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The Art of Lucid Dreaming:

A Manual .

Carolus M. den Blanken

Dedicated to all Dreamers who try to investigate in which

world they live

Published by Uitg.Elmar B.V./Rijswijk-

The Netherlands;1990.

Carolus M. den Blanken

I wish to emphasize that I am not a professional translator

Preface

The topic of this book, dreams during which you are aware

that you are dreaming, has within the scientific world

become known as ‘lucid dreams’. Although the phenomenon

now and then popped up, the research on it is from the past

years.

This has been the result of the fact that Dr.Keith Hearne from

the University of Liverpool and Dr.Stephen LaBerge from

Stanford University succeeded in providing the scientific

proof of the existence of the phenomenon.

Other reports provide sensational results. Practically

everybody has the capacity to learn to dream lucidly. But

motivation and discipline are most important conditions.

Lucid dreams offer the possibility to transform your fantasies

in dreamreality. Also lucid dreamers don’t run away from

menacing dreamfigures and situations, but start a dialogue.

By this method they gain insight in themselves, because a

lucid dreamer is able to interpret their dreamimages 'live'.

To induce physical healing-processes seems also to the

potentials of lucid dreaming. Those who practice in their lucid

dreams their sport, will notice the increase of performances

when doing it in daily life.

Creative aspects are stimulated by lucid dreaming too.

Various artists were in their lucid dreams provided with

(basis) elements for their expressions. On the business-area

there are possibilities too.

There are reports from lucid dreamers who found by means

of their lucid dreams solutions for technical problems. That

the lucid dreams is an excellent path for selfrealisations

seems - in my opinion - in our time where many people are

looking for the meaning of life, an extra dimension to start

with ‘awaking in your dream’.

‘The Art of Lucid Dreaming; A Manual’ is based upon the

findings of contemporary lucid dreamresearch, my own

experiences, and my contacts with dreampioneers. In the first

part I describe how I started with my dreamwork and later

began to dream lucidly. My first steps in the (lucid)

dreamworld will be described and I will not bypass my fears

and doubts. The second part reviews the history of lucid

dreaming, offers techniques and tips for arriving and staying

in the lucid dreamworld and provides practical applications.

The third part gives a review of organizations and persons

who occupy themselves with the research on lucid dreaming,

gives addresses of the most important magazines on the

lucid dream area and further you will find an extensive review

on lucid dream literature.

It offers opportunity for study and provides a helicopter-view

what’s going on the (scientific) dreamresearch nowadays .

This manual is the first Dutch-languaged book that

summarizes the results of the lucid dreamresearch of the past

years. Because I wish to exclude every image of

"fantasizing", sometimes you’ll find between the text

an asterix.

It means you are referred to the literaturelist. It offers the

possibility to check my sayings. Sometimes you’ll notice a

( ) . At the bottom of the page you read, you will find further

data. I hope with this layout the readability has been

maintained.

Although this manual is an introductory one, anyone who has

read it is provided with sufficient information to start the own

exploring journey.

A book does not arise from a vacuum. The confidence,

support and information of many people has contributed to

its publication. I think at the lucid dreamers who reacted on

an advertisement in a national Dutch paper; the exchange of

their experiences and views motivated me continuing my

pioneerwork.

I wish explicitly to thank Mr. Ilja Witsel and Mr. Jeroen Vos,

both from Amsterdam. Further I am in debt to:

Dr. Christian Bouchet (Paris/France), Prof.Dr.Jayne

Gackenbach (Edmonton/ Canada), Prof. Dr. J. Alan Hobson

(Boston/USA), Drs. Franz Maissan (Amsterdam/ Holland), Drs.

Eli Meijer (Utrecht/Holland), Dr. Morton Schatzman

(London/UK), Dr. Christian Stephan (Freiburg/Germany), and

especially Prof.Dr.Paul Tholey (Frankfurt/ Germany).

Mr.Viktor Vos (Amsterdam) was kindly enough to review the

original text and to comment on it.

He also ploughed through the text with his eyes on

grammatical aspects. I think he deserves for it at least a set

of new contactlenses.

Whenever I was disappointed in the apathetic and defensive

attitude of the Dutch scientific world, Mrs. Marion Verwer

(Utrecht) was there to listen to my complaints. Almost

mentioned last, her significance can’t measured by this po-

sition.

I thank my friendly dreamfigures every night, but it does not

harm to do it explicitly at this place; in fact it were them who

wrote this book.

1990

Additional:

This book was published in the Netherlands ten years ago

and since then, the field regarding lucid dreaming has

changed rapidly, like everything does in life.

Lucidity Letter ceased to exist; the leading field researchers

Prof. Dr. Paul Tholey and Mr. Carlos Castaneda died;

addresses changed, literature expanded, new induction

techniques were developed and the Internet became a mass

medium.

Personally I drifted somehow away from above text. Its inner

view, which presents the lucid dream vehicle as ‘living in

some virtual world’ does not completely cover anymore my

journeys, experiences and feelings of the last decade.

The result of this process I described in my 1997-

article ‘The Immortal, The Living Dead and The Dead’.

Nevertheless, I translated the original text from Dutch into

English and made it now -as well as the Dutch edition- free

available at the Internet. However I am not a translator by

profession.

2000

Additional:

"Maybe Time changes me, but I can't trace Time (David

Bowie) .

When I look nowadays into the mirror, I see faces I never

saw before. I travel thru worlds I never expected to explore.

(Carolus) .

Carolus den Blanken/Utrecht/The Netherlands/2005.

Chapter 1

The beginning of my dreamwork

I had passed the 30 year-age limits. My relation had been

steered upon the well-known rocks and I felt the burden that

my life was without much perspective. Each day I felt it was

getting boring and boring. I compared it with the period of

being a student, during which the energy I had, unloaded

itself in visiting popconcerts, going to exhibitions, traveling

abroad, playing my guitar, making soundtapes or the writing

of (bizarre) stories. All that creativity had vanished as snow

for the sun.

Of course the new area had also its influence. After the years

of flowerpower I found myself - suddenly it seemed - at the

decennial of business-attitude, the non-nonsense, the end of

daydreaming. Actually, after years of resistance, I had bought

from my brother his color-tv and subscribed to a cable-

provider. Evening after evening I watched the programs

passing. But when I went to bed, I hardly could remember

what I had seen.

Also, my physical condition was getting worse. My doctor

had hardly claimed a thyroid gland-disease or the next

disaster was knocking at my door. I got severe headaches

accompanied with attacks of dizziness. Extensive medical

research was my follow-up and eventually I was labeled as

allergic for almost everything what was on the list.

I was given the advice to reorganize my household; no

carpets, synthetic duvet and pillow, stopping with smoking of

course and advisable twice a day my house vacuumcleaning

with some mask on my nose. I had the feeling that I could as

well isolate myself in some sterile computer-room, dressed in

space-outfit.

It will be obvious that I was not getting optimistic about all

this. What had happened to my boyish-dreams? Did not I had

the vision of wondering through the world as a reporter;

under barrage ringing my dashing reports to the editors of

the most important newsletters? Where was my alternative

ambition of becoming a cineast, adored and reviled for the

controversial approach, like a Jean-Luc Godard or a Robert

Bresson?

What had happened to my intention of being a psycho-

therapist? Had it not been the reason of studying educational

psychology in the seventies? Instead of this I was stucked in

some apathetic atmosphere, wondering what to do. Social

scientists were not much wanted anymore and the trade and

industry had regained its dominant main position in society.

Summarized, I was in confusion. Those days I have a very

alarming dream.

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