What does it mean when your partner cheats on you in a dream, or all your teeth fall out? Which symbols do dreams use to send us health messages?

Dreams can be baffling and obscure. But they communicate in a symbolic and metaphoric language. When we familiarise ourselves with this, it's incredible to unwrap the deeper meaning within our dreams.

In today's episode, Dr. Clare Johnson unpacks four highly common dreams, including dreams where we flee, and dreams of vehicles.

She explores why it's vital to trust your gut when figuring out the meaning of your dream, rather than accepting another person's authority and their imposed idea of what your dream means.

Her book Dream Therapy (US title is Mindful Dreaming) offers many beautiful practices for unwrapping the essence and wisdom of your dreams. There are also blog posts on Dr. Clare's website, such as this one: https://deepluciddreaming.com/2021/04/the-secret-language-of-dreams/

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Nightmares can be terrifying experiences. But the fact is, you CAN transform your nightmares and transmute all that energy into creativity, or healing, or personal growth.

In this episode, Dr. Clare Johnson looks at what happens in the brain during a nightmare, and why so-called "bad" dreams arise. She explains why anxiety dreams and nightmares can be viewed as unfinished healing dreams.

We can train our brain to have fewer nightmares and anxiety dreams. Dr. Johnson's book The Art of Transforming Nightmares has a comprehensive Nightmare Quiz encompassing everything from traumatic recurring nightmares to sleep paralysis and scary out-of-body experiences. This quiz fast-tracks you to the practical tips and techniques that will help you transform your dreamlife on every level.

The 30-Day Power of Dreams class teaches Dr. Clare's original Lucid Imaging Nightmare Solution, a transformative technique that has helped thousands. Go to https://www.deepluciddreaming.com and click on Classes. Use code word SLEEP at checkout to get 50% off this class.

There are also blog posts on her website to discover how to turn nightmares into healing dreams.

Please share this episode with anyone you know who is experiencing nightmares. There are solutions! We can empower our dreaming selves, and this empowerment will bring us greater confidence and happiness in our waking life, too.

Children's nightmares are covered in an upcoming episode and there are tips for kids in The Art of Transforming Nightmares and in The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming.

Have you ever teleported, or been pulled up by an invisible force in your lucid dreams? Every night, we travel out of our physical body and enter a dream body. While our physical body sleeps in bed, we climb mountains without getting out of breath, swim for miles underwater, or fly Superman-style through the dream sky.

Dr. Johnson explores lucid dream travel through the lens of two categories: involuntary and voluntary. She talks about being sucked backwards or downwards out of the dream scene, the lucid void, and time-travel in dreams. She shares her highly lucid experiences within spaces of light, where she is sometimes shown the mysteries of the universe in the form of codes and chains of light. In such lucid dreams, time does not exist and everything is divinely interconnected.

Dr. Clare gives tips on how to teleport in a lucid dream and the art of shapeshifting into a bird or animal. There is so much fun and amazement in lucid dreaming!

Go way deeper with Dr. Clare Johnson’s huge book, The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming. This is also available as an audiobook that lasts 20 hours and will teach you everything you always dreamed of knowing about the mysteries of lucid dreaming, as well as the science behind it. www.deepluciddreaming.com

Have you ever encountered super-aware lucid dream people, animals, or beings? How do such encounters help us to understand reality? Between them, Dr. Clare Johnson and Robert Waggoner have notched up almost 100 years of lucid dreaming experience! Yes, they are indeed that ancient :-)

Join these lucid veterans for an exciting exchange of experiences from meeting deceased pets in lucid dreams, to meditating while lucid and experiencing interconnected oneness.

Robert is a well-known lucid dream author: Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, and longtime lucid dreamer. He and Dr. Clare have worked together on the Executive Board of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and have given joint lucid dream presentations at IASD conferences. Robert is co-editor of the Lucid Dream Experience magazine, and an all-round fascinating person. Tune in to hear some of his wildest lucid dreams and just how cheeky he was in his early lucid dreams.

Robert describes floating through his own palm print into a different dimension while lucid dreaming, and receiving information about when his mother was going to die.

Dr. Clare runs through her four levels of awareness in lucid dreams from zombies to super-lucid figures (see her Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming for a chapter on this), and the two of them exchange experiences they've had with various types of lucid dream figures.

From lucid dream bubbles and where they can take us, to towering beings of blue light, this episode covers a fascinating range of lucid dream phenomena.

Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9GUTEm8Y0zc

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Dr. Clare Johnson was the first person in the world to do a PhD on Lucid Dreaming as a Creative Tool. Her books include the giant classic: The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, as well as twin books The Art of Lucid Dreaming and The Art of Transforming Nightmares. Her brand new release is Elixir of Sleep. Dr. Clare's video classes have attracted many thousands of participants and she leads Lucid Dreaming Ocean Retreats in stunning locations. The next one is on Hawaii's Big Island, October 25-29. See www.DeepLucidDreaming.com for details, and sign up for free guided meditations, a lucid dreaming guide and other gifts.

Wish you could recall more of your fabulously creative dreams? Dr. Clare Johnson shares an easy way to condition your brain to remember dreams, and shares 5 tips to raise your dream recall from zero up. She lists negative factors that inhibit dream recall and shares why a particular Moby song became her bridge between dreaming and waking.

Her new book, Elixir of Sleep: Practical Solutions for a Good Night's Rest, is now out in French translation (Elixir de Sommeil). It's also available as an audiobook (in English, narrated by Dr. Clare) and of course paperback and Kindle. It will soon be translated into other exciting languages.

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What's your current attitude towards sleep? Dr. Clare shares an ancdote about a professional football coach whose thoughts raced as soon as he got into bed at night, and how he changed this with a simple technique she taught him.

Sometimes we fall into a sleep rut where we’re not getting optimal sleep. But we can turn things around! Dr. Clare Johnson shares a soothing sleep ritual that you can try tonight. You can receive this ritual as a free downloadable guided meditation in different lengths, narrated by Clare, when you subscribe to her lucid newsletter on https://www.deepluciddreaming.com

Can everyone learn how to get lucid? Dr. Johnson looks at the science behind lucid dreaming as a learnable skill.

Why get lucid? When we wake up inside a dream we can interact consciously with the genius creativity of our dreaming mind. We might choose to actively guide and shape the dream, but lucid dreaming doesn’t have to involve dream control. We can also simply go with the flow of whatever is happening.

Dr. Clare shares an empowering tidal wave lucid dream and that magical feeling of becoming lucidly aware in a dream.

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Dr. Clare Johnson is the author of the acclaimed Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, a tome the size of three regular books. The audiobook is over 20 hours long and great for listening as you fall asleep, to induce lucid dreaming.

The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming is packed with practical techniques, amazing lucid dream stories, science, and Dr. Johnson's original theories such as the Viewing Tube Theory of Reality; The Prana Dream Body Theory, the Lucid Light, and the Rainbow Consciousness Theory.

Newest book is Elixir of Sleep, also out as an audiobook narrated by Dr. Clare. www.deepluciddreaming.com

Float into blissful sleep with this guided meditation, specially created by Dr. Clare Johnson, with dreamy music. You can receive the full-length version of this meditation for free when you head over to www.deepluciddreaming.com and sign up for the newsletter. You'll also receive a codeword to get 50% off her big, deep professionally produced video classes, including the 30-Day Power of Sleep class.

Dr. Johnson has created hundreds of practical techniques to help people sleep better and unlock the wonderful gifts of sleep and dreams. She is the author of 8 books on sleep, lucid dreaming, nightmares and dream therapy.

The first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative tool, Dr. Johnson has pioneered original theories about lucid dreaming and sleep. Her newest book is Elixir of Sleep: Practical Solutions for a Good Night’s Rest, which has a comprehensive Sleep Quiz to help you figure out your sleeper type and fast-track you to the best sleep techniques for you personally.

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