By Bill Murphy, LDE Science Correspondent © 2015 Emotional and physical health is intertwined which provides an opportunity for improving a person‘s wellbeing by using techniques such as mindfulness, which is the awareness of the present moment. Focusing on the present instead of the future or the past is not a new method for managing…
‘Who are you? Who are you?’ At the time, it seemed a simple question, which I posed to the young woman in the lucid dream. But this simple question led to profound lessons in lucidity, and taught me much about the nature of transformation in dreams, lucid dreams, and waking. In the dream, I found…
By Nic Heinz © 2004 I have a few tricks for helping me have lucid dreams: I have a brown leather bracelet/arm band that I wear, and during the coarse of my day if I see it, I pause and ask myself if I am dreaming. Also if I hear or see anything strange…
By Gregg Irvin © 2016 I’m very interested in the ability to wake up another person in the Astral/Dream world and help them achieve lucidity. You are in effect waking them up to themselves. If this can be done consistently with verification, we would have a reliable way to bring about lucidity to those who have prepared themselves,…
By Kate Tweddle © 2016 I met Maxwell during a dream around 7 years ago when I first began lucid dreaming. I was 21 and had been reading Carlos Castaneda, with some success – lucid dreaming a couple of times a week. At that time I had been talking to a friend about the scout…
Marla Charbonneau Ecstatic Connection With a Dearly Missed Friend I‘m dreaming that I‘m at a house party. There are several people there and we are all visiting and having a good time. Suddenly I look up and see my friend Jon, who has been deceased for over two years, come down a short flight of…
By Albert Lauer © 2016 Before my mother eventually died, she came to say goodbye in a lucid dream. I was still in bed although I had woken up early in the morning at the first light. I usually prefer not to completely wake up immediately, so I remained focused at the inner side of…
By Patrick Paulin © 2016 It was similar to the feeling of waking up from a midday nap only I was not lying down. I was sitting upright on a couch and my eyes were wide open. My surroundings slowly began to come into focus. While I sat quietly, a tall gentleman was moving about…
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…
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 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.…