 
    reading about it.
    •   The mind doesn’t know the difference between a thought and 
    an action. Therefore it’s important to mentally rehearse becoming 
    lucid.
    •   Visualize yourself in a dream, feeling the excitement of 
    recognizing the dream state.
    •   Feel a sense of gratitude that you have experienced a lucid 
    dream before having one.
    •   When setting an intention, make a simple phrase to go along 
    with it, such as “I am aware and lucid in my dream.”
    •   Cultivate a strong desire to lucid dream and make such desires 
    your dominant thoughts before bed.
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    Remembering
    Your Dreams
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    Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then we may perhaps find the truth.
    —F. A. Keule, German chemist,
    discovered more in dreams than most do awake
    Aloud alarm clock jolts you awake. You struggle to reach
    for the off button. Snooze? Wait, is it a phone call? Who’s
    calling this early? You stumble out of bed and into the
    bathroom, dreams lingering, barely holding on by a thread. What
    was I just dreaming about? The memory fades quickly as you begin
    to think about your day, your responsibilities, your obligations.
    You try to pull a piece, an image, anything from your memory but
    to no avail.
    Sadly, so many of our nighttime adventures disappear like
    this, sinking into the waters like wrecked ships, never to be sal-
    vaged. If you never remember your dreams or rarely do, don’t fret.
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    There’s nothing wrong with you or your ability to dream. You are
    a healthy, wonderful, normal human and have many dreams each
    night, we assure you of that. Your sails are intact; you just need to
    find the rope to pull and catch the wind.
    In other words, you simply need to remember the dreams
    you’re already having.
    It might seem obvious, but remembering your dreams goes
    hand in hand with lucid dreaming. How do you expect to become
    conscious in your dreams if you can’t even remember them?
    Imagine a wide river, with dreams on one side and your daily life
    on the other. By remembering your dreams, you build a bridge
    to the dream world, carrying back memories and experiences
    across the great divide. Without this connection, you’re left on
    that muddy riverbank alone. You need to have a solid relation-
    ship with your