Some of the greatest of life's adventures can happen while you're sound asleep. That's the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you're dreaming while you're in the midst of a dream. There is a range of techniques anyone can learn to become a lucid dreamer and this book provides all the instruction you need to get started. But B. Alan Wallace also shows how to take the experience of lucid dreaming beyond entertainment to use it to heighten creativity, to solve problems, and to increase self-knowledge. He then goes a step further: moving on to the methods of Tibetan Buddhist dream yoga for using your lucid dreams to attain the profoundest kind of insight.

Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation, Alan Wallace, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 173 pp, $19.95

Alan Wallace, PhD, has been a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism for more than forty years, and has been leading workshops and retreats on dream yoga for more than twenty. A former Tibetan Buddhist monk, he is also trained in physics and is a respected scholar of religion. He is the founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and he is the author of numerous books, including Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality.

CONTENTS: Dreaming Yourself Awake
	Introduction	ix
	PART ONE: Lucid Dreaming
1.	Meditative Quiescence: Laying the Groundwork for Lucidity	1
2.	The Theory of Lucid Dreaming	19
3.	The Practice of Lucid Dreaming	35
4.	Proficiency in Lucid Dreaming	53
	PART TWO: Dream Yoga
5.	The Universe of Dream Yoga	67
6.	The Daytime Practices of Dream Yoga	79
7.	Nighttime Dream Yoga	95
	PART THREE: Bringing It All Together
8.	Putting Your Dreams to Work	115
9.	Individualized Practice and Infrequently Asked Questions	123
10.	Dreaming Yourself Awake: A Wider Perspective	135
	Notes	151
	Glossary	159
	Selected Bibliography	165
	Index	167