Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation

by B. Alan Wallace

Other authorsBrian Hodel (Editor)
Paperback, 2012

Publication

Shambhala (2012), Edition: 1, Paperback, 192 pages

Call number

Dreams / Walla

Barcode

BK-06587

ISBN

159030957X / 9781590309575

Original publication date

2012

Physical description

192 p.; 8.2 inches

Description

"Some of the greatest of life s adventures can happen while you re sound asleep. That s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you re dreaming while you re in the midst of a dream. There is a range of techniques anyone can learn to become a lucid dreamer and this book provides all the instruction you need to get started. But B. Alan Wallace also shows how to take the experience of lucid dreaming beyond entertainment to use it to heighten creativity, to solve problems, and to increase self-knowledge. He then goes a step further- moving on to the methods of Tibetan Buddhist dream yoga for using your lucid dreams to attain the profoundest kind of insight."… (more)

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LibraryThing member IonaS
I’m interested in learning to lucid dream, but found out too late that this author asserts that for better to lucid dream we need to be an expert at an obscure form of meditation called Shamatha.

I should have paid more attention to the text on the front of the book which includes the phrase
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“Tibetan Dream Yoga”, but I didn’t.

The first chapter deals with what the author calls Meditative Quiescence - laying the foundation for lucidity, but since other lucid dreaming authors do not prioritize this nor even mention it, I feel of course it must be possible to learn to lucid dream without this particular approach or preparation.

I am at this point not ready to tackle the challenging practice of Shamatha, so I never got to the chapters about lucid dreaming.

Those who do find dream yoga appealing will probably find the book exciting and rewarding, but I do not belong to this category. Such people may well feel that the book warrants 5 stars, but my subjective view of the book has led me to award it only 2.

It seems to deal more with dream yoga, spiritual awakening and Buddhism than anything else.
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(9 ratings; 3.4)
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