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David J. Naiman

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David J. Naiman is a best-selling independent author of award-winning books for children, teens, and adults including Jake, Lucid Dreamer, first-place winner of the Purple Dragonfly Book Award and the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards in pre-teen fiction and Didn’t Get Frazzled, humorous medical fiction written under the pen name David Z Hirsch.

He is also a successful physician specializing in internal medicine and an unsuccessful speller specializing in vowels that sound identical to other vowels. He lives with his wife and two children in Maryland. Visit him at www.davidjnaiman.wordpress.com ...more

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As the author of Jake, Lucid Dreamer, a novel about a 12-year-old boy who uses lucid dreaming as a means to heal emotionally after the loss of his mother, I am often asked questions about lucid dreaming.

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“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
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“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
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