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From the Foreword:Quote:The goal of this book is to help you explore your dreams using the art of lucid dreaming. We will explain what lucid dreaming is and how you too can use it to survey the ground floor of your own subconscious. We will teach you how to become an oneironaut, a word derived from Greek that means “dream navigator.”Lucid dreaming is the ability to know you’re dreaming while you’re dreaming. A lucid dreamer is able to go to sleep at night and wake up within his or her dream. With this unique awareness, you can generally behave like someone who is awake, exercising the free will, imagination, and memory of waking life. Once lucid, you can explore and even change elements of the dream.If you were to travel down the Amazon River, you’d need a field guide to tell you which plants to eat, how to navigate the terrain, and what to do when dealing with the natives. Consider this book your field guide to the dream world, a map to navigate through your subconscious. If you’re a newcomer to lucid dreaming, the idea of exploring your subconscious may seem crazy or daunting. Don’t you worry, we searched for the best techniques out there, made some improvements, and then boiled them down to their simplest forms. For those of you who have already experienced lucid dreaming, this guide will help you master this ability while traveling beyond what you thought was possible.We’ll teach you:1. How to reconnect with your dreams2. How to have a lucid dream3. What to do once you’re lucidThis book is filled with step-by-step advice, stories from the dream world, and wonderfully maddening ideas. It’s based on our own experiences with a decade of lucid dreaming as well as the real-life experiences of many other lucid dreamers, writers, and scientists. Our goal was to report back from the dream world and write about the things that we actually observed and experienced.Unlike other field guides, this book is designed to be read from start to finish, just as if you were to travel down a jungle trail. Information from the first chapter will be used in the second chapter; tips from the second chapter will pop up in the third chapter, and so on. So try and hold off the urge to jump around.ContentsCover Title Page Contents ForewordPart One – Starting the JourneyPart Two – Packing your BagsPart Three – ArrivalPart Four – Exploring a New WorldPart Five – Mastering the TerrainPart Six – The Next FrontierNotesAcknowledgments About the Authors CopyrightPaperback: 196 pagesPublisher: Workman Publishing Company; First Edition edition (September 10, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0761177396ISBN-13: 978-0761177395ASIN: B00CTZG3E6