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Robert Waggoner 4/2/2009 9:09:01 AM
Bob, Even pointless dreams likely have a point. You might want to check out some of the books by Gayle Delaney, who has some excellent interpretation techniques and insights. For myself, personally, I would wonder about my 'energy' level -- do I have things in my life that get me excited or curious? Am I feeding my inner self what it needs to grow? Lastly, I would consider incubating a question to my dreaming self. Good luck! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Bob 3/29/2009 10:59:18 PM
Robert, I'm hoping you can help. I am not a great lucid dreamer though have had wonderful flying dreams in the past. Now I'm puzzled because my dreams have become what I can only describe as incredibly dull. I seem to spend hours wandering around dull hallways and byways looking for something quite mundane. I'm guessing the next step is to get lucid and get out of there, but can you tell me what might be going on if a person is repeatedly having such long pointless dreams? Thanks! Submitted By: Bob

Robert Waggoner 3/1/2009 4:42:47 PM
R.A., Hi, and thanks for adding a note about flying techniques. For those first flights, you have some excellent advice. Also, a bit of flying or levitating acts as a powerful 'reality check.' Lucid dreamers just seem to love the freedom of soaring and flying -- a passion shared with many pilots in the waking world. Unfortunately, it appears the software has shortened your long message, but I hope my book spurs new lucid investigations, or flights! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

R.A. Nocera 2/27/2009 5:26:57 PM
Hello - I was one of Steve LaBerge's original 'oneironaughts' at Stanford sleep lab during his research. I'm and artist/ composer/synesthete and have been a lifelong lucid dreamer. I just started reading your new book and have a commment on flying, one of my favorite pastimes. I sugget to people that they imagine they're in water and use their arms to do a breastroke to get off the ground. I explain that we are at the bottom of a dense atmosphere, similar to water, and they can use the medium as such. This is a good analogy for waking life in relating one approach to flying. In dreams I just usually tell people to jump up in the air and they're off. Sometimes I get going by running down an incline, but usually I just throw myself off the nearest cliff. I used to 'practice' flying when I was a kid by running down the hill we lived on, in a grassy yard, and just when I crossed the driveway between houses there was a slight dip that I would jump up into and get air. Also, jumping off t

Robert Waggoner 2/25/2009 9:04:34 AM
Angela, Thanks for coming to my presentation at Iowa State University. Many more people came than I expected. And glad you are enjoying the book -- lucid dreaming has incredible depth. Let me know, and I'll be happy to speak at Drake University. Robert Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

angela 2/20/2009 1:12:12 PM
Robert, I heard your presentation at ISU and it was fabulous! I would love to see you visit Drake in the near future. I am enjoying your book immensely! angela Submitted By: angela

Robert Waggoner 2/20/2009 11:03:50 AM
Patrick, Glad you enjoyed the book. Yesterday, I was reading about an old psychologist, Kurt Lewin, who wrote, "If you truly want to understand something, try to change it." On some levels, this relates to your experience. In a lucid dream, first try to 'change' your own action. Make choices - instead of moving to the left, move to the right. Get comfortable with your ability to direct your focus and activity. Then, once you have the ability to direct your self, at that point use your concentrated focus and intent to influence an insignificant object in the dream. If you see a bike, either pick it up and throw it, or mentally imagine it levitating off the apparent ground. Try simple things first, and only one item at a time. As you progress, you will see the importance of those Reality Creating Principles of Belief, Expectation, Focus, Intent and Will (re-read that chapter). Finally, it may be that you are semi-lucid -- you 'get' that the dream seems dreamy and is probably a lu

Patrick Smith 2/18/2009 8:37:25 PM
I read your book and enjoyed it very much. I remember 4 or 5 dreams a week and on occasion I know that I'm dreaming but I have no control of the dream. Can you give me any advice on learning to influence my dreams a little more? Thanks Submitted By: Patrick Smith

Robert Waggoner 2/8/2009 12:08:15 PM
I am so glad that you wrote, because experienced lucid dreamers often encounter a unique dream state environment which has few objects or figures. Instead the lucid dreamer finds him or herself in a relatively empty, dark space - like being on a dark theater stage. Frequently, the other party with you is someone that you know, and you converse and exchange information very directly. In my book I mention this as possibly being akin to a unique state called, "dreams of clarity" by Buddhists in the Bon tradition. Also in my book, I mention meeting someone in this unique state who introduced me to his wife in it. I had never met her in waking reality. Months later, we were having a dinner party and some people said they had met the woman. I told them that she had been introduced to me in a dream, and proceeded to describe her -- much to the astonishment and disbelief of my friends. Later when I did meet her, she looked exactly as I had seen and was even wearing the same dress. So

Clair, lucid dreamer 2/8/2009 11:58:36 AM
Robert, I have not purchased your book, but will after finding this site. I was online searching to see if it is possible to speak with others(living not deceased) in a dream when I came across this site after many others. On three occassions I have conversed with someone I feel very strongly about. One time it was in the middle of the afternoon, so it was not like he was sleeping also. In the dreams it is very simple, the background is black nothing around, except the two of us talking, asking the other questions. We are unable to be together at this time in our lives and basically in these dreams, he is telling me it is alright and we will be eventually. Is this possible or is it my ego telling me what I want to hear. I feel strongly that this is really transpiring and has been over the course of 3 years. I am afraid to talk about it with others and have asked for guidance from my angels and believe I have got confirmation from them, but I always second guess that I am clair Submitte