A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming by Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel, Thomas Peisel

valuable gift of time, you can walk
    around, talk to dream characters, and deliberately seek out and ask
    questions to the dream. Your skills will increase and your lucidity
    will last for longer and longer periods of time.
    Your tank is strapped on, your gear in place, you’ve got a full
    tank of oxygen. All right, Cousteau, the next part of the adventure
    is up to you. Let’s take a look at the best ways to explore this mys-
    terious place.
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    Summary
    • Staying aware once you’re lucid requires a delicate balance of
    mindfulness.
    • To prolong your lucidity, try anchoring yourself within the dream
    by performing techniques that will sharpen your focus and that
    constantly remind you that you’re dreaming.
    • Performing these techniques will help you create a stable dream
    environment, a solid landscape that you can explore and traverse
    just like the physical world.
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    P a r t F o u r
    Exploring a
    nEw world

    You have made it through the brush. If you haven’t already
    become conscious in your dreams, you will soon enough.
    Lucid or not, the adventure is far from over. In fact, it’s
    just beginning. The journey is just like a classic myth, a knight-
    in-shining-armor story, or a tall tale. It will take you face-to-face
    with yourself, leading toward an understanding of who you really
    are and what’s possible. The path you’re on runs parallel with the
    waking world.
    The following chapters will guide you through some essen-
    tial information you need to know about the dream world. Here,
    things are a little peculiar. The rules and principles of the dream
    world are slightly different from those you’re used to. You’ll find
    that you have the ability to fly, to walk through solid objects, to
    transcend both space and time, to conjure people out of thin air,
    and to create buildings or even cities. To do these things, you must
    learn how to speak the language of the dream, how to move around
    within it, how to influence your surroundings and create with your
    mind’s eye.
    From here on out, lucid dreaming will become a whole lot
    easier for you. As you spend more time in the dream world, your
    abilities will expand. The tips in this section will be essential in
    developing your skills as a lucid dreamer.
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    Transportation
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    When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth
    with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been,
    and there you will always long to return.
    —Leonardo da Vinci,
    Renaissance polymath, genius, and cheeky fellow
    Miles ahead, mountains loom like the backs of camels
    under white clouds. You rise to the level of the clouds
    and air rushes past you as the mountains get closer.
    Flying over them with ease, you gain speed in the clear, warm air.
    Adventure is about the journey, about getting from point A to
    point B and seeing what you discover along the way. Often it’s not
    the destination that’s as important as the voyage you took to get
    there. As you venture into the dream world, you’ll begin to famil-
    iarize yourself with the principles of travel and how movement
    works in dreams. Transportation is one of the most useful and
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    practical abilities in the dream and is a must for any lucid dreamer
    who wants to explore their inner landscape.
    Movement in the dream world is a bit different from moving
    around the waking world. If you want to get somewhere in the
    waking world, you’re used to certain forms of travel: a bus, car,
    bicycle, skipping, frolicking, just plain walking, etc. You have to
    move your body, and every movement takes a certain amount of
    time.
    Your morning commute takes forty-five minutes. That relax-
    ing trip to the Bahamas requires you to spend ten hours on an
    airplane, trapped next to a crying baby.
    In the dream world, this is not the case. The laws of space and
    time don’t apply to the lucid dreamer. Getting from point A to
    point B is a matter of intention and focus; changes in location