Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics

More or less the author talks a lot about first had experiences with lucid dreaming and the use and similarity with the use of psychedelics. I found it very interesting. It gave some useful tips on how to begin Lucid Dreaming (I read the book in 1 week and have practiced writing my dreams down like he suggested and have already had 1 lucid dream since then). Highly recommend!

A really terrific book. I've read LaBerge, Holecek, Bruce and Buhlman, but David Jay Brown's book was one of my favorites. He's one of the only authors on the subject of Lucid Dreaming/Astral Projection who deals fairly with the science and spirituality surrounding the issue without discounting either side of the argument. He's also the ONLY one I've read who addresses psychedelics, their effects on lucid dreaming, and the similarities and differences between psychedelic states and lucid dream states. His pedigree was surprising: He worked alongside and interviewed some of the biggest names in the game including LeBerge and McKenna. His research was also very thorough. I read this book faster than nearly anything else I've read recently. can't say enough good things about it.

What a great find! Being an amateur lucid dreamer, I found this book to be excellently written and full of fascinating insight and information on the subject. It's a very friendly book. As you read it, you begin to settle in comfortably and really trust the author. I've been skipping around to the parts that interest me primarily: LD induction techniques, shared dreams, dream control, etc. Everything I've found is wonderfully inspiring and beautifully conveyed. This is one of the greatest LD books in my library, and in every way comparable to ETWOLD by LaBerge. It has the added aspect of psychedelia and how it relates to the astral world of lucid dreaming -- a fascinating subject for me. The author is very transparent in conveying this thoughts and in presenting his factual findings. 5 stars easily.

I have been working with dreams for decades, I enjoyed this book but tired of so many references to using substances to attain many insights and states of consciousness, if that’s the way you want to go, ok, but it was a lot in this book, and I prefer to consider they are not always necessary.

This book is a fascinating read that takes into account the many possibilities for waking up from our habitual and conditioned ways of being in our universe and our relationship to it. In a lot of ways, this book reminded me of another book on similar topics from 1994, The Lucid Dreamer by Malcom Godwin which is one of my favorite and recommend books on Lucid Dreaming. This book however has a more experiential perspective of the author. I highly recommend this wonderful book! It is an enlightening addition for those interested in mind expanding concepts that can help remove some of the filters distorting our perceptions and how learning to be lucid in a dream shows us how to be lucid in our waking lives and other states of consciousness.

I just finished Dreaming Wide Awake, and have to say it was profoundly amazing. The synergy of dreaming, shamanism, and plant medicines is exactly what I have been practicing for many years now, and to have finally found a book that presents these ideas with such wisdom and inspiration is truly incredible. I especially was happy to see the attention given to the dream herbs - I've worked and studied with them for over 15 years, always searching out new herbs from around the world that may offer some extra magick to my dreams. This is an astonishingly good and important work - I will be sharing it with as many of my friends as I can.

This is the second book I have read by the author. The first, The New Science of Psychedelics, blew me away so I had to read more of his work. My interest in lucid dreaming goes back over ten years when I read two books by Stephen Laberge. Since then I have devoured a lot of books about the topic, though mostly the same old thing regurgitated over and over. Brown's book is the first truly novel book about lucid dreaming that I have read since the classic books by Laberge. Brown is a masterful writer, and this and the other book I read by him, are written in an engaging and entertaining form. If you are interested in lucid dreaming and/or psychedelics, then Dreaming Wide Awake is definitely a must-read book.

Non-fiction always has a tendency to leave a dry feeling in my mind and it makes reading feel more like a chore than something enjoyable. Not with this book. I'm a few chapters in and I'm genuinely excited to read more. I've known some about lucid dreaming and had a few lucid dreams in the past due to insomnia but after finishing this book I feel like I'll have a degree in it.

Very detailed info on herb mix helping lucid dreaming

A very enjoyable and readable book, I can't imagine a more comprehensive overview, covering so many angles, and with more fun and naughtiness than books of this genre would generally have, but also extensive research.There was plenty new to me here, as well as old favourite topics such as DMT, left and right brain, segmented sleep, lucid dream methods, the REM-Dreamer (a two-way communication version of my Novadreamer), herbs such as mucuna pruriens and some lucid dreaming movies I had not heard of before but will certainly watch, like The Good Night and Paprika.David is an honest and balanced writer, and does not hold back in his anecdotes!Great stuff, recommended!

IT WAS VERY INTERISTING

A lot of good information and especially good reading about the authors own experiences. He obviously has done a lot of experiments himself which brings that authenticity to what hr writes.

Interesting read. Good for if you're just getting into lucid dreaming, or if you just want to know more about it. Doesn't go as in depth as I had hoped, and makes me want to read Waggoner's book on Lucid Dreaming after I finish this.