Clare R. Johnson - The Art of Lucid Dreaming: Over 60 Powerful Practices to Help You Wake Up in Your Dreams

About the Author

Clare R. Johnson, PhD, is president and CEO of the worlds biggest dream organisation, the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). A lifelong, frequent lucid dreamer, Clare has more than forty years of personal lucid dream experience and in 2007 became the first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative writing tool. She has researched lucid dreaming for twenty-five years, and for the past fifteen years she has taught practical courses on how to access the deep creative and healing potential of the unconscious.

Clare is the author of the acclaimed book Llewellyns Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming: A Comprehensive Guide to Promote Creativity, Overcome Sleep Disturbances & Enhance Health and Wellness . Clares work on lucid dreaming has been featured in documentaries, magazines, anthologies, national radio shows, podcasts, and television. She regularly speaks at international venues on topics as diverse as lucid dreams for the dying, sleep disturbances, transformative lucidity techniques, and nightmare solutions.

A novelist, prize-winning short story writer, and poet, Clare is the author of two lucid-dream-inspired novels (as Clare Jay). Breathing in Colour looks at how lucid dreaming can heal trauma, and Dreamrunner explores lucidity as a potential cure for violent moving nightmares. A passionate advocate of lucid dreaming and waking dreamwork as a way to empower children, Clare co-edited a book on childrens dreams and nightmares: Sleep Monsters & Superheroes: Empowering Children through Creative Dreamplay . Her nonfiction book Dream Therapy: Dream Your Way to Health and Happiness (US title is Mindful Dreaming ) explores the transformative effect that dreamwork can have on our lives.

You may feel inspired to join Clare on her lucid dreaming retreats. These usually have a beautiful ocean setting, and the creative, healing, wild, and spiritual aspects of lucidity are explored in a small group. For more information, email deepluciddreaming@gmail.com.

Clare is the creator of www.DeepLucidDreaming .com, where she can be contacted for advice on lucid dreams and nightmares.

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The Art of Lucid Dreaming: Over 60 Powerful Practices to Help You Wake Up in Your Dreams 2020 by Clare R. Johnson, PhD.

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To Dr. Keith Hearne, for his pioneering

work in the field of lucid dreaming

Contents

List of

Part One

Getting Lucid: How to
Wake Up in Your Dreams

: What Is Lucid Dreaming?

: Powerful Practices to Help You Wake Up in Your Dreams

: Relax Your Way into Lucid Dreaming

: Create Your Unique Lucidity Programme

Part Two

Staying Lucid: How to Have Longer,
More Satisfying Lucid Dreams

: Powerful Practices for Longer Lucid Dreams

: Train Your Mind to Keep On Lucid Dreaming

Part Three

Best Techniques for
Guiding Lucid Dreams

: How to Guide Lucid Dreams with the Power of Thoughts and Intentions

: Facing and Embracing Nightmares

: Going Deeper: Creativity, Healing, and Spiritual Lucid Experiences

: Unique Lucidity Programme Template

: Examples of Unique Lucidity Programmes

Practices

Part One:

Getting Lucid: How to
Wake Up in Your Dreams

: What Is Lucid Dreaming?

: How to Improve Your Dream Recall

: Power Up Your Dream Journal

: Create a Lucid Dream Goal to Fire Up Your Intent to Get Lucid

: Early Morning Meditation to Incubate a Lucid Dream

: Powerful Practices to Help
You Wake Up in Your Dreams

: The Five Most Effective Reality Checks

: Invent Your Own Unique Reality Check

: Use Your Memory to Get Lucid

: Cement Your Intent by Day to Ignite It at Night

: The MILD Technique

: Wake Up, Back to Bed (WBTB)

: Create Your Own Personal Lucidity Trigger

: The Finger-Induced Lucid Dream Technique (FILD)

: Compile a Lucidity Playlist

: The Stuck Arm Technique

: Use Mini-Awakenings to Cement Your Intent to Get Lucid

: Relax Your Way Into Lucid Dreaming

: Wake-Induced Lucid Dreaming (WILD)

: Shapeshifting

: Surfing on the Edge of Sleep

: Sleep Under the Stars or at Least in a Different Room

: Become a Dedicated Daydreamer

: Dream Reliving

: Start a Bodywork Practice

: Hone Your Strangeness Radar

: Create a Lucidity Ritual

: Create a Pre-Sleep Visualisation to Trigger Lucidity

: Create Your Unique Lucidity Programme

: The Lucidity Quiz

: The Five-Hour Sleeper

: The Heavy Sleeper

: The Light Sleeper

: The Agitated Sleeper

: The Insomniac

: The High-Recall Dreamer

: The Low-Recall Dreamer

: The Anxious or Depressed Dreamer

: The Highly Aware Person

: The Visual and Imaginative Thinker

: The Unsupported Dreamer

: The Child Prodigy Dreamer

: The Happy Dreamer

: The Lucid Dreamer

: The Nightmare Sufferer

: How to Create Your Own Unique Lucidity Programme

Part Two

Staying Lucid: How to Have Longer,

More Satisfying Lucid Dreams

: Powerful Practices for Longer Lucid Dreams

: Cultivate Serenity

: Staying Lucid: The CLEAR Technique

: Spot the Difference

: Get Dream Figures on Your Side

: Shift Your Gaze

: Spin like a Whirling Dervish

: Give Yourself a Hand

: Activate Your Brain with Mental Arithmetic

: Talk to Dream People, Objects, and Animals

: Remind Yourself that You Are Lucid in a Dream!

: Train Your Mind to
Keep on Lucid Dreaming

: The Lucid Writing Technique

: Meditation for Clarity and Lucid Intent