About the Book
A lucid dream is a dream in which you become aware that you re dreaming. It s a powerful opportunity to explore the unfathomable depths of reality, solve problems, create new possibilities, and take charge of your own healing and happiness. This book provides a range of practical techniques, artistic activities, and guided visualizations to help you bring the creativity and super-conscious awareness of lucid dreaming into your life. Includes tips on how to get and stay lucid, cutting edge advice from experts, techniques for using lucid dreams to assist with sleep disturbances and overcome nightmares, and ways to integrate lucid creativity for healing and mindfulness in daily life.
Table of Contents:
Contents
List of Practices xiii
Foreword by Dr. Keith Hearne, BSc, MSc, PhD xvii
Disclaimer xxi
Part 1: How to Lucid Dream • 1
Introduction 3
Chapter 1—Wake Up: Three Golden Tools for a Lucid Mindset 15
Chapter 2—How to Trigger Lucid Dreaming 31
Chapter 3—Your Gateway to Lucid Dreams: Sensations While Falling into and Waking from Sleep 43
Chapter 4—Stay Lucid: The CLEAR Stabilisation Technique 57
Chapter 5—Should We Control Our Dreams? Going with the Flow 71
Chapter 6—Using Magic in Dreams: Active Ways of Guiding Dreams 83
Chapter 7—Understanding Your Dream Body and Lucid Dream Physics 97
Chapter 8—The People You'll Meet: Lucid Dream Mentors, Puppets, and Psychological Projections 113
Part 2: Lucid Dreaming to Promote Creativity, Skill, and Pleasure • 133
Chapter 9—Creativity Elixirs: Lucid Writing, Creative Trances, and Lucid Dreaming While Awake 135
Chapter 10—Improve Physical Skills: Lucid Kickboxing, Guitar Riffs, and Scuba Diving 153
Chapter 11—Promote Creative Skill: Meet Your Inner Artist and Problem Solver 167
Chapter 12—Sex in Lucid Dreams: From Orgasms to Ethics 183
Part 3: Lucid Dreaming to Assist Sleep Disturbances and Overcome Nightmares • 197
Chapter 13—Nightmares as Creative Gifts: Lucidity and Nightmare Solutions 199
Chapter 14—Kids and Bad Dreams: How Lucid Dreaming Can Help 219
Chapter 15—Could Lucid Dreaming Be a Remedy for Sleep Disorders? 237
Part 4: Lucid Dreaming for Healing and Wellbeing • 249
Chapter 16—Psychological Healing and Overcoming Phobias 251
Chapter 17—Physical Healing of Pain and Illness 263
Chapter 18—Healing Others in Lucid Dreams 281
Part 5: Extraordinary Lucid Dreaming for Connection and Oneness • 293
Chapter 19—Lucid Dream Telepathy: Coincidence or a Natural Human Potential? 295
Chapter 20—Out-of-Body Experiences and the Rainbow of Conscious Experience 309
Chapter 21—The Void and the Lucid Light: When Imagery and the Dream Body Disappear 325
Chapter 22—Using Meditation and Mantras in Lucid Dreaming as a Fast Track to Oneness 339
Chapter 23—Death and the Divine: Lucid Dreaming out of This World 353
Chapter 24—Living a Lucid Life: Reality Creation and the Art of Happiness 371
Conclusion 379
Appendix I: A Brief History of Lucid Dreaming 387
Appendix II: An Invitation to Dream Lucidly 391
Glossary of Terms 393
Bibliography 399
Resources 417
Index 419
About the Author :
Clare R. Johnson, PhD, is past president and CEO of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). In 2007 she became the first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative writing tool (University of Leeds, UK). A global lucidity teacher, Dr. Clare Johnson has developed hundreds of original techniques to help people access their unconscious intelligence via the inner world of dreams and sleep. A lifelong, frequent lucid dreamer, she has actively investigated the world of sleep for nearly fifty years.
Clare is the author of the acclaimed book Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, which combines psychology with cutting-edge science. Clare's work in the field of sleep and dreams has been featured in documentaries, anthologies, radio shows, magazines, podcasts, and television. She speaks at international venues on topics as diverse as sleep intelligence, creativity, conscious dying, and healing dreams. Her book The Art of Transforming Nightmares proposes lucid dreaming as the world's most innovative insomnia solution and offers techniques to resolve nightmares. Elixir of Sleep offers a unique take on sleep as both a biological necessity and a spiritual journey.
A novelist, prize-winning short story writer, and poet, Clare is the author of two lucid dream–inspired novels (as Clare Jay). Breathing in Colour was written as part of her doctorate and looks at how lucid dreaming can heal trauma. Dreamrunner explores lucidity as a potential cure for violent moving nightmares. A passionate advocate of dreamwork as a way to empower children, Clare coedited a book on children's dreams and nightmares, Sleep Monsters and Superheroes. Her book The Art of Lucid Dreaming is a highly practical, how-to guide with a popular lucidity quiz. Dream Therapy (US title is Mindful Dreaming) explores the transformative effects of dreamwork and offers techniques to unwrap the meaning of dreams.
You may feel inspired to join Clare on her lucid dreaming retreats. These usually have a beautiful ocean setting, and the creative, healing, and spiritual aspects of sleep and dreams are explored. For more information, see www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/retreats or contact deepluciddreaming@gmail.com.
Clare is the founder of an online school, Deep Lucid Dreaming Video Courses. These on-demand classes and live workshops are enjoyed by thousands of people and include downloadable meditations for lucid dreaming and blissful sleep (www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/classes). Clare offers live workshops, a specialised Lucid Star mentoring programme, and one-to-one client sessions on sleep, dreams, nightmares, and lucidity (www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/private-mentoring-sessions).
Sleep & Deep Lucid Dreaming is a new podcast with Dr. Clare Johnson. It offers two free audio classes, "Tips for Deep Sleep" and "How to Lucid Dream," as well as conversations to inspire you to tap into your inner genius and fall in love with sleep. Tune in on your favourite podcast platform or visit www.DeepLucidDreaming.com/podcast.
On Clare's website, DeepLucidDreaming.com, you are welcome to subscribe to receive e-books and a free guided meditation for blissful sleep.
Review :
"Dr. Clare Johnson has energetically led the way in revealing the limitless practical and spiritual potential of lucid dreaming, so far-reaching it can change the world. Her clearly-written book is destined to become essential reading for all those interested in lucid dreaming. It points out the essential phenomena of lucid dreaming, and then amazes us by opening its extraordinary major vistas to us, that reveal the true glory and limitless potential of our inner universe. This is a significant book."—Dr. Keith Hearne, the scientist who provided the world's first proof of lucid dreaming in 1975, and inventor of the world's first Dream Machine
"Dr. Clare Johnson's lucid dreaming guide stretches further and digs deeper than anything I have read. Her book is comprehensive, authoritative, and reader-friendly. A lucid dreamer herself, Dr. Johnson provides ways in which dreamers can use lucid dreaming for self-development, for enhancing creativity, for treating nightmares, and for healing themselves and their loved ones."—Stanley Krippner, PhD, professor of psychology at Saybrook University and co-editor of Working with Dreams and PTSD Nightmares
"A gift for lucid dreamers and would-be lucid dreamers everywhere, Dr. Johnson has written a powerful how-to resource book that is also inspirational. Highly recommended!"—Patricia Garfield, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of Creative Dreaming
"What a splendid book! Whether you are new to lucid dreaming or have been working with dreams and writing about them for over thirty years, as I have, you will find a rich source of fascinating information here. I felt I was being carried along by an expert storyteller because the book is so easy to read, though it deals with complex aspects of lucid dreaming—neuroscience, dream mentors, creativity, spirituality, telepathy and so much more."—Brenda Mallon, psychotherapist and author of Dreams, Counselling, and Healing
"What particularly caught my eye as a sleep medicine doctor is how lucid dreaming can benefit nightmares and various other sleep disturbances, including the parasomnias...Dr. Johnson has clearly established herself to be the ultimate guide to lucid dreaming. This is a magnificent book!"—Carlos H. Schenck, MD, sleep disorders expert and author of Sleep: The Mysteries, The Problems, and the Solutions
"Dr. Clare Johnson's book is thorough, covers the current research, includes deep, mature understanding of human psyches, and is so artfully written that it opens closed minds with the utmost logic and grace...I applaud Dr. Johnson's depth of experience with lucidity and her extraordinary ability to place a vast spectrum of experiences in the context of a well-lived life."—Dr. Gayle Delaney, founding president of IASD and author of All About Dreams
"Dr. Clare Johnson has given us one of the most intelligent and useful books about lucid dreaming that I know. Founded on her own lifelong practice, with the armature of wide-ranging research, it is packed with practical exercises that will help you to wake up and dream."—Robert Moss, bestselling author of Conscious Dreaming, The Secret History of Dreaming, and Dreaming the Soul Back Home
"In this book, Dr. Clare Johnson describes how to initiate lucid dreams and how to prolong and control them. She addresses everything from how to interact with dream characters to enhancing creativity with lucid trance states to how to talk to your children about lucidity. Johnson also addresses specialized topics...Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming is filled with spot-on advice."—Deirdre Barrett, PhD, Harvard psychologist and author of The Committee of Sleep
"An unprecedented accomplishment [by] a master lucid dreamer...This work provides a broad review of the history of lucid dreaming, a summary of the leading-edge research in the area, and—most importantly—an eminently useful, user-friendly manual for readers willing to experiment with lucid dream induction and stabilization strategies."—Scott Sparrow, EdD, psychotherapist and author of Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light
"The book you are holding in your hand is quite extraordinary...It opens the way to profound development and greater emotional, intellectual, and spiritual maturity. Dr. Clare Johnson's book is a wonderful, intelligent summation of much that is currently known and understood about lucid dreaming, as well as offering some keen observations about its possible future evolution. I believe it belongs on the bookshelves of all serious dreamers and dream workers!"—Rev. Jeremy Taylor, co-founder and past president of the IASD and author of Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill
"Dr. Clare Johnson takes us on a tour through the fascinating and sometimes strange world of lucid dreaming. The book is a treasure trove of suggestions for inducing and enhancing lucid dreams, replete with many first-person reports and generously seasoned with results from scientific research and the history of lucid dreaming. Dr. Clare Johnson is uniquely qualified to take us on this tour, drawing from her academic research on lucid dreams, her experience as a writer of fiction, and her own experience as a lucid dreamer. This book comes as close to being a comprehensive overview of the field as one can imagine. Overall, this is an impressively creative and thoroughly charming discussion of lucidity, both in sleep and in wakefulness. It's an inspiring read—and also a fun one."—Dr. Jennifer Windt, lecturer in philosophy and author of Dreaming
"Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming is a terrific book, delightful to read and full of valuable information and insights. Whether you're a beginner hoping to have his first lucid dream or an experienced dreamer seeking to deepen her lucid dream practice, this book has much to offer. It will be of value to anyone interested in knowing more about lucid dreaming and exploring this realm of experience for themselves."—Richard Russo for DreamTime Magazine
