Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge & Howard Rheingold

Author:Stephen Laberge & Howard Rheingold [Laberge, Stephen & Rheingold, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, General, Self-Help, Dreams
ISBN: 9780345374103
Google: koEBAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 034537410X
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1991-07-15T13:48:59+00:00

Robert Ornstein and David Sobel recently published a book entitled Healthy Pleasures, which discusses myriad ways that pleasure is good for your health. 3 They claim that our innate desire to seek pleasure and persist in activities that feel good helps us to live longer and happier lives. The healthiest people seem to be those who enjoy pleasure, seek it out, and make it for themselves. Some of the benefits attributed to indulging in pleasurable and sensual experiences are lowered blood pressure, de-eased risk of heart disease and cancer, improved immune function, and lowered sensitivity to pain. Some people may protest that they do not have time to have fun. But as long as you have time to sleep at night, you have time to enjoy yourself in your dreams. By learning to have lucid dreams, you open for yourself a limitless amusement park full of all the delights you can imagine. Admission is free, and there are no lines!

If you take some time to play and take pleasure in your lucid dreams, you can learn to become more proficient at lucid dreaming. Once you have learned to have lucid dreams whenever you like, you will possess a means of improving your life in many ways. The chapters that follow will discuss how you can use lucid dreaming to help you learn other skills, overcome fears, increase your mental flexibility, and find ultimate fulfillment. But the it way to attain the ability to use lucid dreaming for “serious” tasks may be to start off by using lucid dreams to have a great time. When lucid dreaming is easy and fun for you, then your dreams will be ideal environments learning and practicing for waking life, Wish fulfillment may be the ultimate use that many people will make of their lucid dreams, and their lives be richer for it. But that doesn’t have to be the end journey. Many of you will want to go deeper, and higher to gain greater understanding of the dream state, and apply lucidity to problem solving and other practical purposes.

However, until you satisfy your urge to pursue the impossible made possible, you are likely to find yourself distracted from more sublime pursuits by your baser impulses. This is one more reason why you should not hesitate to give in to your hedonism and curiosity when you are first learning to have lucid dreams.

Dream sex

My ability to achieve orgasm is highly vulnerable to stress and anxiety. Recently, during a period of several months of nearly constant anxiety, I seemed to have lost the ability to climax. I knew it wasn’t related to my feelings about my partner, or anything he was (or wasn’t) doing. The frustration ensuing from not being able to achieve sexual release added to the rest of my general stress. But, then, one night, I had the following dream:

I dreamed I was involved in the plot of a horror film. It involved a haunted house, or abandoned abbey, where I supposed awful things were to take place.

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