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Chapter 8
The Guide to Good Dreaming
and a Better Life
What Do You Want to Achieve?
Do you wish to remember more dreams (increase dream frequency),
experience better quality dreams (increase dream detail) or get relief
from nightmares, until you know how to read them and understand
what they are telling you?
Key to the Guide:
- For quantity direction (dream frequency), follow items marked

- For quality direction (dream detail), follow items marked
- To ease nightmares, follow items marked
Guidelines in italics are based on the profiles compiled
by looking at groups of the highest scoring individuals in various categories,
rather than the across-the-board data upon which the main conclusions
are drawn.
The profile categories were:
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dream frequency
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dream detail
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nightmares
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strong
senses
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Note:
The Guide to Good Dreaming is based on the results of the Dream Survey
only. Details of these and further advice is given throughout Part One.
DIET
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Become vegetarian
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Drink more tea
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Eat more red
and white meat
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Eat less junk
food
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Reduce white
meat
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Reduce tea intake
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Eat sugar
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SUPPLEMENTS
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Chinese herbs
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Minerals
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Vitamin B
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Vitamins
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MEDITATIVE EXERCISE
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Tai Chi
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Reiki
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Yoga
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Meditation
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Meditation
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Do somethingmeditative
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PROBLEM SOLVING
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Relax and let
go of your worries
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Keep meditation
general, not focussed on your problems
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Practise focused
meditation
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Reduce worry
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Talk about your
problems
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OTHER LIFESTYLE GUIDELINES
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Reduce stress
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Take
time out for relaxation
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Read
for relaxation
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Give up television
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If you only watch
news on television, either give it up, or balance it with light-hearted
veiwing before sleep.
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Do not drink alcohol
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Do not smoke
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Exercise occasionally
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Exercise at
least four times per week
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Talk to close
friends about your dreams
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WAKING UP ROUTINE
STUDY
LUCID DREAMING
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Experiment with lucid dreaming induction methods
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Notice lucid dreaming
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Try changing
the course in your lucid dreams
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Change the
course of your lucid dreams occasionally
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PHILOSOPHY
Postscript
What is the purpose of improving your dreaming if you
do nothing with it other than enjoy the ride? Perhaps the fun and adventure
are reason enough, time out, escape, but this survey has shown that dreams,
once understood, have the power to improve your life. The key words are
once understood. So, come now, lets visit the Magician
on the Astral Plane, where all that is bizarre begins to make sense, and
where dream interpretation magic empowers you to Sleep on it
and change your life.

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