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Deep creativity: the lucid dream key
Imagine your novel characters telling you how they really feel in a lucid dream, or seeing incredible artwork in a dream gallery and waking up to reproduce it. By asking questions in a dream, or using intent to summon dream figures, lucid dreamers can prompt an...
Painting Doors – The Art of Lucid Dreaming
Deep Lucid Dreaming Interview Series Through the special effects documentary film, Painting Doors: The Art of Lucid Dreaming, a group of talented young filmmakers hope to inspire people to experience the wonders of lucid dreaming. I had the pleasure of meeting them...
Lucid dreaming for death and healing
Can dreams prepare us for both death and healing? In this ‘Amazing Dreamer’ feature, I talk to visionary artist Fariba Bogzaran and she shares a lucid dream that did both these things… and gave her a new creative art technique too. Click on the cover of DreamTime for...
‘Show me something amazing!’
Lucid dreaming is a vastly creative state of consciousness. In order to access this creativity, all lucid dreamers need to do is ask. They don't even have to open their mouths, as every thought can be heard by the dream. Lucid dreaming is a conversation - so why not...
A Passion for Lucid Dreaming
Deep Lucid Dreaming Interview Series Creator of the popular World of Lucid Dreaming website and the Lucid Dreaming Fast Track course, Rebecca Turner shares the roots of her passion for lucid dreaming and discusses everything from facing down violent nightmares to...
Light switches, dreams of the future and synaesthesia
What do lucid dreaming, shamanism, Bengal tigers and the light switch effect have in common? In 1975, a young psychologist devised a pioneering experiment – one which provided the first scientific proof of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer ‘wakes up’ inside the dream...
Can lucid dreaming be dangerous?
Ten years ago, when lucid dreaming was less commonly known in the UK and Europe, I used to hear this question a lot when I spoke at conferences: Is lucid dreaming dangerous? My audiences in those days were an eclectic mix of academics, writers, dreamers and...
How to Empower Children through Lucid Dreaming
Deep Lucid Dreaming Interview Series In the first of this series of interviews with inspiring lucid dreamers, award-winning author Renee Frances shares her path into lucid dreaming and the story of how her daughter’s nightmares led her to write a children’s book on...
Opening the treasure chest in lucid dreams
How can lucid dreaming give us creative inspiration? Lucid dreaming is an amazing playground where our usual restrictive adult thinking dissolves because we are dreaming and in the dream state we are less inhibited, freer from fear and readier to take chances. Added...
Can lucid dreaming help us to die?
Can lucid dreaming prepare us for the dying process? People who are dying often report dreams of floating in white light or being surrounded by angels - dreams which offer peace and nourishment. In lucid dreaming, we are aware that we are dreaming, aware of our...
Help for traumatic nightmares? Psychological insights in lucid dreams
Imagine the worst event in your life returning to haunt you in your dreams. Imagine being afraid to go to sleep in case it happens again that night. For people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), horrific nightmares are common. These nightmares can be...
Lucid dreams in the dying process
Can lucid dreaming help people who are dying? Or those who have been bereaved? What can lucid dreaming teach us about death? The connection between lucid dreaming and death is nothing new: over a thousand years ago, Tibetan Buddhists developed an entire science around...
