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Review – Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide, by Ryan Hurd
Apr 1st
Ryan Hurd of DreamStudies.org has announced the release of his new eBook, Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide.
While written primarily to those concerned about or suffering from sleep paralysis, the book is a great read for anybody interested in sleep science and research. It will be of particular interest to anybody involved in lucid dreaming, as SP is likely to be encountered at some point by most people using lucid induction techniques.
Part 1 is a practical guide to dealing with SP. It includes immediate and longer-term tactics for breaking the cycles and altering the circumstances often involved with problem SP.
Part 2 is about dealing with what is often the most horrific aspect of SP; the encounters with “The Apparition” – those disturbing specters that can accompany the paralysis.
Part 3 addresses the many ways that SP, once understood and under control, may be leveraged for enjoyment and benefit. This includes ways to use SP as a transition into OBEs and Lucid Dreaming, along with discussion about hypnogogia and creativity. The last chapter is a comprehensive discussion about ways to improve the chances of achieving SP, including techniques, supplements and other practices.
Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide is an easy, compelling read. While the material presented is often in the realm of scholarly theory and research, it is presented in a manner that is accessible and even entertaining. Ryan Hurd’s writing style is warm and inviting, and the book is beautifully laid out and illustrated.
Ryan Hurd is a dream researcher living in the Pacific Northwest of the US. He is the creator of DreamStudies.org, and is also a dream educator at TheDreamTribe.com. Hurd has a MA in Consciousness Studies from John F. Kennedy University, and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
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Here is Ryan’s announcement with links:
After a LONG wait, my ebook Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide is available for download. The attractively designed ebook is a How-To guide for overcoming the fear of sleep paralysis nightmares, and navigating the powerful waters of lucid dreaming and out-of-body-experiences that sometimes come with SP.
Check out the book’s highlight’s here.
Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide is designed to stop sleep paralysis nightmares, and uncover the triggers in your life that bring on the weird nighttime experience of being held down by invisible entities. But the ebook is also a manual for your journey past the fear and the terrors , which can include realistic visions of ghosts, goblins, and demons.
My approach is holistic, and teaches you how to transform these nightmares into a wide variety of amazing and powerful lucid dream experiences, including ancestral visitations, OBEs, and lucid guided journeys. This is powerful medicine almost forgotten by modern society but still-well known in many indigenous communities around the world.
Here’s what the dream research community has said about Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide:
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. Ryan Hurd, a brilliant researcher and emerging leader in the field of dream studies, offers a brand new perspective on sleep paralysis that provides both practical help and inspirational guidance. 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: A Comparative History
If you suffer from sleep paralysis, buy this book. Inside it are powerful techniques, real knowledge and experienced advice from a former sleep paralysis sufferer. Using practical techniques, insightful advice and scientific research, Hurd takes the SP sufferer on a journey from intense fear to real hope and empowerment. Benefit from his insight, and learn how to resolve your sleep paralysis for good.
- Robert Waggoner, author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self
Buy Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide by clicking here.
The secure download of this 100+ page ebook also comes with a Sleep Paralysis Management worksheet, as well as an informative one hour interview with sleep paralysis expert Jorge Conesa-Sevilla, Ph.D., author of Wrestling with Ghosts: a Personal and Scientific Account of Sleep Paralysis.
Thank you for supporting DreamStudies.org and my ability to do this work! Proceeds for this ebook will also go towards my academic research fund, including my presentation of this material to the International Association for the Study of Dreams this June in Asheville, NC.
As always, feel free to contact me at any time about this product or any aspect of DreamStudies.
Yours,
Ryan Hurd
Ryan Hurd, PO BOX 425, Inverness, CA 94937, United States
Engaging With Dreams – a Mortal Mist Workshop
Jan 29th
Engaging with Dreams
Everyone is invited to a workshop entitled Engaging with Dreams. As the title suggests, we’ll be looking at ways of getting more out of dreams especially through recognising where our own ways of thinking and being can be used to special effect.
Dreams are generally considered to be the products of unconscious processes, by which we mean thoughts and feelings that occur outside of our conscious control. This has led some to conclude that we need to understand the language of our unconscious mind through the symbolism of dreams. Yet most have found that dream dictionaries constructed using these ideas to be highly speculative and probably flawed. Are there other ways of getting access to the dreamer’s unconscious? I believe there is. But it is not straightforward, and for many of us we perhaps only get a sense of what’s going on no matter how hard we try and find meaning. It is that ‘sense’ that Engaging with Dreams is about.
Through looking at our own dreams and the dreams of others, we’ll share our observations, our emotional responses, our gut reactions and indeed anything that arises for us. In doing so we’ll find our more about how we personally understand unconscious processes and how these are revealed in dreams. Dream work of any type is a highly inexact science so what each of us will take from the workshop will be different and personal, perhaps shaped by the kinds of people we have each grown up to be.
Engaging with Dreams runs from 1 to 15 February, in seven simple stages. Watch out for the introductory thread which may appear as early as Sunday 31 January! Looking forward to engaging with as many dreamers as possible!
No previous experience required!
Sign up for this FREE workshop here.
Hosted by Mortal Mist
