Invite dreaming back into your life
Posted by Ryan Hurd on July 20, 2009
This 32 53 page ebook is full of tactics and strategies for supercharging your dream life.
Update: I’m now offering the second edition of this FREE ebook, with fresh content, more research, and new colorful illustrations.
We live in a culture that never sleeps, and ignores our dreams.
In the West, more than 60 million individuals have insomnia, and that number is growing everyday. If you are looking for advice about how to get better quality sleep as well as how to have more vivid and exciting dreams–with less nightmares too– then you’re in good company.
Cultivating good sleep and vivid dreams can be a good motivator for slowing down the frenetic pace of modern life. Dreams reflect our deepest desires as well as creative solutions to the problems that stand in our way to achieving those goals. Paying attention to sleep hygiene can also lower stress, boost energy levels, and eradicate nightmares and other parasomas such as sleep paralysis.
Boost dream recall, reduce nightmares, and sleep soundly
This second edition has a landscape profile for easy viewing on any screen on mobile device.
I am a dream researcher who has logged thousands of my own dreams in the last 20 years. I used to suffer from nightmares, too, which finally compelled me to learn all I could about the science — and the mysteries — of the dreaming brain.
I’m sharing here what I learned the hard way, so you can improve your dream life tonight.
Enhance your DreamLife is divided into 3 chapters
- Optimizing your Sleep Life. Without a good night’s sleep, dreaming is impossible. This chapter focuses on sleep health and how to go to sleep to dream.
- Crafting your Dream Diet. Foods, supplements and herbs that encourage dreaming, improve dream recall, and keep the brain healthy too.
- Preparing for Good Dreaming. Tips, tactics and practices for creating a dream-friendly environment, including how to reduce nightmares, how to quickly interpret your dreams, and how to incubate a dream that you want to have for creative answers to your life concerns.
Enhance your dream life also covers topics such as:
- how to keep an effective and fun dream journal
- how to make your bedroom into a relaxation haven
- using your alarm clock to remember more dreams
- lucid dreaming: what it’s really about beyond the hype
And lastly the book discusses:
- supplements that increase lucid dreams
- the truth about caffeine and alcohol
- tactics for clearing the mind before bed
- how to track your sleep and make your own dream lab
Submit your information below and I’ll send you the link for my free book Enhance your Dream Life. You will also receive access to my DreamStudies newsletter as well as the freshest articles from the blog. So check your inbox, confirm your interest, and my email with the download link will be waiting for you in a few moments.
See you in the dream world!
i did in fact read the e-book and it was very helpful! thank you for the broad range of suggestions to improve my dream life. keep up the ascendant works! and many blessing to your family and the new baby…
Hi Ryan Hurd well i was downloaded the ebook i just gone through the headlines i found very Interesting. my dad got so much knowledge about dreams to talk and interpret ate and solve problms and past from 1 year i’m very much interested in dreams infact i started working on remembering my dreams and writing them in a journal but want to have LUCID DREAMING but till now not achieve lucidity dont know what to do i tried some Technics ….
good luck Raghu with lucid dreaming. You can find a lot of content on my site about lucid dreaming, just check out the category section on the right side bar.
Dear Ryan,
I HAVE read your ebook “Enhance your Dreamlife” and am planning to begin the process of journaling my dreams TONIGHT. I have very vivid dreams and can remember only bits of them – hoping that this process will help me to remember the dreams and to use these dreams to bridge my walking life with my resting life.
I’m excited to hear about how your dream recall is changing now that you’re paying more attention to your dreams. Even for me, after all these years, my dream recall goes to the background if I don’t actively seek it out. But it only takes a few days to come back too. It’s just waiting!
Hi Ryan i did read your ebook and i thought it was great, two nights later i had a lucid dream i wrote it down in my diary. As i come to think about it i have been having a few lucid dreams lately, still can’t get my head around them. Thanks again.
that’s great Helen!
Excellent book. i’ve been studying dreams since the seventies and Hurd’s book brings it all together. I have been having much more lucid dreams than I have ever had.
I haven’t had a lucid dream in years. Life got in the way… hopefully your advice will help. Sending out any more links for download?
Excellent information. I will defintely be putting some of these tips into practice. I already keep a dream journal, which got quite the workout this morning… well okay, yesterday morning now, lol. Sometimes I recall my dreams in great detail, other times not at all. I am trying to improve dream recall and this book will help.
I particularly found the dream incubation interesting and it has cropped up several times in the past week in various locations, which is I guess a hint to try it.
Thank you very much for the information contained in this ebook. It’s very helpful.
I just had my third sleep paralysis experience and it was quite frightening!!! They have all been about eight months apart. It felt like I was fully awake with a black object standing over me pushing me down into my bed. I just kept telling myself to get up and I saw the time (3:33am) on my phone while being held down (for what felt like) about 3-5 seconds. When I was able to move again, I immediately reached for my phone and it read EXACTLY one hour later (4:44am). I have been trying to record my dreams and lucid dreams when I can. I am a bit frightened to have to experience this again and I am looking forward to reading your e-book Ryan!
Hi Ryan, I just read your ebook “Enhance Your Dreamlife.” There was a lot of useful information, and a couple of new things I picked up reading it. I always enjoy All your posts and stories on the topic of Dreaming and Dreams from the Dream Studies Portal. You’re my number one poster/ blogger that I follow on the web
It’s because of you that I first learned about sleep paralysis after doing some searches for seeing shadow figures while sleeping. I learned so much more after that also, and I find your work very interesting. Keep up the great work!
Hi Ryan, thanks for generously sharing your e-book which I found to be excellent. I have been having lucid deams on and off for about 14 years but need to focus more on consciously preparing myself to induce more regular lucid dreams. Your book has given me a lot of useful information which I will certainly put into practice. I will share your website with friends in Ireland. Thanks again. Jeane
Hi Ryan. I have been reading your e-book, and I like it very much. Thanks for sharing with us. I have been dreaming as long as I can remember. It was a while during sickness that I did not dream, or recall my dreams. I felt that I lost half of my life. So I quit medications and got back my dreams. I have not really understood the meaning of having dreams until now. So I keep reading your book at night before I go to sleep. Just two days ago I had a dream and followed it up with some nice coincidences the next day. i wouldn’t have noticed them had it not been for your book. Thanks again. Frode
wow – cool! coincidences are a wonderful sign that you’re on the right track, building those bridges between worlds. thanks for the comment!
Hi Ryan
Thanks for the great info on dreams. When I first started having hypnic dreams with paralysis, I thought I was awake. I didn’t tell anyone about my experiences for years because I thought I was crazy. But a couple of years ago I had a sleep study done. The doctor asked me if I had dreams that seemed real and that is when I learned that I wasn’t alone. The more I learned about these dreams the less scary they became. And they are less frequent. Whenever I have a hypnic dream with paralysis I journal it, and email my “dream team”. I wish I knew if the dreams mean anything, but that is something I’ll have to figure out on my own.
great success story, Anne. I know a lot of people who could benefit from your experience. If you care to, add a comment to this article as there’s quite a few folks suffering from SP who check it regularly: http://dreamstudies.org/2010/04/29/9-ways-to-wake-up-from-sleep-paralysis/
Hi Ryan,
Thank you very much for your free information on dreaming. I have been so busy I haven’t read your ebook until today. I have my journal by the bed, watching my intake of ingredients and trying to dream. I have recorded some bits but nothing significant yet but I will continue. Thanks again.
Cheers, Grant
thanks Grant, good to hear! You’re off to a strong start.
Thank you again Ryan for being there for all of us! So much gratitude(i’m not alone) for making the road a lil wider for us.
I started out with Steven’s Nova dreamer a few yrs. ago and had success but this time around is different for me! _*_
-Reality checks all day(using my totem).
-Diet starts right after my last REM (waking*)
*5-HTP,choline,men’s vitamine,Chicken breast and whey protein thru out day.
-Preparation—Bed by 9 but not b 4 meditation and your ebook!
-WBTB ’round 4-5 hrs. later(up for an hour)
Isochronic, tibetion bells etc. with strong intentions!
Again, choline,5-HTP,galantamine 8mg and load up on carbs!
That dream lasted 90 min(it was real time!) almost too much too recall lol! Im very patient, determined and shamelessly confident that its gonna happen tonight!
Recall happens in any position for the next 5-10 min.! Rocketing into the inevitable! (‘
Very sorry Ryan! Dosent look like a question to me. lol! try again. (.
Im very interested in the wild technique and wonder what your favorite way is to achieve that?
Thank you.
Hey Paul, I’m a fan of this method of Scott Sparrow’s, which is WILD combined with an intention to re-enter a previous dream. http://dreamstudies.org/2009/07/22/dream-re-entry-an-advanced-lucid-dreaming-practice/