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    Guide to Dreaming
    Guide to Dreaming
    Guide to Dreaming
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    Guide to Dreaming

    By Leon De Kock

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    Welcome to the world of Dreams.
    Understand concepts such as mutual, precognitive and lucid dreaming. Learn why dream dictionaries are a bad idea, why you should start interpreting your own dreams, and how to do so. Find out why you should be keeping a dream diary, and how to use one correctly.
    Get information on how to prevent nightmares and how to control your dreams, and much more.
    This book can teach you how to enter and enjoy the rich life of dreaming - and how to keep out of trouble in the Dream World.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeon De Kock
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781370721832
    Guide to Dreaming
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    Leon De Kock

    Leon de Kock was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday the 13th, October 1972, the sixth child of Pierre and Sally de Kock.Although life seemed boring on the surface, Leon lived an adventurous young life through reading. Everything went, he started off innocently with Enid Blighton of Famous Five fame, rolled through the other greats of the day, devoured Agatha Christie and then got sucked into the darker, more intense novels of Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz and the likes. Currently his reading includes a lot more of the fantasy novels of authors such as Rowling, Pratchett and others.His story telling began at a young age, by high school he was telling full-length stories through epic poems, some of which would be incorporated into a book and published many, many years later.After completing school in 1990 Leon enrolled for an apprenticeship with the South African department of Post and Telecommunications. After qualifying as a technician he stayed in that job until 1997, when he moved to work in the field of information technology. During those years he played bass guitar in a variety of heavy metal bands, where he was also responsible for most of the lyrics, and managed to get two of his poems published in a magazine.The editor of the magazine said of his first poem it was 'Dead in the Marketplace'. It didn't stop said editor from publishing the poem though.By 2001 Leon was working as an IT technician on a major coal mine in the Mpumulanga province of South Africa. It was around this time that he started work on the epic apocalyptic novel, Hordes.By 2002 the bright lights of his hometown of Pretoria were calling, and he moved back, with no job and no clear course of the future. He found himself working as an estate agent, then moved into architecture, working as a draughtsman.He kept up work on Hordes, and also wrote a second novel, the fantasy horror Dream World. A six month hiatus from working life, caused by a broken tibia and fibula from taking a tumble off his dualsport motorbike while riding off-road in December of 2009 helped him to complete a lot of his unfinished writing.Both Hordes and Dream World were Indie published on Amazon Kindle in May 2012. This was followed in June of the same year by the fantasy Story of Enchantment, a novel written through 250 poems, most of them epics, forming one continuous story.Dream School, the sequel to Dream World, followed in 2014.In 2015 came the horror Serenity, to be followed in 2016 by another apocalyptic, Sniffer.The companion book to Dream World and Dream School, titled Guide to Dreaming, was published in January 2018. Also in January 2018 came the collection of short stories, Night is for Nightmares.The first book of the fantasy Vespula series, Rituals, was released in September 2019, and was followed in by the second novel in the series, Insanity.In February of 2023 his collection of poems, mostly epic tales, was published under the title Riotous Rhymes.Leon currently lives in the city of Kempton Park, in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, where he continues life as a novelist and architectural draughtsman.Never far from nature, he has close ties to the Gauteng and Northern Regions Bat Interest Group as their membership secretory. He holds a membership with the Exploration Society of South Africa and the Speleological Exploration Society.In 2013 he was involved in a National Geographic expedition to retrieve hominid fossils from the Rising Star cave formation, working as a safety caver in support of the scientists.In 2014 he was involved in the Gobolo expedition to Swaziland to help explore and map the Gobolo Cave formation, one of earth's rare granite cave formations.Although his healthy sense of self-preservation has kept him from taking the plunge over the 50 meter precipice into the cave known as Armageddon, he was part of the team that first discovered and explored what would turn out to be one of the largest, deepest and probably oldest underground chasms in South Africa.You can find more information about the author's work at http://www.leondekock.com/

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      Guide to Dreaming - Leon De Kock

      Guide to Dreaming

      Leon de Kock

      Published by Leon de Kock at Smashwords

      Copyright 2022 Leon de Kock

      Table of contents

      Introduction

      Keeping Dream Diaries

      Dream Dictionaries

      Dream Interpretation

      Dream Incubation

      Lucid Dreaming

      Self-hypnosis

      Precognitive dreams

      Things to do in dreams

      Mutual dreaming

      A bit about the Dream World

      Diets and Drugs

      Objects in dreams

      Children’s Dreams

      Last Words

      Other titles by this author

      Introduction

      This book was a companion book to my novels Dream World and Dream School. It was a freestanding book, there was (and still is) absolutely no need to read the novels to use this book. I also do not punt my novels at each opportunity.

      It has, over time, grown to be much, much more.

      This guide to dreaming is meant to give you, the reader, some insights into the world of dreams and dreaming. It will, hopefully, show you how to enjoy the rich life available in the dreaming world.

      And now for the disclaimer: I do not take any responsibility for anything that happens to you or anybody else because of your use of this guide. You read this guide, you use this guide, you take the responsibility.

      As far as I know, none of the methods I mention in this book have been scientifically proven to work, and it would be almost impossible to do so. Anecdotes abound, from stories about dreaming recorded in the ancient Christian Bible to more modern day tales, to lots of content on the Internet.

      Most people know dreaming as snatches of visions remembered upon awakening from sleep. Often, a particularly strange or vivid dream or nightmare might be remembered.

      When this happens, the dreamer will often go rushing off to the book shop, or nowadays more likely the Internet, and look for a dream dictionary to

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