Robert Waggoner - 'Lucid Dreaming - Gateway To The Inner' - Interview by Iain McNay 

The host is a legend! It's like he left the house in a hurry and only remembered to bring his heart. My kind of guy!

Finding your hands is honestly some of the best advice for lucid dreaming

I discovered lucid dreaming after I had finished controlling it and it immediately woke me up, age 13, now 44. At the time I was on the edge of collapse into sociopathy due to pressure from a sociopathic stepmother. I was able to not buy into the sense that, "I have no other choice" until another choice came available. I have no idea how discovering lucid dreaming was the 'better option' and saved me from collapse but I knew after that night that I would never be in danger from my stepmother again.

The "inner self" that lucid dreaming is supposed to be a gateway to is the same self that is present in full view every moment of your existence. That is because it is YOU and there is only one YOU. The source of all happiness is not in experiences but in knowing YOU. You are the source, not an experience. YOU are what is extraordinary. You are the ever-present awareness that makes all experiences possible.

I had a lucid dream where I was walking along a beach with someone who had told me when we dream, we really go there. I wasn't allowed to see the person but know it was a man. Everything was more real than real life. I desperately wanted to bring something with me to my " awake" life so I took a shell. The being had told me if I decide to go back I have to only think about it and I'll go upwards, towards the sky very quickly and I'll be home . So, clutching the shell I wished to go home and felt being ssucked up so fast like in some super fast lift. Whilst traveling upwards I could feel the shell flowing through the gaps between my fingers. I had tried so hard to stop it from dessapearing from my hand but to no avail. When I woke up I could feel and see the dents in my hand from the shell's spikes. That's a very short description of the events in my dream. The person from the dream had told me to tell everyone about it .

lucid dreaming helps you realize the awake world is like a dream as well. while were awake we can be 'lucid' and gain an awakening that this life is merely a dream or film to watch. if your somewhat of a skilled lucid dreamer you can manifest your desires in your lucid dreams such as flying like iron man. perhaps we too can manifest our inner desires in the awake world. this insight came as I had a dream during my lucid dream. so double dreaming and double waking.

I like that: 'The self is what one allow oneself to be.' No restrictions. Infinite possibilities, if we have the courage to let ourself be.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is fascinated by the potentials of lucid dreaming. Robert Wagoner's incredible and fascinating experiences have inspired me to to truly seek out the potential in lucid dreaming

I respect the spirituality Robert has found with exploring his inner self and the host seems like a genuinely good hearted man.

Much respect to Robert Waggoner, his book is the best book I've read on lucid dreaming so far!

My lucid dreaming story starts exactly the same way... reading Castaneda's Journey To Ixtlan and having my first lucid dream a few nights later. This seems like a common story.

lucid dreaming is a beginning in the spiritual journey to inner knowledge. I too read Castaneda in college and am a practitioner of the art of dreaming. The more consciousness that you bring into the dreamstate the less confused and the more coherent the dreamstate becomes. And also the more firm the dream body and dream world become. Until the inner world is indistinguishable from our outer (waking) world. The practices of Don Juan in the waking world help create consciousness in the dream world. The gait of power...running in the woods at night to let your night vision allow you to see better in the darkness. Stopping the world...living in the moment. understanding that death is hunting all of us. To begin with the understanding that we must seek a way out of our fate. This knowledge brings us to feel our thoughts and more deeply experience life. To seek within the dream also helps us to feel the world with both heart and mind in waking consciousness. But, also, to not quit searching until we find....and what are we seeking? Ultimately our true selves...which is a reconnection with our creator.

my dreams are so vivid its like I'm in another dimension. I've been lucid dreaming for 14 years now and have gained unlimited control and power within my dreams yet there are times where its like I'm living a separate life in another time. I can't quiet explain it but I always give myself time to wake and evaluate the events of my dream to dissect and decipher its contents. I do believe though that we have full control of the penial gland during sleep though its only speculation

I've had a few lucid dreams. The first occurred when I was about twenty. The lights in my room kept turning on. I kept getting up to turn them off. About the fourth time I realized it was a dream so I looked at my hands (as Don Juan advised Castaneda to do) and I went up through the ceiling and flew over the city. Very cool.

Very gracious individual to share his experiences not only in a book but on conscioustv to spread this information to many poeple. I loved the book and highly recommend it to any person looking to invest in their dreams. Very rewarding interview, thank you very much Iain McNay, your interviews never disappoint! Splendid job, cheers!

Had a lucid dream early this morning after watching this. Tried asking the inner awareness a question and sure enough a voice appeared. Sounds like the voice i heard once when searching for god. During that time the voice told me to be careful and that the devil was on my back. But how do I know that this voice can be trusted? On another note maybe none of this is real and im Schiz! Good luck to all out there lucid dreaming! Has been a fairly easy thing for me to do ive done it all my life. I can even plan what I want to dream about before I sleep. A good way to get successful results for ppl out there not having any luck, try depriving yourself of sleep after the witching hour. Stay up till around 4am and plan to have a lucid dream. Become aware.

This whole conversation is mind blowing but also so comforting! Thank you SO MUCH for this video to you both! 💗

Thank you, mister Waggoner! This book is my favourite and I read it at least 2 times already :)

"The wall to my right was dream stuff" "Dream Stuff" a scientific term since 2012, thanks Robert Waggoner, that's the most scientific word i've ever heard

I keep a dream journal and have been practising lucid dreaming for years! Now also I think to form my own views on this there are many teachers but the best inter guide is your higher self! Peace!

This interview started my journey of Lucia Dreaming. I saw it back in December 2015 first LD came in February 15th. The dream check was looking at text and looking away and back it had changed and I knew it was dreaming. What a journey, have taken a break and and now returning to the fold. Check out Robert's interview on the The Lucid Truth podcast with Issac. Absolutely mind boggling. Happy Lucid Dreaming. Thanks Robert and Conscious TV.

What a great interview. Not only did he translate phenomenal info regarding the topic but the delivery and professionalism made it very easy to watch!!! Both of them worked in great harmony!! Thank you!!!♥️♥️♥️

so much valuable knowledge!

Thank You! What a great way to spend my Sunday morning. I ordered his book and I’ve gone to your website. Looking forward to viewing more of your programs.

This was such a wonderful, easy to follow yet comprehensive interview. The questions were thoughtful and intelligent and the guest was then allowed to fully answer. I have this book and read it nonstop (it’s one of my favorite books). I ve also had two lucid dreams within a month and a half and continue to expand my awareness and understanding of this natural yet untapped dimension. Thank you 🙏😊💜

This interviewer is excellent; one the best I have heard

another awesome video, much thanks ctv

I've had a few crazy experiences with this. Probably one of the more popular topics on my channel. People are waking up to this! Great video!

The real reason to find your hands in a dream is so you can choose the outcome,for instance when you dream,your dream is just on auto pilot and anything can happen and you have no control ,but when you find your hands,your no longer stuck as a spectator of the dream,your no longer stuck in first person,now you can at least see your hands and pick stuff up ,like guns,so if shit goes crazy in your dream you can defend your self and not freak out and have a night mare when shit goes crazy in your dreams. and learning how to talk in your dreams is just as important ,notice in most of our dreams can be silent,and you can only hear and not speak,once you learn to speak in the dream world ,you can gather information,you can control your path and have a better understanding on how to find your way out of stuff,a good example,if your having a nightmare and you can speak in the dream and use your hands ,you can seek information by talking to someone you see in your nightmare ,and get answers about how to escape ,or how to solve the problem ,or situation in the dream.

This is the best talk on RU-vid. ... AMAZING.

I had vivid dreams growing up. I still remember some of the vivid dreams.

After watching this last night, I kept telling myself "Am I dreaming?" Until I fall asleep and in then in my dreams I asked myself "Am I dreaming?" Then I realized I am and then little did I know that I was dreaming that I am dreaming about having a lucid dream. Damn.

omfg this changed my life

Glad i listened to this

I've read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. I also enjoyed this interview and found Mr. Waggoner to be a truly nice man and easy teacher.

Brilliant information! Wonderful interview.

"i have a habitual focus". what an amazing pointer. i will mediate on this. thank you

Epic. Beautiful, useful interview. Thanks so much for sharing.

The Best explanation I've had, thanks to consioustv. Robert Waggoner, thank you!

I've been a natural lucid dreamer since my early teens. scary for the first few years as my lucidity was accompanied by sleep paralysis and visual and sound hypnagogic hallucinations and i didn't understand what was going on. Now my lucidity is in control i can be anyone and go anywhere. i usually elect levitation as my transport. beware the lucid dream dimension is unlike any of the other extra dimensions. if you ever get there, at first you will panic & snap straight back to this dimension.

Excellent interview, great questions.

All I can say is thank you. I asked to understand Lucid Dreaming and your video just was the first thing that popped up. I do trust without a doubt, when I need to know something, that I will be shown the answer. So, thank you for your video 🙏

I’ll announce to my inner awareness: “take away all of my fears for one week” when I can lucid dream

smiling so hard now.....the hands technique worked the Very first time 🔮🔮🔮🔮🎶🗯💭awareness is hugely empowering 🎶🎶🎶

I was around 6-7 when I experienced a recurring pattern of being in a small store at their comic book stand. As I selected the comics I got a sense of fading away and then I realized I was dreaming and on the verge of waking up. Several times I’d be on the bed grasping the comics in my right hand as if I could retrieve them from the dream world but they would dissolve into nothingness and then I’d be awake. That started my journey into lucid dreaming. The part I enjoyed the most was “levitating” off of my bed and flying out the window. I use to dreaming lucidly twice a week but haven’t done it regularly for 25 years. I had some great experiences but for the most part my dreams were too short.

This is an amazing interview!! Thank you for posting, Buying Robert's book today.

Got the book yesterday and got up to page 20. Had a LD 1st nigh! Was the 1st LD I had in 15 years so yeah it freaked me out! As soon as I realized I was in la la land I did what the book told me to do and looked at my hands (to keep focus and calm) when I felt I had a grip again I flew off into some woods. I decided that's all I wanted to do that night and pictured myself in bed to wake up. but I must have just drifted off into a dream.

Wow. Wonderful interview. Very interesting!

thru a dream i realised how limited our physical reality. we r basically locked up in physical body...the limitless awareness makes our physical reality like being locked in a box very limited...

What an incredible video. Very amazing information.

Really enjoyable stuff. I've read Waggoner's book and was lucid dreaming within a couple of days, this is amazing territory.

amazing book, inspired me to restart my dream journal and get lucid again ....

thank you!

Excellent!

To understand lucid dreaming, watch the movie "What dreams may come" a Robin Williams movie. Knowledge is the key..

Excellent/Amazing..A must own book for me. Thanks for the upload...

really great interview

ah thank you very much, i will search now. just before bed ha Drew

lovely interview :)

Updated my journal

great interview great information a must do experiment be more thank you robert for sharing bob:)

Just shortly before I saw a quit good xplanation in the movie "The Place Promised in our early days" - the explanation they gave of those kind of Pre-javus, are quantum effects between parallel Streams of Reality that allows to look through different Storys, even varietys of your own story. It's a "Source Code" thing.

I have experienced not only recurring lucid dreaming but effective dreaming a la "Lathes of Heaven". Two come to mind: one was a recurring flying dream where I am walking down a tree-lined street and look down and I am a couple of feet off the ground, and from there go flying around over the top of the trees. The other one was I am in a city that seems both foreign and familiar. I can't understand what people are saying but they seem friendly. Years later I was flying for real above the trees in a helicopter in Vietnam. That flying dream stopped after that. 30 years after the war, I returned, fell in love with a Saigon lady, got married and we had our honeymoon in Dalat. From our hotel, we walked down to the lake to have lunch, walked around the city and couldn't remember where our hotel was. We were standing on a street corner and she suddenly jumped on the back of a motorcycle of one of the "Dalat Cowboys" who served as a taxi service. I'm standing on the street corner all alone, no money, passport at hotel, no identification and can't speak Vietnamese. People smiled as they passed by me and I thought, "Damn, this is my dream!". She returned in about 15 minutes and we walked to the hotel about 3 minutes away. Never had that dream again.

Hey, this guy is a member on LD4All as well. ^_^

Reading your book now on lucid dreaming. Love the chapter on "do we control the dream" and was thinking about making one of my next videos on this channel about that as well as sleep paralysis.

Aaaamaazing

very interesting thanks! :)

amazing

I’ve realized I’m starting to lucid dream more often. Now that I’m aware and I’ve learned some tips I’ve def been able to change things in my dreams. If I get too excited things go black and I wake up. Recently things went black and before I woke up I could hear all these loud voices. It was all of my thoughts. Very overwhelming I think I woke up after that. Then I went into my sleep paralysis. I don’t sleep in my back unless it’s unintentional bc I’ve always suffered from sleep paralysis. Now I’m trying to face my fears and try to enjoy the paralysis state since I’m assuming it’s like a condition for me. This last time I had to say the Lord’s Prayer bc I was trying to wake up. Lol ❤

Interesting. Today my dream state when I rested was just violet light.

god dammit , lately ive been that much reading and thinking and practicing those reality checks about lucid dreaming that even in my dreams ive seen my self talking about lucid dreaming with other people, and i still cant recognize thats a DREAM .... whyyyy ??? ii neeed help , i wanna be lucid at least once in my dreams hehe

you are who you allow yourself to become

Matter, energy, and consciousness. Makes sense to me :D Robert Waggoner is awesome, yall need to read his book!

to lucid dream you simply ask a question before your sleep state and believe you will get an answer. Have a pad and pen ready to write it down as soon as you wake up.

riveting

Keeping a dream journey is a good idea! You can read it and help you understand bigger messages from dreams also could use dream interpretation books! Also there are apps to help lucid dream and masks! I have used spinning method in dream to prolong the dream! Lucid dreaming can also be enjoyable and fun!

Levels of awareness behind levels, behind levels...Who experiences the dream? Who creates the dream? Who casts the critical eye from above and beyond these transpiring apparencies.?

Fantonomisk. Thanks from Planet Denmark

My dreams saved my life many times making peace . It's like rewinding but stepping forward is like standing on a gold touch of gold light . I see such amazing things in dreams like close your eyes your in your bed but you close your eyes and your down stairs but not in are time there's no sound emoshions nothing . I have no feet arms but drifting up the stairs drawn to something but I'm upstairs under my blanket feeling somethink coming to ords me. I felt my self from the door way I can see where I am but my feelings I feel my self at the door way . Three way angles .

“The universe has no beginning or end; it is an everlasting cycle.” Whoa. 🙌

Friend or foe? This is a much bigger question than you may realize. How can you tell if the people you interact with evey day are friends or not? Whether you are taken advantage of or not depends greatly how you define the word "enemy."

lucid dreams are amazing

Very interesting, had the man read Castaneda's books the proper way he would be much more ahead...But he did a wonderful job !

Really interesting. Siva...The Experiant. You ARE Siva...Sri Swami Laksmanjoo teaches that the first experiences of Samadhi/Moksha/enlightenment occur in the dream state because of it's subtlety.

I haven't gotten through the whole video yet but I hope that there's conversation on the differences in time between the dream world and our waking life. Sometimes I wake up at 830 and get back into a dream immediately to spend just about 12 minutes of dream time but then I wake up W right when it's done and it's 1130....

Future desire by Lucid dreaming! Fantastic! Very easy to get there...

Very informative and interesting. Thanks for posting this CTV. Just curious if Iain actually had a lucid dream since this interview?

that was brilliant, very interesting and i cannot wait to have my first lucid dream!

Every Day I used to get Dreams,? Some good, Some bad. I researched a lot on Dreams and finally understood that "Dreams are UN-fullfilled aims and activities of the day life" When I searched in Apple Appstore for Dreams, You know what? I got an app called "dreamed" by Lokesh Hanumappa This is really cool app which records the dreams and then converts? each dream into a goal which is tracked for completion. This is what I wanted and this is really cool way of maximizing the hints given Dreams.

Today afternoon when I took a nap I dreamt that it was raining and when I got up in the evening it started to rain! Weird...

So fascinating... I'm currently trying to train myself to lucid dream and I'm definitely going to take some of his advice, i might even buy the book :)

What I say is in accordance with the writings of Adi Shankara. It is called Self REALIZATION not Self ATTAINMENT for a reason. The one who seeks to attain is found to be a "mechanism" when ignorance is dissolved. Maya is the ability Brahman has to be ignorant of itself and see itself as it is not: as ever-changing forms. Ishvara is Brahman under the spell of maya which wields that ignorance with infinite intelligence and creativity. It is the Creator and knows everything of its creation.

Great upload! ive been a lucid dreamer for 5 years, but i havent induced one in quite some time. i had a bad BAD lucid dream once, and i woke up in terror. but i will try it again, just to open my mind completely. thanks again for the upload!

I occasionally use galantamine like once every month or so. I use it if I want to have epic dreams that night. I feel that its not so good to rely on using it as it may hinder your ability to lucid dream normally. So what I'd say is just use it one night where you know you can get a lie in and want very vivid and potential lucid dreams :)

i would like to make a point on the fact that lucid dreaming is not that romantic. it is great though , that's for sure... but i have been dreaming lucid dreams in my childhood .. i was born in 1970 and was dreaming lucidly as a child. my dreams would be false awakenings .. example , i would falsly awake , get out of bed and would want to turn on the light .. as soon i switched on the light the light would not turn on .. that would make me become so scared i wanted to scream but no words would come out of my mouth . if someone would have said , dont worry those are lucid dreams and this is how you can live them , i would have been fine... but no one did .. so i kept having these scary lucid awakenings with a panic attacks following them.. today i know how to manage my lucid dreams and enjoy them alot .. but when having lucid dreams as a child it turned into a psychosis later in life .. conclusion .. if your child seems to be dreaming lucid dreams give them some advice that i never had and you can make a child's life better .. lucid dreams in a child can cause psychosis .. i was diagnosed ,schizofrenic later in life . i have very nice lucid dreams where i can talk to dream figures and do whatever i want to do , it makes me feel way better ..and be happy .... dreams are there to make us get in balance with ourselves.. out of balance life will produce sometimes nightmares or disrupted dreams to put us in check .. we are not perfect but the ' dream' state seems to be there to help us out. as if information inside the brain seems to be recorded in a cloud that we can visit and will help us to unsolve unanswered questions . so we can continue life more comfortalbe.

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I really enjoyed this video . Can I ask what your opinion on lucid dream aids are. As in galantamine the supplement . I find my ability to lucid dream changes frequently

Lately, my dreams are getting clearer, i mean, i can remember what i did and even the clothes, color ..am i beginning to lucid dream? any tips on how can i master lucid dreaming? thank you and more power

The question would then remain, friend or foe?

Cool. I've recently started practicing reality checks as well as keeping a dream journal the past few weeks now, but so far I've only had one true lucid dream where I could do what I wanted, mostly anyway. The moment I tried to change the dreamscape I woke up. :P But oh well. Great video, hadn't heard Waggoner's book, been reading Dr. Stephen LaBerge's books. Will definitely check his books out though. :)