Product Description

Dreams are more than just random images that play in your head at night. They are a source of inspiration and transformation that can have a profound effect on your waking state. While everyone dreams, not everyone makes use of this unique resource. Patricia Garfield presents techniques and information, drawn from many dreamers and widely varied cultures and times, that will enable you to plan your dreams ahead of time, influence them while they are occurring, and recall them and their lessons forever afterward.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #219390 in Books
• Published on: 1995-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

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I read this book many years ago when it was still in hardcover. Unless it has significantly changed with newer editions, it does indeed contain solid techniques on how to evoke a lucid dream. The techniques are simple and few, but they are all one needs to prepare the unconscious mind for the journey, and then to notice that it is in the dream state upon arrival.

When we dream, we accept what we experience as reality. The techniques help make it second nature to notice the differences between dream reality and waking reality. Once we are practiced at paying attention to our surroundings in our waking state, we naturally continue that behavior in our dream world. Say the dog starts talking to you... You'll notice it's odd and you'll become aware of fact that you're not really awake, but floating in the 'Matrix' of your unconscious mind. All of a sudden you have awareness. With awareness you'll suddenly have control over your reality. With a little practice you'll soon be flying, changing your surroundings, adventuring, drinking from streams of pure creativity and having great sex with anyone you want. Just don't get yourself too excited about the fact that you're there or you'll wake yourself up.

I'd like to point out the fact that your brain continues to run its own programs whether you're lucid or not. When you're lucid, you will have control, but you are not in control. There will be characters, situations, surroundings, and the usual bizarre gamut of dream content that will pop up everywhere. You'll never be out of things to do. The kicker is that unlike the waking life distractions of television, video games, or drugs, literally EVERYTHING in your dream state is built upon the symbolism, meaning and combined experience of your memory and creative inner life. It all has meaning, both simple and complex, and nothing will fail to entertain, excite or inspire.

I successfully practiced the simple techniques outlined in this book. They are all that was required. After that is learning to understand your own internal symbolism to more fully appreciate the experience. The rest of the book talks in detail about how different cultures treat such dream symbolism. This is important, because for those cultures, dreams are an important tool in everyday life. While dreams may be entertaining, they offer unique perspective on our waking experience that helps us to better understand and choose our path. The book also talks about instances of out of body phenomena experienced jointly by groups of lucid dreamers. This material was immensely helpful in understanding the nature of, and potential extent to which a practiced dreamer could take lucid dreaming.

Forget so-called dictionaries of dream symbolism. They are about as meaningful to the individual experience as are newspaper horoscopes. You must learn to understand what your dreams mean to you, not what they mean to Jung or Freud, or someone else.

Creative Dreaming
This book will show you how to change and control your dreams so that your waking life will be more successful.

Discover the New and Fascinating Worlds that Lie Hidden in Your Dreams Tonight!
When I first read Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield way back in 1977, I was hooked! I entered into a world of creative dreaming that has made me successful in business, relationships and has led me to discover cures to physical ailments. Because of Patricia Garfield's classic book, I can program my dream mind to give me the solution to a problem, any problem, and I can wake up the next morning with the problem solved through a dream. This is singularly the most important book on dreams that has ever been written, and it is one that you must have if you only have a modicum of interest in your dreams.

If you are interested in exploring your dreams even more, then your next stop are these titles as well:

Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life

The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Thank you, Ms. Garfield for your contribution.