• Provides an extensive inventory of beginning, intermediate, and advanced tools and practices for meaningful lucid dreamwork and shows how dreams can shape our conscious reality if we incorporate them into waking life • Offers guidance to help you overcome mental or physical obstacles, including ways to stop sleep paralysis • Examines supplements to aid lucid dreaming practice and increase the vividness and recall of dreams Dreams offer a gateway into our psyche. Through lucid dreaming--when you have conscious awareness during sleep--you can access and interact with the subconscious mind for greater self-awareness, personal development, and transformation. In this step-by-step guide to dreamwork, Lee Adams provides tools and techniques for encouraging, remembering, and using lucid dreams for personal growth as well as how to have big dreams that leave a lasting impact. Beginning with an overview of the history of lucid dreaming, he shares tried-and-true foundational practices to get you started--practices for before sleep, during sleep, and after dreaming. Drawing upon Jungian depth psychology, recent research in neuroscience, and years of personal dream practice, Adams then offers an extensive inventory of intermediate and advanced methods to support meaningful dreamwork, such as the Wake Induced Lucid Dreams technique (WILD), where you fall asleep while conscious and transport your active awareness into a dream state. He also explores dream companions, symbols of the unconscious mind, dream interpretation, and working with the shadow side of the self. He examines how dreams can shape our conscious reality if we incorporate them or their symbols into waking life. He offers guidance to help you overcome any mental or physical obstacles you may encounter, including ways to stop sleep paralysis. He also examines supplements to aid lucid dreaming practice, improve dream recall, and increase the vividness of dreams, such as Alpha-GPC, 5-HTP, Silene undulata, Mugwort, the mushroom Lion's Mane, and Galantamine. With this practical guide, you can ignite your mind's capacity to wake up to your own dreams and restructure your world to be more attuned to your deeper self.

AcknowledgmentsPREFACE An Invitation to the Hero's Journey An Introduction to How to Use This BookPART 1 The Dreamer and the Dream 1 Why Lucid Dream? 2 What to Expect in a Lucid Dream 3 Consciousness: The Route to "Beyond" 4 Awareness: Preparing to Dream 5 Sleep Paralysis and Memory: The Obstacle Is the Gateway PART 2Lucid Dreaming: Foundational Techniques6 Getting Past the Simulation 7 Let's Get Lucid: The Basics 8 Remembering Your Dreams9 Lucid Dreaming the MILD Way 10 Wake Back to Bed 11 WILDing: Extended Techniques and Lucid States12 Reality Check: Are You Awake? 13 Out-of-Body Experiences: Stepping into New Awareness PART 3Working with Your Dreams 14 Awakening to the Potentials of Lucid Dreaming 15 Guides and Guardians of the Dream 16 Symbols: Keys to the Unconscious 17 Dream Interpretation: History and Practice 18 Dream Companions: Mentors, Guides, Friends PART 4 The Dreamer's Journey19 The Shadow: Facing the Dream's Darker Guides 20 The Call to Adventure 21 World Building in the Liminal Space 22 Into Dangerous Waters 23 The Road of Trials24 Anima: Meeting the Goddess 25 Animus: Atonement with the Father26 The Reward: A Reflection PART 5 Advanced Tools and Supplements for Lucid Dreaming 27 Lucid Dreaming Supplements 28 Supplementing Tips, Plans, and Recipes 29 Galantamine: Lucid Dreaming's Holy Grail? 30 Lucid Dreaming and Technology EPILOGUE A Blessing for the Traveler Bibliography Index