Samantha Fey - The Awake Dreamer: A Guide to Lucid Dreaming, Astral Travel, and Mastering the Dreamscape

Dreamland is the realm of many of our most magical experiences, ranging from psychic epiphanies to communicating with ancestors, loved ones, and angels. Many of my own most profound ancestral experiences, for instance, have occurred in dreams. I'm so grateful to Samantha Fey for The Awake Dreamer, which eloquently provides insightful tips and information for enhancing and facilitating the dreaming process, enabling myself and so many others to journey further into ancestor work, as well as our other magical endeavors.

Judika Illes, author of Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells,
Pure Magic, and other books

Samantha's book answers so many questions about the nightlife of us human beings. I highly recommend this book to everyone. It unravels the mysteries that we wake up with, trying to understand our dreams, our soul's travels, past-life information and healing. I'm going to recommend this book any chance I get.

Echo Bodine, author of How to Live a
Happily Ever After Life

The Awake Dreamer is packed full of fascinating stories, exercises, and techniques to help you recall and work with your dreams. It's well-written, authoritative, helpful, and healing. I thought I was well-read on the subject of dreams but learned a great deal from this remarkable book. It is essential reading for anyone interested in exploring their dreams.

Richard Webster, author of several books including
Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides and Angel Guardians

If you've ever felt your dream life was uncharted and even, at times, choppy waters, Samantha Fey is the captain you've been waiting for to help you navigate the mysteries and magic found within it. She expertly and with new insights helps you map out the other life you may have been living without knowing it and empowers you to exclaim: Welcome to the new world!

Ryan Singer, writer, comedian, host of Me and
Paranormal You and creator of the Crystal Eyes App

Samantha Fey, a gifted intuitive, so wonderfully captures the many aspects of our active dream life in her book, The Awake Dreamer. Sharing client experiences and techniques for the reader and supported by research, this practical guide will help you with your own dream interpretation. It will also help you utilize the dream state as an active participant to skillfully journey to find answers, receive guidance, and connect with deceased loved ones as you learn to elevate your dreams.

Bryn Blankinship, author of The Limitless Soul

In The Awake Dreamer, Samantha Fey takes us into some fascinating nooks and crannies of the dreaming mind, while exploring the dreamscape's relationship to out-of-body states, healing, and astral travel. An intrepid guide, Fey's background as a medium gives her a unique vantage to share insights and ponder the imponderablelike do the dead still dream, and if so, are they dreaming of us?

Lex Lonehood Nover, author of Nightmareland

Copyright 2022
by Samantha Fey

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ISBN: 978-1-64297-040-1

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For my children, Olivia, Victoria, and
Chloemy dreams come true.

I couldn't have written this book without the encouragement and support of my wonderful agent, Lisa Hagan, and the wonderful team at Hampton Roads. And it would have been impossible to write this book without the enthusiastic help of my daughters. Thank you for never rolling your eyes in the morning when I ask: Did you have any cool dreams? And thanks for always being the best, most amazing children any mom could hope for.

To my friend Allison, thank you for being my first reader on so many prior attempts and for your unfailing support on our long walks over the years. Thank you Asia Suler for being a fantastic writer and friend. Your emails, notes, and comments were a tremendous help. A special thank you to my dear friends Tricia, Deb, Denise, Joel, and to my sisters Courtney and Tara for always being there for me.

Finally, I have to acknowledge with infinite gratitude the loyal listeners to my podcasts, Psychic Teachers and Enlightened Empaths. You all have lifted me up, inspired me, and encouraged my work more than words can express. Thank you for helping me learn to Be the Light.

We all know that dreams can help us solve problems, relieve stress, and inspire creations. But it wasn't until a dream experience I had in the late 1990s that I started to wonder if there was something much more going on when we dream.

One evening, I dreamed I was walking in what appeared to be a subway tunnel with my spirit guide. It was an ordinary tunnel with off-white subway tiles, like Penn Station in New York. In the dream, I walked past a friend who was also walking with her guide. I waved and she returned my greeting. That was the entirety of my dream recall. But for some reason, the vividness of the dreamseeing my friend walking with her guide in this tunnel that felt so familiar to mestayed with me all day. When I bumped into her at work that afternoon, I told her about it. Before I could finish, she interrupted by finishing my dream story. I know, she said, because I had the same dream last night too. How could the two of us have identical dreams on the same night? Had we instead recalled actually having traveled to the other side with our guides?

I've had vivid dreams my whole life. Growing up, I knew I was intuitive. But back then, I chalked up my dreams as part of my active imagination. I dreamed frequently of these glowing beings who visited me at night to bring me comfort. When we moved halfway through my second-grade year, I dreamed that I awoke to find four of these beings seated at the foot of my bed. They were faceless and shapeless, yet they didn't scare me. I never heard them speak aloud; their words simply appeared in my mind. They told me that I would soon have a new teacher. The next day, when I arrived at school, I was told I was being switched from Mrs. Martin's class to Mrs. Burrow's class.

Throughout elementary school, I often dreamed that I visited a special place just for children. I knew that only children were allowed in this safe haven. We met in a building located in a beautiful park nestled in a forest where we could play games or just sit and talk. Some played hopscotch or jumped rope. Others clustered around the pinball machines or basketball hoops, while the younger ones played hide-and-seek. These dreams stopped when I entered middle school, but I never forgot them. Years later, I met one of my best friends at our children's neighborhood play group. As she and I were sitting in a park watching our kids play, for some reason I started telling her about my dreams of a similar place I had dreamed of when I was a child. Just like my co-worker, she started finishing my sentences. I used to go there too when I was a little girl, she said. We've been friends for almost twenty years now and we still talk about this experience. When we met, I instantly felt as if I knew her and we became fast friends within weeks. Could it be that I had indeed known her from these dream visits when we were children?