ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

Hi Lucid Dreamers,

Occasionally lucid dreamers send me questions at my book's website www.LucidAdvice.com

Here's a recent one with my response.  How would you have responded?

Good day. I've been practicing lucid dreaming since 2010 and among all the experiences I've had, one stood out. From time to time I would simply realize I'm dreaming. Other times I undergo what some people call the vibrational stage. This is when a ringing or bubbling sound in my ear becomes louder and louder accompanied by my body feeling a tingling sensation all over.

The experience that stood out was the feeling of being stretched from the head and feet or being dragged around either from the head or from the feet. I've had semi-conscious dreams when I would be dragged around the floor while sitting or be dragged off the bed. I've concluded that the dreams of being dragged around in the dream and the stretching/dragging sensation during the vibrational stage are related.

One time I finally called out this dragging force out. It appeared as a phallic shadow. When I asked what it was it began vocalizing which shook the room we were in.

It was weird...

- Slide

My response:

Hi Slide,

Great to hear about your practice of lucid dreams. But I have a bit of news to share: these vibrational stage events sound like a very common feature of OBEs, as does your experience of being stretched, dragged, etc.

In my book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, I devote half a chapter to the phenomenological differences between a 'lucid dream' and the OBE.  Stephen LaBerge did some early research and found that about half of lucid dreamers surveyed, also had experience with OBEs (so your experience seems fairly common for lucid dreamers -- but it is important to see the difference between these two unique states).

These two states of lucid dreaming and OBEs have similarities -- just as a house cat and a mountain lion have honest similarities -- but they are distinct enough to merit separate classification. So if you have a chance, check my book out of a library, and read about the distinctions between these two states. Lucid wishes!

- Robert

New Lucid Dreaming On-line Events !!

ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

Hi Everyone,

Just want to keep you aware of new on-line lucid dreaming events.

First, I am hosting a Lucid Dreaming Workshop on-line for 30 days, beginning Saturday, November 8th, 2014 (and ending Dec. 7th, 2014).

You can find all of the details and registration info at this address:
www.GlideWing.com  -- just click on my image for the Lucid Dreaming and Living Lucidly workshop,

Next, tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 8th, I will be on a free webinar event with a few other talented lucid dreamers.  Check out the details below:

Lucid Dreaming Experience, a magazine for lucid dreamers shared LuxidLAB's photo.

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A free on-line event with Erin Langley, Jenniffer ClarOscura, Nick Barrett and me, discussing the depth of lucid dreaming....

ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

Lucid dreamers,
What would you tell this young guy who wrote to my book's website at www.LucidAdvice.com?

Lucas B      10/12/2014

Hi Robert, 

I've read your book on lucid dreaming and it has greatly influenced me. Personally, I've only had around ten lucid dreams, but I am focusing in and quickly getting better. I am a junior in high school and I would like to eventually have a profession in lucid dreaming, but very specifically lucid dreaming, not psychology. Do you have an idea of what I should do in college to make that happen? Also, is there anything I can do to get involved now?

Robert Waggoner      10/12/2014

Hi Lucas, Glad you enjoyed the book, and have had lucid dreams! When it comes to studying lucid dreaming, I encourage people to look at it broadly (since there are no undergraduate college degrees in lucid dreaming).

Some students approach it by studying the brain and neurology -- some by studying the biochemistry of sleep and dreaming -- some by looking at 'perception' in waking/dreaming/lucid dreaming. These are all fields, which a person can study and it will aid their lucid dreaming (they will see lucid dreaming in new ways and contribute to the knowledge of it). Also, some prefer to study lucid dreaming through the disciplines of history and religion, or using lucid dreaming therapeutically to help people with PTSD and phobias.

By focusing on a field of your interest in college -- but which connects in some way to lucid dreaming -- you gain some depth of knowledge in that field, plus get to explore lucid dreaming more deeply with the insights from that field. It then becomes a Win-Win :-)

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I love to see the interest in lucid dreaming from high school, college and graduate students -- it shows me that this field of lucid dreaming will have a huge impact on the future.

ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

Dear dreamers,

Every now and then I like to share an image that I have created.

Below is one of my favorites, since it expresses an insight that lucid dreamers immediately understand.  I took this photo at a Buddhist temple in Japan.

What do you think?

ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

I feel very pleased to announce the first Finnish book on lucid dreaming, authored by myself and Anna Riihimaki.  Anna added a number of chapters and did much to make it a truly Finnish book.

The final night (after all the production work, proofreading, etc.), I dreamt that Anna and I sat together on a park bench at night, feeling very content.  Suddenly from the ground in front of us, a giant Buddha made of light emerged from the ground and kept rising and rising -- until it was twenty meters tall.  In the dream, we quietly watched the giant Buddha of light grow.



In the morning, I wrote Anna and told her about the dream.

I believe this book will inspire a lot of Finns to lucid dream.

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You can read more (in Finnish) about the book at this book site.

ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

Dreamers and Lucid Dreamers,

If you have an interest in exploring psi or psychic dreams in a thoughtful, educated and intelligent forum, then check out the upcoming PsiBer Conference from Sunday September 28 to October 12, 2014 (hosted by the International Association for the Study of Dreams).

All the details can be found at http://www.asdreams.org/psi2014/

I know that I will be presenting there, along with many others.  Check it out!

ROBERT WAGGONER

LUCID DREAMING: GATEWAY TO THE INNER SELF

Like Felix the Cat, my most common response to becoming lucid is laughter!

I laugh at having been fooled by the dream.  I laugh at seeing the game.  I laugh for the joy of it.

But as all lucid dreamers discover, you have to learn that you have a 'bag of tricks' -- and how to use them.