Great benefit is derived by discussing personal experiences with other practitioners. This leads to an exchange of information, new knowledge, and mutual help concerning certain problems and issues.

The greatest effect comes through communication in person, and not solely through mail, forums, and blogs. Meeting face-to-face with like-minded people promotes camaraderie and a useful knowledgebase to consider during individual practice.

Due to the fact that knowledge of the phenomenon is underdeveloped, difficulties may arise in finding someone to talk to. This can be solved by personally sharing lucid dreaming experiences with friends and family members, regardless of whether they are fellow practitioners. It is even better to pass on training literature, like this guidebook.

Interesting Fact!

More and more families all across the world enjoy lucid dreaming together. Out of all those registered with the OOBE Research Center, the most interesting is a family in which 6 members representing three generations (ages 14-65) competitively practice lucid dreaming. In another case, an 8-year-old actively practices with his parents.

The website www.remspace.net also has a discussion forum devoted to lucid dreaming, making it possible to obtain and exchange a large amount of information. The site also has the contact information for the coordinators of lucid dreaming Practitioner Clubs all around the world, which are non-commercial associations of enthusiasts who meet to exchange and discuss experiences.

From the very beginning, it should be understood that the moral compass of lucid dreaming space has nothing in common with the societal norms and laws of the physical world. lucid dreaming space seemingly imitates the physical world with all its properties and functions only because we are accustomed to them and are not expecting anything else. Moral principles and rules apply only to the place where they were developed. It does not make sense to profess them while in lucid dreaming.

The practitioner should not refrain from certain actions in lucid dreaming because some would be unacceptable, improper, or bad in the real world. These are merely behavioral patterns that are hardly suited to the world of lucid dreaming, where everything operates on the basis of entirely different laws.

The only moral rules that might exist in lucid dreaming are those that the practitioner establishes. If desired, complete, unhindered freedom may be experienced.

What would happen if we combined three excerpts: one from a biblical appearance of God, one from an alien abduction story, and one from a near-death experience testimony?

…In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on me, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then I heard a voice say, "We have come for you… You will not be hurt." I could feel myself moving out of my body and sliding down between the mattress and the rail on the side of the bed-actually it seemed as if I went through the rail-on down to the floor. Then, I started rising upward, slowly…

Having had thousands of my own out-of-body experiences and having analyzed those of thousands of others, I can definitively state that the above would be a classic example of a first-time exit from the body typical for novices.

It’s very likely that such phenomena are very closely interrelated. It’s possible that they are of one nature. And that’s not considering hundreds of mystical and occult schools in which the same practice, under the most diverse names, stands apart from all the others as the pinnacle of development.

A few words on the mass scale of the phenomenon, which is not without importance. One person in four has experienced leaving their body upon falling asleep or waking up. One in three has experienced sleep paralysis at least once. One in two has reported having become conscious while dreaming. And everyone has encountered this hundreds of times in a superficial or unrecognized form. For example, up to a third of all actions and sensations upon awakening are not real. And how many times have you woken up, done something, and then gone back to sleep, not even suspecting that none of this occurred in the physical world?

By all accounts this is clearly a mass phenomenon, an ability inherent in each person. I can vouch for this as I am able to teach anyone to have an out-of-body experience.

This is used in-between any techniques or in-between full cycles of techniques. It is also called the Dnepropetrovsk method. In this case, the idea is that 3 to 5 seconds of credibly imitating falling asleep can not only conjure lucid dreaming all on its own, but also cause a kind of throwback to a more transitional state, thus increasing the effectiveness of all subsequent actions. Each time before performing techniques or full cycles of techniques, the practitioner simply throws himself back into a sleepier state via forced falling asleep in order to increase their effectiveness. Thus, in correctly implementing forced falling asleep, a situation occurs in which all actions are performed as if immediately upon awakening, when odds of success are highest.

Interesting Fact!

At an experimental seminar held August 21-23, 2009 in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), 40 participants were asked to perform mandatory cycles of all the indirect techniques together with the technique of forced falling asleep. The success rate for the whole group reached 75% after only two nights, not counting those participants who made no attempts at all. This was the most successful seminar into 2011, and the system first tested out there took on the name "The Dnepropetrovsk Method”.

Pure desire is one of the core principles of a high level of practice. The practitioner already knows what exactly he needs from one technique or another. He strives to directly achieve his aim through a combination of specific, focused desire and recall of the state. In other words, lucid dreamingr now strives towards a desire to accomplish or experience something, and not towards going through rituals in pursuit of some vague goal.

In order to achieve something, the practitioner now simply wills it. It is obtained without any other actions. There is no longer any point to most of the techniques, which only become necessary in special cases when they are the only way to achieve a result in difficult situations.