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This manual is a journey of self-discovery and self-empowerment. The path begins with you and within you. Throughout your journey you will not only learn how to dream lucidly but you gain a better understanding of yourself along the way. Your travels will be influenced by all the factors that affect you in your waking life so by developing your dreaming side you will be cultivating a better waking self as well. As remarkable as lucid dreaming is, it is surprisingly overlooked and undeveloped by most people, but the times as always are changing. The lucid dreaming movement is gaining momentum. Once you learn how to do it, you will cultivate such a contagious exhilaration that you will be compelled to share it with anyone who will listen. I have never met anyone who has had lucid dreams and not expressed a deeply felt desire to have more. With such marvelous experiences available to us every night when we would otherwise be doing nothing but sleeping it is guaranteed to have a profoundly positive impact on your life. I project that at the current rate at which it is spreading that it will become a household word within a decade or so and it will become incorporated into our culture in about two decades or so. It is that phenomenal.

I have personally been watching the spread of lucid dreaming related web sites on the Internet. This increase is a good indicator that it is gaining momentum. Within the last few years, the number of lucid dream related information and web sites has been increasing exponentially. Later on, we'll discuss the enormous resources now available to lucid dreamers on the Internet. There is a whole virtual community of lucid dreamers who are all working together to help each other learn more about this rapidly growing field. I will try to keep this manual as free from unnecessary dogma as I can, but being subjective is often hard to avoid. I don't want to alienate anyone by incorporating some of the conclusions I have drawn as to how these things work and why. For now, I'm concentrating on the basics of learning how to have lucid dreams and after we have established the basic "how-to's" then we will move beyond into the advanced realm where we will focus on making the most of your lucid dreams. Along our journey there will be numerous stops that may require having an open mind so keep in mind that a learning mind needs to be an open mind. If you let your mind go, you might be surprised with what it brings back to you.

Right now is the perfect time to start practicing this technique of "grounding your awareness" into the present moment. Like many of the other dream-related techniques that we will discuss, the effects of using this technique will not only help your dreaming abilities but it will vastly improve your awareness and your abilities in your waking world. In dealing with dreams we are dealing with our awareness and since our awareness is present whenever we are present, the process of developing and refining our dreaming awareness will produce a more developed and better-refined waking awareness. As you begin to expand your awareness, you may just realize that you normally spend more waking time in a non-lucid state than you ever would have imagined. With time and practice, your lucid dreaming techniques will spill over into your daily awareness and create a more aware and more lucid waking consciousness. - Marc VanDeKeere

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