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

by Wallace, B. Alan; Hodel, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781590309575
• ISBN10: 159030957X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-29
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

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.

Author Biography

B. Alan Wallace, PhD, has been a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism for more than forty years, and has been leading workshops and retreats on dream yoga for more than twenty. A former Tibetan Buddhist monk, he is also trained in physics and is a respected scholar of religion. He is the founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and he is the author of numerous books, including Embracing Mind. The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Lucid Dreaming
Meditative Quiescence: Laying the Groundwork for Lucidity	p. 1
The Theory of Lucid Dreaming	p. 19
The Practice of Lucid Dreaming	p. 35
Proficiency in Lucid Dreaming	p. 53
Dream Yoga
The Universe of Dream Yoga	p. 67
The Daytime Practices of Dream Yoga	p. 79
Nighttime Dream Yoga	p. 95
Bringing It All Together
Putting Your Dreams to Work	p. 115
Individualized Practice and Infrequently Asked Questions	p. 123
Dreaming Yourself Awake: A Wider Perspective	p. 135
Notes	p. 151
Glossary	p. 159
Selected Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 167
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