Book Review: Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self by Robert Waggoner

Lucid dreaming has been a big part of my life since I was a child. I initially began the process in order to combat chronic nightmares that plagued my sleep. In my late teens, I had a four year period of lucid dreaming that would later serve as the inspiration for my own novels. Over the years I had heard the term "lucid dreams" and "conscious dreams" but most of the material that I found was about people purposefully making themselves lucid to create some type of dream fantasy realm. That is all well and good, but I wanted to understand more about what had happened to me with the four years of post-apocalyptic dreams that I had that I did not ask for.I finally came across Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. I have not before, nor since found such a great source that actually managed to give me answers to many of the questions that I had. There are, of course, some questions that a book cannot answer and I will need to discover those answers on my own but this book rea
lly delves in-depth on the subject of lucid dreaming and the multiple layers and experiences one can have when in this state. My eyes were opened to a level that they had never been opened before as to what is possible.I also practice meditation, I have for a few years. Combining the two techniques is highly beneficial and really allows one to explore the depths of the sub-conscious that we are normally "locked" away from (I use that loosely, the reality is, we lock ourselves away from our true selves). The author is not only an experienced lucid dreamer, he has conducted numerous experiments with lucid dreaming to really test the depths of his own ability as well as the ability of others to maximize this phenomenon. He does an excellent job chronicling these dreams throughout the book with explanations as well as examples of others who have had similar experiences.Lucid dreaming, once considered a "fringe science" has been accepted as a scientific reality but the depths hav
e yet to be fully probed. If you have any interest in lucid dreaming, whether you have experienced it yourself, are curious about it, or just want to, this book is a must-have. I was well worth every penny I paid. The author runs a web site that puts out a quarterly ezine if you are interested.

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