Lucid Immersion Blueprint presents a step-by-step plan for going deeper into lucid dreaming. This ebook collection is a distillation of contemporary dream research, ancient dream practices and my own personal experience with consciousness in the dreamworld .

Designed for dreamers of all levels, the Blueprint dissolves your roadblocks to lucidity and also hands you the keys to having more lucid dreams, as well as longer dreams that are more satisfying.

With over 200 pages of artistically designed content, the Blueprint also includes original worksheets for working with the most common roadblocks to lucid dreaming, as well as valuable charts and lists for simplifying your lucid life.

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Sleep Paralysis: The only Self-Help book about SP and its possibilities

Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night. ($12.95) This 130 page book is published by Hyena Press. This is the only sleep paralysis book on the market that approaches the topic from a how-to perspective, with the latest research in dream science, anthropology and psychological theory.

It’s also available as a Kindle download for less than $10.

Reviews:

“People who suffer sleep paralysis inevitably focus on their fear and discomfort, but rarely do they recognize that this strange experience also holds a huge potential for mind/body growth and enlightenment. Hurd’s excellent new book gives clear and effective advice about how to diminish the painful symptoms of sleep paralysis, while leading readers to a deeper appreciation of the incredible power of the dreaming imagination—a power that can promote greater health and conscious awareness in all of us.”

—Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., author of Dreaming in the World’s Religions

“This book on sleep paralysis offers a tremendous contribution to understanding a realm of nocturnal experiences that have previously been dismissed as non- existent, irrelevant or pathological. Ryan Hurd offers extremely clear and valuable information on this neglected topic based upon his many years as an experiencer, and as a knowledgeable guide to the existing research literature. I highly recommend it!”

—Robert L. Van de Castle, Ph.D., author of Our Dreaming Mind.

Sleep Paralysis is also available as a richly illustrated Ebook

Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide. ($12) A 100+ page ebook designed to help sleep paralysis sufferers move from fear to fascination of this oft-misunderstood dreamstate.

Sleep Paralysis is a practical, how-to guide for managing fear, and pushing the envelope of SP to experience lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and other uncanny voyages on the edge of imagination.

If you want a rich, easy-to-read ebook experience, this pdf version is the best choice, with its magazine style format and tons of color illustrations. Perfect for reading on home computer, as well as on the iPad and other tablets.

Secure download also comes with a Sleep Paralysis Management Worksheet and an hour long conversation Jorge Conesa Sevilla, author of Wrestling with Ghosts, a personal and scientific account of sleep paralysis.

Reviews:

“The most breakthrough research and insights into controlling your sleep paralysis episodes, compiled into one place. If you suffer from sleep paralysis consistently, you really must read this book.”

—Stanford University’s Sleep and Dreams website.

“Using practical techniques, insightful advice and scientific research, Hurd takes the SP sufferer on a journey from intense fear to real hope and empowerment.”

—Robert Waggoner, author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self.

Dreaming with the Stones: the rock art of Ometepe Island

A chapter in the new anthology Rebearths: Conversations with a world ensouled, edited by Craig Chalquist, PhD.

My chapter shows how “Intuitive ways of knowing can complement empirical investigations of landscape and history. In 2006, Ryan Hurd investigated prehistoric rock art in Nicaragua using nature observation and dream tracking methods to reveal hidden site-specific properties. He shares a method that can be practiced anywhere, from backyards and city parks to historic lands and sacred sites.”

Praise for Rebearths:

“This is a true work of beauty and love of this world! Craig Chalquist and associates have given us a bold and heartfelt exploration of the intimate relationship between nature and soul, acknowledging the consciousness of Earth and reweaving psyche’s connection to place.”

—Jan Edl Stein, MFT, director of Holos Institute.

Free Stuff

Enhance Your Dreamlife. A 50+ page report for inviting dreams back in your life, full of tips and tactics for better sleep, more vivid dreams, and advanced dreaming practices including:

• lucid dreaming
• dream incubation
• nightmare tips
• dream journal tactics
• an introduction to dream supplements
• diet considerations for better dreams

The Sleep Paralysis Report. A 13 page treatment of sleep paralysis and its related visions of being unable to move and feeling held down by an unseen force.

An easy-to read-introduction into this lucid nightmare that has been reported throughout history, this report covers the symptoms, causes, and how to treat the condition of isolated sleep paralysis naturally.

This ebook is also the first focused study ever published on how to deal with the Strangers: the creepy hallucinations that often accompany sleep paralysis in the form of ghosts, demons, and horrific monsters.

This ebook costs $12 even.

Reader Testimonial: “Sleep Paralysis for me was a horrifying experience. I would feel helpless and totally immobilized while a feeling of abject terror and suffocation intensified. Ryan’s ebook has helped completely change this. By following his advice and putting it into practice I learned ironically that if I relaxed, waking up is much easier and I have more control. This book is concise and will be helpful to anyone like me who struggles with lucid nightmares. Now for the first time in my life I actually want to have Sleep paralysis as I’ve now realized it’s a launching pad for just about anything you can and can’t imagine.”

– Liam, Welwyn Garden City, England

Who will benefit from this book?

• Sufferers from repetitive isolated sleep paralysis or periodic isolated sleep paralysis.

• Oneironauts and lucid dreamers seeking a reliable entryway into shamanic levels of consciousness.

• Sufferers from terrifying hypnagogic hallucinations and lucid nightmares.

• Lucid dreamers who are prone to sleep paralysis and cannot shake the fear that comes with these visions despite that “it’s only a dream.”

• Ministers, therapists, and dream workers who counsel people with this profoundly realistic vision but have never known what to believe about its causes, triggers, and its potential for self-growth.

• Anyone interested in this mis-understood natural vision state and its relationship to ghost hauntings, historic witch trials, alien abductions, angel visitations, artistic genius and the little people who populate our minds.

Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide is a professionally designed and richly illustrated ebook with over 100 pages (and almost a hundred references too, if you’re into that kind of thing).

The secured download comes with two bonuses:

1. A Sleep Paralysis Management Worksheet for designing your own SP plan.
2. An exclusive one hour conversation with sleep paralysis expert Jorge Conesa Sevilla, PhD., author of Wrestling with Ghosts: A Personal and Scientific Account of Sleep Paralysis.

Again, I’m offering this ebook and the two bonuses for $12.

Sleep Paralysis is a troubling sleep condition that is deeply misunderstood in our culture. Experienced by millions as an incubus attack or being “ridden by a witch,” sleep paralysis (SP) has biological causes that are related to sleep hygiene, stress, and insomnia.

In SP, you are aware of the body’s paralysis that normally comes with REM (dreaming) sleep.  This paralysis is what keeps us from acting out our dreams: a pretty important evolutionary skill that prevents us from injuring ourselves or our sleeping partners when we are dreaming about hunting tigers and bears.

This muscle paralysis is really frightening if you don’t know what is happening.  It can feel like being pushed down into the bed, being suffocated, or like a heavy weight crushing down on the chest and throat.

And meanwhile, you feel like you are awake, with full thinking capabilities.

This is the original waking terror that inspired the word “nightmare” which is old Anglo-Saxon for “a crushing sensation at night.”  The image above is Henry Fuseli’s Nightmare, painted in 1781, depicting an incubus demon sitting on a woman sufferer’s chest.

SP can also be a symptom of a more serious disorder, such as sleep apnea or narcolepsy.  However, isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is not a dangerous condition, despite how terrifying it seems at the time.

Sleep Paralysis visions have physical and emotional causes

About 20% of the time, ISP is accompanied by realistic, and often frightening, hallucinations. In my opinion, the underlying physical causes of ISP do not invalidate the psychological impact these visions can have on dreamers.  Known as hypnagogic hallucinations (HH), these dreams are literally projected into the waking realm where we are laying down with open eyes.  All over the world, across cultures and throughout recorded history, people have told tales of being sat upon by demons, ridden by witches, and haunted by spirits when they are in sleep paralysis.

A scientific worldview does not invalidate these claims, as medical historians and folklorists have argued for over 30 years.  The night visitations of ghosts, monsters, vampires (and even aliens in many contemporary accounts) are psychologically real encounters, not simply stories that are fabricated because of a belief in ghosts and goblins.

In other words, the question is not whether or not if the demons are physically real, but whether or not they greatly affect the dreamer as an extraordinary experience.

Yes, they do.

These visions can be terrifying, and they can be equally life-changing.

Why demons won’t go away

So how do we cope with nocturnal spirit attacks in the 21st century?

Sadly, many people do not share their experiences, for fear that they will be laughed at, or that they are losing their sanity.  Others try to forget these hallucinations in the daylight of reason, but stay up late at night afraid to go to sleep.

This problem has affected me too, as someone who has suffered from ISP/HH for most of my life.  In fact, one of the reasons why I studied dream research in grad school is because I needed to find away to face these lucid nightmares that were robbing me of sleep and negatively impacting my life.

In the last five years, I’ve freed myself from unwanted nightmares, thanks in part to my nightmare reseach and dreamwork, and also to a supportive community and family.

A Holistic Approach to Sleep Paralysis

My solution is an approach that treats sleep paralysis and the accompanying visions in a manner that respects the physical, mental, cultural and spiritual levels of the phenomenon.  This holistic approach to ISP/HH allows us to untangle the various influences on the experience.

In this way, we can work with each “thread” to reduce the nightmares, lose the fear of the unknown, and start getting better rest again.

With time, these unique visions can also become a reliable gateway to other extraordinary states of consciousness, including lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, ancestral encounters, and guided journeys to realms beyond our imagination.

Free Download – The Report

To learn more about sleep paralysis, I invite you to download my free Sleep Paralysis Report. This 13 page report discusses the symptoms, causes and hidden opportunities of sleep paralysis. The report also discusses how to wake up from sleep paralysis and how to prevent multiple occurrences in the same night.

You don’t need to give up your email or anything, just click here to get the Sleep Paralysis Report for free.

It’s a PDF; you’ll need Adobe reader or another PDF reader (like Preview for Macs) to see it on your computer. It’s also not copyrighted, which means  you can share it with people you know who are looking for help with their sleep paralysis visitations.