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

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

by B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel
Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation

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

by B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel

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Overview

An “accessible look at the ways we can access the hidden adventures within our dreams and stretch our imaginations into the realm of enlightenment” through lucid dreaming and dream yoga (San Francisco Book Review)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834827936
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 05/29/2012
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 781,563
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

B. Alan Wallace has authored, translated, edited, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, science, and culture. With fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, he earned a BA in physics and the philosophy of science and then a PhD in religious studies. After teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies to explore the integration of scientific approaches and contemplative methods.

Brian Hodel is a freelance journalist and book editor.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1 Lucid Dreaming

1 Meditative Quiescence: Laying the Groundwork for Lucidity 1

2 The Theory of Lucid Dreaming 19

3 The Practice of Lucid Dreaming 35

4 Proficiency in Lucid Dreaming 53

Part 2 Dream Yoga

5 The Universe of Dream Yoga 67

6 The Daytime Practices of Dream Yoga 79

7 Nighttime Dream Yoga 95

Part 3 Bringing It All Together

8 Putting Your Dreams to Work 115

9 Individualized Practice and Infrequently Asked Questions 123

10 Dreaming Yourself Awake: A Wider Perspective 135

Notes 151

Glossary 159

Selected Bibliography 165

Index 167

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A fiercely clear exploration of dream yoga and lucid dreaming, this rare and brilliant book is fundamentally a guide to awakening.”—Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center, author of Being with Dying

“A brilliant scholar, monk, and lucid dreamer presents a provocative modern Buddhist view of reality: if you think the world is merely matter, you’re dreaming. Wake up and read this book.”—Stephen LaBerge, author of Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

“For those unfamiliar with lucid dreaming or Buddhist meditation practices, this book offers a plain, accessible look at the ways we can access the hidden adventures within our dreams and stretch our imaginations into the realm of enlightenment.”—San Francisco Book Review

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