Becoming Lucid, Self-Awareness in Sleeping and Waking Life
Hypnotic Practice in Lucidity & Dreams
- Publisher
- Mind Strength Balance
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2019
- Category
- Dreams, Meditation, Dreams, Inspiration & Personal Growth
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781775288053
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $4.99 USD
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781775288084
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $17.17
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 15 to 18
- Grade: 10 to 12
Description
Lucidity in dreaming starts with lucidity in waking life.
Lucidity is consciousness itself. It exists in a realm of experience beyond words; achieving it is not an intellectual exercise. To become lucid is a transformation of emotions, memories, and thought patterns to reach an altered state. It’s not your image of the walls that you want to dissolve when becoming lucid, it’s your image of reality.
This is the first book to approach lucid dreaming through hypnosis. Each chapter has an introduction that you read, and a trance induction you can listen to online by accessing free MP3 audio files. These hypnotic inductions offer you experiential tours of altered states. Listen to them while falling asleep and they will become your lucid dream environment.
Other books view lucid dreaming as awakening in a dream. This book views all states as dream states from which lucidity is possible. And what one becomes lucid of, when one becomes lucid, is another dream state as all states are our own constructions. Lucidity is an awakening to a level of consciousness that’s higher, broader, deeper, and more connected. Lucidity is not a goal, it’s a process; it’s not something you get, it’s something you become.
Doing silly stuff in your dreams is as enlightening as doing silly stuff while awake. It’s fun for a while, but you grow out of it. On the other hand, breaking open your mind to move into what’s now not even comprehensible is something you don’t grow out of. This is not sleep work or dream work, it’s life work.
Exploring the impossible is just the start. Let’s explore the inconceivable.
Drawn from the author’s experience as a theoretical physicist, neurophysiologist, and hypnotherapist who focuses on sleep and trance states, Becoming Lucid would like to take your hand and lead you into states of mind you can’t even imagine.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Lincoln Stoller grew up around and was mentored directly by the colleagues of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, Bucky Fuller, and Albert Einstein. As a teenager, he traveled the world climbing mountains and, in the process, fell 1,000 feet off the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, swam across the arctic sea, crashed his airplane, collapsed his horse, steped in quicksand, survived a major earthquake, was buried in an avalanche, and became a cultural ambassador to families in Central America, Mongolia, and the Caribbean. During this time he attended seven colleges, got a doctorate in Quantum Mechanics, and founded a software company specializing in business automation. Building on his interests in physics, neurophysiology, psychology, education, and culture Lincoln is now a therapist and mentor living in British Columbia, Canada, where he works with clients remotely. He has two wonderful ex-wives, and two wonderful sons. Committed to supporting intuition and the feeling mind, he can be contacted through his web site at mindstrengthbalance.com.
Excerpt: Becoming Lucid, Self-Awareness in Sleeping and Waking Life: Hypnotic Practice in Lucidity & Dreams (by (author) Lincoln Stoller)
"Where other books on lucid dreaming focus on the dreaming, this book focuses on becoming lucid in both the sleeping and waking state. Dreams can offer an easier path to lucidity because of the contrast between dreaming and lucidity: you think you’re not lucid in normal dreams, so you understand what you’re trying to accomplish. In truth, we don’t know what lucid means, we don’t really know the final goal. That doesn’t matter too much, as it still gives us a path to follow. The process of learning to lucid dream is a heuristic, like this book is a heuristic: it’s a means to an end, a means for exploring consciousness. — from Introduction, page 1.
"Going beyond lucidity is understanding that being lucid is about being aware, not being in control. Awareness is organic; awareness grows. It may germinate in a dream, and lucidity may help shed the seed-coat, but the promise of awareness lies in what it can grow into. Nurturing a new awareness involves recognizing and attending to it, as nurturing any new life requires... To go beyond lucidity is to recognize there are emotional areas in which you are not able to do either. To go beyond lucidity is to maintain awareness as you enter into states where you have never been before." — from Beyond Lucidity, chapter 9.
"Let's do an exercise of going beyond mind. It's a simple matter of putting yourself at the end of things and then going further. We’ll create four situations like situations in lucid dreams where we face the author of our conceptions and ask, 'What’s really here?' ” — from Hypnotic Session 9: Welcome to The End.
Editorial Reviews
"A paradigm shift to an entirely new mode of thinking. A meaningful and deeply introspective addition to any dreamers bookshelf."
—Chris Hammond, Chief Lucidity Officer at www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com
"Delightful! Becoming Lucid fills a huge gap in the lucid literature by developing lucid dreams alongside classic methods of consciousness exploration."
—Ryan Hurd, author of Sleep Paralysis, and Lucid Immersion Guidebook.
"Not just about dreams, and not just a book... It’s about being awake to your life, with step-by-step instructions."
—Howard Rheingold, author of Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind
