Opening the Treasure Chest: Creative Inspiration in Lucid Dreams
by Clare R Johnson, PhD © 2015 Lucid, I recall my intention to find a ‘magic box‘ of images, ideas, and inspiration. I immediately see a treasure chest lolling open behind a tree. There are two big guard dogs near it but I shoo them away. To my surprise, the treasure chest is bursting with…
Healing Loved Ones and Myself in Lucid Dreams
By Maria Isabel Pita © 2015 Healing My Husband’s Blood Clot After two long plane flights to Australia and back, my husband, Stinger, received a preliminary diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis. His right foot and the lower part of his right leg was swelling up, apparently as the result of a blood clot, and he…
A New Dimension of Medicine
By Brian Stanton © 2015 Several months ago, I retreated to my parents‘ cabin in West Virginia to heal myself. I‘d been leveled by a foodborne illness and had the stitches to prove it. Eight of them framed my right eyebrow where, weakened by the bug, I‘d hit the bathroom floor with tremendous force. You…
Lucid Dream Droughts and How to End Them
In four decades of lucid dreaming, I have experienced lucid dream droughts, or periods where more than six weeks would pass without a single lucid dream. But like the rains, the lucid dreams always returned, and sometimes in great abundance. So what happened? How did the lucid dream drought begin? And how does it come…
Interacting in Lucid Dreams with Your Unconscious Mind – A Troubleshooting Guide
In my books and my talks, I encourage lucid dreamers to engage the ‘awareness behind the dream’ (or subconscious mind/inner self), which often responds to questions or requests that the lucid dreamer may ask. For example, I suggest that a person begin by asking simple questions, such as, ‘Hey dream, show me something important for…
The Application of Tibetan Healing Sounds in Lucid Dreams
By Alexandra Enns © 2017 “Emotionally challenging” best describes this past year. Beset by worries about the aftermath of my grandmother’s massive stroke and relationship problems concerning my child, I started to meditate to achieve consolation and joy by singing Tibetan healing sounds. As usual, after a while, I set up the intention to also…
Interview with Naiya
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily A lucid dreamer since the age of 15, Naiya has perfected her lucid dreaming skills in the past decade. Though she frequents the lucid dream forum, MortalMist.com, her lucid dream forays have allowed her to develop relationships with recurring dream figures, encounter kundalinitype energy and explore…
Interview with James Kroll, Ph.D.
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Electrical engineer and lucid dreamer, James Kroll, recently created a new forum for thoughtful lucid dreaming discussions at www.deepdreaming.net and received a patent on a new approach to lucid dream induction from the US Patent Office. Check out this illuminating interview, below. You have a…
Exploring The Tree of Life Through Lucid Dreaming
“I have given over to you ten keys, and with them you can enter gates that are otherwise closed.” Joseph Gikatalia (1248 – 1325) in Gates of Light. The Tree of Life (TOL) has become one of the most well-known magical glyphs in the Western world. (1) Mystics have used the Tree as both…
Interview with Mary Ziemer
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Lucid dreamer, Mary Ziemer, serves as Director of the charity HELP Counselling Centre in London. She has an MA in Psychology and Religion and an Advanced diploma in Transpersonal Psychotherapy from the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London, where she is the Manager and Research…
Interview with UK Artist, Caroline McCready
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily U.K. artist, presenter and lucid dreamer, Caroline McCready speaks with interviewer Robert Waggoner about exploring conceptual boundaries through lucid dreaming How did you become interested in lucid dreaming? I used to have spontaneous lucid dreams as a child, and most often I would…
Interview with Charlie Morley
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily Buddhist teacher, lucid dreamer, and author of the soon-to-be released book ‘Dreams of Awakening’, Charlie Morley seeks to awaken all sentient beings. How did you become interested in lucid dreaming? When did you first hear about it? It was a couple of months before…
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