By Alexandra Enns © 2016 Having gotten stuck in a continuous phase of emotional upheavals concerning my plans and relationships, I was longing for a clarification of my current circumstances. The following brief excerpt from a lucid dream at that time serves as the beginning of a gradual cleansing of my life situation: “Stormy Winds” Leaving the courtyard of…
By Melinda Ziemer ©2016 For this issue of the Lucid Dream Experience (LDE), the editors have invited us to share lucid experiences in which we have asked “the Awareness behind the dream” to reveal a truth to us. This request reminds me of lines in a poem by St. Thomas Aquinas in which he relates:…
While the best lucid dreaming information comes from books written by experienced lucid dreamers, Hollywood has managed to create some entertaining movies on lucid dreaming, and the experience of ‘waking up’ to your actual situation. The following movies normally get high marks from lucid dreamers – so check them out. 1 Waking Life (2001) Written…
By E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D © 2016 The American mystic and esoteric philosopher Franklin Merrell-Wolff contributed some of the clearest and most insightful accounts of ‘Transcendent Consciousness’ I‘ve yet to come across. Majoring in mathematics, he earned a degree from Stanford in 1911, studied philosophy at Harvard, but then returned to Stanford to teach.…
By Karim © 2016 The first time I encountered the phenomenon of speaking to a booming voice from an invisible source in my dreams was when I was 13 years old. In that dream I was abducted by aliens from my home and beamed down on the shores of Portugal at a secret military camp…
In 1985 after ten years of lucid dreaming, I had a mini-epiphany after an unexpected conversation in a lucid dream. In the dream, I approached an elderly dream figure in a three-piece suit and lucidly asked him, “Excuse me, what do you represent?” Nothing prepared me for what happened next. Instead of the dream figure…
By Alexandra Enns © 2016 My practical approach towards dream figures is grounded in the work of the distinctive researcher and lucid dreaming pioneer, Paul Tholey. In my opinion, his recommended and easily memorized suggestions for a meaningful communication with dream characters enable the dreamer to gain a straightforward and a profound understanding of the…
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2016 I have been lucid dreaming for over five years now, and from the very first night, I experienced a Dream Figure who stood out from the others, and who spoke to me with authority. I regularly encounter helpful Dream Figures. For example, a variety of Dream Figures, both male…
By Karim Said ©2016 Over the years I have become fascinated with a variety of dream figures that I have met in dreamland. I usually look forward to sleeping intrigued at what I will experience next and especially with whom I will meet in my dreams. As most of us know, the majority of dream…
By Josh Langley © 2016 I‘d been reading Robert Waggoner‘s book Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self and was completely hooked. I class myself as a fairly good lucid dreamer, having between 15 and 22 a year and I know how to navigate the lucid world. However, Robert challenged me to up the stakes…
By Christine Heineman © 2016 Resolving issues through lucid dreaming has become a constant practice in my life. It has become a habit of mine to incubate my dreams with the intent to resolve any conflicts. Through many years of keeping dream journals I firmly believe it is a tool in self growth mentally, emotionally,…
By Dr. Clare Johnson © 2016 Sleep Monsters & Superheroes: Empowering Children through Creative Dreamplay is edited by Clare R. Johnson and Jean M. Campbell and published by Praeger of ABC-CLIO. The following excerpt from Chapter 14 is reproduced with the publisher‘s permission: ―Dream Magicians: Empower Children through Lucid Dreaming,‖ © Clare R. Johnson, 2016.…