To Sleep, To Dream

Sleep is a set of states of mind. It is an integral part of your life and not an isolated part of it. Insomnia describes the condition in which you cannot reach or cannot stabilize yourself in these states. Insomnia, in general, as well as other sleep dysfunctions are the result of your inability to support your mind's natural states, transitions, and functions. These problems do not have medical, mechanical, or chemical solutions.

Lucidity is consciousness itself. It exists in a realm of experience beyond words; achieving it is not an intellectual exercise. To become lucid is a transformation of emotions, memories, and thought patterns to reach an altered state. It’s not your image of the walls that you want to dissolve when you become lucid, it’s your image of reality. This is the first audiobook to approach lucid dreaming through hypnosis. Each chapter has a trance induction that offers you an experiential tour of altered states.

Humans employ three ways of thinking, and we attempt to integrate them to create a strong understanding of the world: rational thought, emotional thought, and associative thought. We have conscious control over our rational thoughts and from these we find mechanisms for action. Emotions give weight and priority to our decisions. Aside from occasional bursts of insight, associative thought occurs exclusively in our dreams.

A brilliant recasting of dreams as a different way of thinking, one that develops structures that feed back to your intellect and emotions. You don’t remember your dreams because you don’t know how to think like they do, and when you can’t follow them recall is a struggle, understanding is confused, communication fails, you are of no help in the process, and you continue to prefer the uncertain channels of habitual thinking.