Wake Up in Your Dreams and Live a Happier, More Lucid Life A lucid dream is a dream in which you become aware that you’re dreaming. It’s a powerful opportunity to solve problems, create new possibilities, take charge of your own healing, and explore the depths of reality. This book provides a range of practical techniques and activities to help you bring the creativity and super-conscious … creativity and super-conscious awareness of lucid dreaming into your life.
Join international expert Clare R. Johnson as she shares the most up-to-date lucid dreaming techniques on how to get and stay lucid, guide dreams, resolve nightmares, deepen creativity, and integrate dream wisdom into everyday life. Drawing on cutting-edge science and psychology, this book is packed with inspiring stories of life-changing lucid dreams and fascinating insights into topics such as the ethics of dream sex, how to interact with lucid dream figures, and the nature of consciousness.
Whether you’re a person who barely remembers your dreams or a lifelong lucid dreamer, this in-depth guide is the perfect next step as you cultivate the power of lucid dreaming.
Praise:
“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
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Okay, I really struggled with the rating for this book. I was back and forth between a 3 and 4 stars for a couple of days, putting off writing the actual review because of it. On one hand, I loved loved loved about a third of the content! On the other hand, I found the rest to be a quite a bit repetitive and redundant. I listened to the book on audio, it’s a seventeen hour listen, so to have more than half of the book feel unnecessary, it made a big impact on my overall resonation with it. Even half of a book feeling that way is too much. That said, I’m settling for 3.7 rating and rounding it up to 4 here on bookbub, as you can’t really put decimals.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, lets focus on what I DID love. I hate writing negative things in reviews, so other than repetition and personal lack of resonation on such a large amount of it… this book really had some amazing content! When I first picked it up I was seriously walking on a cloud, so excited to learn these things and to give the tips and tricks a try! I’m a very vivid dreamer, and have lucid experiences often as it is.
I’ve also been an avid meditator using visualizations in my practices regularly, including OBE (out of body experience) and REM (rapid eye movement). A lot of the book really just cemented the practices that I already utilize, and helped teach me to focus, relax my body better and to recognize the changes in consciousness a bit more precisely… which is phenomenal! Anyone who is familiar with these practices can validate the importance of continuous growth and improvement!
Overall, exploring the consciousness is something that I’m passionate about and am ready to take in any and all advice I can get. It’s hard to find new stuff that I haven’t already read, and I can’t even begin to express my gratitude and appreciate for fresh content.
If you’re new to the term Lucid Dreaming, it’s basically a form of being conscious within the subconscious. So you’re recognizing the fact that you’re dreaming… sort of like waking up and being conscious within your dreams. A lot of people think the subject is too taboo and ridiculous, especially when told you can actually create, change and steer your dreams in one direction or another. It isn’t ridiculous though, not at all. What’s cool about this book is that it’s written by a very intelligent person who has been studying the subject scientifically for years, along with countless others who are quoted and referred to from cover to cover. It’s not all in your imagination, and it’s actually a beautiful thing if you have the open mindedness and discipline to give it a try! I love lucid dreaming, and I absolutely adore a few of the tips and breakdowns of the topics that are in this book.
The book starts out with the overall, broad view of what Lucidity is, in quite elaborate detail. From there it dives into the first steps that can be utilized to train yourself to become lucid in your dreams and ways you can explore and expand your consciousness while asleep. Things like pausing dreams, steering them, flying/levitating, staying lucid for longer periods of time, and even pulling yourself out of it. There are calming techniques, breathing techniques, and thought reminders right out the gate that can be utilized the very night you start reading the book, which is awesome! The author recalls a LOT of her own personal experiences of her how personal dreams as well as several test subjects including several other scientists and doctors, even athletes across the board. I found a couple of these references useful, lots of them redundant.
There are several other aspects that the book covers. Just to name a few, when mastering the art of lucidity one can heal traumas, cure ailments including anxiety and much much more, gain a new prospective on the afterlife, improve their spiritual connection, answer questions about their own psyche and more. Untimely, I highly recommend this book, I just think it could be half as long and still just as powerful.