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The Lucid Writing technique
Inspiration. Creativity. Imagination. What’s the secret? How can we learn to access these whenever we want to? For lucid dreamers, the answer is easy: ‘Wake up inside a dream.’ My PhD explored lucid dreaming in the creative writing process and I interviewed case...
Get lucid, get artistic!
Every artist has bad days, a bad month, or even a bad year. In these periods, it may seem that creativity has abandoned us. No matter what we try, we can’t think of a fresh angle, so we circle back again and again into a stale routine. Or we feel empty, tired, and...
Top tips for getting lucid
When reality checks like asking yourself: ‘Am I dreaming?’ are carried out in a spirit of adventure and curiosity, they can be a great lucid dream induction technique, and a great lucid living practice. When reality checks are carried out with a sense of bored duty,...
Lucid living
Waking up inside a dream is like turning on a light in your mind. In a flash, you understand the nature of the reality you find yourself in. ‘Oh – I’m dreaming this! This is a dream!’ This realisation is usually followed by sharp mental clarity and a sense of...
Children’s lucid dreams and nightmares
‘It was only a dream – not real!’ How many of us heard this from our parents when we woke up from bad dreams as kids? But for children, dreams – and especially nightmares – are super-real experiences which can form part of their long-term memories. It’s confusing for...
