The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night's rest. With the art of lucid dreaming-or becoming fully conscious in the dream state-you can find creative inspirations, promote emotional healing, gain rich insights into your waking reality, and much more. Now, with Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life, Stephen LaBerge invites you on a guided journey to learn to use conscious dreaming in your life. Distilled from his more than 20 years of pioneering research at Stanford University and the Lucidity Institute-including many new and updated techniques and discoveries-here is the most effective and easy-to-learn tool available for you to begin your own fascinating nightly exploration into Lucid Dreaming. Guided dream practices on CD (or download) include: Two trance inductions into the lucid-dream state . Two daytime exercises designed to trigger lucid dreams at night . LaBerge's breakthrough MILD technique for increasing lucid-dream probability fivefold or more . A Tibetan-yoga dream practice