Hi. has anyone read, or does anyone know anything about, the book “Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming”?
amazon description:
What if you could dream 24 hours a day, even while awake? According to innovative psychotherapist Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., we already do. The seeds of dreaming arise in every moment of the day, in body symptoms, problems, relationships, subtile feelings, interactions, random thoughts, and fantasies. We’re getting countless little cues from the unconscious every minute. All are signs from the world of dreaming. And, according to Mindell, we can be in this state of lucid dreaming all day long.
In Dreaming While Awake, Mindell shows how to become aware of these “flirts” from the dreamworld and how to interpret their message. The goal, he says, is to be wide awake and lucid 24 hours a day in the midst of this unending dreamfield of information.
Practicing 24-hour lucid dreaming:
Helps you solve personal, physical, and emotional problems
Serves as a preventive medicine for relationships and health, helping you catch the earliest warning signs before they turn into problems
Helps resolve conflicts in relationships, families, large groups, corporations, even politics
Dreaming is the mystical source of reality, says Mindell. “My goal is to make the Dreaming roots of reality so accessible, so visceral, that your conscious mind will give you back your right to dream.”
Yea, all about living in the moment i reckon. Which is a very powerful thing. Identify your ego and become aware of the present moment, become lucid in ever moment of your life. It’s an amazing experience/lifestyle
I think its mainly a lucid living guide. I don’t see why waste 15 bucks on it when you can learn it on your own. But still, it might help to speed up the process. All who read it please report!
EDIT: I read a page or two of the book out from Amazon. I think its really interesting, and even if it doesn’t help with LD’ing its nice because simply it is interesting. I hope I get a credit card soon so I can buy it (I think there are no books of this kind in my country).
EIDT Again: Ok, so I read through all the introductory, and all I have to say is that I must have this.
I read the introduction on Amazon and it seemed moderately interesting. It does seem like a primer on lucid living, tying in shamanism and attempting to explain shared consciousness and religious archetypes. However, I’m skeptical about how applicable the book is. It would be disappointing to purchase it, only to find that it is a long-winded book of personal examples with little in the way of of pointers, tips, or techniques. Regardless, it seems like an intriguing read.
Now I’m even more interested! I had forgotten about this. From what I remember, I had the impression it wasn’t really like LL, but literally a waking lucid dream, with visualizations and/or meditation or something. I didn’t read any of it on amazon though…
It looks like self help jargon with the obvious “live with awareness” message. Sorry but I don’t see this as being helpful to either LDs or life in general.
sounds dangerous to me. Mixing your waking and dreaming life in any way is probably not smart. The reason i say this is because the Tucson shooter was a lucid dreamer and after looking at his DJ and whatnot they think that he may have shot those people because he though he was dreaming. I personally will always try to stay away from crossing dream and waking life. Even in my dreams i will try and stay away from constructing paralelling enviroments to those in reality.
Welcome to my world. I’m a little wierded by everyone’s enthusiasm about this, and the fact that there is a book out on how to do it? This is something I fight against everyday. This is something that has caused most all the difficulties I’ve had in life. And people want this? I don’t even know a dang thing about myself anymore, because my thought processes, interests, personality and even feelings are so mixed up with my dreams that I don’t know whats authentic and what isn’t.
Just because the berry looks aesthetically pleasing, does not mean it wont kill you.
Despite my recent enthusiasm about LD I find myself agreeing with you. Ive had a couple of unpleasant experiences but the opposite, Ive had dreams that I thought were real. EG my daughter was staying with her father, I hadnt seen her for a few days and she had recently undergone sugery so my anxiety levels about her were sky rocketing. I came into the lounge that particular day to find her missing. I searched everywhere for her, calling her name and getting very upset. When I established she wasnt in the flat I went outside to look for her, I walked all the way to her fathers house and hammered on his door. He was greeted by a tearful anxious “Is she here?” I remember him looking at me in the most unsettling way. She appeared at the door and I got down to her level and told her to change her PJ’s and come home,(I thought it was dinner time but infact it was 0800hrs) that whatever I had said to upset her we could sort it out, that she should come back and have her tea and if she wanted I would then bring her back to her Dads. It was as I looked at the confusion on her face that I realised something was seriously amiss. I stood up and realised to my horror that I had my PJ trousers on and slippers and I just walked all the way dressed like that.
What had happened? I had dreamt it, I had dreamt the argument, dreamt going into the kitchen to make dinner and then I woke up, found she wasnt there and didnt stop to think,. If Id taken a moment to process my thoughts I would have realised straight away that I had been in a very real dream, that she was never there but at her Dads but as I had been so anxious about her my brain could not seperate the dream from NL.
That was very very worrying I can tell you. Its only happened once before and that was when I was ill in hospital and semi concious- Id woken to find all the memories of that time were false as I had been comatosed, everything I thought I had done during the months I was lying in hospital were nothing but dreams. It made me look quite mad but its not something I can ever say is regular. Im a smart, fairly well grounded person and yet I did that most crazy thing because I has so many LD they were confused with my reality. I snapped out of it the minute I saw I was in PJ trousers but really, can you imagine how utterly stupid I felt?
That is a very real danger of mixing LD with reality. I am sure it was my anxiety that caused that temporary and brief lapse but it hasnt been an easy one to live down I can tell you.
well whats scary is i had a couple experiences as a kid where i woke up, yes full on woke up, but was still dreaming. like i saw demons and shit and heard voices, and i know for a fact i was awake because my mom came in my room and i was already standing up wide awake asking her if she saw them. Mixing dreams and real life, not fun. If you find yourself having problems distinguishing the two you should stop all lucid dreams and even try and kill your dream recall until you have a strong grip on reality.
After reading other people’s opinions about his (the RL mixing with dream life) a thought came up to me: what if this book is just a “guide” in how to hallucinate naturally ? Not that that wouldn’t be interesting ( ) but doing it sounds pretty much impossible…
If that’s the case, then by all means, a great book. That is assuming you are implying that the book helps you realize you are in reality, similar to realizing you are dreaming? If that is a case, then I can see major support this book could provide. I misunderstood.
Now I’m even more interested! I had forgotten about this. From what I remember, I had the impression it wasn’t really like LL, but literally a waking lucid dream, with visualizations and/or meditation or something. I didn’t read any of it on amazon though…
) but doing it sounds pretty much impossible… 