Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
by Andrew Holocek
Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado, 2016. 325 pp.
"While this book shows you how to have lucid dreams and what to do with them, it is designed to go deeper. Many fine books (listed in the suggested reading list) are available to introduce you to the world of lucid dreaming. This book is written to show you how vast and profound this world truly is, and how far it can take you. It’s more of a philosophical and spiritual journey into the practices of the night, geared to support the practices themselves and the experiences that unfold from them. If you want to limit your journey to the wonders of lucid dreaming alone, you will learn how to do that. But the heart of this book is to show you that dreams can be used to remove suffering and achieve lasting happiness, which is one way to define enlightenment." (
p. 5)
"This book is therefore about waking up from the delusion that results in samsara, which is the conventional world filled with dissatisfaction and suffering (in contrast to nirvana or enlightenment). As the political commentator Bill Maher says, 'anytime there’s mass delusion, bad things follow.' This comment applies to the full spectrum of delusion from cults all the way down to delusions about the nature of reality. As we will see, we are all unwitting members of the cult of materialism, the mass delusion that things are fundamentally solid, lasting, and independent, the central characteristics of samsara. Our mission in this book is to point out this delusion, the fallacy that Buddhism defines as being asleep to the true nature of things, and to wake up from it. Anytime there’s mass awakening or truth, good things follow."
(p. 6)
-- quote submitted by Sally Snyder
