Despite the fact that it’s not difficult for an advanced lucid dreamingr to apply lucid dreaming towards any well-known practical application, he’s unlikely to do this often. There are several reasons for this. First, when your tally of lucid dreaming experiences numbers in the thousands, and you do it many times per day, your needs simply cannot keep up with your experience. Simply put, lucid dreamingr has already accomplished everything that he needed to, and returns to practical application only rarely. Second, advanced practitioners rarely see lucid dreaming as a means to solve some task or problem. For them it’s simply a life to live. After all, we don’t live here in the physical world for the sake of achieving something in lucid dreaming world. We live for this world. It’s the same with lucid dreaming. It’s good, miraculous, and magical only because it exists, and we can inhabit it. That’s why advanced practitioners seek nothing in lucid dreaming. They are content with the very fact of living in two worlds.

Obtaining information from lucid dreaming is its most difficult application. All of the other applications present little difficulty, even for moderately advanced practitioners. However, mastering the skill of obtaining credible information is a job that’s never finished.

Techniques have been simplified as much as possible here. After all, techniques for obtaining information are needed to create intermediaries between the practitioner and his subconscious mind (or fields of information, as some believe them to be). These intermediaries are necessary in order to better understand and clearly "see and hear" the information. But in the end, all these are intermediaries and rituals for novices who don’t understand what’s going on internally. However, they do understand what’s going on externally, and so there’s no other way to explain it to them. In most cases, an experienced lucid dreamingr will use the most clear-cut way of obtaining information: getting it directly. The practitioner’s question is raised as a thought-form, and the answer to it instantly appears in his memory, as if it were something already known. This is similar to the long-recognized phenomenon of false memory, but in this case the memory doesn’t have to be false – it can contain truly useful information. Otherwise, the task of finding something out can be set before entrance into lucid dreaming, and the answer to it can be found in one’s mind immediately upon separation.

Influencing physiology occurs in the same way. The desired effect is achieved not by taking pills or other measures in lucid dreaming, but through directly inducing it. Meanwhile, due to the special ways in which the subconscious mind works, it’s still sometimes recommended to use additional "crutches" in the form of pills or the like in order to increase the effectiveness of the physical body’s reaction.

Testing Individual Effectiveness. Upon awakening, without first moving your body or opening your eyes, try to feel some imagined movement for 3 to 5 seconds. For example, this may be running, pulling a rope, etc. If no result occurs after several seconds, switch to another technique. If the sensation of movement is feeble, or the feeling of being in two bodies at once arises, keep with the technique and increase the degree of realism of the sensation as high as possible: to the level of real feeling. At that moment, the imagined sensation will become dominant, and you can try to separate from your body, as you’ll be already in lucid dreaming. When implementing this technique, spontaneous translocation often occurs to some place or another – after which separation is already unnecessary.

Training. In order to practice the technique, lie down with your eyes closed in a dark room and try to feel, as authentically as possible, imagined movement of various kinds: swimming freestyle, running, power-walking, pedaling with your hands and feet, pulling rope, rubbing your hands together in front you, etc. Such training will help you to learn to quickly create the intention of feeling a specific sensation, which will play a key role right when it counts.

Due to the nature of this practice, the techniques in this book are not copyrighted. Up to 25% of the techniques in this book may be encountered piecemeal in other sources. Meanwhile, even the procedures developed by the author and the OOBE Research Center cannot be copyrighted, as in most cases they are intuitive and have probably struck somebody’s mind in the past.

This book contains a composition of both compiled and independently developed methodologies whose main distinction consists in having tested them under real conditions when teaching them to a mass audience of novices and experienced practitioners. In other words, this book contains only verified information on techniques that will be the most up-to-date until the next edition of the book. With such an approach, copyright is not even a secondary concern – it’s practically a moot point.

Robert Bruce was born in England in 1955. He has performed his life’s work while living in Australia. After studying and promoting dissociative phenomena for many years, by the beginning of the 21st century he had become one of the leading authorities in the astral projection field. He is also a specialist in many other paranormal fields of study.

Robert Bruce wrote several books, the most important and well known of which is Astral Dynamics (1999). The author holds quite open esoteric views, which are very strongly reflected in his theories and terminology. The helpful, practical guidelines in his books are quite often loaded with a large amount of information that has not been verified or proven by anyone. Robert Bruce is also a propagator of typical superstitions and stereotypes concerning lucid dreaming phenomenon.

Even though no beneficial non-autonomous technologies currently exist, the future is wide open for them.

With the development of effective technologies, lucid dreaming will cease to be the exclusive domain of the initiated and become a widespread practice. Only then will the (sometimes justified) stereotypes and prejudices connected to the mystical nature of the phenomenon be dispelled, and only then will lucid dreaming gain the necessary attention from researchers needed to ably develop the science of lucid dreaming practice.

When externally applied methods that cause lucid dreaming entrance are discovered, the human experience will drastically change. Those technologies for inducing and monitoring lucid dreaming experiences will open up incredible possibilities. For example, it will be possible to participate in a movie instead of just watching it; people will be able to try and evaluate products without leaving home; travel throughout designed worlds will take place; computer games will be substituted with analogous experiences including real physical sensations.

The ultimate step would be the unification of lucid dreaming experiences into a collective, parallel world integrated to existent digital networks: the Matrix (the Mindnet). Using this Matrix, it will be possible to communicate with someone on the other side of the planet – not just through a broadband video link, but literally tête à tête.

This vision of the future is a drop in the ocean of possibilities that will open with lucid dreaming entrance technologies. The first step toward the future is a thorough, pragmatic, and correct application of the techniques now available.