title: A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics
author:  Dylan Tuccillo 
description: Three self-professed lucid dreamers take a modern look at oneironautics, or lucid dreaming, in this refreshingly practical guide to controlling dreams. Tuccillo, Zeizel, and Peisel bring a casual, youthful tone to a topic about which much has already been written. In dreams, they note, you can be free of your physical body, leaving behind silly things like gravity. The writers focus on instructionto encourage lucid dreams, for instance, set your alarm for six hours after bedtime, then wake up and go back to sleep after 20 minutes. The trio broadly covers the cultural history of dreams and the science of sleep, but always returns to the core idea that guiding your dreams is a great adventure, as emphasized by old-fashioned line drawings by Mahendra Singh, featuring travelers discovering new lands and walking through walls. Excerpts from lucid dreamers&amp;' own experiences also add to the text. The variety of material limits the book&amp;'s depthmore neuroscience coverage would be welcomebut it makes for an easy read. (Sept.)
zlib_text: A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming
  Mastering the Art of Oneironautics
  Dylan Tuccillo, Jared Zeizel, and Thomas Peisel with illustrations by Mahendra Singh
  WORKMAN PUBLISHING • NEW YORK
  
  1. Starting the Journey
  2. Packing Your Bags
  3. Arrival
  4. Exploring a New World
  5. Mastering the Terrain
  6. The Next Frontier
  
  CONTENTS
  Foreword
  Part One
  1 A New Discovery
  2 What Are Dreams?
  3 A History of Dreaming
  Part Two
  4 The REM Stage
  5 The Power of Intention
  6 Remembering Your Dreams
  7 Keeping a Dream Journal
  8 The Reality Check
  Part Three
  9 Becoming Lucid
  10 Staying Lucid
  Part Four
  11 Transportation
  12 Creation
  13 The Natives
  14 Superpowers
  Part Five
  15 Defusing Nightmares
  16 Healing and Wholeness
  17 Dream Incubation
  18 WILD
  Part Six
  19 Know Thyself
  
  20 Waking vs. Dreaming
  21 A Future Vision
  Notes
  Acknowledgments
  About the Authors
  
  FOREWORD
  We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we
  started And know the place for the first time.
  —T. S. Eliot, poe